TAPERED FUSED WAVEGUIDE FOR TEETH WHITENING

Title:

TAPERED FUSED WAVEGUIDE FOR TEETH WHITENING

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO2005046501

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

A radiation emitting apparatus (10) is disclosed that emits a substantially homogenous beam of radiation from an irregularly shaped output end (14). As described herein, a radiation emitting apparatus includes a bundled fiberguide (11) coupled to an energy distribution tuner. The bundled fiber guide (11) is coupled to the energy distribution tuner (21) to receive a substantially uniform distribution of high power energy. The bundled fiber guide (11) is configured to distribute the energy to emit a substantially uniform distribution of lower power energy toward a target surface, such as a body surface. The bundled fiber guide may include a plurality of fused optic fibers, a plurality of beam splitting mirror elements, or tapered waveguides.

Inventors:

JONES JEFFREY W (US)
BOUTOUSSOV DMITRI (US)

Application Number:

PCT/US2004/037549

Publication Date:

May 04, 2006

Filing Date:

November 10, 2004

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

BIOLASE TECH INC (US)
JONES JEFFREY W (US)
BOUTOUSSOV DMITRI (US)

International Classes:

A61B18/18; A61B18/22; A61C19/06

Foreign References:

US6383176B1	2002-05-07
US4929246A	1990-05-29
US5833683A	1998-11-10

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