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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Horseheads, NY (US);
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of generating light for use in tracing an end of a cable assembly includes coupling convergent visible light into an input end of a multimode mode-homogenizing optical fiber having low-order and high-order modes and comprising an output end, a fiber angle, a length and a mode-homogenization length. The inputted light is initially concentrated mainly in the low-order modes. The method also includes conveying the light through the length of the mode-homogenizing optical fiber to form outputted light that is substantially mode-homogenized, substantially spatially uniform and substantially angularly uniform and having a divergence angle that is substantially the same as the fiber angle. Light source assemblies and systems for carrying out the method are also disclosed.