Invention Grant
- Patent Title: In-fiber beam scanning
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Application No.: US17645336Application Date: 2021-12-21
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Publication No.: US11693176B2Publication Date: 2023-07-04
- Inventor: Patrick Gregg , Martin H. Muendel , Richard D. Faulhaber , Alex Hatcher , John Peck
- Applicant: Lumentum Operations LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
- Current Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Harrity & Harrity, LLP
- Main IPC: G02B6/02
- IPC: G02B6/02 ; B23K26/073 ; G02B6/028 ; G02B6/26 ; B23K26/082

Abstract:
An in-fiber beam scanning system may comprise an input fiber to provide a beam, a feeding fiber comprising an imaging bundle with multiple cores embedded in a first cladding that is surrounded by a second cladding, and an in-fiber beam shifter that comprises a first multibend beam shifter coupled to the input fiber, a graded index fiber following the first multibend beam shifter, and a second multibend beam shifter following the graded index fiber and coupling into the feeding fiber. In some implementations, the first multibend beam shifter is actuated by a first amount and the second multibend beam shifter is actuated by a second amount to shift the beam in two dimensions and deliver the beam into one or more target cores in the imaging bundle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230116665A1 IN-FIBER BEAM SCANNING Public/Granted day:2023-04-13
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