Fiber optic scanner

US5109459A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Max Eibert · Friedrichshafen, DE
• Ulrich Schwanke · Mindelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 1990
• Grant date: Apr 28, 1992
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3558
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A fiber optic scanner includes two fiber bundles, each transforming a linear array into a circular one. The circularly arranged bundle ends cooperate with synchronously rotating deflectors which, in conjunction with single line fiber optics couple a deflector to a light source, provided the linear ends of the two bundles are positioned to be coupled to each other through a field of view.