In astronomical telescopes, one sometimes uses optical fibers to transport light from the telescope to other devices for further analysis, e.g. for high-resolution spectral analysis. Here, fiber arrays allow one to apply such techniques to multipl. In astronomical telescopes, one sometimes uses optical fibers to transport light from the telescope to other devices for further analysis, e.g. for high-resolution spectral analysis. Here, fiber arrays allow one to apply such techniques to multiple viewing directions at the same time.Laser diode arrays, also called diode bars, contain a regular array of laser emitters. It is possible to couple such a device to a fiber array such that the radiation from each image that gets into one fiber. Similar techniques can be applied to VCSEL arrays.Various techniques of laser material processingmay be performed with much increased processing speed by using a kind of parallelization, where multiple spots on the sample are irradiated at the same time, each with radiation from one fiber in an array. For arrays with limited size, the whole radiation can be treated with a single optics set. Such t.
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