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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120082413 | AN OPTICAL CONNECTION SYSTEM The present disclosure provides an optical connection system which comprises optical components that include a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for emitting modulated light in response to applied electrical signals and a plurality of receive... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120051084 | TRANSMISSION OF LASER PULSES WITH HIGH OUTPUT BEAM QUALITY USING STEP-INDEX FIBERS HAVING LARGE CLADDING An apparatus and method for transmission of laser pulses with high output beam quality using large core step-index silica optical fibers having thick cladding, are described. The thick cladding suppresses diffusion of modal power to higher order modes at the core-claddi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110255825 | Optical universal serial bus (USB) Embodiments of the invention are directed to an optical USB (OUSB) to enhance the data rate of USB by adding super-high data rate (e.g. 10 Gbps) optical communication on top of its current specification so that backward compatibility is achievable. Mechanical tolerances... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110206314 | Method for Generating a Spectral Broadband Source by Phase Matching Including Leaky Modes The disclosure relates to an optical waveguide serving to propagate an original light signal, the optical waveguide including a non-linear waveguide first core that is suitable for generating leaky modes from the original light signal, the waveguide including at least a... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110134943 | LASER BASED FREQUENCY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Frequency standards based on mode-locked fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and fiber-based ultra-broad bandwidth light sources, and applications of the same.... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110091153 | Device, System and Method for Optical Fiber Networks The present invention relates to a device, system and method for construction of and use in optical fiber networks, such as an Air Blown Fiber (ABF) system. An optical device comprising a housing having arranged therein an optical fiber attachment is provided. Further, ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110075132 | ANGLE-CLEAVED OPTICAL FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME Optical fibers comprising a plurality of cleaved facets disposed at one end are disclosed. First and second facets of the plurality of cleaved facets are disposed at different angles. The optical fiber with the plurality of cleaved facets splits light from an optical co... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110064357 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR An optical fiber connector includes a main body and a cover mechanically coupled to the main body. The main body includes a coupling portion and a light guide portion extending from the coupling portion. The light guide portion includes a light incident surface and a li... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110013867 | Reconfigurable Materials for Photonic System Embodiment A light guide device for steering an input light may include a PBC lattice having a input surface and a first surface. The input surface may receive the input light to cooperate with the first surface, and the PBC lattice may direct the input light to the first surface ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100258784 | Method Of Efficient Coupling Of Light From Single-Photon Emitter To Guided Radiation Localized To Sub-Wavelength Dimensions On Conducting Nanowires A cavity free, broadband approach for engineering photon emitter interactions via sub-wavelength confinement of optical fields near metallic nanostructures. When a single CdSe quantum dot (QD) is optically excited in close proximity to a silver nanowire (NW), emission f... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100166365 | APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION AND TRASMISSION OF LIGHT An apparatus is presented for capture and transfer of sunlight. The apparatus comprises a light capturing section, an optical fibre which comprises a first end, a second end and a light transferring section arranged between the ends, which light transferring section alo... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158067 | OPTICAL MODULE An optical module comprising a laser device adapted to emit a laser beam from a convex surface and including a horizontal resonator surface-emitting structure provided with a first lens through which an optical axis of the laser beam passes, and a second lens through wh... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100135614 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER Disclosed are an optical waveguide and a bi-directional light transceiver, in which a wavelength selective filer is provided in the core of the optical waveguide to divide bi-directional signals, so that manual alignment of optical components are easily achieved and thu... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100129027 | Optical Coupler for Rotating Catheter An optical coupler for coupling to a rotating catheter has a housing with a rotatable distal face and a stationary proximal face. The distal face has an eccentric port and a central port. A lens is disposed inside the housing to intercept a rotating collection beam emer... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100124419 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR DEVICE The invention discloses an electrical connector device, which includes an optic fiber hub and a plurality of electrical embedded interfaces connected to the optic fiber hub. The optic fiber hub is connected to monitoring equipments or communication networks, and the ele... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100119195 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WAVELENGTH INSENSITIVE 90-DEGREE HYBRID DEVICE Various embodiments include means of reducing wavelength dependency of an optical device by causing oscillating modes within at least one terminal associated with the device.... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100086254 | FIBER OPTIC NETWORK INSTALLATION A fibre optic network system for a multi-staged installation to a plurality of present and future user locations includes an aggregation point, a trunk line with a plurality of optic fibre cables leading from the aggregation point and at least one branch junction locati... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100046883 | Coupling Device for Use in Optical Waveguides An optical waveguide device comprises a plurality of mirrors, wherein at least one mirror comprises a first and second reflective end that reflect and transmit light. The plurality of mirrors comprises at least one first material having at least one first refractive ind... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100028018 | Free-Space Optical Interconnect With Asymmetric Light Pipes An optical interconnect system includes components such as circuit boards, server blades, or a backplane with respective light pipes for an optical signal. The light pipe in a component transmitting the optical signal receives a collimated beam and directs the collimate... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100014806 | OPTICAL CONNECTION COMPONENT The present invention provides an optical connection component which comprises a solid state laser component for emitting a modulated beam of light in response to an applied electrical signal. The optical connection component also comprises an optical lens positioned re... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100014805 | ZINC OXIDE DIODES FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for zinc oxide diodes for optical interconnections. One system includes a ZnO emitter confined within a circular geometry in an oxide layer on a silicon substrate. An optical waveguide is formed in the oxide ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090252452 | Optical power delivery system An optical transmission system comprising a laser light source arranged to emit light having a frequency ω; and an optical transmission line adapted to guide the light, wherein said optical transmission line includes a photonic bandgap optical fibre having a core guide... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090213446 | SOLAR MODULE PATTERNING APPARATUS A solar module patterning apparatus comprises a laser oscillator, a homogenizer and a scanner. The laser oscillator generates a laser beam having a predetermined wavelength. The homogenizer homogenizes an intensity distribution of the generated laser beam provided from ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090202199 | OPTICAL MODULE An optical module (1) including a light receiving/emitting element (3) for transmitting or receiving an optical signal, an optical waveguide (2) having a core part made of a material with translucency and a clad part made of a material having an ind... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090196008 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (EMI) COLLAR AND METHOD FOR USE WITH A PLUGGABLE OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE An EMI collar is provided that is configured to be secured about a housing of a pluggable optical transceiver module. The configuration of the EMI collar and the method by which the collar is attached to the housing of the transceiver module ensures that the collar will... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090122317 | Spectroscopy Method and Spectroscope To achieve an apparatus capable of measuring a light absorption coefficient f a sample with high sensitivity. A ring down spectroscope uses a wavelength-variable femtosecond soliton pulse light source 1. Pulse light is input to a loop optical fiber 6 throu... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090110393 | BROADBAND WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING FILTER AND OPTICAL SPLITTER WITH OPTICAL SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING FUNCTION Two Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13a and 13b are accurately point-symmetrically connected to each other to form a first point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 5 constituting a light input side circ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090046980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING A PROBE An adapter couples a length of optical fiber to a hollow probe and to an optical coherence tomography instrument. The length of optical fiber may be greater than the than the length of the adapter itself. The optical fiber is fixed to an optical coupler at a proximal en... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090028498 | Optical fiber connector An optical fiber connector (100) includes a first insulative housing (1), a door (2) assembled in the first housing and an elastic piece (3) with one end retained in the first housing and the other end elastically abutting against the door. T... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080317404 | HIGH CONTACT DENSITY MINIATURE CONNECTOR A miniature high density connector including a thermoplastic insulating body having contact cavities for the insertion, the positioning and the retention of electrical, optical or electro-optical contacts, a back plate having clips for the locking of the contacts into t... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080266573 | Micro resonator sensor A micro resonator sensor includes a main waveguide, a resonance waveguide and optical path changing means. Optical path changing means are installed at apex regions contacting with adjacent optical waveguides forming the resonance waveguide and reflect at least a part o... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080198471 | Substrate-Guided Optical Device with Wide Aperture There is provided an optical device, having a light-transmitting substrate (20) including at least two major surfaces parallel to each other and edges; optical means (16) for coupling light into the substrate by internal reflection, and at least one reflec... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080193076 | Design of CMOS Integrated Germanium Photodiodes A CMOS processing compatible germanium on silicon integrated waveguide photodiode. Positioning contacts in predicted low optical field regions, establishing side trenches in the silicon layer along the length of the photodiode reduces optical losses. Novel taper dimensi... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080166095 | FABRICATION-TOLERANT WAVEGUIDES AND RESONATORS An optical waveguide having a core region with a substantially rectangular cross-section with a selected aspect ratio of width to height. Embodiments include devices incorporating the optical waveguide and methods for using the optical waveguide.... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080112667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TUNING AN OPTICAL DELAY LINE The present invention is a method and an apparatus for tuning an optical delay line. In one embodiment, an optical delay line includes at least one ring resonator in which light is guided or is confined and at least one heater positioned laterally from the ring resonato... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080089640 | Photonic-based interconnects for interconnecting multiple integrated circuits Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic-based interconnects for transmitting data encoded in electromagnetic signals between electronic mosaics. In one embodiment of the present invention, a photonic-based interconnect comprises a first pho... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080037930 | TAPPABLE CABLE SEGMENT FOR COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE The present invention relates to a cable segment (2) in a communication infrastructure, comprising:
| 02/14/2008 |
| 20080015560 | LIGHT DIFFUSING TIP A light diffusing tip is provided The light diff-using tip comprises a housing and a monolithic light scattering medium disposed within the housing The monolithic light scattering medium comprises a first scattering region at a first position, the scattering region havi... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080013882 | OPTICAL COUPLER WITH STABILIZED COUPLING RATIO An optical coupler is provided, which includes at least one first-type delay part having a delay quantity; at least one second-type delay part having a basic delay quantity and an adjustable delay quantity; and a plurality of optical splitting units. The plurality of op... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080013883 | Method And Apparatus For The Monitoring And Control Of A Process A pitch side optical system for use in diode laser spectroscopy consisting of more than one diode laser having select lasing frequencies with each diode laser being coupled to an end of a distinct input optical fiber. The pitch side optical system further consists of a ... | 01/17/2008 |
