Patent · US Expired

Process for the production of a waveguide beam converter

US6240232A · kind A · utility

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7Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hartmut Schneider · Munich, DE
Werner Spaeth · Holzkirchen, DE
Stefan Groetsch · Bad Abbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 29, 1998
Grant date	May 29, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 29, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/136
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Process for the production of a waveguide beam converter for shaping a laser beam collection. A plurality of waveguides are produced and arranged in such a way that at least one individual laser beam can be injected into each waveguide. The waveguides are firstly produced on a substrate using planar technology, and subsequently detached from the substrate over a part of their length, starting from their beam exit ends. The free ends are then arranged and fixed in accordance with an intended output beam arrangement of the output laser beam collection.

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