Real-time spectrally-adjustable ophthalmic illumination
US8371695B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2011 |
| Grant date | Feb 12, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 13, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B3/0008
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An ophthalmic illuminator is provided that includes a plurality of color sources, each color source producing a light of a corresponding color; a combiner for combining the light from the color sources to produced a combined light; at least one optical fiber configured to receive the combined light and propagate the received combined light towards a distal end of the ophthalmic illuminator; and a controller configured to control an intensity for each of the color sources responsive to a sampling of a spectral content for the combined light.
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