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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2013
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Young Soon Heo, Gwangju, KR;
Hyun Seo Kang, Gwangju, KR;
Young Sun Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hyoung Jun Park, Gwangju, KR;
Kwon-Seob Lim, Gwangju, KR;
Keo-Sik Kim, Gwangju, KR;
Eun Kyoung Jeon, Gwangju, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A sunlight coupler is provided, the sunlight coupler may include a beam integrator configured to concentrate beams of sunlight, which may be incident from a plurality of optical fibers, in the form of a single beam, a triplet lens focusing the concentrated beam on a specific position, and an optical fiber provided for transmission of the focused sunlight. The optical fiber may be a thermally-diffusion expand core fiber.