AN ASSEMBLY FOR A LASER-OPERATED LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD OF USE

    公开(公告)号:US20250021009A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-16

    申请号:US18714411

    申请日:2022-11-22

    Inventor: Ferry ZIJP

    Abstract: An optical assembly includes a bulb and a lens for a laser-operated light source. The bulb has a chamber for accommodating an ionizable gas and a plasma formed by energizing the ionizable gas and has a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. In use, the lens is arranged to focus a wavefront of radiation from a laser to a virtual object point located inside the chamber. In use, the bulb is arranged to transmit and refract the wavefront of the radiation to a first real image point in a first cross-section of the longitudinal axis and a second real image point in a second cross-section of the transverse axis. The first real image point and the second real image point are image conjugates of the virtual object point. The virtual object point, the first real image point and the second real image point coincide.

    REFLECTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A REFLECTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210383940A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US17409213

    申请日:2021-08-23

    Inventor: Ferry ZIJP

    Abstract: A reflector comprising a hollow body having an interior surface defining a passage through the hollow body, the interior surface having at least one optical surface part configured to reflect radiation and a supporter surface part, wherein the optical surface part has a predetermined optical power and the supporter surface part does not have the predetermined optical power. The reflector is made by providing an axially symmetric mandrel; shaping a part of the circumferential surface of the mandrel to form at least one inverse optical surface part that is not rotationally symmetric about the axis of the mandrel; forming a reflector body around the mandrel; and releasing the reflector body from the mandrel whereby the reflector body has an optical surface defined by the inverse optical surface part and a supporter surface part defined by the rest of the outer surface of the mandrel.

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