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6600842 Semiconductor optical function device  
A semiconductor optical function device has a first junction structure part which includes a first conductivity type cladding layer, a light waveguide layer and a second conductivity type cladding...
6594421 Dynamically reconfigurable composite grating filters for temporal waveform processing  
Programmable waveguide coders are disclosed that include one or more corrugation segments and one or more spacer segments formed on or in a waveguide defined by a core in an electro-optic...
6591023 Optical transmitter having a modulation-capable wavelength-stable laser source  
An optical transmitter having a modulation-capable wavelength-stable laser source is proposed, the signal of the laser source passing through at least one Michelson band-pass filter to prevent...
6587632 Thermo-optic tunable optical attenuator  
Disclosed is a thermo-optic tunable attenuator, which comprises a single mode channel optical waveguide, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure coupled with the single mode...
6584239 Electro optic modulator  
A doped slab region is described for use around a ridge waveguide, for controlling the refractive index of the waveguide material. Instead of simply diffusing dopant in from a surface of the slab...
6583917 Optical intensity modulation device and method  
An optical intensity modulator for high-speed RZ and NRZ data modulation based on a balanced three-arm Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The three arms are joined at the input and output sides of the...
6584260 Electro-optical device and a wavelength selection method utilizing the same  
A method and an electro-optical device are presented for affecting the propagation of input light impinging on the device. The electro-optical device is composed of at least one domain-patterned...
6580540 Time compensation architectures for controlling timing of optical signals  
A time compensation architecture for use with a plurality of optical signals is disclosed. It comprises means for receiving the plurality of optical signals, optical means for selectively delaying...
6574380 Tapped delay line-based configurable spectral filter with in-situ monitoring  
A method of modifying the spectral distribution of an optical signal includes the steps of splitting the signal among a plurality of optical paths, delaying the propagation of the signal through...
6574379 Optical device and its manufacturing method  
An optical device having superior frequency characteristics and high optical axis stability. The back surfaces of an optical modulator and a pair of transmission lines are bonded to a pedestal with...
6571043 Large screen fiber optic display with high fiber density and method for its rapid assembly  
This invention encompasses a method for the manufacture and rapid assembly of large screen fiber optic displays ( 1, 2 ) containing a very large number of individual fibers (thousands to hundreds...
6563965 Analog optical switch using an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer having a moveable phase shifter  
Optical devices employing a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (“MZI”) device having a phase shifter provided in one arm that enables the construction of significantly smaller optical devices than...
6556736 Dynamic passband shape compensation of optical signals  
The curvature, tilt, and attenuation of the passband of an optical signal is dynamically controlled by an integrated compensator that is advantageously electrically operated. The compensator...
6539137 Thermo-electric signal coupler  
A signal coupler is comprised of a transmitting section and a receiving section. The receiving section includes a polymer pyroelectric film element having a greater than 1% by volume of a high...
6529646 Optical modulator  
An optical modulator includes an optical input; an optical output; at least one optical path connecting the optical input and output; and an electrode structure for selectively changing the optical...
6522793 Low voltage electro-optic modulator with integrated driver  
An electro-optic modulator is provided which comprises an electro-optic substrate, a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer optical waveguide structure, and at least two electrodes. In an embodiment of the...
6519374 Predistortion arrangement using mixers in nonlinear electro-optical applications  
A predistortion arrangement is described for using an input signal to drive a nonlinear device having a drive input. Initially, first means sample a portion of the input signal. The sampled portion...
6512866 High efficiency channel drop filter with absorption induced on/off switching and modulation  
A highly efficient channel drop filter. The filter employs a coupling element including a resonator-system between two waveguides, which contains at least two resonant modes. The resonator-system...
6510255 Optical transmission apparatus  
In an optical transmission apparatus including an external optical modulator for modulating an optical carrier from a light source with an electrical signal, bias voltage applied to the external...
6501866 Method and apparatus for cross-connecting optical transmission signals  
Method and apparatus are contemplated for electrical-to-optical conversion coupled to an electrical switching fabric, wherein the number of lasers supplying optical carrier beams in...
6483954 Method and apparatus for coupling to regions in an optical modulator  
An optical switch having regions to which conductors are coupled outside an optical path of the optical switch. In one embodiment, the disclosed optical switch includes a plurality of first...
6483955 Diffraction grating device  
This invention relates to a diffraction grating device having a refractive index modulation formed in an optical waveguide region in a predetermined region in the longitudinal direction of the...
6480637 Fiber squeezer polarization controller with low activation loss  
An improved polarization control method and apparatus is provided. The described invention uses super-polished squeezing surfaces to apply pressure thereby minimizing micro-bending effects that...
6470102 All-polymer waveguide polarization modulator and method of mode profile control and excitation  
A circular polarization modulator operable to output light alternating in time between left-hand and right-hand circular is provided. The circular polarization modulator preferably comprises three...
6470104 Method and apparatus for switching an optical beam by modulating the phase of a portion of the optical beam in a semiconductor substrate  
A device for switching an optical beam in an optical switch. In one embodiment, the disclosed optical switch includes an optical switching device disposed in a semiconductor substrate. The optical...
6459832 Method and apparatus for optical signal transmission using multiple sub-signals of non-uniform bandwidth  
An optical medium containing a transport signal that has a plurality of sub-signals, each sub-signal being characterized by a known wavelength of light and a known bandwidth, the bandwidth of the...
6453103 Optical communication system  
An optical communication system having a structure for effectively suppressing occurrence of a nonlinear optical phenomenon in WDM transmission in the 1.58 pm wavelength band. The optical...
6438277 Stabilized thermally tunable optical waveguide devices and communication systems employing them  
In accordance with the invention, a thermally tunable optical waveguide device is stabilized against ambient changes. Specifically, a feedback signal derived from a temperature-dependent resistance...
6424754 Optical modulator responsive to at least two electric signals  
First and second AC electric sources modulate a coherent wave constant amplitude optical beam. An optical waveguide arrangement responsive to the optical wave, includes first and second pairs of...
6418255 Device for modulation of optical radiation and transmission of information  
The invention concerns to area of magneto-optics, nonlinear-optics, fiber optics. The invention allow to amplify Faraday effect drastically and obtain a high level of modulation of optical...
6415083 Traveling wave electro-optic modulator based on an organic electro-optic crystal  
An electro-optic modulator, a system including an electro-optic modulator, and a method for producing an electro-optic modulator, which provides improved modulation sensitivity and improved...
6411421 Optical short pulse generator  
The present invention relates to an optical short pulse generator using an EA modulator. In addition to continuous wave light for generating an optical short pulse train, pump light for generating...
6400490 Mach-Zehnder optical modulator  
An optical modulator is provided that not only can realize a suitable initial operating point without using dc voltage for control, but that has little optical loss and can obtain an excellent...
6396971 Optical digital waveform generator  
A method and a system for generating optical waveforms from electrical signals is disclosed. An input electrical signal is sampled to obtain a single channel data which is converted to...
6396985 Contoured large screen display apparatus  
An apparatus for use in contoured architectural milieus includes a contoured large screen display having a mounting means to which modular flat display tiles including, tiles of diverse or...
6392781 High speed semiconductor optical modulator and fabricating method thereof  
The present invention relates to an electrical field absorbing semiconductor optical modulator, more particularly, to a high speed semiconductor optical modulator and a fabricating method thereof....
6377717 Optical modulators  
The optical modulator comprising an optical input signal waveguide, first and second interferometric waveguide arms, a modulated output signal waveguide, a splitter for dividing the input signal...
6377716 Optical intensity modulator and switch comprising the same  
An optical intensity modulator is disclosed which comprises a waveguide containing a core adjacent to at least one cladding layer and exhibits a refractive index n(core) different from the...
6366730 Tunable optical waveguides  
The specification describes thermo-optically controlled waveguides where the thermo-optic control is a heater strip precisely aligned to the waveguide core by using the heater strip as an etch mask...
6356693 Semiconductor optical pulse compression waveguide  
A semiconductor optical pulse compression waveguide with a novel structure that can greatly reduce its size, and be simply fabricated. The semiconductor optical pulse compression waveguide is...
6356673 Low loss coplanar waveguide horn for low drive LiNbO3 modulators  
A low loss coplanar waveguide horn with low drive voltage LiNbO 3 modulators wherein the electrical transmission of the traveling wave electrode structure, and of the input and output coupling...
6346430 Packaged integrated processor and spatial light modulator  
An integrated circuit die may have a processor and a spatial light modulator formed in the same die. An opening may be provided in an interposer to allow light to reach the spatial light modulator....
6341184 Low drive voltage optical modulator  
An optical modulator that includes a resonator near one arm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and that increases the optical length of that arm so as to introduce a phase-shift in an optical signal...
6339660 Device and method for writing on imaging material with an integrated waveguide  
A device and a method is proposed for writing on imaging material ( 3 ) with a radiation source ( 1 ) producing an electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength suitable for recording image...
6337755 Polarization independent all-optical regenerators  
In an all-optical regenerator, an optical input signal having N wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) channel signals is demultiplexed and each channel signal is directed onto a separate optical...
6337762 All-optical switch and wavelength converter  
An all-optical switch for outputting output light by transmitting/interrupting second input light with a second wavelength synchronizing with first input light with a first wavelength. The...
6332050 Optical slab waveguide for massive, high-speed interconnects  
Optical slab waveguides are used as high-speed, high-capacity interconnects for parallel or other devices. Optical slab interconnects can connect to many more elements than can conventional...
6330266 Method for selecting a semiconductor integrated optical modulator/laser light source device  
The present invention provides a method for selecting a semiconductor integrated optical modulator/laser light source device comprising a modulator section and a laser section. The method comprises...
6327396 Optical waveguide having an optically decoupled modulator region  
An optical waveguide, such as a rib waveguide, having a first portion (7) to which a dopant (9) and/or a metal layer (10) is applied to enable an optical property of a second portion of the...
6324318 Redundant optical source switching method and wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus using the same  
A redundant switch method includes a step of producing a substitute light of a wavelength identical to that of a faulty working light source which is one of working light sources having different...