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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051686 | OPTICAL PCB AND A METHOD OF MAKING AN OPTICAL PCB The invention provides an optical printed circuit board, comprising: plural polymer waveguide sections from independent waveguides, each of the sections being doped with an amplifying dopant; an optical pump source to pump the plural polymer waveguide sections, wherein ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110298144 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE PRODUCTION METHOD An optical waveguide production method, employs a light-transmissive mold having higher dimensional accuracy for formation of an over-cladding layer. The mold for the formation of the over-cladding layer is unitarily produced by molding a light-transmissive resin with t... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110260346 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT GUIDE PLATE OF KEYPAD A method of manufacturing a light guide plate containing a plurality of light-guiding micro structures comprises the steps of: preparing a mold that has a concave hole formed by a plurality of light-guiding micro structures; pouring a mixture of ultraviolet curable resi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110235973 | Optical Element with mechanical alignment and method of making same A product and process for fabricating an optical element from a capillary ferrule includes fusing the optical element onto an optical fiber. The optical element starts with a capillary ferrule that is sculpted on one end to form an optical property such as a flat window... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110222818 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR OPTICAL CONNECTOR, OPTICAL CONNECTOR USING SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR OPTICAL CONNECTOR Disclosed is inexpensive optical waveguide for an optical connector which is accurately positioned across the width of cores when inserted in and fixed in an optical waveguide fixing through hole of a ferrule to provide low optical coupling loss when connected, an optic... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110212411 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL FIBER DIFFUSION An optical fiber diffusion system and a method of manufacturing an optical fiber diffusion device that has a precisely-controlled emission region are disclosed. An optical fiber diffusion device is produced by subjecting a light emission region of an optical fiber to a ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110194805 | FIBER BRAGG GRATING IN MICRO/NANOFIBER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME A method of fabricating Fiber Bragg gratings in a micro/nanofiber using ultrashort pulse irradiation, the method includes elongating and flame-brushing a single mode optical fiber to create a micro/nanofiber, and generating the ultrashort pulse irradiation to induce a p... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110174961 | OPTICAL TRAP A system for forming an optical trap comprising two or more photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) and at least one source of radiation for inputting radiation to the photonic crystal fibers, the fibers being operable to provide counter-propagating outputs for forming the optic... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110168954 | CARBON NANOTUBE BASED COMPOSITE SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS) PROBE An electromagnetic and/or chemical enhancement which greatly enhances the Raman signal response for Surface Enhanced Raman is directed to molecular probe systems. Such molecular probe systems have many properties that make them ideal as probes for Scanning Probe Microsc... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110156293 | EMBOSSING ASSEMBLY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND EMBOSSING METHOD USING THE SAME A light guide plate is manufactured by applying an embossing assembly. The embossing assembly includes a roller and an embossing layer applied on the roller. The embossing assembly is formed by electroforming embossing micro-structures on the outer surface of the emboss... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110135245 | MICROHOLE-STRUCTURED LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING An optical fiber with long period fiber gratings includes an optical fiber axis, a core region extending along the fiber axis, the core region having a core refractive index, a cladding region surrounding the core region, the cladding having a cladding refractive index,... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110116094 | Method of Producing a Surface Plasmon Generator, a Surface Plasmon Generator and a Sensor Incorporating the Surface Plasmon Generator Surface plasmon generation on a metal or semiconductor layer at an outer surface of an optical waveguide, using light reflected or scattered from inside the optical waveguide. One aspect provides a main optical waveguide (11) (e.g. optical fibre) having a second ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110085761 | ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING An arrayed waveguide grating includes: at least one first waveguide; a first slab waveguide connected to the at least one first waveguide; a plurality of second waveguides; a second slab waveguide connected to the plurality of second waveguides; and an arrayed waveguide... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085771 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CELLULAR PHONE, FLEXIBLE CABLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FORMING BODY According to the electronic apparatus and cellular phone of the present invention, in an optical waveguide forming body of a flexible cable, an air layer is provided in a deforming section which experiences bending deformation as a result of the movement of a second bod... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085768 | OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER An optical fiber having excellent strength that can be manufactured at low cost, as well as a method for making such optical fiber, is provided. An optical fiber 1 is a silica-based optical fiber comprising a core 11, an optical cladding 12 surround... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110075071 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LIGHT GUIDE FOR A BACKLIGHT MODULE IN A LCD MODULE A method of manufacturing a light guide for a backlight module in a liquid crystal display module is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing a foil; and pressing the foil at a first temperature above a glass transition temperature of a material of t... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110068494 | FABRICATION OF MICROSCALE TOOLING The present disclosure is directed to a process for making a tooling that may subsequently be used to make a microstructured article. The process detailed herein describes the formation of microstructured tooling structures in patterns to form microstructured arrays on ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110068493 | Stimuli responsive liquid crystal-polymer composite fibers A process for making a stimuli responsive liquid crystal-polymer composite fiber comprising mixing a liquid crystal, a polymer, and a solvent; processing the mixture in the presence of an electric potential across a collection distance; phase separating a polymer and sa... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110023617 | ULTRA-MINIATURE FIBER-OPTIC PRESSURE SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FABRICATION Ultra-miniature surface-mountable Fabry-Perot pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber which utilizes a 45° angled fiber tip covered with a reflective layer which steers the optical axis of the fiber by 90°. The Fabry-Perot cavity is formed on the sidewall o... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026891 | Single mode optical fibers and modular method of making same An optical fiber that concurrently satisfies G.657 and G.652 standards comprises a core region and a cladding region configured to support and guide the propagation of light in a fundamental transverse mode, the cladding region including (i) an outer cladding region hav... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100326807 | LIGHT GUIDE PLATE, LIGHT GUIDE KEY PLATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE LIGHT GUIDE KEY PLATE A light guide key plate includes a light guide plate (1). The light guide plate (1) has a plate body (11) with a plurality of keyholes (12). The plate body (11) is formed with flow passages (13) at one side thereof for communica... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100315713 | ZERO-ORDER DIFFRACTIVE FILTER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a zero-order diffractive filter comprising a high-index material having an upper surface and a lower surface. The high-index material is positioned between a first low-index matter and a second low-index matter;... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316330 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD FOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board for an optical waveguide, including: a lower substrate; an insulation layer which has a through-hole and is formed on the lower substrate; an optical waveguide which is formed in the through-hole such that a clearance is prese... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100308482 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE A method for manufacturing an optical waveguide which comprise the steps of: filling an ultraviolet curable liquid-state resin 17 to form an over-cladding layer 14 in a concave portion 16 of a die 15; bringing an under-cladding layer 12 | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100303403 | ON-LINE FIBER BRAGG GRATING DITHERING An apparatus for determining a property, the apparatus including: an optical fiber having a series of fiber Bragg gratings, each fiber Bragg grating in the series being characterized by a light reflection frequency at which the fiber Bragg grating reflects light; wherei... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100296770 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUSTAINABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS An optical fiber 200 with a high thermal resistance fiber Bragg grating (FBG) 130. Compared to existing FBG's, the invention provides greatly enhanced thermal stability, being stable up to 1200° C. The grating reflectivity and resonant wavelength are main... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100289162 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE A method for manufacturing an optical waveguide includes the steps of: A) forming a liquid-state resin mass by adding dropwise a liquid-state resin on an under-cladding layer; B) forming a liquid-state resin layer to cover cores by pressing a mold on the liquid-state re... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284651 | FIBER-OPTIC PIN-AND-SOCKET CONNECTOR HAVING A BEAM EXPANSION DEVICE The invention relates to an optical pin-and-socket connector for the detachable connection of a plurality of optical cores (115) having an insert (112, 112′), in which the cores (115) are inserted on a first side, the cores (115) ending in ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100278484 | Waveguide Coupling Probe and Methods for Manufacturing Same A waveguide coupling probe (10) for sending light into an optical waveguide on a substrate or for receiving light from an optical waveguide on a substrate is provided, the waveguide coupling probe comprising an optical element (11) for guiding the light in... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100209042 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MANUFACTURED BY THE METHOD The present invention relates to a production process for an optical waveguide comprising a step for forming a photosensitive resin layer comprising a photosensitive resin composition on a substrate, a step for exposing a desired pattern and a step for carrying out deve... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195951 | MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A multi-layer structure and a method for manufacturing the multi-layer structure are provided. The multi-layer structure includes: a waveguide including one or more light coupling regions having a refractive index gradient; at least one organic material based active opt... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100172610 | WAVEGUIDE DEVICES USING EVANESCENT COUPLING BETWEEN WAVEGUIDES AND GROOVES An optical waveguide device (10) comprises a planar substrate with a lower cladding layer (14), a core layer (16) and an upper cladding layer (18), a groove (20) in the substrate that extends at least into the core layer (16), a... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166358 | Dual Fiber Grating and Methods of Making and Using Same A multiple-layer fiber-optic sensor is described with dual Bragg gratings in layers of different materials, so that the known temperature and strain response properties of each material may be utilized to simultaneously correct the sensor output for temperature and stra... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100148383 | Method of controlling longitudinal properties of optical fiber A method of creating optical fiber to exhibit predetermined length-dependent characteristics (e.g., chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion, cutoff wavelength, birefringence) includes the steps of: characterizing the fiber's selected characteristic(s) as a fu... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100135609 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A CYLINDRICAL SUBSTRATE AND AN INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT Apparatus (2) comprising a cylindrical substrate (4), and an integrated optical circuit which is provided on the cylindrical substrate and which comprises at least one optical waveguide (6). A process for producing the apparatus (2) is also d... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100111136 | OPTICAL FIBER BASED POLYMER CORE SENSOR An optical fiber based polymer core sensor includes an optical fiber having a core and an end having a cured polymer core affixed to the core of the optical fiber. The cured polymer core extends outward from the end of the optical fiber and has a diameter approximately ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100101277 | METHOD OF FUSING OPTICAL FIBERS WITHIN A SPLICE PACKAGE The present invention relates to methods of connecting optical fibers. In a first aspect, the method proceeds by using a ferrule device having a passage adapted to apply radial pressure to optically align and hold in position opposed fiber ends, and fusing said fiber en... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100067861 | LIGHT GUIDE AND LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE An optical waveguide structure has excellent heat resistance and a low water absorbing property and can be manufactured with a low material cost. Such an optical waveguide structure includes: an optical waveguide having two surfaces, a core layer including core portions... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100063404 | BIOPOLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A method of manufacturing a biopolymer optical waveguide includes providing a biopolymer, unwinding the biopolymer progressively to extract individual biopolymer fibers, and putting the unwound fibers under tension. The tensioned fibers are then cast in a different poly... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100061689 | Process for Fabricating Buried Optical Waveguides Using Laser Ablation The present invention is concerned with a process for fabricating a buried optical waveguide, comprising providing a multi-layer piece of material having a waveguide core layer, generating a laser beam and producing by ablation at least two trenches by applying the lase... | 03/11/2010 |
