Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A NETWORK OF MICROLENSES AT THE ENDS OF A BUNDLE OF OPTICAL FIBRES, RELATED OPTICAL FIBRES AND RELATED USE
- Patent Title (中): 用于制造光纤纤维束末端的微孔网络的方法,相关的光纤和相关用途
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Application No.: US13638187Application Date: 2011-03-22
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Publication No.: US20130202263A1Publication Date: 2013-08-08
- Inventor: Jérôme Plain , Renaud Bachelot , Pascal Royer , Xinhua Zeng , Safi Jradi
- Applicant: Jérôme Plain , Renaud Bachelot , Pascal Royer , Xinhua Zeng , Safi Jradi
- Applicant Address: FR TROYES
- Assignee: UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES
- Current Assignee Address: FR TROYES
- Priority: FR1052400 20100331
- International Application: PCT/FR2011/050593 WO 20110322
- Main IPC: G02B6/02
- IPC: G02B6/02 ; G02B6/04

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing end microlenses of individual optical fibres which are part of a bundle or a multi-core fibre, including depositing a drop of a photopolymerisable solution on a first end of the bundle; adapting the size of the drop; applying light centred on a predetermined wavelength onto a second end of the bundle in order to selectively polymerise the drop; rinsing the first end using a methanol solution in order to obtain a network of individual optical fibres, each one of which is provided with a microlens at the first end of the multi-core fibre, the microlenses being physically separated from one another. The disclosure additionally relates to a bundle of microlensed fibres obtained by the method, as well as to the use of such a bundle, for example in medical or multiplexed imaging and/or in the coupling of optical fibres.
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