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7446297 Sensor and method for providing high transfer rate in page-based optical data storage  
A sensor and method for page-based optical data storage. The sensor includes a partially-reflective mirror, a reflective mirror disposed substantially collinear with and spaced apart from the...
7443563 Packaging for an interferometric modulator  
A package is made of a transparent substrate having an interferometric modulator and a back plate. A non-hermetic seal joins the back plate to the substrate to form a package, and a desiccant...
7441134 Self-packaged optical interference display device having anti-stiction bumps, integral micro-lens, and reflection-absorbing layers  
An electronic device of an embodiment of the invention is disclosed that at least partially displays a pixel of a display image. The device includes a first reflector and a second reflector...
7433111 Electrooptic modulation element  
On one pair of opposed side faces ( 1 a, 1 b ) of electro-optic crystal ( 1 ), grooves ( 3 a, 3 b ) are formed so as to make bottom faces of the grooves approach each other and make a distance...
7426070 Method and device for attenuating light as a function of intensity  
An intensity-dependent light modulating device and method involves light successively passing through a polarizer, a first phase retardation plate and a first light modulator. The light then...
7424198 Method and device for packaging a substrate  
A package structure and method of packaging for an interferometric modulator. A thin film material is deposited over an interferometric modulator and transparent substrate to encapsulate the...
7388704 Determination of interferometric modulator mirror curvature and airgap variation using digital photographs  
Air gap variation in an interferometric modulator over a two-dimensional spatial map of the modulator is determined by acquiring a digital photograph of the modulator. Color parameters of...
7385748 Visible spectrum modulator arrays  
Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of...
7369289 Optical modulation device and image display apparatus using the same  
An optical modulation device is disclosed which can suppress production of a cause of degradation such as a void or hillock on a light illumination surface thereof and can be incorporated in an...
7359103 Transmission type spatial light modulator and transmission type spatial light modulation array device  
A transmission type spatial light modulatoris equipped with a minute transparent optical member for deflecting light in a direction different from an incident direction of incident light and...
7355780 System and method of illuminating interferometric modulators using backlighting  
An interferometric modulator array device with backlighting is disclosed. The interferometric modulator array device comprises a plurality of interferometric modulator elements, wherein each of the...
7349141 Method and post structures for interferometric modulation  
An interferometric modulator includes a post structure comprising an optical element. In a preferred embodiment, the optical element in the post structure is a reflective element, e.g., a mirror....
7348111 Reduction of imaging artifacts in a platesetter having a diffractive modulator  
A platesetter may have an optical imaging head which includes a diffractive modulator having individually controlled ribbons associated with individual pixels imaged onto a printing plate. One...
7324266 Electrooptical element  
An electrooptical element is disclosed, made from a crystal, for an electrooptical modulator (EOM), for example, a Pockels cell, comprising a housing, with the crystal arranged therein in the form...
7324260 Variable reflectance mirror  
The present invention provides a variable reflectance mirror, comprising a color layer that develops color by binding to hydrogen or lithium, a transparent substrate formed on or above one surface...
7312927 Head-up display  
A straw holder for supporting a drinking straw in the mouth of a bottle is presented. The holder includes a straw support portion dimensioned for placement across the mouth of a bottle. The straw...
7312913 Imaging light source with polarization and color recovery  
The present invention provides a polarized colored light source for a display system in which light of other polarization states and colors are recycled. The color can be scrolled synchronously...
7292751 Optical coupled-resonator filters with asymmetric coupling  
An optical filter includes at least one waveguide structure. The optical filter also includes a plurality of optical resonators that are aligned in an coupled arrangement with the at least one...
7280267 Device for remotely stimulating and measuring electronic signals through a fiber optic cable  
An optoelectronic system includes an optical signal modulator, an optical input guide and an optical output guide connected to the optical signal modulator. The system further includes a reflective...
7280262 Integrated die level isolation for a MEMS device  
A Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) package having a housing and a MEMS device bonded within the cavity of the housing. The MEMS device includes a MEMS sensor and a base connected to the MEMS...
7274500 Display system incorporating trilinear electromechanical grating device  
A display system comprises a light modulator having at least three linear arrays of light modulating devices on a common substrate, at least one light source producing at least three colors of...
7272270 Optical modulator and method of manufacturing same  
Laser light emitted from a vertically confined surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is incident on a side surface near an end region of an optical waveguide. The end region of the optical waveguide is...
7250317 Method of fabricating optical waveguide reflectors  
The invention relates to a device for introducing light into a waveguide, which device comprises: a light source, preferably an electro-optical converter, more preferably a VCSEL, for generating a...
7236286 Device having reflective and transmissive properties  
A device which simultaneously maximizes light reflectivity from one side of the device while maximizing light transmissivity from the opposite side of the device. The device is configured with...
7193766 Differential interferometric light modulator and image display device  
A light modulator incorporates a polarization sensitive prism and a novel MEMS ribbon device to impart a relative phase shift to polarization components of an incident light beam. A linear array of...
7164520 Packaging for an interferometric modulator  
A package is made of a transparent substrate having an interferometric modulator and a back plate. A non-hermetic seal joins the back plate to the substrate to form a package, and a desiccant...
7162109 Optical modulator and method of manufacturing same  
Laser light emitted from a vertically confined surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is incident on a side surface near an end region of an optical waveguide. The end region of the optical waveguide is...
7161728 Area array modulation and lead reduction in interferometric modulators  
A light modulator is arranged as an array of rows and columns of interferometric display elements. Each element is divided into sub-rows of sub-elements. Array connection lines transmit operating...
7127129 Method and apparatus for phase shifting an optical beam in an optical device  
An apparatus and method for high speed phase modulation of optical beam with reduced optical loss. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first region of an optical waveguide disposed in...
7126741 Light modulator assembly  
A light modulator assembly includes a substrate, a micro-electro mechanical semiconductor device (MEMS device) formed on the substrate, and a temperature control device coupled to the substrate and...
7126738 Visible spectrum modulator arrays  
Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of...
7072531 Gain-assisted electroabsorption modulators  
A light modulator having a waveguide and a resonator is disclosed. The waveguide routes light of wavelength λ past the resonator. The resonator is coupled to the waveguide such that a portion of...
7064881 InP-based phase modulators and methods for making and using same  
A modulator, including: an active modulator layer including a plurality of step quantum wells, wherein at least one of the plurality of step quantum wells is configured to have a leaky electron...
7027204 High-density spatial light modulator  
In one embodiment, a high-density spatial light modulator includes a substrate having a reflective surface and a reflective ribbon over the reflective surface. The ribbon may have one or more...
7023602 Reflective LCD projection system using wide-angle Cartesian polarizing beam splitter and color separation and recombination prisms  
An optical imaging system including an illumination system, a Cartesian PBS, and a prism assembly. The illumination system provides a beam of light, the illumination system having an f/# less than...
7009749 Optical element and manufacturing method therefor  
The cathode of an optical element, which is formed by a substrate, an anode formed on the substrate, a luminous element layer and a cathode, is made of aluminum whose surface orientation is...
7006272 Color changeable pixel  
A color changeable pixel comprises a first plate, a second plate and a third plate. The three plates are settled in parallel. The second plate is a deformable and reflective plate. An incident...
6990258 Optical modulator  
An optical modulator consists of an electrical input for receiving an electrical control signal, an optical output for outputting an optical signal, and at least two optical cavities coupled...
6985274 Modulatable reflector  
A radiation reflecting element ( 34 ), more particularly a so-called triple prism or a retro-reflector, is provided with a photonic element on a surface serving either for the passage of an...
6982819 Electro-optic array interface  
A grating coupled surface plasmon resonance optical modulator is disclosed. A electro-optic polymer dielectric is deposited on the metallic surface of a diffraction grating to provide a...
6978055 Optical modulator  
An optical modulator with lowered chirping without deterioration of extinction characteristic. An intermediate layer is interposed between a well layer and an n-side barrier layer and tensile...
6967765 Active optical system for changing the wavelength of an image  
A first control optics assembly receives an incoming optical image. A template optical element produces a template optical intensity profile. A second control optics assembly receives the template...
6963435 Switchable electro-optical laminates  
The present invention is directed to an electrically switchable laminate construction for applications including smart windows, and other uses and applications in which light management is desired....
6952306 Optical correlation device and method  
A temporal optical correlator is disclosed. The example optical correlator includes a light source, a set of White cells and a micro-mirror array. The micro-mirror array and set of White cells...
6952296 Method and device for forming the intensity profile of a laser beam  
The present invention relates to a method and a device for forming the intensity profile of a laser beam, in particular for producing a homogeneous intensity profile. In an embodiment of the...
6943930 Method and system for fabricating optical film using an exposure source and reflecting surface  
An exposure system ( 5 ) for fabricating optical film ( 40 ) such as for photoalignment, where the optical film ( 40 ) has a photosensitive layer ( 20 ) and a substrate ( 10 ). The exposure system...
6928199 Tunable optical device for dynamic chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion compensation  
The present invention provides a controllable double cladding guiding structure for tunable phase delay, dynamic chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion compensation. The device...
6928091 Opto-electronic oscillator including a tunable electro-optic filter  
An opto-electronic oscillator including a modulator for outputting modulated light and a tunable filter for receiving modulated light output from the modulator.
6924917 Color filter substrate and method of fabricating the same  
A color filter substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a polarizing substrate, a black matrix positioned on the polarizing substrate, a color filter layer positioned on the black...
6919981 Device having reflective and transmissive properties  
A device which simultaneously maximizes light reflectivity from one side of the device while maximizing light tansmmissivity from the opposite side of the device. The device is configured with...
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