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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7282320 | Apparatus for three-dimensional optical data storage and retrieval A three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a three dimensional optical data storage medium and an apparatus for providing access to data stored on the medium. The data storage medium includes an optical data storage material which ei... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7221760 | Information security using digital holography A method and system for encrypting multi-dimensional information utilizing digital holography is presented. A phase-shifting interferometer records the phase and amplitude information generated by a three-dimensional object at a plane located in the Fresnel diffract... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221579 | Method and structure for high performance phase change memory A method (and structure) for a memory cell having a phase change material (PCM) element and a heating element external to the PCM element. The heating element causes one of a presence of and an absence of a phase boundary within the PCM element for storing informati... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7187819 | Optical power distribution management and apparatus A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for managing the distribution of optical power to a plurality of optical data devices. The devices can be data storage drives, data replicators, fast optical search devices, or other components that use optical ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7124441 | Method and apparatus for securely associating an optically readable memory with a user machine A CD-ROM has an obscurable section wherein exists a photosensitive mask material layer or constituent operative to alter the optical properties of areas subjected to prolonged exposure to the CD-ROM read laser radiation. Digital information stored on a CD-ROM is mad... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7112616 | Two-photon absorbing polymerizable composition and polymerization process thereof A two-photon absorbing polymerizable composition contains at least a two-photon absorbing compound, a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound, the composition being photopolymerizable upon non-resonant two-photon absorption, wherein the two-photon abso... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095682 | Compact optical signal detecting mechanism and optical storage device having improved signal quality An optical pickup including a stem; a substrate mounted on the stem; a laser diode mounted on, and electrically insulated from, the substrate; and a photodetector provided on the substrate for detecting return light from an object to be irradiated. The substrate is ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7052812 | Three-dimensional optical data storage in fluorescent dye-doped photopolymer A host matrix—normally a binder such as cellulose acetate propionate in a solvent such as acetone—contains a radiation-polymerizable photopolymer—normally a monomer like dipentaerythritol pentaacrylate in combination with a crosslinker like 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6998281 | Solid state lighting device with reduced form factor including LED with directional emission and package with microoptics A light emitting device containing an array of directional emission LEDs is provided. The directional emission LEDs of the array may be substrate emitting, lateral current injection, resonant cavity LEDs mounted in a flip-chip configuration. Each LED may emit a diff... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998214 | Methods for three-dimensional optical data storage and retrieval A three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a three dimensional optical data storage medium and an apparatus for providing access to data stored on the medium. The data storage medium includes an optical data storage material which ei... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999165 | Method and apparatus for radiation analysis and encoder Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and encoders employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or imaged along a line. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992804 | Part made of transparent material and headlight lens for vehicles A part (1) made of transparent material that allows visible light waves to pass therethrough, said part comprising outer faces (11, 12) defining a solid body (10) made of transparent material, the part being characterized in that it further comp... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992459 | Stepping motor controlling apparatus and method, and image reading apparatus and method Stepping drive control of a motor is effected by synchronizing interruption to a CPU with N (in number) line triggers set to N times of one-line of an image. Further, in a synchronous mode in which phase control is effected in synchronous with N line triggers, accel... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977137 | Direct writing of optical devices in silica-based glass using femtosecond pulse lasers The invention relates to methods of writing a light-guiding structure in a bulk glass substrate. The bulk glass substrate is preferably made from a soft silica-based material having an annealing point less than about 1380° K. A pulsed laser beam is focused within t... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970154 | Fringe-field filter for addressable displays The display kit of the present invention comprises: an addressable display medium configured to exhibit a first aspect under the influence of an addressing vector field in a first direction at an addressing magnitude; and an addressor; where the addressor is configu... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970414 | Three-dimensional optical memory with fluorescent photosensitive material This invention relates to a three-dimensional optical memory made from a fluorescent photosensitive material, and a method and device for the storage and retrieval of information on the three-dimensional optical memory. The fluorescent photosensitive material can be... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6937379 | Molecular architecture for molecular electro-optical transistor and switch Observable changes in electrical and optical characteristics of individual molecules adsorbed on a conductor or semi-conductor caused by electrical and/or optical excitation or de-excitation of electrons within such molecules can be used as signals which in turn can... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6914701 | Digitizer with improved dynamic range and photometric resolution A digitizer having a dual exposure technique is combined with an associated LUT for each exposure. Each LUT may have a transfer function including a logarithmic operator resulting in a digitized image with improved photometric resolution and increased dynamic range.... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6608774 | Two-photon four-dimensional optical memory Selected domains, normally 2×103×2×10.sup.3 such domains arrayed in a plane, within a three-dimensional (3-D) volume of radiation-sensitive medium, typically 1 cm3 of spirobenzopyran containing 2×103 such planes, are t... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6483735 | Two-photon, three-or four-dimensional, color radiation memory Three-, and four-dimensional ("3-D" and "4-D") volume radiation memories store multiple binary bits of information--typically about five to ten and more typically eight such bits--in the same physical volumes on several different photochromic chemicals co... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6118685 | Optical data processing apparatus and a method of providing an optical data processing apparatus It includes: a substrate; a plurality of optical data processing units arranged in an array on the substrate, a super graphite sheet on LEDs of the optical processing units, and a glass substrate on the super graphite sheet. Each optical data processing u... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6084796 | Programmable metallization cell structure and method of making same A programmable metallization cell ("PMC") comprises a fast ion conductor such as a chalcogenide-metal ion and a plurality of electrodes (e.g., an anode and a cathode) disposed at the surface of the fast ion conductor and spaced a set distance apart from e... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6072712 | Compact optical random access memory having a refractive-reflector lens A compact optical memory is disclosed in which data are stored in an optical data layer capable of selectively altering light such as by changeable transmissivity, reflectivity, polarization, and/or phase. The data are illuminated by controllable light so... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6061264 | Self-aligned fuse structure and method with anti-reflective coating Provided are a self-aligned semiconductor fuse structure, a method of making such a fuse structure, and apparatuses incorporating such a fuse structure. The fuse break point, that point at which the electrical link of which the fuse is part is severed by ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6026053 | Photorefractive read-only optical memory apparatus using phase, frequency, and angular modulation The present invention stores and retrieves digital information by altering the phase transmission characteristics of a multiple layer phase recording by modulating the carrier frequency and the carrier frequency angle. These layers are organized into seve... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5926411 | Optical random access memory An optical memory (10) is disclosed in which data is stored in an optical data layer (19) capable of selectively altering light such as by changeable transmissivity, reflectivity, polarization, and/or phase. The data is illuminated by controllable light s... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5828595 | Optical recording and playback apparatus and method using single light absorbents In a system (apparatus and method) which employs a light absorbent material surrounded by an optically transparent matrix as a recording medium and in which the presence or absence of emission light of a specific wavelength from unity of the light absorbe... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5761111 | Method and apparatus providing 2-D/3-D optical information storage and retrieval in transparent materials Sub-micron-scale, micron-scale and greater than micron-scale, crack-free and regularly-shaped structures of high-contrast refractive index are provided in transparent storage media by controllably focusing ultrashort laser pulses in the bulk of virtually ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5696714 | Optical random access memory An optical memory (10) is disclosed in which data is stored in an optical data layer (19) capable of selectively altering light such as by changeable transmissivity, reflectivity, polarization, and/or phase. The data is illuminated by controllable light s... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5625524 | Reversible thermosensitive recording medium and method of producing the same A reversible thermosensitive recording medium having a support, a reversible thermosensitive recording layer formed thereon which contains a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, capable of reversibly ass... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5581499 | Micro information storage system A device for optically storing and retrieving information incorporating a cadmium fluoride crystal. Using focused ionizing radiation, patterns can be formed in the crystal by the creation of color centers and/or intrinsic luminescence quenched areas. The ... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5499231 | Optical disk drive with multiple data layer disk and system for focusing the optical beam An optical disk drive with a multiple data layer optical disk uses computed axial velocity values of the data layers to optimize the interlayer transition of the focused light beam. In the preferred embodiment, the axial velocities of the data layers are ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5440507 | Diamond-like carbon write-read optical storage memory A method and apparatus for storing data is provided incorporating an amorphous solid having covalent bonds and a first index of refraction and an energy source for thermally heating selected areas of the amorphous solid to change the index of refraction w... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5361222 | Binary phase only filter associative memory An associative memory apparatus having a 2f Fourier transform optical correlation configuration wherein the correlation spots produced in the correlation plane are projected back by a mirror through the inverse Fourier transform lens and a phase correctio... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5325324 | Three-dimensional optical memory Selected domains, normally 103 ×103 such domains arrayed in a plane, within a three-dimensional (3-D) volume of active medium, typically 1 cm3 of spirobenzopyran containing 102 such planes, are temporally and s... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5289407 | Method for three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval In a method of high density (>1012 bits/cc) optical recording of information in a three-dimensional multilayered format, information is written in a photopolymer as submicron volume elements of altered index of refraction. The index change resu... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5272667 | Optical information recording apparatus for recording optical information in a phase change type optical recording medium and method therefor There is disclosed an optical information recording apparatus for recording optical information in a phase change type optical recording medium and a method therefor. The order of the atomic arrangement of the optical recording medium is capable of changi... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5184323 | Photorefractive device and process for its use A photorefractive device is disclosed capable of optically coupling intersecting beams of electromagnetic radiation comprised of first and second electrodes for establishing a potential gradient between first and second spaced locations and, interposed be... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5160572 | Optical memory device and apparatus for manufacturing the same An apparatus for manufacturing an optical memory device, which includes supplying rolls for continuously supplying a sheet-like substrate, a masking endless belt having a plurality of windows of size corresponding to the optical memory device, rolls for m... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5001667 | Optical storage device An optical memory includes a storage for optical data carriers, a means for transferring data carriers from the storage to one or several stations for data recording or reading, a modulated electromagnetic radiation source and photodetectors which are opt... | 03/19/1991 |
