Schott Ag

Schott Glas

Schott Glaswerke

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Schott Corporation

Lkh Kunststoffwerk Gmbh & Co.

Glaswerke, Schott

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Bernd Schultheis

Hubertus Russert

Oliver Keiper

Martin Taplan

Martin Cramer

Dieter Jung

Stefan Hubert

Inka Henze

Lothar Willmes

Cora Krause

Herwig Scheidler

Christian Henn

Michael Kahlke

Andreas Dietrich

Horst Stedron

Michael Zimmer

Jürgen Meinl

Simone Monika Ritter

Bernd Hoppe

Evelin Weiss

Peter Nass

Clemens Ottermann

Harry Engelmann

Klaus Kristen

Thomas Weingärtner

Markus Kappel

Monica Cotlear De Witzmann

Friedrich Siebers

Kurt Schaupert

Jochen Alkemper

Roland Leroux

Falk Gabel

Volker Hagemann

Lutz Klippe

Waldemar Weinberg

Kevin Tabor

Nathan Aaron Carlie

Roland Dudek

Stefan Bauer

Juergen Meinl

Oliver Gros

Klaus Schoenberger

Armin Plichta

Ruth Effenberger

Veit Luther

Dietrich Busch

Walter Bleuel

Gerhard Weber

Thomas Henrich

Axel Curdt

Jürgen Dzick

Birgit Lattermann

Holger Werner

Jonas Grimm

Michael Muskalla

Holger Köbrich

Thomas Weingaertner

Ulrike Bader

Andreas Hatzenbuehler

Bernd Metz

Werner Hottum

Hans-Jürgen Hommes

Rainer Solbach

Werner Noky

Bernhard Hunzinger

Björn Bleisinger

Juergen Dzick

Thomas Heisner

Achim Weil

Detlef Wolff

Hermann Lemm

Daniela Petto

Karsten Wermbter

Monica De Witzmann

Sigurd Dressler

Jan Philipp Steigleder

Dirk Hertel

Klaus Michael Hammerl

Brigit Lattermann

Claudia Booss

Ella Saar

Todd J Gudgel

Nathan Carlie

Jens Vietor

William James

Dirk Vogel

J Urgen Th Urk

Erich Schroder

Holger Koebrich

Patrik Schober

Petra Kuntze

Franz Hammer

Otmar Stengg

Tobias Klink

Christian Schwedler

Klaus Engelmann

Lothar Wilhem Wilmes

Paul Bou Saleh

A fiber-optic light guide is provided. The light guide includes plurality of optical fibers and an enveloping material. The plurality of optical fibers define a flexible fiber bundle. The flexible fiber bundle has a first diameter and a length along a longitudinal axis. The enveloping material encloses the plurality of optical fibers at one end of the flexible fiber bundle and over at least a part of the length to define a rigid portion. The plurality of optical fibers in the rigid portion are fused with one another. The flexible fiber bundle has a modified or formed cross-sectional geometry in a region of the enveloping material.

Fiber-optic light guide with deformed ends

An illumination system is provided that includes a laser light source and an optical waveguide connected to and/or associated with the laser light source at a proximal end thereof. The illumination system includes a diffuser element at the distal end of the optical waveguide with a longitudinal axis extending perpendicular to the coupling surface of the optical waveguide into the diffuser element. The diffuser element emits light over its active length laterally of the longitudinal axis and has at a base body with a scattering element. The scattering element is aligned along the longitudinal axis substantially parallel or at an angle thereto. An emission intensity homogenizer along the longitudinal axis is provided. The illumination system exhibits an intensity distribution of lateral emission deviating by at most ±50% from an average lateral emission intensity.

Illumination system comprising an optical waveguide with a diffuser element, and method for producing and/or structuring a diffuser base body at least partially or in sections thereof

An illumination system for medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic system is provided. The illumination system includes a laser light source and a light guide. The light guide has a proximal end that is connectable and/or assignable to the one laser light source. The light guide has a distal end with a diffuser element having a radial, spherical emission characteristic. The diffuser element includes a diffuser main body made of an inorganic material, in particular a glass, a glass ceramic, a glass-like substance or a composite substance of the aforementioned substances. The diffuser main body has a scattering element and has a surface that is pore-free and smooth.

Illumination system having light guides with diffuser elements that emit radially

An illumination system for a medical technology therapy and/or diagnosis system is provided. The system includes a light source, an optical waveguide, and an optical element in the form of a diffuser element. The optical waveguide has a first end that is connectable or assignable to the light source and the diffuser element is arranged at a second end of the optical waveguide so that light from the optical waveguide is injected into the optical element. The optical element has a lateral surface covered by a reflector layer at least in a section thereof. The reflector layer includes a mirror layer. The optical element has a light-reflecting area covered by the reflector layer and a light-transmissive area that is free of the reflector layer. Thus, light injected into the optical element is reflected on the light-reflecting area and emitted from the light-transmissive area.

Illumination systems with optical waveguide having diffuser elements

A drawn glass element for producing glass optical waveguides is provided. The element has two first length portions with a first cross-sectional area and which define the two ends of the glass element; a second, intermediate length portion between the two first length portions, which has a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area; a first transition portion between the intermediate length portion and one of the first length portions; and a second transition portion between the intermediate length portion and another of the first length portions. The first and second transition portions have a cross-sectional area that steadily changes and merges from the first cross-sectional area into the second cross-sectional area.

Glass optical waveguide with variable cross section

An optoelectrical guide/conductor system is provided that includes an optoelectrical guide/conductor arrangement and an at least regionally electrically conductive adapter sleeve. The arrangement has an optical waveguide with an outer, organic sheath layer and a conductive layer. The conductive layer is a single layer or a sequence of layers, which is directly or indirectly on the outer sheath layer. The sleeve mechanically embraces the arrangement and electrically contacts the conductive layer such that the adapter sleeve is insertable into a connection mount, arranged e.g. on a handpiece, for transmitting optical and/or electrical signals through the conductive layer.

Optoelectrical guide/conductor system with adapter sleeve

An optical-electrical conductor assembly is provided that includes an optical waveguide that has an outer organic jacket layer and a functional layer system disposed on the outer jacket layer of the optical waveguide. The functional later has a base layer portion with a single layer or a sequence of layers and an electrically conductive layer disposed on the base layer portion. The electrically conductive layer has a single layer or a sequence of layers.

Optical-electrical conductor assembly comprising an optical waveguide and an electrically conductive layer

The present disclosure relates to compositions that can be used for optical fibers and other systems that transmit light in the near-, mid- and/or far-ranges of the infrared spectrum, such as for example in the wavelength range of 1.5 &#x3bc;m to 14 &#x3bc;m. The optical fibers may comprise a light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition and a cladding composition. In some embodiments, the light-transmitting chalcogenide core composition has a refractive index n(core) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(core), and the cladding composition has a refractive index n(cladding) and a coefficient of thermal expansion CTE(cladding), wherein n(cladding) is less than n(core) and in some embodiments wherein CTE(cladding) is less than CTE(core). In some embodiments, the chalcogenide glass core composition comprises a) sulfur and/or selenium, b) germanium, and c) gallium, indium, tin and/or one or more metal halides.

Chalcogenide compositions for optical fibers and other systems

An endoscope is provided that includes a first component, a second component, a light source, an image capturing element, and a light guide. The second component has a proximal end and a distal end with proximal end coupled to the first component. The light source is integrated in the first component and includes a laser and a converter. The laser emits primary light and the converter converts the primary light at least partially into secondary light that has a different wavelength. The image capturing element is arranged at the distal end. The light guide has an optical fiber that extends through the second component. The converter is coupled to the proximal end such that the primary and secondary light is injected into the optical fiber, is conducted from the proximal end to the distal end, and emitted at the distal end.

Endoscope, disposable endoscope system and light source for endoscope

The disclosure relates to diagnostic, surgical, and/or therapeutic devices for being introduced into the human or animal body or for in vitro examination of human or animal blood samples or other body cells, in particular to an endoscope or a disposable endoscope that includes at least one illumination light guide and/or image guide for transmitting electromagnetic radiation, the illumination light guide or image guide having a proximal end face for incoupling or outcoupling of electromagnetic radiation and a distal end face for incoupling or outcoupling of electromagnetic radiation. The proximal and/or distal end faces consist of plastic elements that are transparent at least partially or in sections thereof, the transparent plastic being biocompatible and/or having non-toxic properties to human or animal cell cultures for exposure durations of less than one day. This allows for the production of assemblies for disposable endoscopes, inter alia.

Light guide or image guide components for disposable endoscopes

An illumination system is provided that includes a laser light source, a light guide, a connector, and an emission element. The laser light source has a numerical aperture. The light guide has a proximal end and a distal end. The connector has a connector housing and connects and/or assigns the laser light source at the proximal end. The emission element is at the distal end. The connector housing has a device that reduce an influence of a range of variation of the numerical aperture so that an emission behaviour of the emission element is independent of a range of variation of the numerical aperture.

Illumination system with a light guide and an emission element

An illumination system is provided that includes a spatial fiber arrangement with an optical element at the distal end of the fiber arrangement. The fiber arrangement has a first region including individual fibers with a significantly smaller active diameter in comparison with the individual fibers of a remaining region. The optical element at the distal end is assigned the remaining region. The fiber arrangement can be a rigid fiber rod that includes an intermediate region provided between the first region and the remaining region. The intermediate region suppresses stray light transfers between the first and remaining regions. The fiber arrangement can include an optical coupling element at a proximal end of the fiber rod.

Illumination system comprising heterogeneous fiber arrangement

A light guide for industrial, medical, or cosmetic applications is provided, having an outer circumferential surface and at least one end face made of glass, with an optical element made of at least one transparent plastic directly molded to the end face of glass by molding or reactive injection molding, so that the electromagnetic radiation guided in the light guide when in its operational state is directed through the end face of glass into the transparent plastic of the optical element and exits therefrom.

Light guide with optical element molded thereto

An illumination device for irradiating objects with electromagnetic radiation is provided. The illumination device includes at least one light guide and a radiation source that emits electromagnetic radiation in the spectral region from 320 nm to 420 nm into the light guide. The light guide is formed of a glass that has a spectral transmittance of at least 70% at 350 nm and is selected from the system of lead-free silicate-tin glasses.

Illumination device with an extended useable spectrum

Sheathed optical waveguides and methods for producing such waveguides are provided. The sheathing is provided so that the fibers of the waveguides do not adhere to the sheathing. To this end, elastomeric material is formed into a tube surrounding a bundle of fibers and is solidified. The tube is prevented from radial compressing the fibers during solidification of the elastomeric material by a fluid in the tube.

Sheathed optical waveguide and method for producing it

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Schwabenheim, Germany

Bernd Schultheis