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- the invention relates to a light emitting device.
- the invention relates to a light emitting device for mixing light from one or more sources and outputting light having colour variations imperceptible to a human eye and only small and gradual variations in intensity.
- the invention also relates to a light emitting device for mixing red, green and blue light and outputting white light having colour variations imperceptible to a human eye and only small and gradual variations in intensity.
- the invention also relates to energy efficient mixing or homogenizing the light output of an optical system and hence achieving maximum utilization of lumens emitted from the one or more sources.
- the invention has other applications.
- RGB LED arrays are far more energy efficient than known LEDs based on phosphors. Improvements in the energy efficiency and effectiveness of mixing light, and in particular mixing light from LEDs, are therefore desirable to enable use of LED arrays in place of phosphor and related conversion systems to produce white light.
- the light guides were not found to significantly improve the beam uniformity in terms of illuminance and colour and there was no appreciable difference in the quality of the light produced by the different shaped light guides.
- the system energy efficiency deteriorated as a function of length as expected.
- the only improvement in illuminance and colour uniformity was achieved by diffusing the output ends of the light guides, which incurred further deterioration in efficiency.
- Generation of white light is not the only application requiring efficient mixing of laser diode or LED output.
- Photo-curing of cements, such as dental cement requires a uniform illumination of the photosensitive material.
- Existing systems based on light guides produce uneven illumination giving unsatisfactory curing.
- the invention resides in a light emitting device comprising: a light guide having an elongate transparent core surrounded by an optically transmitting sheath; one or more light sources coupled to a first end of said light guide; and transparent diffuser particles distributed within the core to scatter light in a substantially forward direction from the first end of said core toward a second end of said core; wherein the diffuser particles have a refractive index close to that of the core, low back reflectance and low absorbance.
- the light emitting device emits light having colour variations imperceptible to a human eye and small and gradual variations in intensity. Said imperceptible colour variations and small and gradual variations in intensity in said emitted light occur across said second end of said core and in the far field.
- the core is preferably a polymer.
- the core may be glass.
- the optically transmitting sheath has a lower refractive index than the core.
- the sheath is a cladding of low refractive index polymer.
- the cladding polymer is a fluoro-polymer.
- the sheath may be a cladding of aerogel or low refractive index glass.
- the sheath may be a layer of water, low refractive index liquid, air, other gas or vacuum.
- the sheath may be opaque and reflective.
- the sheath is non-absorbing.
- the diffuser particles are preferably transparent.
- the diffuser particles are preferably made from a polymer and may be a cross-linked polymer, such as PMMA or polystyrene. Alternatively the diffuser particles may be made from transparent non-polymeric materials such as glass.
- the diffuser particles are preferably spherical. Alternatively, the diffuser particles may be cylindrical, polyhedral, ellipsoidal or asymmetrical in shape.
- the diffuser particles yield a high ratio of angular deviation to back reflection of the light.
- the diffuser particles are preferably selected to have a refractive index close to the refractive index of the core.
- ⁇ 0.018 at a wavelength of 589nm.
- ⁇ 0.011 at a wavelength of 589nm.
- the average angle that light is scattered by the light guide is essentially constant over the light's wavelength range.
- the average angle that light is scattered by a diffuser particle increases with
- ⁇ is essentially constant over the light's range of wavelength. Since the scattering power of small particles with constant ⁇ varies with wavelength it is preferable that the size of the diffuser particles is substantially greater than that of the light's wavelength. Preferably the size of the diffuser particles exceeds 5 micrometres.
- a concentration of diffuser particles in the core and a length of the light guide may be varied to achieve the colour variations imperceptible to a human eye and the small and gradual variations in intensity in said emitted light.
- said light sources Preferably where multiple light sources are used said light sources have similar angular distribution functions.
- the angular distribution functions of all sources are closely matched.
- the concentration of the diffuser particles in the core varies along the length of the core.
- said light guide comprises an axial diffuser particle number
- said axial diffuser particle number is in the range of about 20 - 40.
- said light guide comprises an axial diffuser particle number in the range of about 50 - 300.
- Each of said one or more light sources may be an LED, an incandescent source such as a lamp filament, a discharge lamp, a laser, or other high brightness source.
- said light emitting device further comprises control means for controlling the output of said one or more light sources across a range of wavelengths.
- Said light sources may be in the form of an LED array.
- Said LED's may emit light of the same colour or light of different colours.
- each LED of said LED array emits red, green or blue light, wherein the relative outputs of said
- LEDS are adjusted via said control means such that said light emitted from said second end of said core is tunable across the colour gamut.
- the light guide may be surrounded with a coaxial reflector to reflect light escaping from said core back through said core towards the second end of said core, said reflected light increasing the luminous output of said light guide.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view of an embodiment of the light guide of the light emitting device showing the manner in which the diffuser particles scatter light and how light is reflected from the core-sheath interface;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view of the light emitting device mixing red, green and blue light from an array of red, green and blue LEDs;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view of the light emitting device of FIG. 2 including a coaxial reflector;
- FIG. 4 shows variable concentration of the diffuser particles along the length of the light guide.
- one embodiment of the light emitting device of the present invention comprises a light guide 10, which generally comprises a polymer core 12, a low refractive index polymer cladding 14 and may further comprise a polymer jacket 16.
- the low refractive index polymer cladding 14 encases the polymer core 12 and the polymer jacket 16 encases the tubular polymeric cladding 14.
- the polymer jacket 16 is a clear protective layer and is an optional feature of the present invention.
- the cylindrical polymer core 12 is formed from a bulk medium in the form of a polymer matrix 18, which is impregnated with diffuser particles 20.
- the diffuser particles 20 individually give only a small deviation to light rays incident upon them whilst having a high transmittance, low back reflectance and low absorbance.
- the light guide 10 may utilise transparent diffuser particles that are closely refractive index matched with the polymer matrix 18. A refractive index mismatch of a few percent is typical.
- the polymer matrix 18 is formed of Poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA) and the polymer cladding 14 is formed of poly-tetra-fluoro- ethylene (PTFE).
- the diffuser particles 20 may be formed of a cross-linked polymer, which is capable of being added to heated MMA without the diffuser particles 20 dissolving.
- the cylindrical polymer core 12 is polymerised with the diffuser particles 20 in situ.
- the diffuser particles 20 are formed of cross-linked PMMA particles embedded within a polymer matrix 18 made from a polymerised acrylate mixture consisting primarily of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and allyl diglycol carbonate (CR39).
- MMA methyl methacrylate
- CR39 allyl diglycol carbonate
- BMA butyl methacrylate
- the cylindrical polymer core 12 is formed, for example, by extrusion or injection moulding from a bulk medium in the form of a polymer matrix 18, which is impregnated with diffuser particles 20.
- the cylindrical polymer core 12 is formed by extrusion or injection moulding from uncross-linked PMMA and the diffuser particles 20 are formed of cross-linked PMMA, such that only the cross-linked PMMA diffuser particles do not melt during processing
- the diffuser particles may be made from polystyrene.
- the polystyrene is cross-linked.
- the cylindrical core 12 is formed of glass by extrusion or moulding from a bulk medium in the form of a glass matrix 18, which is impregnated with diffuser particles 20.
- the diffuser particles 20 are of a form that can resist the high temperature of the molten glass. Silica is known to be a suitable material for such diffuser particles 20.
- the concentration of diffuser particles 20 is chosen such that, on average, the light undergoes a large, but not excessive, number of interactions with the diffuser particles.
- incident ray 22 undergoes two interactions with the diffuser particles in the section of light guide 10 shown.
- Incident ray 24 passes through the section of light guide shown without undergoing any interactions with the diffuser particles, but is reflected within the polymer core 12.
- Incident ray 26 undergoes a combination of scattering by a diffuser particle and reflection at the polymer/cladding interface.
- Each individual deviation of a light ray at a diffuser particle 20 is small and the total deviation tends to increase with the number of interactions. Since there are very low reflection losses, the light rays can be made to undergo many such deviations in the light guide 10 by selecting the appropriate combination of diffuser particle concentration and path length. Hence the final average deviation can be made as large as desired. Losses due to absorption and back reflection are small compared to conventional diffuser systems.
- FIG. 2 shows a light guide 10 of the present invention comprising polymer core 12, polymer cladding 14, and diffuser particles 20, as described above.
- a first end 11 of the core of the light guide 10 is illuminated with red, green and blue light from an LED array 13.
- the red, green and blue light entering the light guide is scattered primarily in the forward direction by the diffuser particles 20.
- the scattered light may also undergo multiple reflections from the sides of the light guide 10. Any light entering first end 11 of the light guide core at a sufficiently large angle to the longitudinal axis of the core may initially be reflected at the interface between the core 12 and the cladding 14 before being scattered by diffuser particles 20.
- Light emitted from second end 15 of the light guide will be a thorough mixture of the light entering the first end 11 of the light guide 10.
- the emitted light has variations in colour that are imperceptible to the human eye and only small and gradual variations in intensity. These characteristics are present in the emitted light both at the second end of the core and in the far field. In this example, the emitted light will be white light.
- a useful parameter for describing the light guide 10 is axial particle number, a, which is the average number of particles an axial ray would encounter if it were to pass through the light guide undeviated.
- the random walk of a real axial ray as it is deviated by diffuser particles means that real rays typically encounter more diffuser particles than a.
- Light rays entering the light guide at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the core typically encounter a substantially larger numbers of particles than a.
- the axial particle number a equals the product of the linear particle frequency (the number of particles an undeviated ray would encounter per metre) and the axial length of the light guide 10.
- the design of diffusers for optical systems employing high brightness sources is often driven by the need to minimise the fraction of light that is transmitted specularly i.e. transmitted without any spreading what so ever. With traditional diffusers this usually requires accepting substantial back reflection and hence reduced efficiency. Contrastingly, the present invention offers extremely low specular transmission combined with very low back reflection.
- a line parallel to longitudinal axis of the light guide The average number of diffuser particles 20 that it intersects is the axial particle number, a. Now the diffuser particles are arranged randomly so the expected number of particles a ray parallel to the longitudinal axis will encounter forms a Poisson distribution of mean a.
- the probability of a ray passing through the system undeviated is less than e "a (rays at an angle to the longitudinal axis will on average encounter more than particles).
- a (typical) axial particle number of 30 this is an undeviated fraction of less than 9.4 x 10 "14 .
- the undeviated fraction is less than 0.005%.
- solid core, flexible optical light guides of the type described above (with cores of a polymerised acrylate comprising BMA and allyl diglycol carbonate (CR39)) were illuminated with the LED array 13 comprising the red, green and blue LED's.
- the light guides were of various lengths and were typically about 12 mm in diameter.
- the light guides contained various concentrations of diffuser particles 20.
- the diffuser particles were about 33 ⁇ m diameter micro-spheres of cross-linked PMMA with a refractive index 1.8% higher than the polymer matrix 18 at a wavelength of 589 nm.
- the output from the light guides was visually examined by shining it on a white diffusing surface located about 30 cm from the second ends of the light guides.
- a third series of experiments used a PMMA rod doped with diffuser particles at a linear diffuser particle frequency of approximately 1650 particles per metre.
- the rod was surrounded by air that served as the low refractive index sheath of the light guide.
- the refractive index difference between the polymer matrix and the diffuser particles was only 1.1%. This meant that at each interaction the deviation angle was only about two thirds of that for the previous experiments.
- the output light had variations in colour that were imperceptible to the human eye and possessed only small and gradual variations in intensity using a 0.153m length of the rod (axial particle number 250). These characteristics were present in the light across the second end 15 of the light guide 10 and in the far field. There was significant apparent loss of light through the sides of the rod. This is not unexpected given the large number of interactions with diffuser particles 20. A broad range of shapes for the diffuser particles function satisfactorily.
- the size of the diffuser particles 20 is several times the wavelength of the light they are to diffuse. If the particle size is comparable to the wavelength of light then reflection may be excessive. Additionally, the deviation from particles comparable in size to the wavelength of light is strongly wavelength dependent. This means that the average deviation angle and hence the total deviation angle will vary with wavelength. In extreme cases, this may cause the exiting beam to vary in colour with exit angle. For nanometre-sized particles the deviation may be too small to be useful.
- the average deviation angle from the interaction with a single particle is proportional to
- the mismatch in refractive indices is neither too large nor too small. A value of a few percent works well for most applications. If the refractive index mismatch is too small then it is necessary to have a large number of interactions in order to achieve even a small degree of diffusion. Also, the unavoidable differences in dispersion between the polymer matrix 18 and diffuser particles 20 means that it is hard to avoid variations in average deviation angle with wavelength.
- the refractive index of all known materials varies with wavelength. However, the mean deviation angle depends on the small difference in refractive index between the diffuser particle 20 and the polymer matrix 18. Unless the variations in wavelength are exactly the same the difference in refractive index will vary with wavelength. The relative effect of any such variation will be less if the mismatch is large.
- the average reflection coefficient, R, at a diffuser particle 20 is of order ⁇ 2 and hence is very small.
- R The average reflection coefficient
- Absorption by the diffuser particles 20 is also usually not a problem.
- the diffuser particles do not have to be very transparent to keep the absorption losses small. Losses in the light emitting device of the present invention due to absorption in the diffuser particles are typically much less than one percent.
- the required axial particle number for a given degree of mixing is inversely related to the length of the system i.e. short systems require a larger number of interactions to achieve adequate mixing.
- increasing the axial particle number increases the maximum deviation angle and therefore increases the fraction of light that escapes through the side of the light guide.
- the light guide 10 may be surrounded with a coaxial reflector 30 so that escaping light, such as light ray 32, is reflected back into the light guide, as represented by light ray 34.
- the preferred characteristics of the coaxial reflector 30 depend upon how far on average the light has to travel after it first exits a side of the core 12 compared to the dimensions of the core 12.
- the effective aspect ratio is defined as the average value of (distance from end surface 15 to a light ray's initial exit from a side of the core 12)/(smallest transverse dimension of the core 12).
- FIG 3 illustrates a system with an effective aspect ratio of approximately 2.4.
- the coaxial reflector 30 is highly specularly reflecting.
- a high degree of smoothness of the interior surfaces of coaxial reflector 30 is desirable as smoothness enhances the specular reflectivity.
- a modest degree of small angle scattering is acceptable, but significant back scattering is undesirable.
- the absorption should be as low as possible.
- the surface of the coaxial reflector 30 is formed of a highly reflecting metal such as silver or aluminium.
- the reflecting metal surface may be present in the form of a surface of bulk material or as a film on the inside of a suitable support.
- the coaxial reflector 30 is a multi-layer dielectric film.
- the grazing incidence nature of the light ray 32 means that bulk dielectrics such as glass or polymer can also be used for the coaxial reflector 30.
- the reflectivity of a bulk dielectric coaxial reflector 30 may be enhanced by incorporating suitable additives such as mica.
- the ratio is comparable to or less than 1 then a significant fraction of diffuse to specular reflection may be acceptable for coaxial reflector 30.
- FIG. 3 shows an air gap between the polymer core 12 and the reflector 30, but this may be eliminated if desired.
- the air gap may be replaced with a low refractive index jacket if desired.
- Some of the light re-entering the light guide, such as light ray 34, may be scattered into a trapped path, i.e. scattered by a diffuser particle 20. Even if the light is not so scattered, it is propagating in the right direction. Note that the light exiting the core 12 of the light guide hits the reflector 30 at grazing incidence and so the reflection coefficient can be made to be very high.
- another embodiment of the light emitting device of the present invention comprises a light guide core 12 with variable concentrations of diffuser particles 20 along the length of the light guide 40.
- the light guide 40 includes a polymer core 12, low refractive index polymer cladding 14 and the optional polymer jacket 16 as described above in relation to FIG. 1.
- the diffuser particles 20 vary in concentration over regions 42 and are not present in region 44. Light travelling within the polymer core 12 is scattered when it comes into contact with regions 42, and passes through the regions 44 without being scattered.
- An advantage of systems with variable concentrations of diffuser particles 20 is that they may be more compact than systems of uniform diffuser particle concentration.
- the light emitting device of the present invention can be used to combine the output of many types of light sources and therefore has many applications.
- One application is to mix and combine the output from an array of light sources of the same colour to produce output light with greater uniformity across an exit aperture of the light guide in terms of colour and intensity.
- many dental fillings use photosensitive dental cement, which is cured in a patient's mouth with a dental gun that uses a light guide system to convey light from a light source to the filling.
- the light source in the dental gun may be a single incandescent filament, an array of LEDs or some other convenient source.
- Conventional dental guns use an expensive array of small optical fibres to convey the light from the source to the filling. It has been proposed to use a light guide made from a single large optical fibre. However, it is known that conventional fibres have imperfect mixing and may give rise to a non-uniform output with hot spots and dark regions.
- the light emitting device of the present invention could be employed to mix the light to a very high degree of uniformity with negligible reflection or absorption losses.
- Another application of the present invention is to make the output of conventional light guides more uniform.
- a light source may be coupled by conventional optics to an optical fibre or optical fibre bundle.
- Known systems give a non-uniform output with undesirable peaks in the brightness of the exit beam.
- the output of conventional optical fibres may act as the light source(s) of the light emitting device of the present invention.
- Another application of the present invention is to efficiently homogenise and make uniform the output from LED arrays used to back illuminate LCDs.
- Known systems using reflecting light guides have difficulty in achieving required light uniformity with low bulk, high efficiency and low cost. By making part, or the whole, of the light guides from the light guides of the present invention it is possible to achieve a compact system with a very high degree of colour and intensity uniformity at the output.
- Another application of the present invention is to efficiently homogenise and make uniform the output from a LED or small number of LEDs used as the light source of an image projector.
- Known diffuser systems are inefficient and bulky.
- By making part of the image projector from the light emitting device of the present invention it is possible to achieve a compact system with a very high degree of colour and intensity uniformity at the output.
- a further application of the light emitting device of the present invention is the production of colours that hitherto have been difficult or impossible to produce using conventional colour lighting technologies.
- any colour could be produced using controlled switching of an LED array comprising different coloured LEDs. Different combinations of coloured light could be produced from the array and input to a first end 11 of the core 12 of the light guide 10.
- the light rays of different colours from the different LEDs are thoroughly mixed through scattering and reflection within the core to emit light of a specific colour from the second end 15 of the light guide.
- a suitable control means may be employed to individually control the output of each LED.
- the light output from the second end 15 of the light guide may then be tuned across the colour gamut as desired.
- the emitted light will have minimal variations in hue, luminance and saturation both at the second end 15 of the light guide and in the far field due to the properties of the light guide 10 described above.
- the result will be light with colour variations imperceptible to the human eye and with only small and gradual variations in intensity.
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