Fiber optic structure
AssigneeCyclone Biosciences, LLC
InventorStephen E. Griffin
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A single strand of an optical fiber with a single optical core that is dimensioned at one end to resemble a blade or a head of a flat-head screwdriver. Such strand of the optical fiber is configured for optical coupling of light between such single strand and a spectrometric/spectrophotometric apparatus while employing an input slit and/or an output slit of the apparatus. A method for fabricating such single strand. A fiber optic cable containing, as an optical medium, only such single strand. A method for handling light with the use of such optical fiber and/or the optical cable.
Claims22
An optical fiber element having an axis, a proximal end, and a distal end and comprising:
- a single optical fiber core;
- and
- an optical fiber cladding,
- wherein, at the distal end, the single optical fiber core is defined by a substantially cylindrically-shaped solid body of a core material, and
- wherein, at the proximal end, the single optical fiber core has a proximal cross-section bound by a perimeter that includes two substantially parallel lines and two curved lines, each of the two curved lines connecting ends of a corresponding of the two substantially parallel lines with one another.
A method comprising:
- dimensioning a proximal end, of an optical fiber element having an axis, the proximal end, a distal end, an optical fiber core, and an optical fiber cladding, to have the optical fiber element in which:
- at the proximal end, the optical fiber core has a proximal cross-section bound by a perimeter that includes two substantially parallel lines and two curved lines, each of the two curved lines connecting ends of a corresponding of the two substantially parallel lines with one another.
(canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.