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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130121702 | TRANSMITTER OPTICAL MODULE Disclosed is a transmitter optical module which includes a first package generating an optical signal; a second package bonded with the first package by using chip-to-chip bonding, having a silicon optical circuit platform structure, and amplifying the optical signal; a... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130064554 | Optical Transmission Using Few-Mode Fibers In some embodiments, an optical transmission system includes a few-mode fiber that supports at least 2 spatial modes but no more than 50 spatial modes.... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130039664 | TENSILE STRAINED SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTON EMISSION AND DETECTION DEVICES AND INTEGRATED PHOTONICS SYSTEM Tensile strained germanium is provided that can be sufficiently strained to provide a nearly direct band gap material or a direct band gap material. Compressively stressed or tensile stressed stressor materials in contact with germanium regions induce uniaxial or biaxia... | 02/14/2013 |
| 20130011026 | Optical Data Transmission System A data transmission between a device and a first and a second optical maintenance port involves a transmission reflector in the form of a solid-state bound data line having a gap and a Y coupler. This allows recording of the communication between the device to be read o... | 01/10/2013 |
| 20120275799 | ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE An electric energy storage system for a vehicle, such as an electric or hybrid vehicle. The energy storage system has multiple electric components and data transmission devices for transmitting data signals between the electric components. Here, the data transmission de... | 11/01/2012 |
| 20120263206 | SURFACE-EMISSION LASER DIODE AND FABRICATION PROCESS THEREOF A surface-emission laser diode includes a GaAs substrate, a cavity region, and upper and lower reflectors provided at a top part and a bottom part of the cavity region, the upper reflector and/or the lower reflector including a semiconductor Bragg reflector, at least a ... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120263466 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL HYBRID MODULATIONS FOR ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL TRANSPORT Systems and methods are disclosed with a spatial-domain-based multi-dimensional coded-modulation scheme that improves dramatically OSNR sensitivity and tolerance to fiber nonlinearities by using D-dimensional signal constellations, where D=2(2+M)N. The factor 2 originat... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120251105 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A LINE OF SPOTS LAUNCH OF LIGHT INTO AN END OF A MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBER A method and an apparatus are provided for launching light into an entrance facet of a MMF of an optical MMF link in a way that excites one or more targeted higher-order mode groups in the MMF. The light is launched into the entrance facet of the MMF as a line of phase-... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120243881 | Extended Temperature Fiber Optic Cable Design A fiber optic cable for use in a downhole environment is disclosed. The fiber optic cable includes a tube having an interior region; an optical fiber disposed in the interior region of the tube; a gas in the interior region; and a gel in the interior region, wherein the... | 09/27/2012 |
| 20120237198 | FIBER OPTIC ROTARY JOINTS, METHODS PRACTICED THEREBY, AND FIBER OPTIC DEVICES This invention provides a fiber optic rotary joint (20) for enabling the transmission of digital optical signals across the interface between facing surfaces (26, 29) of a rotor and a stator (21, 22), comprising: a plurality of light sources (42<... | 09/20/2012 |
| 20120213525 | Oilfield Optical Data Transmission Assembly Joint A joint for disposing between a rotatable drum and stationary surface equipment. The joint serves as a channel through which optical data from a well access line may be routed through the rotating drum and to the stationary equipment for processing. The optical data may... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120195601 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER WITH HYBRIDLY INTEGRATED DRIVER An optical transmitter includes a transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) having a transistor outline (TO) package, a flexible circuit, and at least one active electronic device mounted on the flexible circuit. The active electronic device includes circuitry for processi... | 08/02/2012 |
| 20120195598 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A communications system comprising at least one light source, a side-emitting fiber light rope into which light emitted from the light source is coupled, and means for sending at least one data carrying optical signal along the light rope.... | 08/02/2012 |
| 20120170944 | OPTICAL RECEIVER AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER There is provided an optical receiver. The optical receiver includes a board to be coupled with an optical transmission line array, an optical diode array disposed on the board, and the optical diode array including a plurality of photo diodes each of which receives lig... | 07/05/2012 |
| 20120170943 | Configuring optical launch powers in optical fiber transmission lines A method includes transmitting optical signals through a heterogeneous sequence of spans of an all-optical transmission line. Each span has an optical transmission fiber connected to an optical amplifier. Each amplifier launches the signals into a sequential remainder o... | 07/05/2012 |
| 20120147727 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER, VERTICAL-CAVITY-SURFACE-EMITTING-LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor multilayer film reflector of a first conductivity type laminated on the semiconductor substrate, a resonator, and a second semiconductor multilayer film reflector of a sec... | 06/14/2012 |
| 20120148263 | ARCHITECTURE OF AN OPTICAL REFUELING COMMUNICATION USING GLASS FIBER A communication interface for communication between a storage tank and a refueling station is described. One embodiment of the communication interface includes a control unit; an optical transmitter comprising an IR-LED, the optical transmitter directly integrated into ... | 06/14/2012 |
| 20120114340 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND INTERCONNECTING CIRCUIT BOARD An optical transmitter including: an optical module; an interconnecting circuit board configured to be electrically coupled to the optical module; and a printed circuit board configured to be electrically coupled to the interconnecting circuit board; wherein the interco... | 05/10/2012 |
| 20120057866 | REDUNDANT RING RESONATORS OF VARYING DIMENSIONS TO REDUCE RING RESONATOR TUNING REQUIREMENTS Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems for reducing the amount of power consumed in temperature tuning resonator-based transmitters and receivers. In one aspect, a system comprises an array of resonators (801-806) disposed adjacent ... | 03/08/2012 |
| 20120057864 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS INCLUDING COOLER An optical transmission apparatus including a cooler includes: a platform having a transmission line patterned to have an angle of 90°; a light source mounted on the platform such that it is connected to the transmission line of the platform and generating light; a coo... | 03/08/2012 |
| 20120050191 | OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM An optical data transmission system for transmitting optical data in a flight vehicle, including a head end, optical splitter, N units of terminals that process optical data received from the optical splitter to display such as video, plural optical cables connected bet... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110299858 | HOST DEVICE WITH MULTIPURPOSE OPTICS DRIVE CAPABILITIES A host device is provided that can leverage multiple optical modulation scheme capabilities of the optical module. The host device comprises an electrical modulator unit configured to generate electrical transmit signals comprising modulated data in a modulation format,... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110293291 | System and Method for Acquiring Data of Multi-Channel Signal A system for acquiring data of a multi-channel signal includes a channel-voltage transmission module disposed in a shield room blocking electromagnetic waves, connected with a plurality of channels from which analog signals are output, and configured to generate a seria... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280586 | Optical power transmission packeting systems and methods A system for delivering optical power over an optical conduit includes at least one optical power source delivering optical power to multiple outlet nodes in accordance with a multiple power access methodology.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280582 | HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL NETWORK OPTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM WITH DISTORTION CONTROL Linearized optical transmitter units are described for a hybrid optical fiber coaxial cable network. The linearized optical transmitter unit can comprise a directly-modulated or externally-modulated laser optically coupled to an optical conduit directed to an optical fi... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110243574 | MULTIMODE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION An optical transmitter includes a set of optical waveguides and first, second, and third optical modulators. Output ends of the optical waveguides of the set form a two-dimensional array capable of end-coupling the optical waveguides of the set to a multimode optical fi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110229138 | Optical-signal processing apparatus, optical transmission method, receiver, and optical network system In an optical network system: control light is generated by optical modulation based on a modulated data signal which is generated by modulation of a carrier signal with a data signal; and the control light is optically combined with an optical carrier which is to propa... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110211843 | Optical Broadcast With Buses With Shared Optical Interfaces Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to optical broadcast buses configured with shared optical interfaces for fan-in and fan-out of optical signals. In one aspect, an optical broadcast bus (100,200,300) comprises a number of optical interface... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110194859 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER An optical transmitter includes three or more emission optical fibers that are three-dimensionally arranged, a single reception optical fiber, and an optical path converting component to optically couple the emission optical fibers to the reception optical fiber. The op... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110110659 | Method of Operating an Optical Transmission System, Optical Transmitter, and Optical Reciever The invention relates to a method of operating an optical transmission system (100a, 100b, 100c), wherein at least one optical data signal is transmitted over an optical transmission link (120), which particularly compris... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110069972 | MULTIPLEXED QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION The present invention relates to an improved quantum signal transmitter, which has a plurality of quantum output channels having at least one optical source and at least one optical splitter acting on the output of said at least one source. Such a transmitter can easily... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069974 | TEXTILE-TYPEINTERFACE DEVICES FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IN WEARABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM Both ends of an interface may each be configured by an interface device including a light emitting unit that emits light into a textile, a light diffusion unit that widely diffuses the emitted light onto the textile and extends a light receiving range of a light receivi... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069973 | EDGE-COUPLED OPTICAL PROXIMITY COMMUNICATION An optical module is described. This optical module includes at least two optical devices that communicate with each other using edge-to-edge optical coupling of an optical signal between optical components in the two optical devices. Note that the edge-to-edge optical ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069970 | CODED PULSE DATA TRANSMISSION USING A LOOK-UP TABLE Input data is encoded using a look-up table and then transmitted over a transmission medium as a series of pulses. The look-up table includes data elements. The length of each pulse is calibrated to correspond to one of the data elements in the look-up table. Upon recei... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110052195 | OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION USING OPTICAL DATA PATTERNS An optical data system and method for optically transmitting data. The system includes an optical transmitter. The optical transmitter includes a pattern mapper, a light source, and a light limiting device. The pattern mapper maps a data string to a pattern of light pul... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044700 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM The present invention relates to an optical communications system that allows improving OSNR while suppressing the power increase of pumping light for distributed Raman amplification. In the optical communications system, an optical fiber is laid in a transmission secti... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110033189 | RETURN PATH COMPLIANCE IN NETWORKS This disclosure is directed to techniques for facilitating return path compliance in networks. A device, such as an optical network terminal (ONT), may, for example, buffer a digital representation of an upstream analog signal to facilitate return path compliance specif... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100324736 | Robot cleaner, docking station, robot cleaner system including robot cleaner and docking station, and method of controlling robot cleaner A robot cleaner system is described including a docking station to form a docking area within a predetermined angle range of a front side thereof, to form docking guide areas which do not overlap each other on the left and right sides of the docking area, and to transmi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100266295 | OPTICAL-SIGNAL-PATH ROUTING IN A MULTI-CHIP SYSTEM Embodiments of a system are described. This system includes an array of chip modules (CMs) that are configured to communicate data signals with each other via optical communication. In a given CM module, optical signal paths, such as waveguides, are routed in the same w... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100266294 | Multi-Channel Optical Rotary Transmission Device with High Return Loss An optical rotating data transmission device comprises a first collimator arrangement for coupling-on first light-waveguides, and a second collimator arrangement for coupling-on second light-waveguides, which is supported to be rotatable relative to the first collimator... | 10/21/2010 |
