Light source assembly
AssigneeNkt Photonics A/S
InventorsThomas Feuchter, Irnis Kubat, Timur Iskhakov
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Abstract
A light source assembly having N outputs, the assembly including: a light source arrangement arranged for supplying light to M inputs, where M an N independently of each other are integers and where M≥2 and M≥N; at least one optical couplers, each having at least one input arm and a plurality of output arms; and an integer number, P, of mode scramblers. The light source arrangement may include a broadband light source and a multimode coupler configured for receiving one or more light beams from the light source arrangement, wherein the one or more light beams being derived from the broadband light source and wherein a mode scrambler is arranged for mode scrambling one of said light beams before it enters the multimode coupler.
Claims19
A light source assembly comprising a light source arrangement comprising a broadband light source and a multimode coupler configured for receiving one or more light beams from the light source arrangement, wherein the one or more light beams are derived from the broadband light source and wherein a mode scrambler is arranged for mode scrambling one of said light beams before it enters the multimode coupler,
- wherein each of the one or more light beams derived from the broadband light source and scrambled in the mode scrambler has a first beam M2 factor prior to being scrambled in the mode scrambler, and
- wherein the mode scrambler is arranged for mode scrambling to increase the first beam M2 factor to a second beam M2 factor, larger than the first beam M2 factor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.