Patent ID: 6903854

Claim:
An optical fiber lateral scanner including: a stationary part and a moving part; said stationary part comprising a bearing support and a magnetic system, said magnetic system including a first permanent magnet and a lens system; said moving part including a movable current conductor and an optical fiber rigidly fixed to said current conductor, said optical fiber serving as a flexible cantilever and being fixedly attached to said bearing support with a capability for a distal part of said optical fiber of being deflected in a direction approximately perpendicular to its own axis, the end face of said distal part of said optical fiber being optically coupled with said lens system; and said current conductor being connected with a source of control current and made as at least one loop enveloping said first permanent magnet in the area of one of its poles, with a part of said optical fiber being located in the area of said pole of said first permanent magnet, and the plane of said loop of said current conductor being approximately perpendicular to the direction between the poles of said first permanent magnet.