Patent ID: 7292760

Claim:
A fiber optic faceplate, comprising: a series of stacked ribbon structures, each ribbon structure comprising a single row of adjacent optical fibers, each optical fiber running from an input edge to an output edge of said ribbon structure, the length of each optical fiber thereby determining a depth dimension of said ribbon structure, each fiber having, relative to an adjacent fiber, an input spacing at said input edge and an output spacing at said output edge for directing light from an input position to an output position respectively, wherein the input spacing at the input edge is provided by a first spacer having a first constant thickness and the optical fibers are arranged at a first variable angle along the length of the first spacer and the output spacing at the output edge is provided by a second spacer having a second constant thickness different from the first constant thickness and the optical fibers are arranged at a second variable angle along the length of the second spacer.