Optical panel having fist and second waveguides where the first waveguides have ends forming an outlet face and the second waveguides have ends forming an inlet face and the surface area of the inlet ends is smaller relative to the outlet ends

摘要

An optical panel having a small inlet, and a method of making a small inlet optical panel, are disclosed, which optical panel includes individually coating, stacking, and cutting a first plurality of stacked optical waveguides (16a) to form an outlet face body (32) with an outlet face (16), individually coating, stacking, and cutting a second plurality of stacked optical waveguides (12a) to form an inlet face body with an inlet face (12), and connecting an optical coupling element to the first and second plurality of waveguides such that the optical coupling element redirects light along a parallel axis of the inlet face to a parallel axis of the outlet face. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the inlet face (12) is disposed obliquely with and askew from the outlet face (16).