Optiscan Pty Ltd.

Hoya Corporation

Telstra Corporation Limited

Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag

Robert Alan Pattie

Christopher Gerard Byrne

Gavan Edmund Rosman

Gerald Panitz

Peter Maxwell Delaney

Bradley Charles Jones

Selene Rodd-Routley

A sterile sheath and methods for enclosing a confocal endomicroscopy (CEM) scanner probe with the sterile sheath are provided. The scanner probe includes a probe shaft, a probe tip, a probe body, and a probe umbilical. The sterile sheath for enclosing the CEM scanner probe includes a sheath tube configured to receive the probe shaft and has a distal tube end, a proximal tube end, a sheath tip mounted at the distal tube end of the sheath tube, and a sheath socket configured to receive the probe body. The sheath socket has a distal socket end and a proximal socket end. The proximal tube end of the sheath tube is fixed to the sheath socket at the distal socket end. The sterile sheath further includes a sheath lock ring and a sheath drape mounted on the sheath socket at the proximal socket end with the sheath lock ring.

Sterile sheath for confocal endomicroscopy scanner probe

Scanner for an endoscope

A scanning apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising a light transmitter, a mount for supporting the light transmitter located remotely from its exit tip, a drive for driving the light transmitter to vibrate resonantly in a first direction and to vibrate non-resonantly in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a synchronizer for synchronizing vibration of the light transmitter in the first and second directions so that the exit tip of the light transmitter executes a scan pattern. The drive applies a driving force to the light transmitter between the mount and the exit tip.

Optical fiber scanning apparatus

A scanning method and apparatus, the apparatus comprising a fork with first and second forwardly extending tines and a rearwardly extending counterweight member, a mount for supporting the fork at a point between the tines and the counterweight member, and a drive for effecting relative vibration between the tines to provide a fast scan and for driving the fork to provide a slow scan transverse to the fast scan.

Tuning-fork-type scanning apparatus with a counterweight

An optical connector for use with a light separator, the optical connector including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being optically couplable by first optical transmitter to a first input of the light separator and by second optical transmitter to a second input of the light separator. The first and second portions are detachably couplable to couple the first and second optical transmitter to third and fourth optical transmitters, respectively, provided in or coupled to the second portion. The first and second inputs of the light separator can thereby be optically coupled to a first optical instrument coupled to the third optical transmitter and a second optical instrument coupled to the fourth optical transmitter.

Optical connector

An optical isolator (2) comprising two polariser means (10,12), two input/output ports (4,6) formed respectively on the polariser means (10,12), and optical rotator means (14,18) disposed between the polariser means (10,12), the optical rotator means (14,18) including Faraday rotator means (14) and being selectively configured so the isolator (2) performs one of a plurality of isolator functions.

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Robert Alan Pattie