Patent ID: 6952513
Filing Date: 2005-10-04
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a first portion operable to support an optical filter and a lens each fixedly mounted thereon in respective predetermined operational positions; a second portion operable to transmit radiation along an optical path so that a first portion of the radiation is reflected by the optical filter and a second portion of the radiation is transmitted through the filter, thereafter reaches and is optically influenced by said lens, and thereafter reaches an end portion of an optical fiber; a third portion operable to adjust a position of said end portion of said optical fiber with respect to a surface of said lens while monitoring the amount of said second portion of the radiation from said optical path which enters said end portion of said optical fiber through said surface of said lens, until said end portion of said optical fiber is disposed in a selected position with respect to said surface of said lens; and a fourth portion operable to thereafter fixedly secure said end portion of said optical fiber to said surface of said lens with said end portion of said optical fiber in said selected position with respect to said surface of said lens.