Patents Assigned to The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the Univerity of Arizona
  • Apparatus and Method of Generating Nearly Non-Diffracting Beams from Multimode Optical Fibers
    Publication number: 20110235166
    Abstract: A first optical fiber (12) having a first end and a second end is connected to a multimode second optical fiber (14) at the second end. The first optical fiber (12) outputs a substantially single mode optical beam at its second end. The multimode second optical fiber (14) converts light in the optical beam of single mode from the first optical fiber to light of multiple modes, and provides an output beam that has less diffractive spreading than that of a Gaussian beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the Univerity of Arizona
    Inventors: Xiushan Zhu, Axel Schulzgen, Nasser Peyghambarian