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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189970 | Light collecting and emitting apparatus, method, and applications A light guide apparatus includes a light guide layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a transversely oriented side-end surface that forms an output aperture of the light guide, characterized by an index of refraction, n1, and further charact... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8150221 | Fiber collimator array The invention provides a fiber collimator array including a fiber array in which a plurality of optical fibers is arrayed and a microlens array in which microlenses are arrayed on positions corresponding to the plurality of optical fibers on a transparent substrate.... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150222 | Optical fiber connector An exemplary optical fiber connector includes a socket and a plug for insertion in the socket. The plug includes a first sidewall, an opposite second sidewall, a plurality of first fiber engaging holes formed in each of the first and second sidewalls, and a pluralit... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145018 | Apparatus for obtaining information for a structure using spectrally-encoded endoscopy techniques and methods for producing one or more optical arrangements Exemplary apparatus for obtaining information for a structure can be provided. For example, first optical fiber arrangement(s) can be provided which transceives at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and can include at least one fiber. Second focusing arrang... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139909 | Illuminator method and device A first toroidal ray guide defines an axis of revolution and has a toroidal entrance pupil adapted to image light incident on the entrance pupil at an angle to the axis of revolution between 40 and 140 degrees, and it also has a first imaging surface opposite the en... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135249 | Fiber spectroscopic probe mountable on a microscope A fiber spectroscopic probe that can be mounted directly above the objective lens of a standard microscope to add a spectroscopic function to the microscope. The constructed microscope with fiber spectroscopic probe is suitable for micro-sampling, Raman analysis, as... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126302 | Method and system for correcting an optical beam Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for shaping an annular focal spot pattern to allow for more efficient optical coupling to a small gauge optical fiber. An embodiment of the present invention can include an illumination source operable... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111958 | Optical waveguide with photoelectric conversion element and optical touch panel An optical waveguide with photoelectric conversion element includes an under-cladding layer and an over-cladding layer including a thick portion having a large thickness and a thin portion having a small thickness. The optical waveguide with photoelectric conversion... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094982 | Fiber lens assembly for optical device A fiber lens assembly is configured to optically couple an optical fiber to a signal processing device having free-space optical elements. The fiber lens assembly includes a diverging lens having a focal length that may be around 2 to 6 times the diameter of the opt... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090230 | Method and device for light coupling An interconnect system for coupling light from a laser light source to an optical fiber having a fiber aperture, the interconnect system including a 2-dimensional array of laser light sources, a 2-dimensional array of micro lenses disposed between 10-200 μm distanc... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073297 | Side fire optical device for laterally redirecting high power electromagnetic energy A side fire optical device comprises a cap member, a sleeve and a fiber optic segment. The cap member comprises a closed end section, a tube section having a bore, and a transmitting surface. The sleeve is received within the bore of the tube section. The sleeve inc... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068708 | Large tolerance fiber optic transmitter and receiver An optical transmitter relaxes the tolerance between a source assembly and a fiber receptacle to facilitate passive alignment. The source assembly includes a light source and a lens. The lens is held at a fixed distance away from the light source using precise suppo... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064744 | Planar waveguide lens design This invention relates to an improved design for the transmit and receive optical elements of a waveguide-based optical touch screen sensor, where at least one converging lens is incorporated within the body of each transmit and receive element. The optical elements... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045831 | Two dimensional fiber collimator array with high return loss A lens system includes a body member holding at least one micro lens array. The micro lens array has a first surface with a plurality of micro lenses arranged in a row and a second surface opposing the first surface. The second surface is under an angle towards the ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041162 | Delivering light via optical waveguide and multi-view optical probe head Techniques, apparatus and systems that use an optical probe head to deliver light to a target and to collect light from the target for imaging, monitoring, medical diagnostics and medical treatment applications. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023784 | Optical subassembly package configuration An optical subassembly package configuration for monitoring a fiber, the configuration includes a container, an optical subassembly, an optical fiber, and a ferrule. The container has a face, and the optical subassembly is disposed within the container. The optical ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014642 | Optical gate array device An optical gate array device which permits the use of an optical gate array with a pitch smaller than the diameter of optical fibers. The optical gate array has an array of optical gates, and an optical fiber array has an array of optical fibers. A lens is arranged ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014641 | Beam coupler A coupler assembly for a fiber laser is disclosed. The assembly includes a tubular housing having a sidewall with an interior surface, an exterior surface, a first end and a second end. An input collimator unit is also included and configured to be received within t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7991254 | Optical package with multi-component mounting frame An optical package is provided comprising a laser diode, coupling optics, a wavelength conversion device, and a multi-component mounting frame. The coupling optics comprises a first lens component that creates a virtual magnified image V of the waveguide of one of t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986861 | Optical fiber connector and endoscope system using the same An optical fiber connector has a first ferrule holding an end of a first optical fiber, a first fiber stub connected to the first ferrule, a second ferrule holding an end of a second optical fiber, and a second fiber stub connected to the second ferrule. The first f... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7957615 | Optical waveguide for touch panel, touch panel using the optical waveguide and manufacturing method of the optical waveguide An optical waveguide for a touch panel which eliminates the need for alignment between the optical waveguide and a lens and which achieves the appropriate emission and reception of light beams, to provide a touch panel using the optical waveguide, and to provide a m... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7941017 | Optical touch panel and method for manufacturing the same An optical touch panel having over-cladding layers each integrated with a lens-shaped portion (i.e., optical waveguides each having a lens-integrated over-cladding layer). The optical touch panel requires neither lens assembly nor optical axis alignment, and is ther... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7920763 | Mode field expanded fiber collimator The present invention discloses an optical fiber collimator suitable for coupling optical radiation from an optical fiber to an optical device, the optical fiber collimator comprising: a graded-index multi-mode fiber segment for receiving optical radiation transmitt... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907805 | Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same An optical waveguide for a touch panel which eliminates the need for alignment between the optical waveguide and a lens device, and to provide a touch panel using the same. An optical waveguide for a touch panel is provided in which end surfaces of cores 3A f... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903911 | Optical link module, optical interconnection method, information processor including the optical link module, signal transfer method, prism and method of manufacturing the prism An optical link module of the present invention for connecting light beams by deflection and including light-emitting devices arranged in a planar manner; an optical fiber bundle that is an optical waveguide for receiving the light beams from the light-emitting devi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7873247 | Optical waveguide for touch panel An optical waveguide for a touch panel which includes a planar base; light emitting cores and light incident cores provided on a surface of the base; and an over-cladding layer covering the cores. The light emitting core has a first lens portion provided at the end ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869674 | Light emitting unit, apparatus and method for manufacturing the same, apparatus for molding lens thereof, and light emitting device package thereof A light emitting unit, an apparatus and method for manufacturing the same, an apparatus for molding a lens thereof, and a light emitting device package thereof, which are capable of achieving an enhancement in light extraction efficiency and an improvement in mass p... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856159 | Optical element, optical module holder including optical element, optical module, and optical connector An optical element including a transmitting surface section and at least one reflective surface section integrally formed on a main body of the optical element. The transmitting surface section refracts incident light emitted from a predetermined light-emitting posi... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7844146 | All-fiber module for femtosecond pulse compression and supercontinuum generation An all-fiber optical pulse compression arrangement comprises a concatenated arrangement of a section of input fiber (e.g., a single mode fiber), a graded-index (GRIN) fiber lens and a section of pulse-compressing fiber (e.g., LMA fiber). The GRIN fiber lens is used ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7826699 | Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same An optical waveguide for a touch panel and a touch panel using the same. A lens portion 30 formed in an end portion of each light-emitting core 3 and each light-receiving core 3 has a tapered portion 31 such that the width thereof gradual... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817886 | Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same An optical waveguide for a touch panel which eliminates the need for alignment between the optical waveguide and a lens device, and a touch panel using the same. An end portion of a light-emitting core for emitting light beams and an end portion of a light-receiving... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817885 | Stepped light collection and concentration system, components thereof, and methods A light guide includes a light guide layer having a transversely oriented side-end surface that forms a primary output aperture (exit) for light traveling in a forward propagation direction out of the end surface of the light guide (for, e.g., CPV applications) and,... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809221 | Shadow detection in optical touch sensor through the linear combination of optical beams and grey-scale determination of detected shadow edges An optical based input touch display device with high resolution shadow detection using the linear splitting of waveguides among transmit and receive lenses and grey-scale calculations for shadow edge and center detection is disclosed. The apparatus includes a light... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805035 | Forming method of refractive index matching film A forming method of a refractive index matching film comprises steps: one end of an optical fiber is brought into contact with a liquid surface of a photo-curable refractive index matching solution; curing reaction light is made incident to the opposite end of the o... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805036 | Optical waveguide device for touch panel and touch panel using the same An optical waveguide device for a touch panel, including: a body; a plurality of cores formed on a surface of the body; and an over-cladding layer formed on the surface of the body to cover the plurality of cores, in which the over-cladding layer includes an end por... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796850 | Multiple-pathway optical transmitter Optical systems comprise one or more optical pathways including lenses that are offset with respect to each other and lenses that are offset with respect to optical fibers. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7769258 | 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... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7729578 | Illuminator method and device A first toroidal ray guide defines an axis of revolution and has a toroidal entrance pupil adapted to image light incident on the entrance pupil at an angle to the axis of revolution between 40 and 140 degrees, and it also has a first imaging surface opposite the en... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729577 | Waveguide-optical Kohler integrator utilizing geodesic lenses A waveguide version of a Kohler integrator is disclosed, utilizing geodesic lenses with a surface that can be mapped to a gradient-index Luneburg lens or to a nonfull-aperture Luneburg lens in such a way that the light paths in the gradient index lenses map into the... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724996 | Two-channel multimode rotary joint An optical two-channel rotary joint that is also suitable for coupling of single-mode fibers comprises two housing parts that are rotatable relative to each other. Each of these housing parts accommodates a light-waveguide for supplying light and a light-waveguide f... | 05/25/2010 |
