Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180189 | Optical module and optical waveguide An optical module includes an optical waveguide including a plurality of waveguide cores through which light propagates, a clad configured to trap the light in the waveguide cores, a plurality of fiber guide grooves in which optical fibers are inserted, the fiber gu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8155489 | Method for coupling light into a thin planar waveguide A light distributing device (100) comprises a thin planar waveguide (10) and a waveguiding ridge (20). An incoming light beam (B1) coupled into the ridge (20) forms a second light beam (B2) waveguided in the ridge (20... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150225 | Optical fiber mounting waveguide device and method for fabricating same An optical fiber mounting waveguide device includes a substrate, an optical fiber mounting groove provided on a part of the substrate for mounting an optical fiber, an under cladding layer and a core sequentially formed on the substrate, and an over cladding layer f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8121451 | Module having a plurality of circuit boards stacked with a prescribed distance therebetween and optical connector for the same An optical connector has a body, a mirror provided within the body, an optical waveguide path, and a linking section. The optical waveguide path extends from a first end face exposed on a part of the surface of the body, bending via the mirror up to a second end fac... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8078024 | Optical transmission structural body, optical waveguide, optical waveguide formation method, and optical wiring connection body An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission structural body capable of preferably transmitting an optical signal between an optical wiring and an optical waveguide irrespective of a shape of a portion of the optical wiring, the portion b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7885498 | Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method A sample slide, launch system, and method for microscopy having two optical fibers positioned proximate a sample slide with optical fiber mounting elements to deliver EMR to a surface of the sample slide at a critical angle for total internal reflection microscopy. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876988 | Optical fiber mounting waveguide device and method for fabricating same An optical fiber mounting waveguide device and a method for fabricating the same, which provide a low optical connection loss and a high productivity. An under cladding layer (3u), a core (4), and an over cladding layer (3o) are se... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7822305 | Optical transmission assembly An optical transmission assembly consists of an upper cladding; a lower cladding; a specified width core formed between the upper cladding and the lower cladding; a surface light emitting device mounted on an upper surface of the upper cladding, a light emitting sur... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817889 | Optical waveguide structure, optical-waveguide-type optical module and optical fiber array An optical waveguide structure comprises a substrate (12) having first and second groove arrays (8, 10), including grooves (8a-8g, 10a-10h), and an optical waveguide (14), having cladding a... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7751664 | Door handle apparatus for vehicle A door handle apparatus for a vehicle, opening and closing a vehicle door, the door handle apparatus includes an informing portion for visually informing a state of the vehicle door, including a locking/unlocking state thereof, to a user by a decorative light, which... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747116 | Flexible optoelectric interconnect and method for manufacturing same A flexible optoelectric interconnect including an optoelectric film, a driving IC, an optical semiconductor device, a heat dissipation plate and a thermally conductive material. The optoelectric film has an electrical interconnect layer made of a single layer and an... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738753 | CMOS compatible integrated dielectric optical waveguide coupler and fabrication An optoelectronic circuit fabrication method and integrated circuit apparatus fabricated therewith. Integrated circuits are fabricated with an integral optical coupling transition to efficiently couple optical energy from an optical fiber to an integrated optical wa... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729580 | Waveguide type optical device and manufacturing method of the waveguide type optical device A waveguide type optical device includes a substrate where a waveguide is formed; a supplemental plate connected on the substrate by using an adhesive; and a groove forming part formed by cutting through the supplemental plate so as to reach the substrate and cut th... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7711225 | Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method A sample slide, launch system, and method for microscopy having a fiber insertion portal terminating within the sample slide and having a fiber insertion axis such that when an optical fiber is inserted within the fiber insertion portal the optical fiber is position... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702201 | Gain flattening utilizing a two-stage erbium-based amplifier An optical amplifier is disclosed having a substantially uniform spectral gain. In an exemplary embodiment, the optical amplifier comprises a planar waveguide including a substrate, which includes a region doped with rare earth element. The optical amplifier also co... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684667 | Hybrid integrated structure of one or more optical active devices and PLC device using optical fiber array A hybrid integrated structure of an optical active device and a Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) device using an optical fiber array is provided, in which one or more photodiodes are integrated on an upper cladding layer above one or more planar optical waveguides. A ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7657140 | Optical cable module An optical cable module has an optical waveguide formed by surrounding a core with a clad layer and a light-receiving/emitting element, installed on a supporting substrate. A light-releasing face of the optical waveguide or a light-incident face to the optical waveg... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7620277 | Fiber pigtails and method for fabricating the same An optical fiber pigtail and methods of fabricating of the same. The invention also relates to a method of self-alignment of a fiber pigtail and a method of attachment of a fiber pigtail to a surrogate chip. ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616853 | Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method A launch system and method for microscopy having an optical fiber positioned proximate a sample slide with an optical fiber mounting element so as to deliver an EMR from the optical fiber into a first sample slide and to a surface of a second sample slide at a criti... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609922 | Optical module, optical transmission system, and fabrication method for optical module An optical module includes a substrate, one or a plurality of planar optical devices mounted on the substrate, and a waveguide block including one or a plurality of curved waveguides formed on a plane. The waveguide block is mounted on the substrate such that the pl... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7587108 | Optical device with cantilevered fiber array and planar lightwave circuit An optical device comprises a cantilevered fiber array coupled to a planar lightwave circuit. The cantilevered fiber array comprises a base supporting at least a portion of at least one optical fiber in a fiber guiding channel and a cover bonded to the base and/or t... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7574085 | Optical transmission structural body, optical waveguide, optical waveguide formation method, and optical wiring connection body An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission structural body capable of preferably transmitting an optical signal between an optical wiring and an optical waveguide irrespective of a shape of a portion of the optical wiring, the portion b... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7546015 | Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method A launch system and method for microscopy having an optical fiber positioned proximate a sample slide with an optical fiber mounting element so as to deliver an EMR from the optical fiber into a first sample slide and to a surface of a second sample slide at a criti... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542642 | Multi-beam generating device and optical recording device using the same A multi-beam generating device has plural semiconductor lasers, optical fibers to propagate laser beams generated by the semiconductor lasers, an optical fiber array to propagate the laser beams passed through the optical fibers, and an optical waveguide device prov... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7492995 | Optical element combination structure and optical fiber structure An optical element combination structure in which an optical fiber and an optical waveguide are combined with each other and which can reduce fluctuation of coupling loss due to a change in environmental temperature is provided. The present invention relates to an o... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7474826 | Mounting arrangement for optical components A mounting arrangement for an optical component in a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) is provided. The mounting arrangement includes a substrate, an input optical fiber associated with the substrate, an output optical waveguide manufactured on the substrate, and an op... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7466884 | Photonic-interconnect systems for reading data from memory cells and writing data to memory integrated circuits Various embodiments of the present invention are related to photonic-interconnect systems for reading data from and writing data to memory cells of memory chips at approximately the same time. In one embodiment of the present invention, A photonic-interconnect syste... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7444041 | System, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters disposed within printed circuit boards The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters (100) disposed within printed circuit boards (104). The heat sink (110, 200) is a thermal conductive material disposed within a cavity ... | 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 |
| 7438481 | Optical semiconductor module and semiconductor device including the same An optical semiconductor module comprises a guide which has a positioning portion for an optical transmission line, an optical semiconductor mounting surface from which one end face of the optical transmission line disposed in the positioning portion is exposed, and... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433563 | Optical fiber microscopy launch system and method A launch system and method for microscopy having an optical fiber positioned proximate a sample slide with an optical fiber mounting element so as to deliver an EMR from a terminal end of the optical fiber across a surface of the sample slide to an opposing side sur... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428358 | Optical coupler for coupling an optical fiber into a waveguide An optical coupler for parallel coupling from a single mode optical fiber, or fiber ribbon, into a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide for integration with silicon optoelectronic circuits. The optical coupler incorporates the advantages of the vertically tapered wa... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424180 | High power planar lightwave circuit optical Tx module and Tx/Rx module Provided are high power PLC optical Tx module and PLC optical Tx/Rx module. The PLC optical Tx/Rx module is located in an OLT of a PON system. The high power PLC optical Tx/Rx module includes a photodiode, a laser diode, an SOA, an optical coupler, and a PLC platfor... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418174 | Optical transmission structural body, optical waveguide, optical waveguide formation method, and optical wiring connection body An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission structural body capable of preferably transmitting an optical signal between an optical wiring and an optical waveguide irrespective of a shape of a portion of the optical wiring, the portion b... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413917 | Integrated optics and electronics An optoelectronic device includes a submount and a lid. The submount includes a substrate and a lens and a laser above the substrate. The lid defines a cavity having a surface coated with a reflective material to form a 45 degree mirror. The mirror reflects a light ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415184 | Wideband optical coupling into thin SOI CMOS photonic integrated circuit An arrangement for providing optical coupling into and out of a relatively thin silicon waveguide formed in the SOI layer of an SOI structure includes a lensing element and a defined reference surface within the SOI structure for providing optical coupling in an eff... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409124 | Fiber waveguide optical subassembly module A fiber waveguide optical subassembly uses the multi-mode fiber to increase the alignment tolerance between the active optical element and the waveguide. The filter is thinner to lower the dispersion due to the optical coupling gap. The subassembly further combines ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403676 | Optical waveguide module An optical waveguide module includes a wiring board, and a light-receiving element and optical waveguide substrate that are positioned on both sides of this wiring board. The wiring board includes a base member having transparency to light of the wavelength that can... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400801 | Bidirectional HDCP module using single optical fiber and waveguide combiner/splitter Embodiments provide single fiber bidirectional HDCP modules. A signal fiber module includes at least one laser and at least one detector and a waveguide combiner/splitter. An optical fiber is used as a cylindrical lens in order to partially collimate in the vertical... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389015 | Mechanically decoupled opto-mechanical connector for flexible optical waveguides embedded and/or attached to a printed circuit board Printed circuit boards that include optical interconnects include a flexible optical waveguide embedded or locally attached to the board having at least one end mechanically decoupled from the board during fabrication that can be fitted with a mechanical connector. ... | 06/17/2008 |
