Coupling Device for Coupling Optical Waveguides
OwnerKlaus Hartkorninventor
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Abstract
A coupling device for coupling optical waveguides comprises a first side for coupling first optical waveguides to the coupling device, and a second side for coupling second optical waveguides to the coupling device, and an optical system arranged between the first and second sides of the coupling device. The optical system alters a beam path of light coupled out from the first optical waveguides and coupled into the coupling device at the first side in such a way that the light is coupled out from the coupling device at the second side and is coupled into the second optical waveguides, wherein the first optical waveguides are arranged spatially differently with respect to one another than the second optical waveguides.
Claims25
A coupling device for coupling optical waveguides, comprising:
- a first side for coupling first optical waveguides to the coupling device;
- a second side for coupling second optical waveguides to the coupling device;
- an optical system arranged between the first and second sides of the coupling device,
- wherein the optical system alters a beam path of light coupled out from the first optical waveguides and coupled into the coupling device at the first side in a manner dependent on impingement of the beam path on the optical system by means of light refraction in such a way that the light is coupled out from the coupling device at the second side and is coupled into the second optical waveguides, wherein the first optical waveguides are arranged spatially differently with respect to one another than the second optical waveguides.
A system for coupling optical waveguides, comprising:
- a first component comprising first optical waveguides;
- a second component comprising second optical waveguides;
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- a coupling device having a first side, at which the first component is coupled to the coupling device, and having a second side, at which the second component is coupled to the coupling device, wherein
- the first optical waveguides are arranged in the first component at the first side of the coupling device spatially differently with respect to one another than the second optical waveguides are arranged in the second component at the second side of the coupling device,
- the coupling device comprises an optical system, and
- the optical system alters a beam path of light coupled out from the first optical waveguides and coupled into the coupling device at the first side in a manner dependent on impingement of the beam path on the optical system by means of light refraction in such a way that the light is coupled out from the coupling device at the second side and is coupled into the second optical waveguides.
A method for coupling optical waveguides, comprising:
- coupling out light from first optical waveguides;
- coupling the light into a coupling device;
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- altering a beam path of the light coupled into the coupling device by means of an optical system in a manner dependent on impingement of the beam path on the optical system by means of light refraction in such a way that the light coupled out from the coupling device is coupled into second optical waveguides, wherein the first optical waveguides are arranged at a first side of the coupling device spatially differently with respect to one another than the second optical waveguides are arranged spatially with respect to one another at a second side of the coupling device.
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