Mitigating the effects of miniaturizing integrating spheres for fiber optic measurement
US6846085B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 21, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jan 25, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 23, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/4214
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An miniature integrating sphere has a spherical volume with walls of a material for reflecting light, a light inlet and a light outlet. The light inlet is offset from a diameter axis of the spherical volume and the light inlet and light outlet are offset at non-perpendicular and non-parallel relation to each other. The light inlet is molded or milled to a shape conforming to the shape of the cone of light provided by a fiber optic device as an input to the integrating sphere. A number of miniature integrating spheres may be used respectively in plural channels of an optical measurement instrument.
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