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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184984 | Optical transceiver having a modulating component An optical transceiver device including a modulating assembly. In contrast with conventional transceivers, the optical transceiver device uses a modulating assembly rather than a laser. The modulating assembly is located within the transceiver itself and includes fi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184970 | Optical transceiver with LED link information indicator Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to an analyzer device configured to interface with an optical transceiver module having a diagnostic communications port, wherein the port is configured to access diagnostic and other data contained within the transceive... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175460 | Asymmetric scheduling of multiple analog inputs using a single A/D converter for fiber-optic transceivers A firmware control method for the optimized use of a single A/D converter to measure multiple analog signals with asymmetric requirements on sampling rate including a lookup table design procedure and an acquisition algorithm. Since diagnostic analog parameter value... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172469 | Electromagnetic interference containment structures In one example embodiment, an optoelectronic module comprises a body, a signal ground, and an OSA. The body is connected to chassis ground and defines a cavity within which one or more components are disposed. The optical subassembly is disposed in the body cavity, ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170414 | Burst mode digital diagnostic and control for passive optical network receiving Methods and systems for an optical line termination including instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, the instructions including a digital diagnostic table, and a plurality of entries within the diagnostic table, wherein a first entry is associated with a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170077 | Internal memory for transistor outline packages A transistor outline (TO) package includes a housing having a window and a substrate. Circuitry is coupled to the substrate within the housing. The circuitry comprises a laser diode and memory configured to store information related to the TO package. Electrical con... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168456 | Vertical cavity surface emitting laser with undoped top mirror A VCSEL with undoped top mirror. The VCSEL is formed from an epitaxial structure deposited on a substrate. A doped bottom mirror is formed on the substrate. An active layer that includes quantum wells is formed on the bottom mirror. A periodically doped conduction l... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165297 | Transceiver with controller for authentication A transceiver comprises a transmitter configured to transmit data signals, a receiver configured to receive data signals, and a controller configured to encrypt a string and supply the encrypted string to authenticate the transceiver. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164922 | Heat management in an electronic module In one example, a heat management system suitable for use in connection with an electronic module is disclosed. In a disclosed embodiment the heat management system includes a module guide configured to receive an electronic module. At least two heat sink elements a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160455 | Method and apparatus for generating signals with increased dispersion tolerance using a directly modulated laser transmitter An optical transmitter is disclosed wherein a signal processor receives a data stream and outputs a drive signal for a laser, where the drive signal encodes each bit of the data stream according to the values of adjacent bits effective to compensate for spreading of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159956 | Diagnostics for serial communication busses The serial communication device includes a first module coupled to a second module via a serial cable. Each of the first and second modules comprise one or more of: a power interface, a controller, memory, a first interface, and a second interface. The power interfa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155528 | Authentication modes for an optical transceiver module Methods for authenticating an optical transceiver module to a host are disclosed. The transceiver comprises a receive signal line for transferring data from the transceiver to the host and a transmit signal line for transferring data from the host to the transceiver... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154414 | Systems and methods for collecting data with sensors Systems and methods for collecting data. A modular sensing system includes a renewable power source with wireless and/or optical communication modules, a processing plane, and a sensing plane. The sensing systems can be deployed in various environments or on active ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154030 | Integrated diode in a silicon chip scale package An optical component with integrated back monitor photodiode. The optical component includes a substrate doped with a first type dopant, such as an n-type dopant. The substrate has a trench with sloped walls. An optical source is disposed in the trench. An implant o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135282 | Fiberoptic transceiver module with integral status indicators Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to an optical transceiver module having a status indicator assembly, wherein the status indicator assembly is configured to visually display the operational status of the transceiver transmitter and receiver components. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131157 | Method and apparatus for generating signals with increased dispersion tolerance using a directly modulated laser transmitter An optical transmitter is disclosed wherein a modulating signal, such as an NRZ signal, encoding data is combined with a time derivative of the modulating signal and coupled to a directly modulated laser in order to generate artificial transient chirp in the output ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129630 | Angular seam for an electronic module In one example embodiment, an angular seam includes a first complementary structure defined in a first shell of an optoelectronic transceiver module, and a second complementary structure defined in a second shell of the optoelectronic transceiver module. The second ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129253 | Providing current control over wafer borne semiconductor devices using trenches Disclosed are methods for providing wafer parasitic current control to a semiconductor wafer (1500) having a substrate (1520), at least one active layer (1565) and a surface layer (1510), and electrical contacts (1515) formed on sa... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128283 | Temperature measurement apparatus for optoelectronic transceiver The case temperature measurement device for an optoelectronic transceiver includes a case with at least one thermally conductive wall, at least one optical component at least partially disposed within the case, circuitry electrically coupled to the optical component... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115929 | Thread lateral movement sensor A system for detecting the lateral movement of thread includes an optical device configured to emit an optical signal. The optical device includes a resonant cavity. The system further includes a driver configured to drive the optical signal. A mechanical guide is c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113723 | Communications module integrated boot and release slide One embodiment includes an integrated boot and release slide having a release slide and a boot. The release slide includes a main body, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of coupling structures. The arms extend from a first end of the main body. The coupling struc... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111999 | Inter-transceiver module communication for firmware upgrade An operational optical transceiver configured to update operational firmware using an optical link of the transceiver. The optical transceiver includes at least one processor and a system memory capable of receiving firmware. The optical transceiver receives an opti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107822 | Protocols for out-of-band communication Methods for managing an optical network through out-of-band communication between optical transceiver modules in a heterogeneous network fabric are disclosed. The disclosed methods include methods for performing fabric discovery, communicating error messages, detect... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104950 | Avoiding air flow penetration in temperature measurement In one example embodiment, a board for measuring device temperatures comprises a base and one or more fingers extending from the base. The base and the one or more fingers comprise a flexible material. One or more first temperature sensors are disposed on the one or... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103164 | High frequency noise measurement board Optical test apparatus. A test apparatus for testing transmitter or receiver devices. The test apparatus includes a transmitter source configured to connect to an optical transmitter. A wide band, wide area optical detector is adapted to optically couple to the opti... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102938 | Tuning system and method using a simulated bit error rate for use in an electronic dispersion compensator A system and method is disclosed for controlling signal conditioning parameters and a sampling parameter controlling conversion of a received signal to digital sampled values prior to decoding. The sampled values are decoded according to a comparison with expected v... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098493 | CFP mechanical platform In one example embodiment, a host device includes a host bezel, first and second guides, and a host connector. The host bezel defines an opening configured to receive a pluggable module. A first cutout on one side of the opening and a second cutout on the opposite s... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093710 | Non-uniform feedthrough and lead configuration for a transistor outline package A transistor outline package having a feedthrough via and lead configuration that maximizes the amount of usable area on a header of the package is disclosed. In one embodiment, the package includes a header having an interior surface that includes a first and secon... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090265 | Byte-configurable memory in an optical transceiver A mechanism that enables an optical transceiver to configure memory on a per-segment basis. The optical transceiver includes a processing entity, system memory and a memory configuration table. The memory configuration table is comprised of configuration entries, ea... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086892 | Microcode configurable frequency clock A microcode configurable frequency clock that may be used to control the speed of high speed comparison in an operational optical transceiver. The frequency clock includes a memory and a logic circuit. The memory receives microcode generated data relating to the des... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086100 | Optoelectronic transceiver with digital diagnostics The optoelectronic transceiver includes an optoelectronic transmitter, an optoelectronic receiver, memory, and an interface. The memory is configured to store digital values representative of operating conditions of the optoelectronic transceiver. The interface is c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085883 | Method and apparatus for delayed recursion decoder A high-speed maximum likelihood sequence estimation method and device. The method includes identifying candidate paths through a state trellis based on a group of observed data, where each candidate path corresponds to a best path through a trellis beginning at one ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085824 | Optimization of laser parameters to achieve desired performance One example disclosed herein relates to a method of at least partially optimizing one or more output performance parameters of a laser die. The method includes an act of identifying one or more output performance parameters to be at least partially optimized, an act... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083417 | Active optical cable electrical adaptor An adaptor that mechanically and/or electrically adapts to and/or from an electrical connector that is integrated with an active cable at one end of an active optical cable, wherein the optical cable is configured to communicate over much of its length using one or ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083415 | Line-side out-of-band electrical interface for optoelectronic modules Electrical connections from the printed circuit board (“PCB”) of an optoelectronic device through the front or line-side of the device enable a microcontroller or other component on the PCB to electrically communicate with an optical connector or other line-side... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078063 | Monolithic power monitor and wavelength detector Monolithic single and/or dual detector structures are fabricated on the emitting surface of a VCSEL and/or on a lens or glass substrate configured to be positioned along the axis of emission of an optical light source. Each monolithic detector structure includes one... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072041 | Passivated optical detectors with full protection layer In one example, an optoelectronic transducer includes a first contact, a second contact, a passivation layer, and a protection layer. The passivation layer is formed on top of the first contact and the second contact and is configured to substantially minimize dark ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068742 | Phase shift keyed modulation of optical signal using chirp managed laser A high-speed optical transmitter comprises multiple digital lanes that are provided to a bank of digital-to-analog converters. The analog signals are then used to Phase Shift Keyed (PSK) modulation using a Chirp Managed Laser (CML)-based transmitter, and potentially... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068739 | Modular optical device that interfaces with an external controller Optical modules described herein include optical components such as lasers or photodiodes for communicating on fiber-optic networks. The lasers and photodiodes have analog interface such that the lasers and photodiodes can be controlled by a controller external to t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8067949 | Methods for testing lasers using optical burn-in Semiconductor lasers are aged to identify weak or flawed devices, resulting in improved reliability of the remaining devices. The lasers can be aged using a high-power optical burn-in that includes providing a high drive current to the lasers for a period of time, a... | 11/29/2011 |
