System for data transmission in optical systems
AssigneeII-Vi Delaware, Inc.
InventorsEduard Armbruster, Frank Schulze
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Abstract
The invention relates to an optical light guiding system, comprising an interface for coupling in and/or an interface for decoupling data and at least one data channel for transmitting data, and a method for transmitting data in optical systems, comprising the steps of coupling data into an interface of a beam guidance element; the transmission of the data by means of a first and/or a second data channel, which are arranged within the beam guiding element (or the casing), wherein the data channels can also be used for the fractional monitoring of the beam guiding element; and decoupling the data from an interface.
Claims21
An apparatus to communicate high-power laser light for a laser processing operation in a high-power laser system, the apparatus comprising:
- a cable having first and second ends;
- a power fiber disposed inside the cable and configured to transport the high-power laser light between the first and second ends of the cable;
- a first monitoring channel disposed inside the cable and being configured to conduct a first monitoring signal between the first and second ends of the cable;
- a second monitoring channel disposed inside the cable and being configured to conduct a second monitoring signal simultaneously with the first monitoring signal between the first and second ends of the cable;
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- an evaluation unit disposed in communication with the first and second monitoring channels, the evaluation unit being configured to redundantly monitor for interruption in the transport of the high-power laser light for the power fiber based on monitoring, redundantly, the first and second monitoring signals, the evaluation unit interfacing with user data associated with the high-power laser system, the evaluation unit being configured to transmit a user data signal having the user data as the at least one of the first and second monitoring signal in at least one of the respective first and the second monitoring channels, wherein the user data signal transmitted as the monitoring signal in the at least one first and second monitoring channels is used both to monitor for the interruption in the transport of the high-power laser light and to transmit the user data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.