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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2020
Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US);
Brian T. Schowengerdt, Seattle, WA (US);
Mathew D. Watson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles David Melville, Camano Island, WA (US);
An-Shyang Chu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy Mark Dalrymple, Gainesville, FL (US);
Vaibhav Mathur, Weston, FL (US);
Alejandro Lopez, Pembroke Pines, FL (US);
Aaron Mark Schuelke, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US);
Abstract
A method of fabricating a variable diameter fiber includes providing a fiber optic cable comprising a cladding region, a fiber core, and a plurality of sacrificial regions disposed in the cladding region and focusing a laser beam at a series of predetermined locations inside the fiber optic cable. The method also includes creating a series of damage sites associated with the series of predetermined locations, wherein the series of damage sites define a variable diameter profile and a latticework in the cladding region of the fiber optic cable. The method further includes exposing the fiber optic cable to an etchant solution, preferentially etching the series of damage sites, and separating peripheral portions of the fiber optic cable to release the variable diameter fiber.