Optical directional coupler and method of manufacture
    1.
    发明授权
    Optical directional coupler and method of manufacture 失效
    光学定向耦合器及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US4410236A

    公开(公告)日:1983-10-18

    申请号:US230430

    申请日:1981-02-02

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    摘要: An interferometer with single-mode optical waveguide wound in a coil which waveguide has a surface at each end for the acceptance of light into the waveguide and for the display of light in the waveguide characterized by at least one polarizing filter being arranged in the path of light emerging from each end surface of the waveguide. Preferably, the interferometer includes a light source such as a laser, at least one beam dividing element which is arranged in the path of a light beam and a coupling arrangement for coupling the light of one of the partial beams into one of the end surfaces and the other partial beam into the other end surface. While the interferometer utilizes a device for detecting the superimposed images of the light exiting both end surfaces of the waveguide, preferably two devices are utilized which can be either a screen or a light sensitive element such as a photo diode.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有缠绕在线圈中的单模光波导的干涉仪,该波导在每个端部具有表面,用于将光接收到波导中并且用于在波导中显示光,其特征在于至少一个偏振滤光器布置在 从波导的每个端面出射的光。 优选地,干涉仪包括诸如激光器的光源,布置在光束路径中的至少一个光束分割元件和用于将一个部分光束的光耦合到一个端面中的耦合装置,以及 另一个部分光束进入另一个端面。 虽然干涉仪使用用于检测离开波导的两个端面的光的叠加图像的装置,但优选使用两个可以是屏幕或诸如光电二极管的光敏元件的装置。

    Device for producing a moving light beam
    2.
    发明授权
    Device for producing a moving light beam 失效
    用于产生移动光束的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4410235A

    公开(公告)日:1983-10-18

    申请号:US176027

    申请日:1980-08-07

    摘要: A device has a waveguide, such as monomode fiber, for receiving a light beam and retransmitting specific portions of the light in a reemitted beam, which reemitted beam can be moved in space. To move the reemitted beam, the device has an arrangement for moving an end portion of the light waveguide adjacent the outlet surface to change the direction of the reemitted beam. The waveguide, such as the cladded optical fiber, can be either provided with a mode stripper or is of a sufficient length so that cladding modes will be eliminated before reaching the outlet surface. To move the end of the waveguide, various arrangements, which can utilize either an electro-magnet, a piezoelectric device or other suitable movement devices, are utilized. The device usually includes outlet optics for the reemitted beam and these optics can either be a gradient lens secured on the outlet surface of the waveguide or a lens which is spaced a distance from the outlet surface.

    摘要翻译: 器件具有诸如单模光纤的波导,用于接收光束并重新发射重新发射的光束中的光的特定部分,再发射光束可以在空间中移动。 为了移动重发光束,该装置具有用于移动邻近出射表面的光波导的端部以改变重发光束的方向的布置。 诸如包层光纤的波导可以设置有模式剥离器或具有足够的长度,使得在到达出口表面之前将消除包层模式。 为了移动波导的端部,利用可以利用电磁体,压电装置或其它合适的移动装置的各种布置。 该装置通常包括用于再发射束的出口光学器件,并且这些光学器件可以是固定在波导的出口表面上的梯度透镜或者与出射表面间隔一定距离的透镜。

    Ring interferometer with an arrangement to eliminate false indications
    3.
    发明授权
    Ring interferometer with an arrangement to eliminate false indications 失效
    环形干涉仪具有排除错误指示的布置

    公开(公告)号:US4556321A

    公开(公告)日:1985-12-03

    申请号:US179568

    申请日:1980-08-19

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    IPC分类号: G01C19/72 G01B9/02

    CPC分类号: G01C19/72

    摘要: A ring interferometer which has a light waveguide with two ends which act as the two separate coupling points so that light from a source can be coupled into each of the ends to travel in the light waveguide to be uncoupled from the opposite end as an output beams characterized by the source of light emitting light pulses whose duration is smaller than the transit time of the light in the light waveguide and whose time interval between pulses is greater than the transit time.

    摘要翻译: 一种环形干涉仪,其具有两个端部的光波导,其作为两个分离的耦合点,使得来自源的光可以耦合到每个端部中以在光波导中行进,以从相对端分离作为输出光束 其特征在于发光光脉冲的源的持续时间小于光波导中的光的传播时间,并且其脉冲之间的时间间隔大于传播时间。

    Sensing device having a multicore optical fiber as a sensing element
    4.
    发明授权
    Sensing device having a multicore optical fiber as a sensing element 失效
    具有多芯光纤作为感测元件的感测装置

    公开(公告)号:US4443698A

    公开(公告)日:1984-04-17

    申请号:US252081

    申请日:1981-04-08

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    摘要: A sensing device which includes a sensing element in the form of an optical fiber, a device for coupling light into the fiber and a device for measuring changes in the specific physical parameters of the light passing through the fiber to determine special physical influences applied to the fiber characterized by the fiber being a multicore fiber having at least two adjacently extending cores surrounded by a common cladding and the means for measuring the changes in the parameter of the light measuring the alterations in the light passing through each of the cores. To make the device sensitive to bending and deformation in all directions, the fiber may have two cores and be twisted through 90.degree. or the fiber may have three or more cores which are not disposed in the same plane. The measuring of the amount of change may be by measuring the interference pattern from superimposed beams of the output from the two cores or by measuring the intensity of each of the output beams separately.

    摘要翻译: 一种感测装置,其包括光纤形式的感测元件,用于将光耦合到光纤中的装置和用于测量通过光纤的光的特定物理参数的变化的装置,以确定施加到光纤的特定物理影响 纤维的特征在于纤维是多芯纤维,其具有由共同包层围绕的至少两个相邻延伸的芯,以及用于测量测量穿过每个芯的光的变化的光的参数变化的装置。 为了使装置在各个方向上弯曲变形敏感,纤维可以具有两个芯并且扭转90°,或者纤维可以具有三个或更多个未设置在同一平面中的芯。 变化量的测量可以通过测量来自两个芯的输出的叠加光束的干涉图案或者分别测量每个输出光束的强度。

    Ring interferometer comprising a single-mode light waveguide
    5.
    发明授权
    Ring interferometer comprising a single-mode light waveguide 失效
    环形干涉仪包括单模光波导

    公开(公告)号:US4354760A

    公开(公告)日:1982-10-19

    申请号:US132142

    申请日:1980-03-20

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    IPC分类号: G01C19/72 G01P3/36 G01B9/02

    CPC分类号: G01C19/721

    摘要: A ring interferometer which has at least one single mode light waveguide wound in a coil characterized by the light waveguide maintaining one polarization state. If the interferometer includes directional couplers or additional light waveguides, each of these are constructed of waveguides which conduct only one polarization state.

    摘要翻译: 一种环形干涉仪,其具有卷绕在线圈中的至少一个单模光波导,其特征在于保持一个偏振状态的光波导。 如果干涉仪包括定向耦合器或附加的光波导,那么这些波导由仅传导一个偏振状态的波导构成。

    Ring interferometer with a mode diaphragm
    6.
    发明授权
    Ring interferometer with a mode diaphragm 失效
    环形干涉仪带有模式隔膜

    公开(公告)号:US4444503A

    公开(公告)日:1984-04-24

    申请号:US178787

    申请日:1980-08-18

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    IPC分类号: G01P9/00 G01C19/64 G01C19/72

    CPC分类号: G01C19/72

    摘要: A ring interferometer, which has a coiled waveguide having two ends with each end being provided with means for coupling light from a first source into the waveguide and for uncoupling light coupled into the opposite end of the waveguide, a first optical arrangement for superimposing the uncoupled light from the two ends of the waveguide and forming two portions, an optical arrangement for directing one of the portions of the output coupled light at a first light receiving surface over a common path in a direction opposite to a direction of light from said first source characterized by a mode diaphragm being arranged in the common path to receive the one portion of the superimposed beam and the light from the first source to reduce the number of modes being transmitted therein. Preferably, a second mode diaphragm is arranged in the path of the other portion and both diaphragms are preferably a monomode waveguide such as an optical glass fiber having a core surrounded by a cladding. Preferably, the interferometer includes a second light receiving surface arranged to receive light coupled out of the second mode diaphragm. In an embodiment, a second light source is provided which may have a different wavelength than the wavelength of the first mentioned light source and filters are provided in the path of the light directed at each light receiving surface so that only light from the second source is received by the first receiving surface and only light from the first source is received by the second receiving surface.

    摘要翻译: 一种环形干涉仪,其具有两端的线圈波导,每个端部设有用于将来自第一源的光耦合到波导中并用于将耦合到波导的相对端的光耦合的装置,用于将未耦合的叠加的第一光学装置 来自波导的两端的光并形成两个部分,光学装置用于将输出耦合的光的一部分在第一光接收表面上沿着与来自所述第一光源的光的方向相反的方向在公共路径上引导 其特征在于,模式隔膜布置在公共路径中以接收叠加梁的一部分和来自第一源的光,以减少在其中传输的模式的数量。 优选地,第二模式隔膜布置在另一部分的路径中,并且两个隔膜优选地是诸如具有被包层包围的芯的光学玻璃纤维的单模波导。 优选地,干涉仪包括被布置成接收耦合在第二模式隔膜外的光的第二光接收表面。 在一个实施例中,提供第二光源,其可以具有与第一提及的光源的波长不同的波长,并且滤光器设置在指向每个光接收表面的光的路径中,使得仅来自第二源的光是 由第一接收表面接收并且仅来自第一源的光被第二接收表面接收。

    Ring interferometer with an arrangement for reducing the influence of
undesired light
    7.
    发明授权
    Ring interferometer with an arrangement for reducing the influence of undesired light 失效
    环形干涉仪具有减少不期望的光线影响的布置

    公开(公告)号:US4400088A

    公开(公告)日:1983-08-23

    申请号:US180006

    申请日:1980-08-21

    CPC分类号: G01C19/72

    摘要: A ring interferometer which has a light waveguide with two ends which act as the two separate coupling points so that light from a source can be coupled into each of the ends to travel in the light waveguide to be uncoupled from the opposite end as an output coupled light traveling in a separate output path characterized by the separate output paths of the output coupled light from the coupling point to a unification point where components are superimposed into a superimposed path directed to the light receiving surface have different lengths and the amount of the difference exceeds the coherence length of the coherent light employed in the ring interferometer.

    摘要翻译: 一种环形干涉仪,其具有两端的光波导,其作为两个分离的耦合点,使得来自源的光可以耦合到每个端部中以在光波导中行进,以从相对端分离,作为输出耦合 在单独的输出路径中行进的光,其特征在于将从耦合点输出耦合的光的单独的输出路径分配到组件被叠加到指向光接收表面的叠加路径中的统一点,具有不同的长度,并且差异的量超过 在环形干涉仪中使用的相干光的相干长度。

    Interferometer with a coil composed of a single mode waveguide
    8.
    发明授权
    Interferometer with a coil composed of a single mode waveguide 失效
    干涉仪与单模波导组成的线圈

    公开(公告)号:US4302107A

    公开(公告)日:1981-11-24

    申请号:US21692

    申请日:1979-03-19

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02 G01C19/72

    CPC分类号: G01C19/72

    摘要: An interferometer with a single mode optical waveguide wound in a coil, which waveguide has an end surface at each end for the acceptance of light into the waveguide and for the emitting of light that is in the waveguide, a beam dividing element for superimposing a portion of light from each of the end surfaces of the waveguide into two separate superimposed beams of light characterized by a polarizer arranged in the path of each of the superimposed beams of light for filtering the light as it is received by a beam receiver, which may be a screen or a light sensitive element such as a photo diode. The beam splitting element may be a beam splitting element having a reflective surface such as a partially reflective mirror or a beam splitting cube or may be optical directional couplers.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有缠绕在线圈中的单模光波导的干涉仪,该波导在每一端具有用于接收光到波导中的端面和用于发射波导中的光的端面,用于将部分 的波导的每个端面的光分成两个单独的叠加的光束,其特征在于布置在每个叠加的光束的路径中的偏振器,用于对光束进行滤光,因为光束接收器可接收光 屏幕或光敏元件,例如光电二极管。 分束元件可以是具有诸如部分反射镜或分束立方体的反射表面的分束元件,或者可以是光学定向耦合器。

    Apparatus for detecting intensity-modulated light signals
    9.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for detecting intensity-modulated light signals 失效
    用于检测强度调制光信号的装置

    公开(公告)号:US5075793A

    公开(公告)日:1991-12-24

    申请号:US227292

    申请日:1988-08-02

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    CPC分类号: G02F2/002 H04B10/60

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting intensity-modulated light signals is provided that exhibits higher sensitivity in comparison to prior apparatus and which is composed of an optical detector for detecting an intensity-modulated optical signal and a mixer stage in the form of an electronic mixing device having a subsequent lock-in amplifier. The mixer stage comprises an optical mixing device into which the optical signal can be coupled and from which the mixed signal can be taken as an optical signal and the mixed signal is fed to an optical detector device.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于检测强度调制光信号的装置,其与现有装置相比表现出更高的灵敏度,并且由用于检测强度调制光信号的光检测器和具有电子混合装置形式的混频器级组成 随后的锁定放大器。 混频器级包括光混合装置,光信号可耦合到其中,混合信号可从该光混合装置作为光信号,并将混合信号馈送到光检测装置。

    Sensor which is sensitive to pressure, tension, torsion and heat and a
process of operation
    10.
    发明授权
    Sensor which is sensitive to pressure, tension, torsion and heat and a process of operation 失效
    对压力,张力,扭转和热敏感的传感器和操作过程

    公开(公告)号:US4436422A

    公开(公告)日:1984-03-13

    申请号:US179665

    申请日:1980-08-19

    申请人: Gerhard Schiffner

    发明人: Gerhard Schiffner

    IPC分类号: G01H9/00 G01B9/02

    CPC分类号: G01H9/004

    摘要: A sensor is disclosed which utilizes a ring interferometer for receiving light with a polarizer provided in each of the paths of the superimposed beams exiting the interferometer so that only light polarized in a fixed direction relative to the direction of polarization of the light being coupled into the interferometer is detected. The sensor is particularly adapted to determining influences such as pressures, tensions, torsion, and heat in addition to rotation. In one embodiment, the Faraday effect is utilized to compensate for transit time differences and the amount of energy required to compensate by the Faraday effect is measured to determine the amount of influence.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种传感器,其使用环形干涉仪来接收光,偏振器设置在离开干涉仪的叠加光束的每个路径中,使得仅相对于光的偏振方向的固定方向偏振的光被耦合到 检测干涉仪。 该传感器特别适用于确定旋转以外的诸如压力,张力,扭转和热的影响。 在一个实施例中,利用法拉第效应来补偿通过时间差,并且测量通过法拉第效应补偿所需的能量的量以确定影响量。