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Optical fiber plug connection and adjustment method

US11693198B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

Stefan Wilhelm · Unterhaching, DE
Thomas Mehner · Borgo San Lazzaro, DE
Thomas Klos · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 25, 2021
Grant date	Jul 4, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 25, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/4234
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A fiber plug facilitates optical coupling of a light-guiding fiber to a plug receptacle and includes a plug housing for receiving and locking parts of the fiber plug in position relative to one another. The plug housing has: a fiber inlet and a fiber bearing for the spatially fixed reception of the fiber; optically downstream of the fiber bearing along a beam path, an optical lens for collecting light exiting at an end face of the light-guiding fiber and for collimating the collected light; and a coupling surface with an output of the beam path and with a coupling structure for connection to a receptacle structure that is complementary to the coupling structure. An adjustable optical element is arranged optically downstream of the fiber bearing in the beam path and has a first component of a magnetic coupling consisting of two components and a first component of a kinematic coupling.

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