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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2022
Alcon Inc., Fribourg, CH;
Mark Harrison Farley, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Chenguang Diao, Irvine, CA (US);
Mark Alan Hopkins, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Alireza Mirsepassi, Irvine, CA (US);
Timothy C. Ryan, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Ronald T. Smith, Irvine, CA (US);
Dennis Martin Terenzio, Boise, ID (US);
Alcon Inc., Fribourg, CH;
Abstract
Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and devices for coupling optical fibers with laser surgical systems. In particular, certain aspects provide a push-pull connector and adapter for releasably coupling an optical fiber with a port of a laser surgical system. The connector and adapter facilitate mechanical lateral and rotational guidance of the optical fiber during insertion into the port to ensure proper alignment (e.g., clocking) of the optical fiber's cores with a laser beam pattern propagated by the laser surgical system. Accordingly, the connector and adaptor enable improved coupling efficiency between the laser beam pattern and one or more cores of the optical fiber, and therefore improved power uniformity between multiple laser beams transmitted through the cores.