Optical scanner and scanned lens optical probe
US10194788B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 19, 2014 |
| Grant date | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 16, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2021/6478
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A lens group for an endoscope or microscope, comprising one or more lens elements, each of uniform refractive index, adapted to: i) focus, with high wavefront aberration correction, driving or excitation light received from an exit tip of an optical waveguide (such as an optical fiber) located substantially against a proximal surface of the lens group to a point observational field with narrow point spread function beyond a distal surface of the lens group (such as outside an optical window located distally relative to the distal surface); and ii) transmit, with high wavefront aberration correction, fluorescence or reflected return light received by the distal surface from the point observational field (and its neighborhood defined by the fluorescence wavelength point spread function) back to the exit tip of the optical waveguide at the fluorescence wavelength.
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