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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965439 | Scanning device and scanning type optical apparatus A scanning device includes: an optical element in which a refractive index distribution changes according to the intensity of an electric field generated therein such that an incident laser beam is scanned; first and second electrodes provided on two opposite surfac... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7839564 | Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays An electro-optic display comprises, in order, a backplane comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a layer of a solid electro-optic medium; a main adhesive layer; and at least one of a light-transmissive protective layer and a light-transmissive electrically-cond... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839565 | Optical deflector An optical deflector made of an electro-optic material has one or more pairs of electrodes on opposite surfaces. Each pair of electrodes defines an interaction region in which an electric field applied from the electrodes produces a linear refractive-index gradient ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7729041 | Electro optic device, method of manufacturing electro optic device, and scanning type optical apparatus An electro optic device includes an optical element in which a refractive index distribution, changes according to the intensity of an electric field generated therein such that an incident laser beam is scanned. First and second electrodes are provided on two oppos... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7593151 | Display unit and scanning method therefor In a display unit which makes coherent light perform scanning on a screen to display an image, it is necessary to rotate a polygon mirror at ultrahigh speed for display of a high resolution image such as HDTV, and therefore, a high-performance polygon mirror must be... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7564616 | Electro-optical element and scanning optical apparatus An electro-optical element includes an optical element that scans a laser beam made incident thereon when a refractive index distribution changes according to a size of an electric field generated in the inside of the electro-optical element and a first electrode an... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7525723 | Circuit board-to-circuit board connectors having electro-optic modulators An electrical connector to be electrically disposed between a first circuit board and a second circuit board to electrically couple the first circuit board with the second circuit board is disclosed. The electrical connector may have an electro-optic modulator to mo... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7474456 | Controllable composite material An apparatus and related methods for controlling propagation of incident radiation are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a composite material operable to exhibit at least one of a negative effective permittivity and a negative effective permeabil... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471446 | Scan-type optical apparatus A scan-type optical apparatus includes a light source device that emits a laser beam, an electro-optic element that conducts scan of the laser beam emitted from the light source device by varying refractive index distribution in accordance with the level of voltage ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7428036 | Liquid crystal switchable coupler for coupling at least two unpolarized light inputs A switchable coupler (10) has a first waveguide (15) defining an inlet port (31) for a first unpolarized light input (A) and a first outlet port (32), and also a second waveguide (16) defining an inlet port (41) for a second... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426069 | Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus An optical apparatus is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes: a first optical element having a first polarizing layer containing a material having a refractive index that changes in accordance with the magnitude of applied voltage and first and second transpare... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7411724 | Electro-optic crystal, diffraction-based, beam-steering element A beam-steering element made of a more optically-active material, potassium tantalate niobate, with an improved diffraction efficiency, having a plurality of electrode layers and one electro-optic crystal layer interposed between every two adjacent electrode layers.... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403677 | Fiberoptic reconfigurable devices with beam shaping for low-voltage operation An apparatus and method to operate on a light beam by using a lens that collimates the light beam to a collimated beam with at least one cross-sectional dimension less than a critical dimension of 400 μm or less over a working range WR. The apparatus has a bulk ele... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400438 | Micro-electro mechanical device, micro-electro mechanical device array, light modulation device, micro-electro mechanical light modulation device, micro-electro mechanical light modulation device array and image forming apparatus using the same A transition time is a time from a state where a movable portion has been rotationally displaced in the first direction and stopped to a state where driving portions apply the physical action forces to the movable portion to rotationally displace the movable portion... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389021 | Movable lens beam steerer Embodiments of a system are described herein, and include a controller, and an optoelectronic module coupled to the controller. The optoelectronic module has a substrate, and a stage having a lens. An electromechanical subsystem is coupled to the substrate and to th... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385762 | Methods and devices for inhibiting tilting of a mirror in an interferometric modulator Interferometric modulators having a separable modulator architecture are disclosed having a reflective layer suspended from a flexible layer over a cavity. The interferometric modulators have one or more anti-tilt members that inhibit undesirable movement of the ref... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375867 | Transmissive electromechanical light valve and system An apparatus, system, and method for a transmissive electromechanical light valve including a gate pivotable between a first position to allow light to pass through a valvelet and a second position to prevent light from passing through the valvelet are disclosed her... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372613 | Method and device for multistate interferometric light modulation A multi-state light modulator comprises a first reflector. A first electrode is positioned at a distance from the first reflector. A second reflector is positioned between the first reflector and the first electrode. The second reflector is movable between an undriv... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366368 | Optical add/drop interconnect bus for multiprocessor architecture An optical bus interconnects two or more processors in a multiprocessor system. One or more electrical-to-optical (“E-O”) transmitters are optically coupled to the optical bus using optical couplers. The E-O transmitters receive electrical signals from the proce... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362485 | Image display medium, image writing device, and image forming apparatus An image display medium comprising: a display layer; a pair of substrates that retain the display layer therebetween, with at least parts of the pair of substrates configuring a frame portion to which an electrical connection connector for electrical connection to t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336250 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid-crystal optical-modulation device For statically driving a liquid-crystal optical-modulation device, an alternating electric field produced by a drive signal is applied to a liquid crystal included therein. In a first period in which the alternating electric field has a first polarity, the drive sig... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324255 | Spatial optical modulator A spatial light modulator, in which light modulation elements are arranged in a same plane. In the spatial light modulator, a plurality of the light modulation elements are arranged such that there are at least two periods of periodic structure corresponding to an a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324257 | Low bias drift modulator with buffer layer The invention relates to an electro-optic modulator structure containing an additional set of bias electrodes buried within the device for applying bias to set the operating point. Thus the RF electrodes used to modulate incoming optical signals can be operated with... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310181 | Optical deflection device and optical deflection method that control occurrence of alignment defect An optical deflection device includes an optical deflection element having a pair of transparent boards arranged in a mutually opposing manner. A liquid crystal layer is filled between the boards and forms a chiral smectic C phase. An orientation film orients liquid... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302157 | System and method for multi-level brightness in interferometric modulation A display having a plurality of reflective display elements. In one embodiment, the display elements comprise at least one electrode having a plurality of active areas. In one embodiment, at least two of the sizes of the active areas are different with respect to ea... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295360 | Structure having light modulating film and light control device using the same A structure includes a substrate and a light modulating film formed on top of the substrate. The light modulating film is made of polycrystalline PLZT containing Pb, Zr, Ti, and La as constituent elements. The film has a La concentration in the range of 5 at % to 30... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283703 | Movable lens beam steerer An apparatus and system having an optoelectronic module, as well as a method of positioning the lens of the optoelectronic module in order to adjust the steering of a light beam are described herein. ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283291 | High speed beam steering/field of view adjustment The use of spatial light modulators to steer light beams and/or vary a field of view is disclosed. A dual frequency liquid crystal spatial light modulator can be controlled so as to form a blazed phase grating thereon that effects desire deflection of incident light... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280262 | Integrated die level isolation for a MEMS device A Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) package having a housing and a MEMS device bonded within the cavity of the housing. The MEMS device includes a MEMS sensor and a base connected to the MEMS sensor at a first surface. The base includes a first support device th... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7265893 | OASLM and a method and apparatus for driving an OASLM A method of controlling the switching of an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM), to a first surface of which a write light signal is applied and to a second surface of which a read light signal is applied. The method comprises applying a bipolar sw... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7224505 | Manufacturing method of electro-optical apparatus substrate, manufacturing method of electro-optical apparatus, electro-optical apparatus substrate, electro-optical apparatus, and electronic instrument A manufacturing process of an electro-optical apparatus substrate is provided wherein a substrate is coated with a photosensitive resin. A first exposure process is executed with a first reticle to form an uneven portion on the substrate. Subsequently, a second expo... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221496 | Optical element A complex amplitude spatial optical modulation element for low 0th-order diffraction light has a plurality of three-dimensional cells two-dimensionally on an XY plane. Each cell is light transmitting and defines a specific amplitude and phase. An upper surface of ea... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221813 | Signal acquisition probing and voltage measurement systems using an electro-optical cavity A signal acquisition probing system uses an optical cavity to acquire a signal under test. The probing system has an optical transmitter and receiver that are coupled to the optical cavity via an optical transmission system. The optical cavity has an electrode struc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206113 | Electro-optical device and electronic equipment The invention provides an electro-optical device which displays image of high quality without forming poorly oriented regions that stem from the presence of pole-like spacers, yet achieving a high numerical aperture. Pole-like spacers according to the invention are ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203398 | Compact DMD-based optical module An optical module having an integral optical waveguide with waveguide ports at each end. The optical waveguide receives an input light beam through a first waveguide port. The input light beam passes through the waveguide and is emitted from the second waveguide por... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7192200 | Optical communication module The optical communication module can be coupled to at least one optical fiber and includes at least one optoelectronic device, a base portion, and a cover portion which can be connected to the base portion to define an internal chamber to house the optoelectronic de... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190504 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device is provided comprising an electro-optical material and means for applying an electric field to the electro-optical material, in which a plurality of pixel regions DR, DG and DB capable of separately controll... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187487 | Light modulator with a light-absorbing layer A spatial light modulator includes a first region and a second region. A light-absorbing layer contacts at least a portion of the second region. The light absorbing layer includes a first layer and a second layer, the second layer having a reflectivity less than abo... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7172921 | Method and structure for forming an integrated spatial light modulator A method of fabricating an integrated spatial light modulator. The method includes providing a first substrate including a bonding surface, processing a device substrate to form at least an electrode layer, the electrode layer including a plurality of electrodes, an... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170664 | Optical element, optical head, optical recording reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using ... | 01/30/2007 |
