2531 results about "Optical fiber transmission" patented technology

A scanning endoscope, amenable to both rigid and flexible forms, scans a beam of light across a field-of-view, collects light scattered from the scanned beam, detects the scattered light, and produces an image. The endoscope may comprise one or more bodies housing a controller, light sources, and detectors; and a separable tip housing the scanning mechanism. The light sources may include laser emitters that combine their outputs into a polychromatic beam. Light may be emitted in ultraviolet or infrared wavelengths to produce a hyperspectral image. The detectors may be housed distally or at a proximal location with gathered light being transmitted thereto via optical fibers. A plurality of scanning elements may be combined to produce a stereoscopic image or other imaging modalities. The endoscope may include a lubricant delivery system to ease passage through body cavities and reduce trauma to the patient. The imaging components are especially compact, being comprised in some embodiments of a MEMS scanner and optical fibers, lending themselves to interstitial placement between other tip features such as working channels, irrigation ports, etc.

An optical fiber for information transmission contains a glass tube core wrapped in a sheath of conductive material attachable to a power source such as a battery or generator to transmit power via the conductive sheath of the fiber. Methods to transmit power via an optical fiber, together with fiber optic networks are described.

A fiber optic apparatus for use with components for managing data is disclosed. The fiber optic apparatus comprises fiber optic equipment configured to provide optical connectivity for the transmission of data over optical fiber between at least two components. The fiber optic equipment supports the transmission of at least about 7300 terabytes of data per forty-two (42) U shelf spaces. The at least 7300 terabytes of data is the data managing capacity of the at least two components. One of the at least two components may be a data storage facility, a server or a switch. The fiber optic equipment may be mounted in a fiber optic equipment rack in a data center which may be configured to occupy between about 3.20 and about 3.76 square feet of floor space of the data center.

A method is provided for correcting a quadrature angle error that exists in the coherent receiver hardware of a dual-polarization optical transport system. The receiver hardware that causes the quadrature angle error is a 90 degree optical hybrid mixing device. The method involves generating an estimate of the quadrature angle error and compensating for the quadrature angle error by multiplying the first and second detected baseband signals by coefficients that are a function of the estimate of the quadrature angle error. The method is robust to severe channel distortion encountered within an optical fiber transmission channel as well as temperature effects and ageing of the 90 degree optical hybrid. The method is suited for a digital signal processing implementation in the coherent receiver when a modulation scheme used on a transmitted signal is quadriphase-shift keying (QPSK). In other embodiments, the method can be used to correct for quadrature angle error in modulation schemes such as binary PSK, M-ary PSK where M>4, or Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). The method can be implemented by an application-specific integrated circuit(ASIC).

Systems and surgical techniques for presbyopia correction by laser removal of the sclera tissue are disclosed. The disclosed preferred embodiments of the system consists of a beam spot controller, a fiber delivery unit and a fiber tip. The basic laser including UV lasers and infrared lasers having wavelength ranges of (0.15-0.36) microns and (1.9-3.2) microns and diode lasers of about 0.98, 1.5 and 1.9 microns. Presbyopia is treated by a system which uses an ablative laser to ablate the sclera tissue outside the limbus to increase the accommodation of the ciliary body of the eye. The sclera tissue may be ablated by the laser with or without the conjunctiva layer open.

A video endoscope in which the imaging chip at the distal tip is connected to the proximal connector and operator console by an optical fiber. Video data (preferably digital) is impressed on the optical fiber by a pulse-code modulator (PCM) circuit and light emitter with lensing. A small, inexpensive, flexible optical fiber in the endoscope body conveys the PCM optical data to the receiving circuit, preferably via an optical connector at the proximal end of the endoscope, and to decoding and display circuits in the operator console. The fiber optic transmission overcomes the difficulty of electrical transmission of wide band (digital video) signals via miniature cables, which can be expensive, bulky, inflexible, susceptible to noise and interference, and constitute a potential electrical safety risk by leakage currents. The PCM circuits may be integrated into the camera chip.

The invention discloses a metallic surface dirt laser cleaning system and method. The metallic surface dirt laser cleaning system comprises a computer control system, a laser system and a light beam adjustment system. The computer control system controls the laser system to enable light beams to be emitted from a laser of the laser system and enable the light beams to enter the light beam adjustment system through optical fiber transmission. Meanwhile, the computer control system is also used for controlling the light beam adjustment system and adjusting the spot diameter of the light beams so that the adjusted light beams can be shot regularly onto the surface of a metal part to be cleaned and carry out cleaning on dirt on the surface of the metal part to be cleaned.

A catheter and a console for a catheter. In one embodiment, the catheter includes: (1) a wall having a substantially annular cross-section and surrounding a bore, (2) a plurality of optical fibers associated with the wall and terminating at a distal end of the wall in end faces of differing, non-perpendicular orientation with respect to longitudinal axes of the plurality of optical fibers and (3) photoacoustic layers coupled to at least some of the end faces and configured to generate an ultrasonic signal in response to laser light transmitted along the plurality of optical fibers.

Fiber optical gages that impart physical strain to an optical fiber by varying the tension applied axially to the fiber, which causes a change in the optical property of the light transmitted through the fiber. A gage carrier which provides the benefits of a metal carrier for ease of handling and mounting without degrading gage performance. At least a portion of the gage carrier is elastic with respect to expansion, compression or both along its longitudinal axis, thereby allowing for variation of the distance between the two points at which the gage carrier is attached to a test specimen. In a specific embodiment, the gage carrier functions as two independent rigid fiber fastening elements separated by a compliant or flexible member. The invention further provides fiber Bragg grating strain gages, which are particularly useful for monitoring ambient conditions and measuring physical properties and mechanical phenomena.

Sequenced pulses of light from an excitation laser with at least two resonator cavities with separate output couplers are directed through a light modulator and a first polarzing analyzer. A portion of the light not rejected by the first polarizing analyzer is transported through a first optical fiber into a first ignitor laser rod in an ignitor laser. Another portion of the light is rejected by the first polarizing analyzer and directed through a halfwave plate into a second polarization analyzer. A first portion of the output of the second polarization analyzer passes through the second polarization analyzer to a second, oscillator, laser rod in the ignitor laser. A second portion of the output of the second polarization analyzer is redirected by the second polarization analyzer to a second optical fiber which delays the beam before the beam is combined with output of the first ignitor laser rod. Output of the second laser rod in the ignitor laser is directed into the first ignitor laser rod which was energized by light passing through the first polarizing analyzer. Combined output of the first ignitor laser rod and output of the second optical fiber is focused into a combustible fuel where the first short duration, high peak power pulse from the ignitor laser ignites the fuel and the second long duration, low peak power pulse directly from the excitation laser sustains the combustion.

The invention relates to a hydrogen sensor and a Pd film hydrogen sensitive system, wherein the hydrogen sensor comprises introduction fiber, reflection fiber and a hollow tube, a surface of which has a Pd or Pb alloy film, the introduction fiber and the reflection fiber are respectively connected with two ends of a cavity of the hollow tube, two opposite fiber end faces are parallel and constitute an intervene cavity with the tube cavity. According to the Pd film hydrogen sensitive system, light with wide spectrum is transmitted to the introduction fiber of a hydrogen sensor, and intervene light generated on two opposite end of the introduction fiber and the reflection fiber is received, change of the length of the intervene cavity is determined through collecting intervene spectrum signals, further computing concentration of hydrogen. The invention overcomes problems that it is difficult to realize high resolution stable measurement due to light source fluctuation and optical fiber disturbance and the like, and is easy to be affected by temperature in prior art. Measurement result is correct and temperature is strong, cost is low.

The invention belongs to the field of laser processing, in particular to a multi-beam center wire feeding laser processing head and a processing method of the multi-beam center wire feeding laser processing head. The laser processing head comprises a wire feeding tube, a wire feeding nozzle and a plurality of identical optical modules, wherein the wire feeding tube and the wire feeding nozzle are located on the center axis of the laser processing head, the optical modules are rotationally and symmetrically distributed around the center axis, each optical module comprises a collimating lens set, a focusing lens set and a reflecting mirror set, lasers are transmitted to the processing head through a plurality of paths of optical fibers, a plurality of laser beams are focused on one point of the surface of a workpiece to form a molten pool after being collimated, focused and reflected by the optical modules, a metal wire is perpendicularly fed into the molten pool on the surface of the workpiece through the fire feeding nozzle, and the laser processing head moves on the surface of the workpiece according to a certain track so that the center wire feeding laser processing process can be achieved. Through the multi-beam center wire feeding laser processing head, center wire feeding in laser focusing light spots in circular symmetry distribution is achieved, and the processing quality consistency is guaranteed when the laser processing head moves in different directions.

The invention discloses a system and a method for forming digital wave beams of a two-dimensional digital array radar, which mainly solves the problems of limited data transmission and arithmetic amount, small scale of the system and inflexible control of the wave beams in the prior art. The system of the invention comprises a two-dimensional rectangular digital array antenna of M*N array elements, a digital signal processing (DSP) device, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device and peripheral accessory devices. The method for forming the digital wave beams comprises the following steps: the FPGA device receives the frequency, azimuth angle and pitch angle information of received wave beams transmitted by the two-dimensional digital array; and the DSP calculates the sum, the difference, and the row and column wave beam weights of the two-dimensional digital array according to the information received by the FPGA, and the weights are transmitted to the FPGA device; and the FPGA device utilizes the weights and a target echo signal transmitted by optical fibers to form the sum, the difference, and the row and column wave beams of the two-dimensional digital array in the FPGA device. The invention has the advantages of large data transmission quantity and scale of the system, mass amount of the wave beams, flexible scanning of the wave beams and strong instantaneity, and is suitable for forming the digital wave beams of a large-scale two-dimensional array radar.

The invention discloses an earthquake monitoring device. The device consists of a central control terminal and a sensor probe under ground, wherein, a light pulse signal is generated from a light source part of the central control terminal, transmitted to the underground sensor probe in an deep ground environment over an optical fiber, then the light pulse signal is changed into 3 discrete modulated pulse signals in time domain after being vibrated, strained and temperature-modulated in the probe in the deep ground, and the modulated pulse signals return to an information demodulation section of the central control terminal for photoelectric conversion, amplification, data processing to complete demodulation, thus realizing real-time monitoring and alarming of parameters of vibration, strain and temperature in the deep ground. The device has the advantages of low production cost, simple installation, high accuracy and good practicability, being convenient to form a network of stations, and realizing stereoscopic multiparameter monitoring on the deep ground environment in a large range.

Femtosecond pump/probe experiments using short X-Ray and optical pulses require precise synchronization between 100 meter-10 km separated lasers in a various experiments. For stabilization in the hundred femtosecond range a CW laser is amplitude modulated at 1-10 GHz, the signal retroreflected from the far end, and the relative phase used to correct the transit time with various implementations. For the sub-10 fsec range the laser frequency itself is upshifted 55 MHz with an acousto-optical modulator, retroreflected, upshifted again and phase compared at the sending end to a 110 MHz reference. Initial experiments indicate less than 1 fsec timing jitter. To lock lasers in the sub-10 fs range two single-frequency lasers separated by several teraHertz will be lock to a master modelocked fiber laser, transmit the two frequencies over fiber, and lock two comb lines of a slave laser to these frequencies, thus synchronizing the two modelocked laser envelopes.

The invention provides a method for detecting on-line a multi-component gas and the testing arrangement for the method. The method comprises the following procedures: the current and temperature are tuned by a semi-conductor laser; after double modulation, the laser emitted from the semi-conductor laser passes an optic-fiber coupler, partial laser reaches to an open multi-optic-path pond, in which the emitted light that is absorbed by the gas to be measured is again transmitted through an optic fiber to a balance receiver; another partial laser from the optic-fiber coupler is also sent into the balance receiver; the signals picked up by the balance receiver is sent into a phaselocking amplifier after passing a pre amplifier, and then sent into a computer for processing after passing an A/D converter. The testing arrangement comprises a modulation signal generator, a laser driver, a laser spectrum light path, a signal conditioning circuit and a computer that are connected in sequence; the computer is additionally connected with the modulation signal generator, and connected with the laser spectrum optic path through a temperature detector/controller. The invention converts the precision controlling of temperature into the precision controlling of temperature, improves the sensitivity and opaqueness of the detection, so as to achieve the simultaneous testing of a plurality of components.

A distributed optical fiber sensor based on Raman and Brillouin scattering is provided. The distributed optical fiber sensor includes a semiconductor FP cavity pulsed wideband optical fiber laser (11), a semiconductor external-cavity continuous narrowband optical fiber laser (12), a wave separator (13), an electro-optic modulator (14), an isolator (15), an Er-doped optical fiber amplifier (16), a bidirectional coupler (17), an integrated wavelength division multiplexer (19), a first photoelectric receiving and amplifying module (20), a second photoelectric receiving and amplifying module (21), a direct detection system (22), a narrowband optical fiber transmission grating (23), a circulator (24) and a coherence detection module (25). The temperature and the strain can be measured simultaneously, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the system is enhanced.

A composite material is provided that includes laminated layers, an optical fiber, and a demodulator. The layers define a surface portion generally parallel to the layers and an edge portion generally perpendicular to the layers. The optical fiber and demodulator are embedded in the material. The demodulator is optically coupled to the optical fiber and demodulates light transmitted through the optical fiber. A method of monitoring the health of a structural member, which includes a composite material having an optical fiber, is also provided. The method includes demodulating light from the optical fiber using a demodulator embedded in the composite material. Also, a signal representative of the demodulated light is received and interpreted as a condition of the composite material.