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US 6,856,726 B2Granted
Light waveguide with integrated input aperture for an optical spectrometer
AssigneeWavetek Wandel Goltermann Eningen GmbH & Co.
InventorThomas Fuhrmann
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Abstract
In a light waveguide, the one end of which comprises a flat entering area for the light to be coupled into the core of the light waveguide, the entering area is narrower than the core diameter of the light waveguide and, around the entering area, the end of the light waveguide is laterally sloped up to the entering surface. Only the light which impinges on this entering area passes into the core and is guided therein.
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An optical spectrometer comprising:
- an optical reflection grating for diffracting the wavelengths of an incoming light,
- an exit slit for spatial wavelength selection of the diffracted wavelengths, and
- a detector for the light penetrating through the exit slit,
- wherein the exit slit is formed by an entering area of a first end of the light waveguide, and the detector is disposed at a second end of the light waveguide;
- wherein the entering area is narrower than the core diameter of said light waveguide, and around the entering area a vapor deposited opaque metal layer is provided.
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An optical spectrometer comprising:
- an optical reflection grating for diffracting the wavelengths of an incoming light,
- an exit slit for spatial wavelength selection of the diffracted wavelengths, and
- a detector for the light penetrating through the exit slit,
- wherein the exit slit is formed by an entering area of a first end of the light waveguide, and the detector is disposed at a second end of said light waveguide;
- wherein the first end of the light waveguide is only sloped on both lateral sides of the entering area designed rectangularly;
- wherein the first end of the light waveguide is sloped such that light entering into the sloped surfaces is not further guided in the core of the light waveguide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.