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US 2018/0321457 A1Published application
Integrated optical assembly and manufacturing the same
AssigneeLightPath Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAlan Symmons, Jeremy Huddleston, Edward Foote, Spencer Novak
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Abstract
An integrated optical assembly comprises an optics mount, an optical element comprising material that is optically transparent, the optical element molded in the optics mount, and an optical aperture wherein the optical aperture is secured in fixed position with respect to the optics mount and the transparent optical element.
Claims21
An integrated optical assembly comprising:
- an optics mount comprising an opaque material, said optics mount being tubular in shape and having a first end and a second end and a middle region therebetween, said optics mount having in inner sidewall defining a hollow inner pathway from said first end, through said middle region, and to said second end, said inner sidewall having a circular cross-section at each of said first and second ends and said middle region, said optics mount having a longitudinal axis extending along a longitudinal direction of said housing through said circular cross-sections at said first and second ends and said middle region,
- an optical element comprising material that is optically transparent to infrared light, visible light, or both such that said optical element is transparent to infrared light, visible light, or both, said transparent optical element disposed in said optics mount, said transparent optical element having a circular perimeter that fits within said optics mount against said inner sidewall, the transparent optical element contacting the optics mount at an interface between said circular perimeter of said transparent optical element and said inner sidewall of said optics mount having circular cross-section such that the optical element is held securely in the optics mount, wherein at the interface, the optically transparent material is in direct contact with the first material and adheres thereto;
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- an optical aperture comprising an opaque sheet having a perimeter sufficiently small to fit within said optics mount and an opening located in said opaque sheet for light to pass,
- wherein the optical aperture is secured in fixed position with respect to said optics mount and said transparent optical element on one side of said transparent optical element that is closer to one of said first or second ends than said other side of said first transparent optical element and such that said longitudinal axis passes through said hole in said optical aperture.
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An integrated optical assembly comprising:
- an optics mount comprising an opaque material, said optics mount being tubular in shape and having a first end and a second end and a middle region therebetween, said optics mount having an inner sidewall defining a hollow inner pathway from said first end, through said middle region, and to said second end, said inner sidewall having a cross-section at each of said first and second ends and said middle region, said optics mount having a longitudinal axis extending along a longitudinal direction of said housing through said cross-sections at said first and second ends and said middle region,
- a first optical element comprising material that is optically transparent to infrared light, visible light, or both such that said first optical element is transparent to infrared light, visible light, or both, said first transparent optical element disposed in said optics mount, said first transparent optical element having a perimeter that fits within said optics mount against said inner sidewall, the first transparent optical element contacting the optics mount at an interface between the perimeter of said first transparent optical element and the inner sidewall of said optics mount such that the optical element is held securely in the optics mount, wherein at the interface, the optically transparent material is in direct contact with the first material and adheres thereto;
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- a second optical element having a perimeter sufficiently small to fit within said optics mount, said second optical element configured to permit said light to pass,
- wherein the second optical element is secured in fixed position with respect to said optics mount and said first transparent optical element on one side of said first transparent optical element that is closer to one of said first or second ends than said other side of said first transparent optical element and such that said central longitudinal axis passes through said second optical element.
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