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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2018
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Wang-Long Zhou, Andover, MA (US);
Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Middleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/00 (2006.01); H01S 3/094 (2006.01); H01S 3/093 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); B23K 26/38 (2014.01); B23K 26/06 (2014.01); H01S 5/40 (2006.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01); B23K 26/21 (2014.01); B23K 26/064 (2014.01); G02B 27/30 (2006.01); H01S 5/026 (2006.01); H01S 5/14 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/094042 (2013.01); B23K 26/064 (2015.10); B23K 26/0648 (2013.01); B23K 26/21 (2015.10); B23K 26/38 (2013.01); G02B 6/0006 (2013.01); G02B 27/0955 (2013.01); H01S 3/005 (2013.01); H01S 3/0071 (2013.01); H01S 3/093 (2013.01); H01S 5/4062 (2013.01); G02B 6/4296 (2013.01); G02B 27/30 (2013.01); H01S 5/026 (2013.01); H01S 5/143 (2013.01); H01S 5/4031 (2013.01); H01S 5/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract
In various embodiments, one or more optical elements are utilized to alter the numerical aperture of a radiation beam received from an optical fiber in order to accommodate the properties of a downstream collimator within a laser delivery head.