Probe head and apparatus for intraoral confocal imaging using polarization-retarding coatings
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A61C-009/00
G02B-006/27
G02B-006/32
A61B-001/24
A61B-005/00
G01B-011/24
출원번호
US-0334527
(2014-07-17)
등록번호
US-9693839
(2017-07-04)
발명자
/ 주소
Atiya, Yossef
Verker, Tal
출원인 / 주소
Align Technology, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
인용정보
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초록▼
A probe head for dental confocal imaging, comprises a light-guiding part for guiding a light beam towards a teeth portion, the light-guiding part having an entrance face through which the light beam enters the light-guiding part and an exit face through which the light beam exits the light-guiding p
A probe head for dental confocal imaging, comprises a light-guiding part for guiding a light beam towards a teeth portion, the light-guiding part having an entrance face through which the light beam enters the light-guiding part and an exit face through which the light beam exits the light-guiding part, wherein the light-guiding part is configured, in case of a linearly polarized light beam having two polarization components being perpendicular to each other, to change polarization of the linearly polarized light beam on its path through the light-guiding part in such a way that one of the two polarization components, compared to the other of the two polarization components, is retarded by an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of the light beam along the path from the entrance face to the exit face.
대표청구항▼
1. An apparatus for dental imaging, the apparatus comprising: an illumination module for generating a light beam travelling an optical path, the light beam having a wavelength;a probe head comprising a light-guiding part having, an entrance face,an exit face,a coated sidewall comprising a retardance
1. An apparatus for dental imaging, the apparatus comprising: an illumination module for generating a light beam travelling an optical path, the light beam having a wavelength;a probe head comprising a light-guiding part having, an entrance face,an exit face,a coated sidewall comprising a retardance coating to reflect the light beam along the optical path with a first total internal reflection having a first retardance of a non-integer multiple of a quarter of the wavelength, said first retardance comprising a retardance from the retardance coating, andan uncoated sidewall without a retardance coating to reflect the light beam along the optical path with a second total internal reflection having a second retardance of a non-integer multiple of a quarter of the wavelength; andan optics system to direct the light beam along the optical path to enter the light guiding part via the entrance face, travel along the optical path extending between the entrance face and the exit face, and exits the light-guiding part via the exit face,said first and second retardances being in amounts such that the light-guiding part provides a total retardance of an odd multiple of the quarter of the wavelength along the optical path extending from the entrance face to the exit face,wherein each of the first retardance, the second retardance, and the total retardance is a retardance to a first polarization component relative to a second polarization component of the light beam traveling along the optical path. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the light-guiding part comprises a transparent body and wherein the light beam comprises a linearly polarized light beam comprising the first polarization component and the second polarization component, wherein the first polarization component and the second polarization component are perpendicular to each other. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the light-guiding part comprises a one-piece body. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the light-guiding part comprises an upper sidewall, a lower sidewall and an end sidewall, the upper sidewall adjoining the entrance face, the upper side wall arranged at an acute angle with respect to the entrance face, the lower sidewall adjoining the entrance face, the lower sidewall arranged at an obtuse angle with respect to the entrance face, the end sidewall adjoining the upper sidewall and the lower sidewall, and the end sidewall arranged at an acute angle with respect to the entrance face and/or the exit face, and wherein one of the upper sidewall and the lower sidewall is the coated sidewall, and the other is the uncoated sidewall. 5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the end sidewall comprises a mirror. 6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein an angle extending between the entrance face and the lower sidewall is within a range between 90° and 125°. 7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the light beam generated by the illumination module comprises an array of light beams; andthe optics system provides confocal focusing of the array of light beams. 8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the light-guiding part is bounded by sidewalls and the light-guiding part is arranged such that each light beam entering the light-guiding part through the entrance face is reflected at the sidewalls an odd number of times, the odd number of times comprising three times or five times, before exiting through the exit face. 9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the illumination module comprises a single light emitter. 10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the illumination module comprises a plurality of light emitters. 11. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a polarizer for linearly polarizing a light beam, wherein the polarizer is arranged along the optical path between the illumination module and the probe head and between the illumination module and the optics system. 12. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a polarizing beam splitter being arranged along the optical path between the illumination module and the optics system such that the array of light beams from the illumination module passes through the polarizing beam splitter and a returning array of light beams from the optics module is reflected. 13. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a detector for detecting an array of light beams. 14. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a focus shifting mechanism for shifting the focal plane of the optics system. 15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the focus shifting mechanism is configured to shift one or more lenses of the optics system along an optical axis. 16. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein angles of surfaces of the light guiding part are arranged to provide a first portion of the retardance and one or more coatings on one or more of the surfaces comprises a plurality of layers configured to provide a second portion of the retardance, wherein the first portion combined with the second portion provides a combined total relative retardance between the entrance face and the exit face comprising the odd integer multiple of the quarter of the wavelength. 17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the first portion of the retardance comprises a first non-integer multiple of the quarter of the wavelength and the second portion of the retardance comprises a second non-integer multiple of the quarter of the wavelength and wherein one or more coatings comprises a plurality of layers comprising a low index layer, a high index layer and a medium index layer. 18. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optics system directs the light beam along the optical path such that the beam enters the entrance face at an angle of between 85 and 95 degrees. 19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the beam enters the entrance face at an angle of about 90 degrees.
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