Optical fiber plug connection and adjustment method
AssigneeCarl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
InventorsStefan Wilhelm, Thomas Mehner, Thomas Klos
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AssigneeCarl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
InventorsStefan Wilhelm, Thomas Mehner, Thomas Klos
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A fiber plug facilitates optical coupling of a light-guiding fiber to a plug receptacle and includes a plug housing for receiving and locking parts of the fiber plug in position relative to one another. The plug housing has: a fiber inlet and a fiber bearing for the spatially fixed reception of the fiber; optically downstream of the fiber bearing along a beam path, an optical lens for collecting light exiting at an end face of the light-guiding fiber and for collimating the collected light; and a coupling surface with an output of the beam path and with a coupling structure for connection to a receptacle structure that is complementary to the coupling structure. An adjustable optical element is arranged optically downstream of the fiber bearing in the beam path and has a first component of a magnetic coupling consisting of two components and a first component of a kinematic coupling.
A fiber plug for optical coupling of a light-guiding fiber with a plug receptacle, the fiber plug comprising:
An optical plug connector comprising:
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