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Device for optical-cable transport and combination of light images

  • US 4,735,473 A
  • Filed: 05/05/1986
  • Issued: 04/05/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for transmitting and combining light images in which a first light image is transported by means of an optical cable formed by an ordered bundle of optical fibers terminating in two flat end faces, an entrance face and an exit face, an entrance lens for forming said first image to be transmitted on the entrance face and an exit lens for transferring the image formed on the exit face in order to permit observation of said image, means being provided for eliminating the raster effect produced by the cable, said eliminating means being constituted by a first optical element upstream of the entrance lens for dispersing the received radiation as a function of the wavelength and a second optical element downstream of the exit lens for inversely combining the emergent radiation and re-forming said first image, said dispersive optical elements being formed by two holographic optical elements, a first holographic element being constituted by a mirror for reflecting a first predetermined spectral band corresponding to said first image, said dispersion being caused by chromatic aberrations exhibited by the first holographic element, the second element being constituted by a partially transparent mirror on the one hand for inversely reflecting the radiation corresponding to said first spectral band and eliminating said aberrations and on the other hand for transmitting the radiation corresponding to a second spectral band which corresponds to a second image to be combined with the first, no wavelength of said first band being contained in said second band.

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