LIGHT DIFFUSING FIBERS WITH INTEGRATED MODE SHAPING LENSES

    公开(公告)号:US20150125114A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-05-07

    申请号:US14594792

    申请日:2015-01-12

    Abstract: A method including the steps of providing a light-diffusing optical fiber (12a) having a glass core (20), a cladding (40) surrounding the core (20), and a plurality of nano-sized structures in the form of voids (32) situated within said core (20) or at a core-cladding boundary; cleaving the light-diffusing fiber (12a), thereby forming a cleaved end face (66); and applying energy to one or more of 1) the cleaved end face (66) and 2) the light-diffusing fiber (12b) along a portion of the length thereof adjacent the cleaved end face (66), the amount of energy being sufficient to collapse and seal the voids (32) exposed at the cleaved end face (66), leaving a sealed cleaved end face (68). A lens may then be attached to the sealed cleaved end face (68), or the sealed cleaved end face (68) may be softened sufficiently to induce formation of a lensing surface such as a convex lensing surface (60) on the sealed end face (68).

    Light diffusing fibers with integrated mode shaping lenses
    16.
    发明授权
    Light diffusing fibers with integrated mode shaping lenses 有权
    具有集成模式成型透镜的光漫射光纤

    公开(公告)号:US08953914B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-10

    申请号:US13924972

    申请日:2013-06-24

    Abstract: A method including the steps of providing a light-diffusing optical fiber (12a) having a glass core (20), a cladding (40) surrounding the core (20), and a plurality of nano-sized structures in the form of voids (32) situated within said core (20) or at a core-cladding boundary; cleaving the light-diffusing fiber (12a), thereby forming a cleaved end face (66); and applying energy to one or more of 1) the cleaved end face (66) and 2) the light-diffusing fiber (12b) along a portion of the length thereof adjacent the cleaved end face (66), the amount of energy being sufficient to collapse and seal the voids (32) exposed at the cleaved end face (66), leaving a sealed cleaved end face (68). A lens may then be attached to the sealed cleaved end face (68), or the sealed cleaved end face (68) may be softened sufficiently to induce formation of a lensing surface such as a convex lensing surface (60) on the sealed end face (68).

    Abstract translation: 一种方法,包括以下步骤:提供具有玻璃芯(20)的光扩散光纤(12a),围绕所述芯(20)的包层(40)以及空隙形式的多个纳米尺寸结构 32),位于所述芯(20)内或芯 - 包层边界处; 切断光扩散纤维(12a),从而形成裂开的端面(66)。 并且沿着其相邻于所述劈开端面(66)的长度的一部分向1个所述劈开端面(66)和2)所述光漫射纤维(12b)中的一个或多个施加能量,所述能量足够 塌缩并密封在劈开的端面(66)处暴露的空隙(32),留下密封的切割端面(68)。 然后可以将透镜附接到密封的切割端面(68),或者密封的切割端面(68)可以被充分软化以引起在密封端面上形成诸如凸透镜表面(60)的透镜表面 (68)。

    Laser processing of workpieces
    18.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11344972B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16745480

    申请日:2020-01-17

    Abstract: A method for processing a transparent workpiece includes generating a beam of radiation and forming a defect in or on an object. The beam is a quasi-non-diffracting beam and has a focal volume. Forming the defect includes directing the beam onto the object and positioning the focal volume partially or fully within the object. Generating the beam includes partially blocking the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust an axial symmetry of the freeform energy distribution with respect to an optical axis of the beam using an adjustable blocking element and/or spatially modulating a phase of the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust a geometry of the freeform energy distribution using a phase mask. The freeform energy distribution has energy sufficient to induce multi-photon absorption in a region of the object that is co-located with the focal volume. The induced multi-photon absorption produces the defect.

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