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General Overview
1.1 LED + Fiber-optic Rotary Joint
The Doric
LED + Fiber-optic Rotary Joint
are rotary joints integrated with one or several LEDs. This allows higher through-
put in comparison with conventional
Fiber-optic Rotary Joints
combined with a
Connectorized LED light source
.
1.1.1 Connectorized LED with Fiber-optic Rotary Joint
(a)
Standard mount
(b)
Rotor (Yellow) and stator (black)
Figure 1.1:
Connectorized LED with Fiber-optic Rotary Joint
The
Connectorized LED with Fiber-optic Rotary Joint
is a rotary joint with a single integrated LED. The light source is inte-
grated into the
Stator (Black)
, with the light leaving through the
Rotor (Yellow)
(Fig.
). It has the following elements.
• The
M8 connector port
is used to provide power to the LED. The pinout can be found in Figure
• The
Beam aperture
outputs light. The standard model uses an FC-type connector.
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