Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting base configured to mount the mirror assembly at a side of a vehicle. The mirror head accommodates a reflective element and an indicator module. With the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at the side of the vehicle, and responsive to actuation by a driver of the vehicle of a turn signal input of the plurality of inputs, the indicator module projects a turn signal icon onto the ground proximate the side of the vehicle. With the vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at the side of the vehicle, and responsive to another input of the plurality of inputs, the indicator module projects another icon onto the ground proximate the side of the vehicle. The other icon projected onto the ground is a different color than the turn signal icon projected onto the ground.

Abstract: To reduce energy losses which result from the misalignment of cores of connected optical fibers, the energy emanating from the core of a transmitting fiber is expanded over a larger area and then refocused onto the core of a receiving fiber. Several embodiments, based on the optical transmission characteristics of a Luneberg lens, are presented for terminating optical fibers. Since the terminations are substantially larger in size than the core itself, field coupling is greatly facilitated. Further, since the energy has been expanded, a slight misalignment of transmitting and receiving terminations results in a much lower loss than that which would result if the optical fibers were coupled directly with the same amount of core misalignment.