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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158087 | Coated microstructure and method of manufacture A microstructure for chemical processing and manufacture is disclosed. The microstructure includes a plurality of microchannel walls constructed of glass, ceramic, glass-ceramic or combinations of these materials, which define at least one microchannel for accommoda... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156762 | Methods for making microfluidic devices and devices produced thereof Described herein are methods for making microfluidic devices comprising glass or glass-containing materials, wherein the methods have decreased cost and/or improved dimensional properties over similar formed glass articles produced using current techniques. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153071 | Fluid porting assembly and microreactor incorporating the same A fluid porting assembly for a microreactor comprising a process fluid passageway, a pliable seal, and a cooling fluid passageway is provided. The pliable seal is positioned in the vicinity of the process fluid outlet and is configured to define a sealing interface ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139216 | Optical package alignment systems and protocols Methods of positioning an optical unit in an optical package are provided. According to one method, a partially assembled optical package is provided. The wavelength conversion device within the package comprises a conversion layer having a waveguide portion formed ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135024 | Method and system to reduce interconnect latency A method and system for reducing arbitration latency employs speculative transmission (STX) without prior arbitration in combination with routing fabric scheduled arbitration. Packets are sent from source locations to a routing fabric through scheduled arbitration, ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133923 | Large-scale colloidal crystals and macroporous polymers and method for producing Single domain wafer-scale colloidal crystals and macroporous polymers are formed by dispersing concentrated solutions of colloids, desirably monodisperse silica colloids, in a viscous monomer, desirably ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate, and spin-coating th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8105557 | Microreactor assembly incorporating interconnect backbone and diverse fluidic microstructures A microreactor assembly [100] is provided comprising a fluidic interconnect backbone [10] and plurality of fluidic microstructures. Interconnect input/output ports [12] of the fluidic interconnect backbone [10] are interfaced with microch... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101128 | Injector assemblies and microreactors incorporating the same A microreactor assembly is provided comprising a fluidic microstructure and an injector assembly. The injector assembly comprises a liquid inlet, a gas inlet, a liquid outlet, a gas outlet, a liquid flow portion extending from the liquid inlet to the liquid outlet, ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8084085 | Coated microstructures and methods of coating same A method of manufacturing a microstructure includes filling a microchannel with a slurry including a sol-gel binder, removing a portion of the slurry from the microchannel such that a slurry layer is disposed on or between the plurality of microchannel walls, and he... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8045260 | Optimized signal control in frequency-doubled laser sources The present disclosure relates generally to semiconductor lasers and laser projection systems. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of operating a laser projection system is provided. According to the method, the laser projection system is... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043571 | Microchannel reactors Embodiments of a microchannel reactor comprise a microchannel housing comprising a plurality of channels and an upper microstructure disposed above the microchannel housing. The upper microstructure comprising a gas feed circuit, a liquid feed circuit, and at least ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8021739 | Sintered glass and glass-ceramic structures and methods for producing A unitary structure (10) is comprised of two or more planar substrates (30, 40) fused together by a glass or glass-ceramic sintered frit structure (20) disposed therebetween. The pattern of the sintered patterned frit material defines passages (... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7978742 | Methods for operating diode lasers Methods for operating diode lasers are provided. According to one method, the diode laser comprises a wavelength selection section, a gain section and a saturable absorber. The method comprises applying a hybrid-control signal comprising a hybrid-control DC bias to ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970028 | System and methods for speckle reduction A method of operating a laser source comprising is provided. The method reduces speckle contrast in a projected image by creating a plurality of statistically independent speckle patterns. The method comprises generating a plurality of sub-beams that define an optic... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965752 | Native green laser semiconductor devices A semiconductor laser device operable to emit light having a desired wavelength in the green spectral range. The semiconductor laser device may include a pumping source and a laser structure including a substrate, a first cladding layer, and one or more active regio... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7939033 | Process intensified microfluidic devices A microfluidic device [10] includes at least one reactant passage [26] and one or more thermal control passages defined therein, the one or more thermal control passages being positioned and arranged within two volumes [12,14] each bordered by a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7899096 | Methods and circuits for controlling drive mechanisms A method for aligning an optical package includes applying a dither waveform and an advancement waveform to a drive mechanism. The optical package includes a semiconductor laser operable to emit an output beam with a first wavelength, a wavelength conversion device ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897114 | Microreactor assembly incorporating interconnect backbone A microreactor assembly comprising a fluidic interconnect backbone and plurality of fluidic microstructures is provided. The fluidic microstructures are supported by respective portions of the fluidic interconnect backbone, The microreactor assembly comprises a plur... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7837332 | Laser projection utilizing spatial beam misalignment Laser projection systems are provided comprising a laser source, scanning optics, beam splitting optics, and a scanning controller. According to one embodiment, the laser source is configured to produce at least two optical beams having different emission wavelength... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817896 | Optical waveguides containing quantum dot guiding layers and methods of manufacture Planar waveguides having quantum dots and methods of manufacture of the planar waveguide are described. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817884 | Strain-managed optical waveguide assemblies and methods of forming same The strain-managed optical waveguide assemblies of the present invention utilize a large-mode-area (LMA) optical fiber that is annealed in a first bending such that the fiber in that configuration has substantially no axial strain. A fiber support member is then use... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7792404 | Glass-based laser ridges for adhesive confinement and related methods A method for manufacturing an optical assembly comprises providing a first substrate having a first surface, providing a second substrate having a second surface facing the first surface, and forming a patterned microbump on at least a select one of the first surfac... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7769063 | Correction of power variations in laser sources The present invention relates generally to semiconductor lasers and laser projection systems. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of correcting output power variations in a semiconductor laser is provided. According to the method, an outpu... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767720 | Large-scale colloidal crystals and macroporous polymers and method for producing Single domain wafer-scale colloidal crystals and macroporous polymers are formed by dispersing concentrated solutions of colloids, desirably mondisperse silica colloids, in a viscous monomer, desirably ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate, and spin-coating the... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767135 | Method of forming a sintered microfluidic device Disclosed is a method of forming a structured sintered article including providing a mixture comprising a sinterable particulate material and a binder, the binder comprising, as a function of total resin content of the binder, at least 50% by weight of a thermoplast... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7753580 | Microstructure designs for optimizing mixing and pressure drop A class of designs is provided for a mixer in micro reactors where the design principle includes at least one injection zone in a continuous flow path where at least two fluids achieve initial upstream contact and an effective mixing zone (i.e. adequate flow of flui... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7724992 | Glass-based micropositioning systems and methods A method of forming a microbump for micropositioning an optical element comprises providing a base substrate, providing a first optical element to be supported by the base substrate, and providing an alignment element capable of locally expanding when locally heated... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715453 | Wavelength control in phase region of semiconductor lasers Particular embodiments of the present invention relate generally to semiconductor lasers and laser scanning systems and, more particularly, to schemes for controlling semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a laser is configured f... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7688518 | Fluid lens lateral shifting According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of constructing a fluid lens is provided. The method comprises establishing a generalized sidewall profile function and converting the generalized sidewall profile function to a plurality of lens sidewal... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7653097 | Systems and methods for polarization modulation of an optical signal According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a laser source is provided. The laser source comprises a laser configured to generate an optical signal, and a polarization split and delay unit that is coupled to the optical signal. The po... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649918 | Multi-component wavelength conversion devices and lasers incorporating the same According to one embodiment of the present invention, a frequency-converted laser source is provided wherein the wavelength conversion device comprises a plurality of waveguide components comprising respective input faces positioned in an effective focal field of th... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7596968 | Borosilicate glass compositions and uses thereof Glass, glass compositions, methods of preparing the glass compositions, microfluidic devices that include the glass composition, and methods of fabricating microfluidic devices that include the glass composition are disclosed. The borosilicate glass composition incl... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588856 | Resistive-varying electrode structure An electrode structure for a low voltage, high current electrical production device includes a charge transfer member (612). An electrically conductive member (605) having a non-uniform resistance is disposed on the charge transfer member 612 fo... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7570414 | Magnetic photonic crystal structure for providing spatial frequency asymmetry for light propagating in different directions A magnetic photonic crystal for providing asymmetry of spatial frequencies in the propagation of light is provided. The crystal is formed from at least two materials having different indices of refraction which are aligned along the longitudinal axis of the crystal.... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7496244 | Method for generating a linear single polarization output beam A method for generating a linear single-polarization output beam comprises providing an optically active linearly birefringent and linearly dichroic fiber for propagating light and having a single polarization wavelength range and a gain bandwidth; optically pumping... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492507 | Wavelength conversion devices and fabrication methods for the same Particular embodiments of the present invention relate generally to semiconductor lasers and wavelength conversion devices and, more particularly, to wavelength conversion devices and methods of fabrication thereof that reduce back reflections of light from the wave... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7483458 | Wavelength control in semiconductor lasers The present invention relates generally to semiconductor lasers and laser scanning systems and, more particularly, to schemes for controlling wavelength in semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of minimizing laser wavel... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480432 | Glass-based micropositioning systems and methods Glass-based micropositioning systems and methods are disclosed. The micropositioning systems and methods utilize microbumps (40) formed in a glass substrate (12 or 100). The microbumps are formed by subjecting a portion of the glass substrate to... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7471793 | Method and apparatus for use in encrypted communication A method and apparatus for secure distribution of cryptographic key information based on quantum cryptography is described. The apparatus incorporates or is used with a transmitter comprising a source of pairs of dim, depolarized light pulses together with a phase m... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7448809 | Angle-specific multi-fiber ferrules and associated methods of manufacture The present invention provides a method of manufacture that minimizes the lateral offset of a plurality of optical fiber holes associated with a multi-fiber ferrule, including: determining an initial offset distance of each of the plurality of optical fiber holes fr... | 11/11/2008 |
