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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189637 | Semiconductor light-emitting device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor light-emitting device includes an n-type cladding layer formed on a substrate, an active layer formed on the n-type cladding layer and including a well layer and a barrier layer, and a p-type cladding layer formed on the active layer. The well layer ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189645 | Adapted semiconductor laser package An adapted semiconductor laser package that may convert a first type of package pin-out arrangement to a desired pin-out arrangement. The laser package may include a laser package including a laser, an isolator, a lens, a fiber sleeve, and a pin-out arrangement. The... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43421 | Single-mode operation and frequency conversions for solid-state lasers Key technologies have been developed in realizing single longitudinal mode CW operation with a regular standing-wave cavity for intracavity frequency doubling and intracavity frequency conversions, so as to produce all solid-state, true cw devices with operation ove... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189642 | VCSEL semiconductor device A vertical surface emitting laser having a mesa structure formed with sloping side walls. A passivation layer including at least two sublayers at least partially covers the mesa structure. The at least two sublayers have differing stress components arranged to at le... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190028 | Method and apparatus for treating a received signal to present a resulting signal with improved signal accuracy A signal treating apparatus for presenting an output signal representing an input signal over a signal range includes: (a) an input section receiving the input signal and presenting a first filtered signal limited to a first bandwidth at a first circuit locus; the i... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184669 | System and method to regulate high current radiation sources Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179944 | Adhesive protective coating with supressed reflectivity The disclosure is directed to a thin-film for use in below 300 nm laser systems that can be applied to a variety of substrate types. The thin film consists of a blocking layer of a selected material and a matching structure, the matching structure consisting of 1-7 ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179941 | Laser diode and method of manufacturing the same A laser diode which realizes NFP with a stable and uniform shape. The laser diode includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active layer, one or a plurality of strip-shaped current confinement structures confining a current which is injected into the active layer, ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179934 | Frequency conversion laser head A laser assembly is configured with a frequency conversion laser head operative to shift a fundamental frequency of input light to the desired frequency of an output light. The frequency conversion laser head includes a dump means operative to guide an unconverted o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175127 | System of method for dynamic range extension The present invention generally relates to the operation of optical network equipment such as optical amplifiers. In one aspect, a method of operating an optical amplifier is provided such that output of the optical amplifier avoids the effects of operating an optic... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170076 | GaN laser element In a GaN-based laser device having a GaN-based semiconductor stacked-layered structure including a light emitting layer, the semiconductor stacked-layered structure includes a ridge stripe structure causing a stripe-shaped waveguide, and has side surfaces opposite t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170074 | Tracking injection seeding power based on back facet monitoring (BFM) of an injection seeded laser A method of estimating an injection power of seed light injected into an injection-seeded transmitter. A back face monitoring (BFM) response of the injection-seeded transmitter is determined, and data representative of the BFM response stored in a memory. During run... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165182 | Solid-state laser In order to improve a solid-state laser, in particular a solid-state disc laser, comprising a resonator (40) that defines a resonator radiation field (30) and at least one solid-state disc (12) with the resonator radiation field (30) pass... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165469 | Cascade and ring measurement sensor with fixed and variant wavelength encoding An optical add drop multiplexer (OADM) for use in a sensing system has the OADMs arranged either in a cascade or in a ring, with each OADM accepting a source input and generating a source output, and accepting a signal input and generating a signal output, where the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165179 | Closed loop laser control The radiance of a laser is a function of drive current. The radiance is also a function of other factors, such as age and temperature. A laser projection device adjusts laser drive parameters using a gradient descent operation. The device parameters may be adjusted ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155159 | Method and apparatus for calibrating burst mode laser transmitters A method is provided to calibrate a monitor photodiode that measures the optical output power generated by an optoelectronic transceiver module that includes a burst mode laser diode. The method includes disabling the power control loop that controls an average opti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150259 | Passive optical network system and optical signal receiving method thereof A passive optical network system includes: a plurality of optical signal splitter receiving optical signals from a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) to provide a plurality of upstream optical signals having different wavelengths; a hybrid optical filter mult... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144742 | Surface emitting laser device To provide a surface emitting laser device including a substrate; an optical resonator arranged on the substrate, the optical resonator including a lower multilayer reflector and an upper multilayer reflector; a strained active layer arranged in the resonator, the s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135053 | Laser crystal device The present disclosure relates to a laser crystal device (1) for short pulse lasers, comprising a container (4), the interior of which is sealed relative to the environment and which contains a technically pure atmosphere with windows (12, 13) i... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135049 | Optical pulse generating apparatus using photoelectric effect of surface plasmon resonance photons and its manufacturing method In an optical pulse generating apparatus including a metal layer having an incident/reflective surface adapted to receive incident light and output its reflective light as an optical pulse signal, a dielectric layer formed on an opposite surface of the metal layer o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135279 | OFDM direct detection using a balanced receiver A receiver for demodulating optical OFDM signals may detect an optical OFDM signal that includes a carrier and data subcarriers by optically splitting the carrier from the subcarriers using a frequency selective filter and then recombining the carrier and the subcar... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131148 | Optical transmitter error reduction using receiver feedback Described is a method of reducing transmitter error in an optical communications channel. An optical signal transmitted from an optical transmitter that has impairment due to transmitter error is processed to generate a digitally-equalized signal. A nonlinear charac... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130810 | Lasers A laser apparatus comprises a laser having a lasing chamber an inlet to the lasing chamber for a lasing gas containing a heavy noble gas and an outlet from the lasing chamber for the discharge of a flow of lasing gas, wherein the outlet is able to be paced in commun... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121157 | Terahertz beam scanning apparatus and method thereof To provide a terahertz beam scanning apparatus and method that can scan a terahertz beam at high speed over a wide angle. The terahertz beam scanning apparatus includes: a laser device 12 that generates a first laser beam 1 and a second laser beam 2... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121164 | Quantum cascade laser: bias-neutral design A quantum cascade laser (QCL) having a bias-neutral design and a semiconductor with multiple layers of AlxIn1-xAs/InyGa1-yAs. The first active region barrier has a thickness of less than fourteen angstroms, and the second ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121481 | Chromatic dispersion compensation designing method in optical network and a system thereof A residual chromatic dispersion target value at a terminal node is set for each wavelength path, and also, candidates of a dispersion compensation amount settable in each chromatic dispersion compensation module on an optical network are set, and further, computatio... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121170 | Gain-coupled distributed feedback semiconductor laser including first-order and second-order gratings A gain-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser includes a grating formed by grooves through at least a part of an active region of a laser cavity. The DFB laser may be configured with a substantially pure gain-coupled grating and may be configured to ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121161 | Laser diode driver driven in shunt mode by signals complementary to each other A laser driver to drive an LD in the shunt mode and driven with signals complementary to each other is disclosed. The driver includes two FETs of the enhancement and a terminator. Two FETs are connected in parallel with the LD and driven by the complementary signals... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111726 | Semiconductor laser device A semiconductor laser device includes: an n-type cladding layer, a p-type cladding layer, an active layer located between the n-type cladding layer and the p-type cladding layer, an n-side guiding layer located on the same side of the active layer as the n-type clad... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111722 | Low-noise RF oscillation and optical comb generation based on nonlinear optical resonator Techniques and devices based on optical resonators made of nonlinear optical materials and nonlinear wave mixing to generate RF or microwave oscillations and optical comb signals. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107507 | Group III nitride semiconductor element and epitaxial wafer A primary surface 23a of a supporting base 23 of a light-emitting diode 21a tilts by an off-angle of 10 degrees or more and less than 80 degrees from the c-plane. A semiconductor stack 25a includes an active layer hav... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107509 | Monolithic folded F-P cavity and semiconductor laser using the same This invention relates to a monolithic folded F-P cavity used for semiconductor laser, which is composed of a monolithic optical element. The monolithic optical element is made of the material having low propagation loss for a certain spectrum range. Light entering ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102893 | Multiple emitter VECSEL An extended cavity surface emitting laser has a first laser die with a first cavity and a first gain element and a second laser die with a second cavity and a second gain element. The first and second gain elements are in series to provide optical gain and optical f... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098703 | Laser diode and method of manufacturing the same A laser diode allowed to stabilize the polarization direction of laser light in one direction is provided. The laser diode includes a laminate configuration including a lower multilayer reflecting mirror, an active layer and an upper multilayer reflecting mirror in ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094692 | Modulation method, modulation program, recording medium, modulation device, and optical transmitter A modulation method according to the invention is applied to a modulation device in which a light source is driven by a differential signal while a modulation circuit and the light source are capacitively coupled. In the modulation method of the invention, when an a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094691 | Yb: and Nd: mode-locked oscillators and fiber systems incorporated in solid-state short pulse laser systems The invention describes classes of robust fiber laser systems usable as pulse sources for Nd: or Yb: based regenerative amplifiers intended for industrial settings. The invention modifies adapts and incorporates several recent advances in FCPA systems to use as the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094689 | Laser systems configured to output a spectrally-consolidated laser beam and related methods A laser apparatus includes a plurality of pumps each of which is configured to emit a corresponding pump laser beam having a unique peak wavelength. The laser apparatus includes a spectral beam combiner configured to combine the corresponding pump laser beams into a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094690 | Wavelength converting element and wavelength converting laser apparatus A wavelength converting element that is of a planar waveguide type, includes a plate-like nonlinear optical material, and performs a wavelength conversion on a fundamental wave of a laser beam by propagating the fundamental wave in a plurality of laser oscillation m... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095004 | Passive optical network system and operation method of the same In a passive optical network system, in order that by measuring a transmission distance and a transmission time between an OLT and an ONU in operation of the system, if the distance or the time is short, communication is conducted at a high transmission speed to inc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089994 | Processing apparatus and method of processing and method of making leaf spring A light source emits a laser beam to the object through an output end. An optical system is placed between the output end and the object. The optical system adjusts the energy of the laser beam emitted, through the output end, onto a unit area for a unit time. The e... | 01/03/2012 |
