WO1995021392A1 - Condensing and collecting optical system with axially displaced concave reflector - Google Patents
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- G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
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- G02B19/0019—Condensers, e.g. light collectors or similar non-imaging optics characterised by the optical means employed having reflective surfaces only (e.g. louvre systems, systems with multiple planar reflectors)
- G02B19/0023—Condensers, e.g. light collectors or similar non-imaging optics characterised by the optical means employed having reflective surfaces only (e.g. louvre systems, systems with multiple planar reflectors) at least one surface having optical power
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- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
- G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
- G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
- G02B6/4298—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers
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- Fig. 1 There are two basic designs for optical collecting and condensing systems that are in common use.
- the first is a system of condenser lenses such as illustrated in Fig. 1.
- Condenser lenses have several problems, including the creation of chromatic and spherical aberrations, the high cost of corrective optics, the inherent difficulty in aligning the lenses and the large amount of space such a system demands.
- Ellipsoidal reflectors as shown in Fig. 2 are also used in prior art systems. Their problems include high cost and the unavoidable magnification of the image which reduces the flux density at the image.
- Both of these systems (Figs. 1 and 2) tend to emphasize the collection and redirection of the maximum amount of light from a single point source as discussed above. Thus, they fail to optimize both spot size and light density.
- Patent #1383413 is the use of a primary elliptical mirror configured as shown in Fig. 2, except that a secondary spherical reflector, having a center of curvature coincident with the source and placed at a distance between the primary and secondary focal points of the elliptical reflector, is used to increase the amount of collected light into a light guide.
- the light guide is placed along the optical axis at the secondary focal point and a hole is placed in the secondary reflector to permit light to enter the light guide.
- the effect of astigmatism is to decrease the concentrating efficiency of the system and thereby reduce the flux collected at the target. Also, the requirement to minimize the off-axis distance between the source and the target due to the resulting astigmatic distortion imposes limitations on the physical dimensions of the source and target in such a system.
- the concave surface portion of the primary reflector which is preferably of a substantially toroidal shape, defines an optical axis and a primary center of curvature disposed along the optical axis.
- the source of electromagnetic radiation is located approximately on the optical axis but axially offset a first distance from the primary center of curvature in a direction toward the toroidal surface portion.
- the target such as a single core fiber optic or a fiber optic bundle, is located approximately on the optical axis but axially offset a second distance from the primary center of curvature in a direction away from the toroidal surface portion for acquiring a substantially concentrated image of the source reflected by the toroidal surface portion.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of a prior art condenser lens system.
- Figure 2 is a schematic illustration of a prior art elliptical reflector system wherein the source is placed at a first focal point and the target is placed at the second focal point of an imaginary ellipse partially outlined by the reflector.
- Figure 3 is a schematic view in the Y-Z plane of a prior art off-axis optical system employing a spherical reflector.
- Figure 4 is a schematic view in the X-Z plane of one embodiment of the present invention showing the primary and secondary reflectors as separate elements.
- Figure 5 is a schematic view in the Y-Z plane of one embodiment of the present invention showing the primary and secondary reflectors as separate elements.
- Figure 6 is a schematic view in the X-Z plane of another embodiment of the present invention showing an implementation of the primary and secondary reflectors disposed as a single contiguous reflector within a housing having a planar window at the radiation collecting end of the housing.
- Figure 7 is a schematic view in the X-Z plane of another embodiment of the present invention showing an implementation of the primary and secondary reflectors disposed as a single contiguous reflector within a housing having a hemispherical window.
- a condensing and collecting optical system comprises at least three main components:
- a point source S is any compact source S of electromagnetic radiation whose angular extent is small.
- the linear angular size of such a source S is no more than 0.1 radian.
- a typical source S may be an electric arc lamp with an arc gap of approximately 1 mm placed in front of a concave reflector at a distance of approximately 5 cm.
- the source S is a compact xenon arc lamp with a one (1) mm arc length and contained in an aspherical glass enclosure.
- other enclosures such as ceramic may also be used as long as the radiation can be transmitted out from the source.
- a cylindrical enclosure containing a window at each end of the cylinder would permit radiation to be transmitted from the source S.
- any source S of electromagnetic radiation which is small relative to the size of the target may be used, including electric AC and DC arc lamps, gas-discharge lamps, filament lamps, and light emitting diodes.
- the types of radiation emitted by a particular source S may comprise pulsed radiation, continuous-wave radiation, coherent radiation, incoherent radiation, monochromatic radiation, broad-band radiation and narrow-band radiation.
- the primary reflector M1 focuses electromagnetic radiation from the source S onto the target T.
- the primary reflector M1 comprises a concave reflecting surface portion P concave relative to the source S.
- the reflecting surface portion P preferably forms the entire surface of the primary reflector M1.
- the optical system of the present invention is arranged in a spatial coordinate system having orthogonal x, y, and Z axes such that the center of curvature of the concave reflecting portion P is located at the origin O and its optical axis is coincident with the z axis.
- the present invention preferably utilizes a substantially toroidal reflecting surface portion P.
- the toroidal reflecting surface portion P has a primary radius of curvature r1 in the x-z plane (where the center of curvature of the toroidal reflector M1 in the x-z plane is coincident with the origin O in Fig.
- the purpose of having r2 not equal to r1 is to bring the image point of rays in the y-z plane in coincidence with rays in the x-z plane so as to reduce the offset between the rays caused by the lensing of a particular source envelope g.
- the primary radius r1 will be equal to the secondary radius r2 so that the primary reflecting surface portion P becomes spherical.
- a substantially spherical concave mirror could be used in all cases, the curved envelope g enclosing many sources, such as a DC arc lamp, causes elliptical aberrations which require optical compensation.
- a less distorted image can be formed, permitting overlap of image points in both planes and resulting in higher collection efficiency of radiation.
- the net result compared to a spherical reflector is to improve the condensing properties of the system so as to collect a greater fraction of light into a small target such as an optical fiber.
- the target T is a small object which needs to be illuminated with the highest density electromagnetic radiation possible.
- the target T is a single core optical fiber f with a diameter of approximately 0.1 mm.
- the target T may also comprise a target T selected from the group of one or more optical fiber(s) f having a radiation collection end(s) c polished at an angle perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the collection end(s) c of the optical fiber(s) f and one or more optical fiber(s) f having a radiation collection end(s) c polished at an angle other than perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the collection end(s) c of the optical fiber(s) f.
- a spherical mirror M has an optical axis which defines the z axis of a coordinate system with the origin O disposed at the center of curvature of the mirror M.
- a source S is located on the y axis, displaced a distance yo from the origin. Rays from the source S are reflected by the mirror M and converge near a point displaced a distance yo below the optical axis z to form a real image I of the source S.
- off-axis optical systems have inherent drawbacks including the presence of astigmatism parallel to the direction of the off-axis displacement and the physical limitations inherent in the requirement to minimize the off-axis distance yo.
- the effect of astigmatism is to produce a point image I which is not properly focused nor imaged at unit magnification at the target T.
- the resulting astigmatism decreases the concentrating efficiency of the system and thereby reduces the flux collected at the target T.
- the need to reduce the off-axis distance yo between the source S and the target T in order to minimize the astigmatic distortion imposes limitations on the physical dimensions of the source S and the target T which can be utilized in such a system.
- the preferred embodiment of the present invention employs an electric arc lamp as the source S.
- a lamp generally has a cylindrical glass envelope which is denoted as g in Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6.
- the first distance z s is preferably selected so that the image point I will lie just outside of the glass envelope g on the side opposite the primary reflector M1.
- the magnification of the source spot size at the image point I is given by:
- optical aberrations are created by the enclosure of the source itself, typically an aspherical glass envelope g, which itself acts like a lens.
- the extent of optical aberrations depends on both the shape and uniformity of the glass envelope g.
- Full compensation can only be done by adjusting the profile of the reflector M1 numerically which makes it highly non-spherical.
- compensation for the optical aberrations can be in part achieved by choosing a toroidal concave reflector as the primary reflecting surface with a secondary radius r2 chosen so as to compensate for the lensing effect of the lamp envelope.
- a toroidal primary reflector M1 is preferable to a spherical reflector since the latter cannot provide any compensation for optical aberrations.
- the present invention differs from the prior art French Patent #1383413 in that the location of the source S is not coincident with the center of curvature of the spherical reflector used therein.
- a toroidal primary reflector M1 partially compensates for optical aberrations caused by a lamp envelope g or enclosure. If no enclosure is present or the source S and reflector are enclosed within the same enclosure, the altemative embodiment would consist of a spherical reflector since for this embodiment the primary and secondary radii r1 , r2 of the toroidal reflector would be equal.
- the housing 5 may also comprise a top and a bottom affixed to the sides 7 of the housing 5 to form a sealed enclosure capable of being filled with a gas.
- the housing 5 may be pressurized with an ionizing gas and fitted with the electrodes of an arc lamp S chosen to maximize brightness and minimize the angular extent of the arc produced.
- a window W can be provided at a radiation collecting end E of the housing 5 for passage of radiation from within the housing 5 to the radiation collecting end c of an optical fiber f. Accordingly, the radiation collecting end c of the fiber(s) f may be disposed adjacent to the window W or distant from the window W.
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