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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7346242 | Optical connector assembly, coupling device and method for aligning such a coupling device and a waveguide structure The invention relates to an optical connector assembly for optically connecting to a waveguide structure in a x-y plane of a layer stack, wherein the connector assembly comprises a coupling device providing a first optical path, and the waveguide structure provides ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346235 | Beam homogenizer, laser irradiation apparatus, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A cylindrical lens array cannot be manufactured so that each cylindrical lens has the same radius of curvature and the same accuracy in the surface. Therefore, when the laser annealing is performed using the cylindrical lens array, the beam spots divided by the cyli... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344315 | Optical connections and methods of forming optical connections In one embodiment, a fiber assembly is provided. The fiber assembly has a first fiber having at least one core. The core has a length, a first end, and a second end, and light may be transmitted along the core. The second end has an obtusely angled end surface. The ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343069 | Optical element and system using the same An optical element may include a first diffractive structure having a radially symmetric amplitude function and a second diffractive structure having a phase function. The second diffractive structure may serve as a vortex lens. A system employing the optical elemen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343068 | Optical module An optical module including first and second lens housings that individually receive first and second lenses; first and second optical fiber housings that individually receive end portions of optical fibers; first and second guide pins for positioning the first and ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343060 | Light transmission and reception module, sub-mount, and method of manufacturing the sub-mount A light transmission and reception module includes: a belt-shaped macromolecular optical waveguide film having an optical waveguide, an optical transmitter having a light emitting element and a first sub-mount for holding the light emitting element, for holding one ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343072 | Light modulator package having inclined light transmissive lid Disclosed herein is a light modulator package having an inclined light transmissive lid which is manufactured or positioned such that a surface of the light transmissive lid is inclined relative to a reflective surface of a light modulating array. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342731 | Wafer scale lens and optical system having the same Provided are wafer scale lenses having a diffraction surface as well as a refractive surface, and an optical system having the same. The wafer scale lens includes a lens substrate, a first lens element formed on the object side of the lens substrate, having a positi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338218 | Optical module, method of manufacturing the optical module, and data communication system including the optical module An optical module includes a fiber array, a laser diode array and a photodiode array. The fiber array has optical fibers which are divided to a transmitter group and a receiver group. The laser diode array has laser diodes which are grouped in a transmitter group. T... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340129 | Fiber laser coupled optical spark delivery system A spark delivery system for generating a spark using a laser beam is provided, and includes a laser light source and a laser delivery assembly. The laser delivery assembly includes a hollow fiber and a launch assembly comprising launch focusing optics to input the l... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340130 | Method for assembly of multi-ports optical apparatus The present invention describes a structure and method for a multi-ports WDM device for compensating the filter distortion while reducing insertion loss. The multi-ports WDM device comprises a 4-fiber collimator having a grin lens and a 2-fiber collimator having a l... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339727 | Method and system for diffractive beam combining using DOE combiner with passive phase control A system and method for combining plural low power light beams into a coherent high power light beam. Optical amplifiers transmit a plurality of light beams propagating at a common wavelength through an array of optical fiber emitters. Each constituent beam is emitt... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338168 | Particle analyzing system and methodology An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system contains a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable ch... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339200 | Light-emitting diode and vehicular lamp A light-emitting diode including a curved surface portion 14aA formed in the front face of a sealing member 14 with the cross-sectional shape of the curved surface portion being in the shape of an undulating curve that has a concave curve C1 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338217 | Functional optical module There are provided a power supply device for an optical functional component that supplies power to the optical functional component with reliability for a long term and enables easy exchange of the optical functional component, and an optical functional module havi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339975 | Apparatus for synthesizing laser beams (Problem to be solved) To provide a laser beam synthesizing apparatus which is small in size and high in output power. (Means for solving the problem) A convergent angle transforming optical system 30 is disposed further upstream of the upstream-most p... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334947 | Alignment system and method The present invention provides an alignment system comprising a base having a feature that accepts a first optical element, a first eccentric element having a through hole that accepts an eccentric assembly comprising a second eccentric element having a feature that... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336685 | Laser irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device YAG laser can simultaneously emit a plurality of laser beams having different wavelengths from each other. By simultaneously irradiating the laser beams having different wavelengths from each other to a same region of a non-single crystal semiconductor film, an inte... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336868 | Optical component with spectral separation The invention relates to an optical component comprising at least one input monomode fiber (1-4), at least one output monomode fiber (5) and a diffractive element (7) which is disposed between the input fiber or fibers (1-4)... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333688 | Method and apparatus for free-space optical switching An apparatus and method are provided for manipulating light beams propagated through PLCs in free space. Light beams propagated in through an input/output waveguide of a PLC are propagated through a waveguide array to generate a phased array output at an edge facet ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333693 | Optical tap module In an optical tap module, a first lens, a focusing lens, and a photodiode are arranged such that a center axis of a cylindrical case housing the first lens, the focusing lens, and the photodiode is substantially located on the same line. When light propagates throug... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331694 | Illuminating unit and projection type image display apparatus using the same An illuminating unit having a plurality of light emitting devices and collimators and a projection type image display apparatus using the same are provided. The illuminating unit includes: a plurality of light emitting devices which output light beams of predetermin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333684 | Stack-integrated package of optical transceiver for single core full duplex fiber communications This invention relates to a novel stack-integration package of a light emitter and a photodetector in a high speed, full duplex optical transceiver for fiber communications. The structure is comprised of a photodetector chip, having an isolated micromachined cavity ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333695 | Singulated dies in a parallel optics module A parallel optics module including singulated dies. A first singulated die includes a first semiconductor optical component, and a second die includes a second semiconductor optical component. The first and second dies are mounted to a substrate. The first and secon... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333687 | Dual-filter architecture for reduced dispersion Chromatic dispersion of thin-film based mux/demux and add/drop modules can be reduced. Thin-film devices can be arranged in a specific order in the module. Multiple kinds of filters are used to remove “even” and “odd” channels, or other divisions of channels... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329050 | Tapered, single-mode optical connector Disclosed herein are an optical device, such as a connector or mode enlarger, and a method of fabricating the device. The disclosed device includes an optical medium having a first face for, e.g., permanent attachment to a waveguide, a second face for, e.g., a non-p... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330624 | Loopback device utilizing bend insensitive optical fiber A loopback device utilizing bend insensitive optical fiber to facilitate deployment of a connectorized fiber optic distribution cable through small-diameter conduit. A loopback device utilizing bend insensitive optical fiber for use within an optical network to rout... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327667 | Semiconductor laser and associated drive circuit substrate A single monolithic semiconductor substrate comprises a first side and a second side. The first side includes an air bearing surface. A laser integrates with the first side. The laser has an emission facet substantially co-planer with the air bearing surface. A cont... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327916 | Beam Homogenizer, laser irradiation apparatus, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device The present invention provides a beam homogenizer being equipped with an optical waveguide having a pair of reflection planes provided oppositely, having one end surface into which the laser beam is incident, and having the other end surface from which the laser bea... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324271 | Laser-scanning microscope with collimator and/or pinhole optics Laser-scanning microscope with at least one detection radiation input, in which an aperture plate is installed in front of the detector, whereby optics with variable transmission lengths and a fixed focal distance is provided for focusing varying wavelengths of the ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324717 | Photonic device with integrated hybrid microlens array A microlens structure is mounted directly onto the upper surface of a packaged VCSEL device and positioned to locate microlenses directly over corresponding VCSEL elements. The microlens structure includes a block-like pedestal having a lower surface that faces the ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324731 | Systems and methods for distributing signals communicated on fiber optic transmission lines Methods and systems for distributing signals communicated on fiber optic transmission lines are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fiber optic communications system includes a transmitter operable to transmit an optical signal, and at least one receiver operable to rec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324726 | 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), pos... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324723 | Optical waveguide having specular surface formed by laser beam machining An optical waveguide having means for performing optical coupling with high efficiency at a predetermined position in an optical circuit substrate and which optionally includes an optical-electrical circuit board. Also provided are an optical waveguide, an optical p... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321706 | Optical fiber coupler A fiber coupler for coupling light into an optical fiber and/or coupling light out of the fiber, has two holder elements, namely a fiber holder for holding the fiber, and a lens holder for holding a focusing lens. The holder elements are adjustable in the axial and ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321708 | Optical fibre amplifier An optical amplifier is described that comprises at least two sections of amplifying optical fibre and pumping means for optically pumping the amplifying optical fibre. Optical fibre support means, for example a channel or channels in a substrate, are also provided ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319229 | Illumination apparatus and methods Disclosed are apparatus and methods for illuminating a sample, e.g., during an inspection of such sample for defects. In one aspect, the illumination apparatus includes a bundle of fibers that each has a first end and a second end. The illumination apparatus further... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316512 | Interconnect device An apparatus is provided that includes a substrate having a top surface, at least one optical data transport medium coupled to the substrate, one or more lens devices coupled to the substrate, and one or more reflective devices coupled to the substrate. The one or m... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315667 | Propagating light to be sensed Light to be sensed is spreaded across an entry surface of a transmission structure with a laterally varying energy transmission function. For example, the light could be output from a stimulus-wavelength converter, provided through an optical fiber, or it could come... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315673 | Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and method of manufacturing the same An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is provided, which is easy to assemble and which can be manufactured with high productivity and a low cost. An optical multiplexer/demultiplxer includes a substrate formed with V-shaped grooves, optical fibers with a lens provide... | 01/01/2008 |
