公开(公告)号：US07200300B2

公开(公告)日：2007-04-03

申请号：US10930492

申请日：2004-08-31

申请人： Kristen L. Barefoot ,  G. Scott Glaesemann ,  John R. Saltzer, Jr. ,  Nagaraja Shashidhar

发明人： Kristen L. Barefoot ,  G. Scott Glaesemann ,  John R. Saltzer, Jr. ,  Nagaraja Shashidhar

IPC分类号： G02B6/32

CPC分类号： G02B6/262 ,  G02B6/2552

摘要： The present invention provides lensed fibers and methods of making lensed fibers. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of making a functional-coated lensed fiber includes the steps of providing a lensed fiber, the lensed fiber having a terminal section including a terminal fiber segment and a lensed segment, the lensed segment having an optically operative area; covering at least part of the terminal section of the lensed fiber with a protective element, thereby forming a protected lensed fiber having an optically operative area that is not covered by the protective element; and forming a functional coating on the optically operative area of the lensed segment of the protected lensed fiber to form the functional-coated lensed fiber. The method can be used to provide antireflection coated lensed fibers that are resistant to breakage.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供透镜纤维和制造透镜纤维的方法。 根据本发明的一个实施方案，制备功能性涂覆的透镜纤维的方法包括以下步骤：提供透镜纤维，所述透镜纤维具有包括端子纤维段和透镜段的端子部分，透镜段具有光学 手术区域 用保护元件覆盖透镜光纤的端部的至少一部分，从而形成具有未被保护元件覆盖的光学操作区域的保护透镜光纤; 以及在保护的透镜纤维的透镜段的光学操作区域上形成功能性涂层，以形成功能涂覆的透镜光纤。 该方法可用于提供抗折射的抗反射涂层透镜纤维。