Process for the application of fiber optical bundles comprising optical fibers

US5553184A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Eckard Eikelmann · Würselen, DE
• Stefan Keller · Mainaschaff, DE
• Tilo Pfeifer · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 1994
• Grant date: Sep 3, 1996
• Expiry date: Dec 7, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/04
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A process for applying fiber optical bundles comprising optical fibers for isual and measurement-related purposes is provided, in which process light is coupled into the fiber optical bundle on a launching side and is extracted from said fiber optical bundle on an output side. In so doing, the individual optical fibers are labelled on the output side, and following separation of the optical fibers, their output-sided representation of the coordinates are determined through threshold formation. Then the optical fibers determined on the output side are defined on the launching side; and their coordinates are also defined. Finally the position of the individual optical fibers at the output end are converted to the coordinates of the respective optical fiber at the launching end.