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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002924 | STAR COUPLER AND OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER A star coupler includes a core embedded in a clad on a major surface of a substrate. The refractive index of the core differs by at least 40% from the refractive index of the clad. The core includes a slab optical waveguide, at least one input-output optical waveguide c... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110038631 | COHERENT RECEIVER HAVING AN INTERLEAVE-CHIRPED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING An optical coherent detector that employs an interleave-chirped arrayed waveguide grating (AWG). The AWG has a periodic chirp pattern that enables the AWG to function as an optical 90-degree hybrid. If the AWG is implemented using a birefringent material, then the AWG c... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100239248 | Optical interleavers and de-interleavers An apparatus includes one or more optical de-interleavers. Each optical de-interleaver includes an optical component having a first pair of optical input and output ports and a second pair of optical input and output ports and a 1×2 optical coupler. Each optical output... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100150499 | PHOTONICS DEVICE HAVING ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING STRUCTURES Provided is a photonics device including at least two arrayed waveguide grating structures. Each of the arrayed waveguide grating structures of the photonics device includes an input star coupler, an output star coupler, and a plurality of arrayed waveguides optically c... | 06/17/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100027939 | OPTICAL APPARATUS An optical apparatus including a 360-degree star coupler with derivative structure(s) and applications to optical imaging, optical communications and optical spectroscopy.... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090257716 | OPTICAL STAR COUPLER A plastic optical fiber (POF) based reflective star coupler is provided. The POF based reflective star coupler comprises a hollow cylindrical holding tube for receiving a plurality of plastic optical fibers (POF) at a front end of the holding tube and a mixing rod at a ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090252457 | WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE AND ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING STRUCTURE Provided are a waveguide structure and an arrayed waveguide grating structure. The arrayed waveguide grating structure includes an input star coupler, an output star coupler, and a plurality of arrayed waveguides optically connecting the input star coupler and the outpu... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090154880 | PHOTONICS DEVICE Provided is a photonics device. The photonics device includes: a substrate including a star coupler region and a transition region; a lower core layer formed on the substrate; and upper core patterns formed on the substrate to define a waveguide. The upper core patterns... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090154881 | Optical Fiber Combiner and Method of Manufacturing Thereof The invention relates to an optical fiber combiner and a method for the manufacture thereof. The combiner has a tapering support preform with a plurality of capillary bores, a plurality of input fibers including a core and a cladding around the core and being arranged i... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090080469 | Optical coupler devices, methods of their production and use The present invention relates to an optical component comprising an acceptance fibre, e.g. a photonic crystal fibre, for propagation of pump and signal light, a number of pump delivery fibres and a reflector element that reflects pump light from the pump delivery fibres... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090052842 | Method for producing an optical splitter, and optical splitter An optical splitter has an optical chip, in which a conductor track is arranged on a carrier substrate, wherein a conductor track section of the conductor track running from a first side of the chip branches into different conductor track sections which run to a second ... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080298748 | Direct-connect optical splitter module A compact optical splitter module is disclosed. One type of compact optical splitter module is a planar attenuated splitter module that includes a branching waveguide network having j≧1 50:50 splitters that form up to n≦2j output waveguides having associa... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080219623 | Star coupler for optical networks, in particular for optical data buses in motor vehicles In order to achieve an increased reliability in respect of failure in optical networks, the invention provides a passive star coupler comprising a multiplicity of at least three optical waveguides as arms of the star coupler, which are combined at one end, and comprisin... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080131054 | OPTICAL FILTER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME An optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing includes: at least one or more input waveguides; an input-stage star cou... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080085081 | OPTICAL PLANAR WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE FILTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE An optical planar wavelength selective filter is formed on a printed circuit substrate. Low optical loss polymers are used to make a layered structure that contains waveguides and free travel zones. A diffraction grating is strategically placed on the printed circuit su... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080056643 | Diffraction grating and dispersion compensation circuit A diffraction grating of the present invention includes a first block (101) and a second block (102). The first block (101) is made up of a plurality of input waveguides (103), a slab waveguide (104), a delay waveguide array (105 | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080044122 | Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Having A Reduced Drive Voltage Coupled To A Compact Low-Loss Arrayed Waveguide Grating The invention relates to an asymmetric Mach Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) having a reduced drive voltage, coupled to a compact low-loss arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to provide a broader passband with low ripple. The integrated device has a compact stackable design for... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20070263953 | Optical switching element An optical switching element comprising: a multimode waveguide having an electro-optical effect; one or a plurality of first single mode waveguides; a plurality of second single mode waveguides; a first electrode arranged in the vicinity of one edge on one side of the m... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070253659 | OPTICAL SWITCH, OPTICAL MODULATOR AND WAVELENGTH VARIABLE FILTER An optical switch, an optical modulator, and a wavelength variable filter each have a simple configuration, which requires only a low driving voltage, which is independent of polarization, and which can operate at high speed. An optical switch includes a 3-dB coupler pl... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070248302 | Dual optical channel monitor assembly and associated methods of manufacture and use An optical channel monitor assembly for simultaneously measuring the optical power levels of multiple series of dense wavelength division multiplexed channels or the like traveling on separate optical fibers in an optical communications system includes an arrayed wavegu... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070230871 | PLANAR LIGHTWAVE FILTER WITH MIXED DIFFRACTION ELEMENTS A planar lightwave circuit including a slab waveguide, with a plurality of different diffraction filtering elements optically coupling a plurality of input and output ports, provides various optical functionalities including multiplexing, demultiplexing, diplexer and tr... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070122082 | DISPERSION COMPENSATION APPARATUS A dispersion compensation apparatus providing both coarse and fine dispersion compensation employing a pair of slab waveguides, a grating interconnecting the two waveguides, a mirror disposed within the second slab waveguide and one or more thermooptic lense(s), positio... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070122081 | IMPROVED WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE An improved waveguide structure employing blocks of waveguide core material positioned sufficiently close to a waveguide core thereby eliminating strain effects and its resulting undesirable polarization crosstalk. The improved structures are applicable to a variety of ... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070081761 | Integrated microelectromechanical wavelength selective switch and method of making same A fully integrated microelectromechanical (MEMS) 1×K wavelength selective switch (WSS) includes an array of N solid-immersion micromirrors (SIMs) and a K+1 dispersion waveguide arrays that are integrally fabricated together. In one embodiment, the WSS is fabricated in ... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20060285795 | Phase Matched Optical Grating The invention relates to phase matched optical gratings for performing signal multiplexing and demultiplexing in optical communications networks. In prior art gratings there is a phase linearity error between the grating line and the outputs on the focal line, comparing... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060198577 | Colorless tunable dispersion compensator employing a planar lightwave circuit and a deformable mirror A colorless, waveguide-grating-router-based tunable dispersion compensator includes a planar lightwave circuit and a deformable mirror, optically coupled to each other by a plano-cylindrical glass lens such that a fast tuning speed and single-knob dispersion adjustment ... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060193558 | Dispersion compensator, method for manufacturing the same, and method for compensating wavelength dispersion A dispersion compensator includes at least one first optical waveguide, a first slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide connected to the at least one first optical waveguide via the first slab waveguide, a second slab waveguide, at least one second optical waveguide connec... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060188196 | Waveguide design incorporating reflective optics This invention relates to devices for coupling light between an optical waveguide and an optical element in a manner that is substantially independent of temperature, using reflective optics. Certain embodiments of the invention concern improved designs for the transmit... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060177180 | Multichannel array waveguide diffraction grating multiplexer/demultiplexer and method of connecting array waveguide and output waveguide An array waveguide diffraction grating optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having an input waveguide, an input side slab waveguide, an output side slab waveguide, an output waveguide, an array waveguide provided between the input side slab waveguide and output side slab w... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060067623 | Reflector for a lighting and/or signalling device for an automobile The object of the invention is a reflector intended to equip a lighting or signalling device for an automobile and comprising a polymer-based structure at least partly covered with a reflective coating, the said structure also comprising fibres. ... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060013536 | Arrayed waveguide grating with increased uniformity of a performance parameter An arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) device comprising a substrate having a first array of waveguides optically coupled between first and second slab couplers and a second array of input-output waveguides optically coupled at first ends thereof to an input/output side of ... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060008209 | Integrateable band filter using waveguide grating routers The inventors propose herein a novel band filter design for planar lightwave circuits. In one embodiment of the present invention, the band filter includes two waveguide grating routers interconnected by a third waveguide grating, wherein waveguides comprising the third... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050244105 | Multimode optical fiber coupler and fabrication method The present invention relates to a surface interaction type multimode optical fiber coupler. A representative embodiment of the present invention comprises a plurality of optical fibers with at least one having an expanded core section. Sections of the optical fibers in... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050213887 | Two-stage optical bi-directional transceiver The invention relates to a planar lightwave circuit including a two stage optical filter for use in a bi-directional transceiver. A first stage includes a non-dispersive optical filter, which enables light within in a certain wavelength range, e.g. a signal channel from... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050213886 | Double diffraction grating with flat passband output The invention relates to a double-grating subtractive-dispersion optical channel multiplexer/demultiplexer for combining or separating optical channels and providing the output channels with a flat-top response. The FSR of the first grating is substantially equal to the... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050201687 | Multimode optical fiber coupler and fabrication method The present invention relates to a surface interaction type multimode optical fiber coupler. A representative embodiment of the present invention comprises a plurality of optical fibers with each having an expanded core section. The expanded core sections of the optical... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050185888 | ACHROMATIC FIBER-OPTIC POWER SPLITTER AND RELATED METHODS An achromatic power splitter is formed from multiple optical fibers. The achromatic power splitter operates single mode, which permits the power splitter to operate substantially insensitive to changes in wavelength of the input light, to changes in the polarization of ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050180691 | Multiple delay line based on an awg and different sections of a dispersive optical medium Multiple delay line based on AWG with a feedback configuration by means of sections of a dispersive optical medium, in which, due to the effect of the dispersion of the sections of the dispersive optical medium, the use of simultaneous multiple wavelengths (WDM) allows ... | 08/18/2005 |
