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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120045169 | OPTICAL-FIBER ARRAY METHOD AND APPARATUS Method and apparatus for forming an optical-fiber-array assembly, which include providing a plurality of optical fibers including a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber, providing a fiber-array plate that includes a first surface and a second surface, connecti... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120027368 | HOLLOW CORE FIBER POWER COMBINER AND DIVIDER A method for manufacturing a hollow core fiber power combiner or divider is provided. The method includes forming a hollow core fiber bundle by assembling a plurality of small core diameter hollow core fibers inside a large diameter inner capillary. The method further i... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110280530 | X-RAY GENERATOR WITH POLYCAPILLARY OPTIC An x-ray generating system includes a source of x-ray radiation, a waveguide bundle optic for collimating the x-ray radiation produced by the source, a focusing optic for focusing the collimated x-ray radiation to a focal point.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110240122 | Compact solar apparatus for producing electricity and method of producing electricity using a compact solar apparatus The present invention relates to a compact solar module (CSM) apparatus and a method of producing electricity using such an apparatus in residential buildings for example. One embodiment of the module is made of two arrays of 2×4 solar cells, each array having a surfac... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110229100 | OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON HOLDING MEMBER, METHOD FOR HOLDING OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON, AND BUNDLE OF OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON Provided with a holding member main body having an upward U-shaped cross section and having a space to which a plurality of optical fiber ribbons can be accommodated in a laminated state; and a lid body having a downward U-shaped cross section, wherein latch structures ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110123160 | DUAL FLOOR DENSED FIBER OPTIC ARRAY A fiber optic mechanical structure (104) including a substrate configured with plurality of grooves wherein the grooves are split into a first grooves slots and a second grooves slots. A first group of plurality of fibers is placed on the substrate (204) w... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110110636 | Fiber Optic Cables Having Limited Strength Elements A fiber optic cable may include a jacket having an inner surface extending around and defining an interior space. The fiber optic cable may include an inner group of optical fibers positioned in the interior space, where each of the optical fibers of the inner group is ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110087311 | Methods and Apparatus for Microstructure Lightguides This invention may be implemented as a microstructure probe for delivering light of variable color and/or power, via a set of integrated lightguides, from an optical source (or set of sources) to regions spatially arranged 3-dimensionally, with a length scale of microns... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20100176311 | OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE AND OPTICAL IRRADIATOR For an enhanced coupling efficiency between a light source and an optical fiber bundle: the optical fiber bundle is made up by a dense bundle of optical fibers, with an integrated portion composed of fusion-integrated distal ends of the bundled optical fibers, and the i... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100158444 | MULTI-CORE FERRULE AND OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTION STRUCTURE An optical fiber connection structure includes a single-core plug holding a single-core ferrule, a multi-core plug holding a multi-core ferrule, and an adaptor having a tubular sleeve. The single-core ferrule made of zirconia (ZrO2) has a cylindrical shape an... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100150502 | Optical Connections And Methods Of Forming Optical Connections In one embodiment, an assembly having a first board, a second board, a fiber bundle, and at least one movable stage is provided. The fiber bundle has a first end and a second end, and the first end of the fiber bundle is attached to the first board first face. The movab... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100152721 | OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER DEVICE, AND OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE An optical fiber, an optical fiber device, and an optical fiber bundle, which are applied to an organic tubular tissue, for the medical application for removing a thrombus part deposited on an internal wall of tubular tissue are provided. T... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100119199 | REDUCED SIZE FIBER OPTIC PROBE USING MULTIPLE INCIDENT ANGLES A method for manufacturing an optical probe which uses optical fibers arranged in parallel which can be easily bent by application of a heat source to improve the performance of the optical probe. The bend may be created by application of heat by a heat source and then ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118897 | MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR OPTICAL PUMPING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL PUMPING DEVICE, FIBER LASER AND FIBER AMPLIFIER A multi-core fiber for an optical pumping device is provided. The multi-core fiber includes a plurality of optical fibers that are inserted into holes of an alignment member. The optical fibers and the alignment member are integrated by heating. The alignment member inc... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100100085 | Waveguides With Aiming Mechanisms Disclosed are radiation systems and methods, including a system that includes a waveguide to direct radiation from a first radiation source, a covering to cover at least part of the waveguide and one or more optical fibers embedded in the covering to direct radiation fr... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20090317038 | MULTI-FIBER FIBER OPTIC CABLE A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a plurality of optical fibers and at least two fiber grouping members disposed in a reverse double helical configuration about the plurality of optical fibers. An outer jacket surrounds the fiber grouping members and the plurality o... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090310911 | TWO-CHANNEL PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER (POF) ROTARY JOINT The present invention connects two independent plastic optical fiber channels simultaneously, in which optic signals can be transmitted along two optic passes through a single mechanical rotational interface. The first channel of light path consists of a pair of plastic... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090304340 | FABRICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS A method for fabricating composite materials/devices comprising stacking together fibers or rods of at least two different materials, and drawing the fibers or rods. Using this process, devices having nanoscale features can be readily fabricated.... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090285538 | HIGH COLLECTION EFFICIENCY FIBER OPTIC PROBES The invention provides miniature side-viewing fiber optic probes that achieve high collection efficiency by maximizing the overlap of a laser delivery fiber's illumination and a collection fiber's collection cone. The probes can be made with as few as one optical piece,... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090274180 | All-fiber module for femtosecond pulse compression and supercontinuum generation An all-fiber optical pulse compression arrangement comprises a concatenated arrangement of a section of input fiber (e.g., a single mode fiber), a graded-index (GRIN) fiber lens and a section of pulse-compressing fiber (e.g., LMA fiber). The GRIN fiber lens is used to p... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090257722 | Plural fiber optic interconnect A fiber optic connector for connecting a plurality of optical fibers comprising a plurality of fiber optic assemblies, each assembly including at least one optical fiber coupled to a ferrule, the ferrule being coupled to a spring. A connector housing is configured to su... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090218314 | ADVANCED PROCESS SENSING AND CONTROL USING NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL REFLECTOMETRY Embodiments described herein provide a method and apparatus for obtaining process information in a substrate manufacturing process using plasma. In one embodiment, a chamber is provided having one or more optical metrology modules that are positioned such that optical e... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090190891 | OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE An optical fiber structure includes a first fiber array and a second fiber array, which are placed one on the other. For example, the first fiber array includes a substrate having four V-shaped grooves and four first optical fibers, the output ends of which are linearly... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090169160 | Fiber-Optic Apparatus for Receiving Emitted Radiation of a Diode Laser, and Method for Producing a Fiber-Optic Apparatus of the Type A fiber-optic apparatus for receiving emitted radiation from a diode laser having at least one diode laser bar with a multiplicity of emitters which are arranged in at least one row alongside one another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. The fiber-optic appar... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090103872 | METHOD OF MAKING ASSEMBLIES OF MULTI-FIBER WITH IRREGULAR HEXAGONAL ARRAY A method of making a multi-fiber assembly with irregular hexagonal array, which includes the steps of forming a plurality of primitives each made of a plurality of fibers, said fibers having cylindrical outer surfaces of same diameter and being arranged in an irregular ... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090095913 | X-RAY LINE ARRAY DETECTOR The present invention relates to an X-ray line array detector in which a bundle of light-guide fibers is provided between an emergent surface of a flicker body and an incident surface of an array of photosensors, and the bundle of light-guide fibers has at least one ben... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090067792 | Fiber-Optic Cable Step-index optical waveguides are made of multicomponent glass containing a core glass and an outer glass which entirely surrounds the core class. A fiber-optic cable for conducting electromagnetic radiation, contains at least one bundle of individual fibers which encom... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090022458 | Optical Turnaround System A technique is provided for utilizing an optical fiber in a variety of sensing applications and environments by beneficially routing the optical fiber. A continuous optical fiber is created to provide optical continuity between two ends of the optical fiber. The optical... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090016681 | Optical fiber configuration for dissipating stray light An optical transmission fiber is formed to include a relatively low-index, relatively thin outer cladding layer disposed underneath the protective polymer outer coating. Stray light propagating along an inner cladding layer(s) within the fiber will be refracted into the... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090003783 | SUBWAVELENGTH-DIAMETER SILICA WIRES FOR LOW-LOSS OPTICAL WAVEGUIDING The present invention provides nanometer-sized diameter silica fibers that exhibit high diameter uniformity and surface smoothness. The silica fibers can have diameters in a range of a about 20 nm to about 1000 nm. An exemplary method according to one embodiment of the ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080310803 | Fibre Optic Ribbon with Several Individual Optical Fibres and Method for Production Thereof A fibre optic ribbon has several individual optical fibres, provided, for example, for application of the ribbon conductor as flex sensor trip, with surface-treated partial regions in which individual optical fibres can be provided. The individual fibres are arranged in... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080310804 | System to monitor a structure within an outer casing of a gas turbine engine A system is provided to monitor a structure within an outer casing of a gas turbine engine. The system may comprise an optical fiber bundle, a fiber bundle palette and a camera palette assembly. The optical fiber bundle may have first and second ends. The first end is a... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080310805 | OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON, AND OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM An optical fiber is made of silica-based glass, and includes a core and a cladding. The optical fiber has a mode field diameter of 5.4 micrometers or larger at a wavelength of 1300 nanometers, transmits light with a wavelength of 1250 nanometers in a single mode, and ha... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080273847 | Fiber-based optical alignment system A low-cost alignment system suitable for aligning a wafer to a test fixture includes a bundle of optical fibers wherein at least one fiber serves to deliver illumination to the alignment target from an end thereof, and a plurality of receiver fibers, each having ends wi... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080260336 | Display Device Uniforming Light Distribution Throughout Areas and Method for Manufacturing Same Disclosed arm an optical display device producing uniform light distribution and a method of fabricating such devices. The optical display device has waveguides arranged in vertical and horizontal directions. The waveguide has a conical shape whose cross-section decreas... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080260335 | Fibre Optic Cable and Method for Producing the Same The present technology relates generally to fibre optic cables their manufacture and uses. The technology has useful applications e.g. in the field of optical measurements such as biochemical laboratory instrumentation for measuring properties of samples on microtitrati... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080193093 | Optical fiber configuration for dissipating stray light An optical transmission fiber is formed to include a relatively low-index, relatively thin outer cladding layer disposed underneath the protective polymer outer coating. Stray light propagating along an inner cladding layer(s) within the fiber will be refracted into the... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080170829 | Optical fiber assemblage An optical fiber assemblage can maintain a desired shape, and the optical fibers can be interconnected with good efficiency of construction and in small spaces. The optical fiber assemblage has optical fibers arranged in parallel, at least one support wire having shape-... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080152287 | Fiber Optic Withy Light Device A fiber optic light device includes a power supply, circuit control, light source, fiber optic bunch, and base. The power supply includes a power supply transformer and power cord. The light source can be formed by LEDs or tungsten filament bulbs. The fiber optic bunch ... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080145010 | Gel-Free Buffer Tube with Adhesively Coupled Optical Element In a buffer tube arrangement, discrete domains of adhesive material provide adhesive coupling of a water-swellable element and an optical fiber bundle that includes a plurality of optical fibers.... | 06/19/2008 |
