Hybrid fiber optic probe device for attenuated total reflection spectroscopic applications in UV, visible and IR ranges

US9791367B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PIMS PASSIVE IMAGING MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD · IL

Inventors

• Dekel Ben-Zion · Hadera, IL
• Arkadi ZILBERMAN · Beer Sheva, IL
• Ronnie Klein · Haifa, IL
• Yaniv COHEN · Rosh HaAyin, IL
• Nathan Blaunstein · Beer Sheva, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 3, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 17, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/262
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A hybrid Attenuated Total Reflection fiber optic probe device having a radiation source; a detecting system; a core-only solid optical fiber probe tip having an input end and an output end; an input hollow fiber waveguide configured for association with the radiation source at a first end and interconnection with the input end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip at a second end; an output hollow fiber waveguide configured for interconnection with the output end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip at a first end and association with the detection system at a second end; an inwardly tapered solid fiber input radiation collector element configured at a tapered end for interconnection with the second end of the output hollow fiber waveguide so as to receive radiation from the radiation source; wherein an outside diameter of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip and an inside diameter of each one of the input hollow fiber waveguide and the output hollow fiber waveguide is such that the interconnection between each one of the input hollow fiber waveguide and the output hollow fiber waveguide and the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip is by means of insert…