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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165435 | Solar energy collector A multiplicity of Fresnel lenses are attached to tubular branches of a tree-like support structure. Fiber optic bundles are connected to the Fresnel lenses and routed inside the tubular branches and collected as a larger fiber optic bundle inside a main trunk struct... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8019188 | Optical transmission apparatus An optical transmission apparatus includes a light receiving element and an optical waveguide. The light receiving element receives light. The optical waveguide includes a core, a clad and a concave portion. The clad is adjacent to the core. The concave portion is f... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7603008 | Optical fiber coupling part and manufacturing method thereof An optical fiber coupling part that reduces the difficulty in adjusting cores, minimizes coupling loss, and prevents optical characteristics from deteriorating. An optical fiber is fused to one end of a GRIN lens which includes a quartz glass containing one or more ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7558452 | Apparatus and method for collecting energy A lens, fabricated from a plurality of materials, each having an associated index of refraction, is used to focus and direct light into one or more optical fibers, coupled to the lens and used to collect light and transmit the collected light to an energy converter,... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7474822 | Optical fiber collimator In the optical fiber collimator according to the invention, a transparent block having a refractive index that is substantially the same as the refractive indices of the lens and optical fiber is disposed between the lens and ferrule so that the block contacts the l... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460750 | Expanded beam, single fiber, fiber optic connector The expanded beam, single fiber, fiber optic connector includes a lens holder, a lens, and a ferrule. The lens holder retains the lens, and the lens holder accommodates the ferrule. The lens is in optical communication with an optical fiber retained in the ferrule. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444047 | Multiplexing optical system A multiplexing optical system includes collimator lenses, a first condensing lens, a second condensing lens and an optical fiber. The collimator lenses collimate divergent laser beams that have been emitted from semiconductor lasers. The first condensing lens conden... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438480 | Optical module, optical transceiver, and optical joint sleeve An optical module 1 comprises a first optical element F1, a first light receiving subassembly PD1, a second optical element F2, a second light receiving subassembly PD2, a light emitting subassembly LD3 for generating light,... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7419311 | Surface mount optical coupler, method of mounting the same, and method of producing the same A surface mount optical coupler includes a silicon substrate; an optical semiconductor device disposed on an upper surface of the silicon substrate; and a short bare fiber formed of vitreous silica. A V-shaped linear groove is formed in the upper surface of the sili... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7410749 | Method of fabricating micro-lens and method of fabricating optical module using the method A method of fabricating a micro-lens, and a method of fabricating an optical module using the method are provided. To fabricate a micro-lens, a thin film is formed of a material for the micro-lens on a substrate. A photoresist pattern is formed on the thin film, a t... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7371017 | Automated laser pressing system Au automated laser pressing system assembles and aligns a laser header subassembly to a lens housing. The automated system generally includes a precise press system and a fast fiber alignment system. The press system precisely presses the housing onto the header, or... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366376 | System and method for optical coherence imaging Apparatus and method are provided for transmitting at least one electro-magnetic radiation is provided. In particular, at least one optical fiber having at least one end extending along a first axis may be provided. Further, a light transmissive optical arrangement ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7341369 | Isotropic illumination An isotropic illuminator is described, including a relay lens configured to focus a source image propagated from a source and a lightpipe having an entrance aperture and an exit aperture. The source image is aligned by a folding element to fill the entrance aperture... | 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 |
| 7339960 | Optical device, laser beam source, laser apparatus and method of producing optical device After forming domain inverted layers 3 in an LiTaO3 substrate 1, an optical waveguide is formed. By performing low-temperature annealing for the optical wavelength conversion element thus formed, a stable proton exchange layer 8 is fo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7313292 | Optical component using optical transmission element joining metal holder An optical component comprises an optical transmission element (e.g., an optical lens) whose circumferential wall partially joins a metal holder via a joining material (e.g., a low melting point glass), wherein stress is normally applied to the optical transmission ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298943 | Monolithic optical component The present invention relates to a monolithic optical component (400) comprising a light-absorbing layer and a waveguide structure (2). The invention is more particularly adapted to a monolithic component (400) comprising an evanescent coupling ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298942 | Pluggable optical optic system having a lens fiber stop An optical coupler having two refractive lenses for coupling an optoelectronic element and an optical medium to each other. One lens may be in contact with the optical medium. The refractive index of the one lens may be similar to the index of the optical medium. Th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295730 | Glass package for optical device A glass optical filter is described that optically connects two optical fibers and may filter a single or group of channels from a WDM signal that is being communicated between the optical fibers. The glass optical filter may be comprised of two pigtail tubes having... | 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 |
| 7258495 | Lensed fiber stub assemblies optical and optoelectronic packages including them The present invention relates to lensed fiber stub assemblies and optical and optoelectronic packages including them. The fiber stub assemblies include a section of lensed fiber having a lensed end having a lens face, and a distal end having an endface, a lens align... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251393 | Optical router Optical routers or optical interconnection devices that include an optical coupling method and optical coupling apparatus wherein a plurality of layers that contain optical devices that require optical coupling can be optically coupled by inserting optical coupling ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248413 | Microlensing particles and applications A microscopic lens, of size approximately 1 micron is used for its optical characteristics. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241559 | Lens array and method for fabricating the lens array A lens array and a method for fabricating the lens array are described herein. The lens array is made from a photosensitive glass plate containing a relatively small amount of a photosensitive agent (e.g., silver, gold or combination thereof) such that when the phot... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231115 | Optical collimator-use lens component, optical collimator, and method of assembling these Disclosed is an optical collimator-use lens component including: a thin tube; a partially spherical lens that has been fixed in an inner hole of the thin tube so that an insertion portion having a predetermined length is left, is made of glass whose refractive index... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228033 | Optical waveguide lens and method of fabrication A spherical lens formed by fusing a generally homogenous glass lens blank to the distal end of an optical fiber, heating and tensioning the lens blank to separate it in two segments with the segment attached to the optical fiber defining a tapered end, and heating t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218813 | Optical communication system An optical communication system has a plastic optical fiber (POF) and an optical communication module. The POF has a spherical end surface, and light emitted from the spherical end surface has an NA of 0.35 or lower. The POF is installed in the module such that a li... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213982 | Optoelectronic module with high coupling efficiency An optoelectronic module includes a laser, a ball lens, a substrate, a reflector, and a focusing lens. The laser generates a diverging light beam along an optical axis. The ball lens has a center. The substrate has a surface supporting the laser and an alignment str... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215849 | Connection structure between optical fibers on a substrate and connection method for coupling the same To provide a connection structure between optical fibers and a connection method to couple optical fibers that make it possible to secure optical transmission, a connection structure between optical fibers includes a plurality of optical fibers, a base member provid... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206518 | High speed optoelectronic subassembly and package for optical devices A high speed optoelectronic subassembly in an optoelectronic package is disclosed that includes a dielectric support having a first electrical trace on a surface thereof and a dielectric member mounted on the surface of the support having a second electrical trace t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203391 | Optical module An optical module 100 comprises a substrate 110 at which V-shaped groove 110a and 110b are formed through etching to extend along directions perpendicular to each other and a cube-type wavelength division multiplexer 150 | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200335 | Optical transceiver An optical transceiver is equipped with at least one coupling lens which condenses reception signal light from an optical medium and condenses transmission signal light to the optical medium, an optical plate which passes the reception signal light and reflects the ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189007 | Termination for optic fiber A terminal element for fiber optic communication has an elongated body defining a body axis and having a first end from which an optical fiber extends along the body axis. The body has a second end with an angled surface offset at an angle from the body axis. The fi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177506 | Method for forming an aligned optical sub-assembly A bench-joining optical component and a first optical component are aligned on a first optical bench, and then rigidly coupled to the first bench, in order to form a first portion of an optical subassembly. Following completion of the first portion, all components i... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167618 | Optical module having stacked guide substrates and method for assembling the same An optical module is provided in which the angles of the optical fibers to be inclined with respect to the planar microlens array may be regulated at the same time when respective optical axes of the microlenses and respective optical fibers are passively aligned. T... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164818 | Integrated gradient index lenses Gradient index lenses are described that are integrated within a planar optical structure. The gradient index lens is optically coupled to a planar optical waveguide. In some embodiments, the gradient index lens with variation in index-of-refraction in one dimension... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151874 | Lensed tapered optical waveguide An optical coupling element for use in large numerical aperture collecting and condensing systems. The optical coupling element includes a curved surface such as a lens at the output of a tapered light pipe (TLP). The TLP in combination with the curved surface alter... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149383 | Optical system with reduced back reflection An optical system is adapted to produce reduced back reflection from a receiving detector back to a light source for increased system performance. The system may optically condition light signals from the light source for projection onto the detector. The conditioni... | 12/12/2006 |
