Abstract: A device for collimating light emanating from a laser light source, including a laser light source with a plurality of substantially linear emission sources arranged next to each other in at least one row, and collimation means with a plurality of collimation elements which can collimate the light emanating from the emission sources in a direction (X) corresponding to the direction of the row. The device also includes a beam transformer which can respectively transform the light emanating from at least two emission sources in such a way that the light emanating from the at least two emission sources impinges precisely upon a collimation element and is collimated. The invention also relates to a beam transformer for one such device.

Abstract: Device for optical beam homogenization with two optically functional boundary surfaces which are opposite one another and which can be used as the entry surface and as the exit surface for light beams, the entry surface and the exit surface having at least in sections lens-like structures, the structures formed on the entry surface and the exit surface being made as convex sections and concave sections which are located in alternation next to one another, the transitions between the convex sections and the concave sections being made relatively smooth. Furthermore this invention relates to an arrangement for optical beam homogenization with a device of the aforementioned type.

Abstract: The invention relates to a beam shaping device for shaping the cross-section of a light beam, comprising at least one beam shaping unit with beam splitting means, beam deflecting means, and beam combination means. The beam splitting means are capable of diving up a light beam that is incident on the beam shaping unit into two partial beams. The beam deflecting means are capable of deflecting at least one of the partial beams onto the beam combination means and said beam combination means are capable of combining the two partial beams in such a manner that the cross-section of the light beam exiting the beam shaping unit is reduced in size in a first direction compared to the cross-section of the light beam that is incident on the beam shaping unit and is increased in size in a second direction perpendicular thereto.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for producing lines of groups of lines of electromagnetic radiation of the optical spectral range in a definable area of space. The lines or groups of lines can be used as positioning aids or geometry detection aids, and they include at least one conversion unit which is at least partially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation used, and which can convert the electromagnetic radiation passing through it, especially coherent radiation or laser radiation, such that the electromagnetic radiation forms at least one line of group of lines in a given three-dimensional area.

Abstract: A device for collimating light emanating from a laser light source, comprising a laser light source with a plurality of substantially linear emission sources (1) arranged next to each other in at least one row, and collimation means with a plurality of collimation elements which can collimate the light emanating from the emission sources in a direction (X) corresponding to the direction of the row. The device also comprises a beam transformer (2, 12, 22) which can respectively transform the light emanating from at least two emission sources (1) in such a way that the light emanating from the at least two emission sources (1) impinges precisely upon a collimation element and is collimated. The invention also relates to a beam transformer (2, 12, 22) for one such device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a beam shaping device for shaping the cross-section of a light beam, comprising at least one beam shaping unit with beam splitting means, beam deflecting means, and beam combination means. The beam splitting means are capable of diving up a light beam that is incident on the beam shaping unit into two partial beams. The beam deflecting means are capable of deflecting at least one of the partial beams onto the beam combination means and said beam combination means are capable of combining the two partial beams in such a manner that the cross-section of the light beam exiting the beam shaping unit is reduced in size in a first direction compared to the cross-section of the light beam that is incident on the beam shaping unit and is increased in size in a second direction perpendicular thereto.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for shaping the cross-section of a light beam, comprising at least one beam shaping unit with beam splitting means, beam deflecting means and beam combination means. The beam splitting means are capable of splitting a light beam which is incident on the beam shaping unit into two partial beams. The beam deflecting means are capable of deflecting at least one of the partial beams onto the beam combination means, and said beam combination means are capable of combining the two partial beams in such a manner that the cross-section of the light beam emerging from the beam shaping unit is reduced in size in one direction compared to the light beam incident on the beam shaping unit. The beam combination means is configured as a polarisation-selective beam splitting and beam combination unit that comprises at least two elements with an interface interposed in between. The two split partial beams can be incident on the interface from different directions.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for correcting laser illumination emitted from a laser light source (1), comprising a laser light source (1), which has linear emission sources (2) that are arranged in a row in a first direction (X), whereby in addition, the emission sources (2) that are arranged essentially in a row are at least partially offset relative to the row in a perpendicular direction (Y) in relation to the first direction (X). The assembly also comprises corrective elements (6, 8, 10), which can correct the laser illumination emitted from the laser light source (1) in such a way that the spatial distortion of the laser illumination, caused by the offset position of the emission sources (2) relative to the row, is compensated. According to the invention, the corrective elements (10) are configured as a plate array that comprises a number of plate elements (11) consisting of substantially plane-parallel plates that are transparent to the laser illumination used.

Abstract: An imaging system, especially an imaging system for imaging electromagnetic radiation in the optical spectral range, includes at least one lens element and at least one first and one second optically functional boundary surface through which the electromagnetic radiation can pass. At least the first and at least the second optically functional interface can be located either on one or on two or more lens elements. At least the first and at least the second optically functional interface have, at least in sections, a cylinder lens geometry or a cylinder lens-like geometry so that these optically functional interfaces each have a direction lying in the interfaces and along which at least in sections the curvature of the surface is essentially constant. The direction of essentially constant curvature of at least the first optically functional interface to the direction of essentially constant curvature of at least the second optically functional interface being aligned roughly perpendicular to one another.

Abstract: A neural network system includes a random access memory (RAM); and an index-based weightless neural network with a columnar topography; wherein patterns of binary connections and values of output nodes' activities are stored in the RAM. Information is processed by pattern recognition using the neural network by storing a plurality of output patterns to be recognised in a pattern index; accepting an input pattern and dividing the input pattern into a plurality of components; and processing each component according to the pattern index to identify a recognised output pattern corresponding to the input pattern.

Abstract: Assembly for optical beam transformation, which is useful for imaging a light source (1) or several light sources onto the front face of an optical fiber (7), comprising at least one light source (1) that is capable of emitting at least one beam of light (9) and further comprising one imaging element (2) and at least one device (3) for optical beam transformation, the imaging element (2) being able to image the at least one beam of light (9) emitted from the at least one light source onto the at least one device (3) for optical beam transformation through which the at least one beam of light can at least partially pass and the at least one device (3) for optical beam transformation being able to rotate the at least one beam of light (9) passing through said device at least in sections about the direction of propagation (z) of the respective section of the beam(s) of light by an angle of about 90°, the device (3) for optical beam transformation comprising at least one segment of cylindrical lens (8) on one

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for optically transforming at least a radiation beam having a width extending in the plane X-Y. The device including optical elements provided with optically active interfaces, arrange in the radiation path. So as to obtain a more homogeneous intensity distribution in the output radiation beam and minimize internal losses, the invention includes at least one optical element in the form of a continuous angular transformation element including an optical interface having, along the x axis, an inclination continuously varying in the radiation direction, relative to the Y axis. The invention further concerns a method for continuously transforming a beam width extending in the X-Y plane, at least in the direction X, with defined divergence distribution.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for optically transforming at least a radiation beam having a width extending in the plane X-Y. The device including optical elements provided with optically active interfaces, arrange in the radiation path. So as to obtain a more homogeneous intensity distribution in the output radiation beam and minimize internal losses, the invention includes at least one optical element in the form of a continuous angular transformation element including an optical interface having, along the x axis, an inclination continuously varying in the radiation direction, relative to the Y axis. The invention further concerns a method for continuously transforming a beam width extending in the X-Y plane, at least in the direction X, with defined divergence distribution.

Abstract: An arrangement for optical beam transformation which can be used for imaging of one light source, or several light sources onto the end face of an optical fiber having at least one light source which can emit at least one light beam, and further including an imaging element and at least one device for optical beam transformation. The imaging element can image at least one light beam which has been emitted by at least one light source onto at least one device for optical beam transformation, and at least one light beam can pass at least partially through it, and the device for optical beam transformation on the entry surface and/or on the exit surface of the light beam or beams having at least one concave toroidal refractive surface so that at least the device for optical beam transformation can reflect the cross section of at least one light beam passing through it at least in sections on a plane which is parallel to the propagation direction (z) of the respective section of the light beam.