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7428036 Liquid crystal switchable coupler for coupling at least two unpolarized light inputs  
A switchable coupler ( 10 ) has a first waveguide ( 15 ) defining an inlet port ( 31 ) for a first unpolarized light input (A) and a first outlet port ( 32 ), and also a second waveguide ( 16 )...
7426069 Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus  
An optical apparatus is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes: a first optical element having a first polarizing layer containing a material having a refractive index that changes in accordance...
7411724 Electro-optic crystal, diffraction-based, beam-steering element  
A beam-steering element made of a more optically-active material, potassium tantalate niobate, with an improved diffraction efficiency, having a plurality of electrode layers and one electro-optic...
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...
7400438 Micro-electro mechanical device, micro-electro mechanical device array, light modulation device, micro-electro mechanical light modulation device, micro-electro mechanical light modulation device array and image forming apparatus using the same  
A transition time is a time from a state where a movable portion has been rotationally displaced in the first direction and stopped to a state where driving portions apply the physical action...
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....
7385762 Methods and devices for inhibiting tilting of a mirror in an interferometric modulator  
Interferometric modulators having a separable modulator architecture are disclosed having a reflective layer suspended from a flexible layer over a cavity. The interferometric modulators have one...
7375867 Transmissive electromechanical light valve and system  
An apparatus, system, and method for a transmissive electromechanical light valve including a gate pivotable between a first position to allow light to pass through a valvelet and a second position...
7372613 Method and device for multistate interferometric light modulation  
A multi-state light modulator comprises a first reflector. A first electrode is positioned at a distance from the first reflector. A second reflector is positioned between the first reflector and...
7366368 Optical add/drop interconnect bus for multiprocessor architecture  
An optical bus interconnects two or more processors in a multiprocessor system. One or more electrical-to-optical (“E-O”) transmitters are optically coupled to the optical bus using optical...
7362485 Image display medium, image writing device, and image forming apparatus  
An image display medium comprising: a display layer; a pair of substrates that retain the display layer therebetween, with at least parts of the pair of substrates configuring a frame portion to...
7324257 Low bias drift modulator with buffer layer  
The invention relates to an electro-optic modulator structure containing an additional set of bias electrodes buried within the device for applying bias to set the operating point. Thus the RF...
7324255 Spatial optical modulator  
A spatial light modulator, in which light modulation elements are arranged in a same plane. In the spatial light modulator, a plurality of the light modulation elements are arranged such that there...
7310181 Optical deflection device and optical deflection method that control occurrence of alignment defect  
An optical deflection device includes an optical deflection element having a pair of transparent boards arranged in a mutually opposing manner. A liquid crystal layer is filled between the boards...
7295360 Structure having light modulating film and light control device using the same  
A structure includes a substrate and a light modulating film formed on top of the substrate. The light modulating film is made of polycrystalline PLZT containing Pb, Zr, Ti, and La as constituent...
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.
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...
7265893 OASLM and a method and apparatus for driving an OASLM  
A method of controlling the switching of an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM), to a first surface of which a write light signal is applied and to a second surface of which a...
7224505 Manufacturing method of electro-optical apparatus substrate, manufacturing method of electro-optical apparatus, electro-optical apparatus substrate, electro-optical apparatus, and electronic instrument  
A manufacturing process of an electro-optical apparatus substrate is provided wherein a substrate is coated with a photosensitive resin. A first exposure process is executed with a first reticle to...
7221496 Optical element  
A complex amplitude spatial optical modulation element for low 0th-order diffraction light has a plurality of three-dimensional cells two-dimensionally on an XY plane. Each cell is light...
7206113 Electro-optical device and electronic equipment  
The invention provides an electro-optical device which displays image of high quality without forming poorly oriented regions that stem from the presence of pole-like spacers, yet achieving a high...
7190504 Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus  
An electro-optical device is provided comprising an electro-optical material and means for applying an electric field to the electro-optical material, in which a plurality of pixel regions D R , D...
7187487 Light modulator with a light-absorbing layer  
A spatial light modulator includes a first region and a second region. A light-absorbing layer contacts at least a portion of the second region. The light absorbing layer includes a first layer and...
7172921 Method and structure for forming an integrated spatial light modulator  
A method of fabricating an integrated spatial light modulator. The method includes providing a first substrate including a bonding surface, processing a device substrate to form at least an...
7170664 Optical element, optical head, optical recording reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method  
The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as...
7142343 Electro-absorptive optical modulator module having monolithic integrated photo detector  
An electro-absorptive optical modulator module monolithic-integrated on a semiconductor substrate, which includes a distributed feedback laser having a grating for oscillating light and to output...
7142342 Electroabsorption modulator  
The electroabsorption modulator comprises a p-i-n junction structure that includes an active layer, a p-type cladding layer and an n-type cladding layer with the active layer sandwiched between the...
7068904 Optical element with periodic structure  
An optical element comprising a periodic structure in which a refractive index is distributed periodically and a deforming portion, which mechanically deforms by an external action, wherein the...
7038835 Optical deflection device and optical deflection method that control occurrence of alignment defect  
An optical deflection device includes an optical deflection element having a pair of transparent boards arranged in a mutually opposing manner. A liquid crystal layer is filled between the boards...
7034980 Optical element, optical head, optical recording reproducing apparatus and optical recording/ reproducing method  
The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as...
7019890 Hybrid electro-active lens  
An electro-active lens is disclosed. The lens includes at least one electro-active cell to provide a lens having at least two focal lengths, the electro-active cell capable of adjusting its focal...
7016095 Method for fabricating an interference display unit  
An interference display unit with a first electrode, a second electrode and posts located between the two electrodes is provided. The characteristic of the interference display unit is that the...
6995890 Interference display unit  
An interference display unit with a first electrode, a second electrode and posts located between the two electrodes is provided. The characteristic of the interference display unit is that the...
6985281 Package for optical components  
An optoelectronic device including a header having an upper surface and including a plurality of conducting pins extending up through the upper surface; an optical device; a tunable optical filter,...
6975782 Optical deflector using electrooptic effect to create small prisms  
An electrooptical deflector is presented. The electrooptical deflector includes a material that has a different refractive index for different polarization states and changes its refractive index...
6970626 Directional optical coupler  
A directional optical coupler is shown and described, which includes an optical cell that is made of a first transparent conductor, a second transparent conductor and an electro-optical member...
6963441 Deactivated electro-optic material and method of forming the same  
An electro-optically deactivated transmissive material comprises a plurality of chemicals which are sufficient, in combination, to enable formation of an electro-optic material having an index of...
6958852 Optical modulator, method of achieving velocity matching and impedance matching of optical modulator, and method of manufacturing optical modulator  
A Mach-Zehnder optical waveguide is disposed in a substrate made of a material having an electro-optic effect. Coplanar-waveguide modulating electrodes are disposed on a principal surface of the...
6952298 Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, method of selecting scanning line in electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus  
The invention provides an electro-optical device capable of reducing power consumption. In an organic EL display, the pixel circuits are provided at the intersection portions of the respective...
6947205 Bistable molecular mechanical devices activated by an electric field for electronic ink and other visual display applications  
An electric field activated bi-stable molecular system configured within an electric field generated by a pair of electrodes is provided for use, e.g., as electronic ink or other visual displays....
6934075 Multilayer single lens structure with zooming and focusing functions  
The present invention discloses a multilayer single lens structure with zooming and focusing functions, particularly a lens structure that makes use of the special properties of crystalline grains...
6933013 Vacuum deposition of dielectric coatings on volatile material  
In order to allow application of any coating under a vacuum over a volatile gelatinous layer, such as polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) on an optical glass substrate with a transparent...
6882780 Wavelength tuneable optical device  
An optical device having a photonic band gap element operative such that the refractive index can be varied through application of an electrical signal. This enables the manufacture of tuneable...
6879431 Optical deflection apparatus and optical deflection method  
A liquid crystal optical phase modulator includes first and second substrates. A plurality of strip-shaped individual electrodes that are arranged parallel to each other on one surface of the first...
6829079 Optical path control apparatus with mirror section, and manufacturing method for the same  
An optical path control apparatus includes a first substrate. A second substrate is movably provided for the first substrate. A mirror section is provided on the second substrate. A driving section...
6829070 Electro-optic device and electronic device  
The invention provides an electro-optic device capable of keeping the cell gap constant or substantially constant throughout the substrate surface regardless of the existence of a liquid crystal...
6804036 Optical switch  
Disclosed is an optical switch using V-beam electrothermal actuators, buckle beam springs, and movement translation mechanism with its bi-directional movable latched function for optical...
6798559 Electro-optic spatial modulator for high energy density  
The present invention provides an imaging assembly comprising: (a) a modulator crystal comprising a first surface and a second surface substantially opposite to the first surface, wherein the first...
6791757 Optical device for filtering and sensing  
An apparatus for filtering electromagnetic waves and sensing deposition of chemical species, the apparatus having a substrate having a surface relief structure containing at least one dielectric...
6760493 Coplanar integrated optical waveguide electro-optical modulator  
A coplanar integrated optical waveguide electro-optical modulator comprises a substrate ( 1 ) of an electro-optic material, at least two optical waveguides ( 41, 42 ) integrated in the substrate in...
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