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7620281 Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical waveguiding  
The present invention provides nanometer-sized diameter silica fibers that exhibit high diameter uniformity and surface smoothness. The silica fibers can have diameters in a range of a about 20 nm...
7620280 Filled core optical fiber spliced to optical fiber and method of making the same  
A filled-core optical fiber ( 100 ) spliced to conventional, solid core optical transmission fiber ( 175 ) and a related method of making the same are provided. The optical fiber ( 100 ) comprises...
7620279 Polyurethane light guides  
A light guide ( 1 ) formed from an unclad flexible polyurethane fiber produces significant side scattering ( 2 ) over distances of up to several meters. The polyurethane fiber is in the form of a...
7609929 Surface emitting device and method for fabricating the same  
A surface emitting device using a photonic crystal includes a two-dimensional slab type photonic crystal structure including a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer formed on top of...
7609928 Method of connecting optical fibers  
A method of connecting a holey fiber to an optical fiber includes fusion splicing an end surface of the holey fiber and an end surface of the optical fiber thereby forming a joint section; and...
7609921 Optical fiber part and laser processing machine  
An optical fiber part includes an optical fiber having a main fiber, a taper fiber and a small-diameter fiber. The core diameter of the taper fiber decreases along an optical axis. Further, a...
7606460 Optical fiber and transmission system, and wavelength division multiplexing system  
An optical fiber comprises a center core and a cladding located at an outer periphery of the core, wherein the core comprises at least one codoped layer made from silica glass doped with germanium...
7603014 Method for the manufacture of optical fibers and improved optical fibers  
The present invention is directed to a universal channel dispersion compensating fiber (CDCF) for WDM channel compensation that provides essentially zero dispersion slope over the wide wavelength...
7596292 Treatment method for optical fiber  
A treatment method for an optical fiber including accommodating an optical fiber inside a treatment chamber; introducing a deuterium containing gas into the treatment chamber; and in a deuterium...
7593611 Photonic band gap fiber and method of producing the same  
A photonic band gap fiber is provided having multiple air holes in a silica portion extending in the longitudinal direction of the fiber. The fiber includes a cladding containing an air hole...
7590324 Double-clad optical fibers and devices with double-clad optical fibers  
A double-clad optical fiber includes a core, an inner cladding and an outer cladding of silica-based glass. The core may have a radius of less than about 5 μm, a first index of refraction n 1 and...
7590319 Preform for plastic optical material, production method thereof, optical coupling method of plastic optical fiber and connector used for optical coupling  
A POF includes an inner core having a refractive index distribution and an outer core provided on periphery of the inner core. A ratio Ra/Rb of an outer diameter of the inner core to the outer core...
7586085 Photo-detection device and method  
The broad range measurement exploiting the usual propagated light and the high resolution measurement mode exploiting near-field light are to be accomplished with a sole as-assembled optical probe....
7583878 Optical fiber, optical fiber ribbon, and optical interconnection system  
An optical fiber is made of silica-based glass, and includes a core and a cladding. The optical fiber has a mode field diameter of 5.4 micrometers or larger at a wavelength of 1300 nanometers,...
7583877 Optical fiber, optical fiber connection structure and optical connector  
An optical fiber includes a core, a clad having a plurality of air holes at a periphery of the core, and a hardening resin filled in a sealed portion at an end of the plurality of air holes. The...
7583866 Optoelectronic system for sensing an electric field signal  
An optoelectronic system for sensing an electric field signal includes an optically modulated scattering module configured to convert an electric field signal into a modulated scattering signal...
7580606 Method of forming an optical fiber  
Marker grooves of an optical fiber are formed by a marker groove forming device including at least, on a substrate, a fiber guide and optical fiber pressing springs formed on a side wall surface in...
7577365 Optical pulse regeneration device, installation comprising one such device and use of same  
This device for optically regenerating pulses includes a synchronous intensity modulator to provide time synchronization for pulses passing through it and to stabilize intensity fluctuations in the...
7577320 Low loss lateral optical waveguide intersections  
A geometrically shaped optical waveguide crossing or intersection with minimal transmission loss is described. A symmetrically tapered waveguide intersection is used to minimize loss in the...
7574089 Optofluidic devices and methods of using the same  
An optofluidic device is provided. The device includes a cladding region having a first refractive index, and a channel defined by the cladding region such that the cladding region forms an inner...
7574088 Optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon, and optical interconnection system  
An optical fiber, made of silica-based glass, comprising a core and a cladding. The optical fiber having a mode field diameter of 6.5 μm or larger at a wavelength of 1300 nm, transmitting light...
7574087 Optical fiber  
An optical fiber includes a clad portion and a core portion surrounded by the clad portion. Here, the clad portion is formed by substantially pure quartz, and the core portion has a higher...
7574075 Fiber Bragg grating and fabrication method  
A method of fabrication of a thermally stabilized Type I fiber Bragg grating-based temperature sensing device includes doping a fiber core material with germanium or germanium oxide for enhancing...
7573918 Dispersion compensated mode-locked pulsed lasers and optical amplifiers  
Techniques, apparatus and systems for providing compensation mechanisms for mode-locked lasers and optical amplifiers and a dispersion compensation mechanism to allow a mode-locked laser and an...
7567742 Holey optical fiber with random pattern of holes and method for making same  
A random array of holes is created in an optical fiber by gas generated during fiber drawing. The gas forms bubbles which are drawn into long, microscopic holes. The gas is created by a gas...
7565050 Light pipe having an improved structure of prisms  
The present invention is directed to a light pipe having an improved structure of prisms. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a hollow light pipe comprises an inner-surface...
7565048 Undersea optical fiber transmission systems  
Described are optical fibers having a relatively large effective area, large negative dispersion coefficient, and relatively low attenuation. These optical fibers are advantageously paired with...
7558456 Optical waveguide device  
An optical waveguide device includes a lower cladding layer, a high refractive index region provided on the lower cladding layer, a pair of cores provided on the lower cladding layer on both sides...
7555220 Chromatic dispersion compensator (CDC) in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip and method of operation  
An optical equalizer/dispersion compensator (E/CDC) comprises an input/output for receiving a multiplexed channel signal comprising a plurality of channel signals of different wavelengths. An...
7555184 Optical fiber, end face structure of optical fiber assembly, and optical connector  
An optical fiber includes a core, a clad formed around the core, a plurality of holes being formed in the clad, and a UV curing optically-transparent resin which is filled in the holes and...
7551823 Optical transmission fiber with thermal management for high-power applications  
An optical transmission fiber including a core having a first index of refraction, a cladding material located around the core and having a second index of refraction less than the first index of...
7551819 Multiple-core photonic-bandgap fiber with coupling between the cores  
An optical coupler includes a first optical port, a second optical port, a third optical port, and a fourth optical port. The optical coupler further includes a photonic-bandgap fiber having a...
7551816 Arrangement for low cost path protection for optical communications networks  
An arrangement provides low cost path protection in an optical communications network. The arrangement has a portion 3 that provides (broadcasts) an outbound optical signal, and at least first...
7551810 Segmented fiber optic sensor and method  
A fiber optic sensor for sensing the presence of an analyte has a plurality of optical fibers each of which has at least one analyte sensing segment and one or more low loss lead portion, where the...
7551809 Optical fiber delivery system for delivering ultrashort optical pulses and optical system including the same  
An optical fiber delivery system for delivering ultrashort optical pulses that can efficiently transmit high peak power, ultrashort optical pulses from an optical pulse source to a desired position...
7548674 Alignment method for circular multi-core optical fiber  
The present invention relates to a method of aligning circular multi-core fibers, wherein the method utilized independent and individually selected cores to receive, transmit, and emit light from...
7542645 Airline optical fiber with reduced multipath interference and methods of forming same  
An airline (AL) optical fiber (“AL fiber”) that has an AL region with airlines, with the AL region arranged relative to the fiber core so as to make the fiber bend insensitive. The AL region is...
7539383 Buffered optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof  
A buffered optical fiber having an excellent pistoning characteristic compared with a conventional one and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The buffered optical fiber of the present...
7536074 Optical fiber  
An optical fiber made of silica-based material includes a core and a cladding formed around the core. The core is doped with germanium dioxide, which increases refractive index and decreases...
7534055 Low polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) optical fiber link, and method of making the same  
An optical fiber link has a plurality of optical fiber spans joined one to the other, the plurality of optical fiber spans including at least one first unidirectionally-spun optical fiber span and...
7532798 Optical waveguide  
An elongate waveguide for guiding light including a core having an elongate region of relatively low refractive index; a microstructured region around the core comprising elongate regions of...
7532797 Optical fiber  
The present invention relates to an optical fiber for light pulse expansion in which the ratio (β 3 /β 2 ) of the third derivative β 3 to the second derivative β 2 is negative, the absolute...
7532785 Photonic interconnects for computer system devices  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic interconnects that can be used for on-chip as well as off-chip communications between computer system components. In one...
7532384 π-Phase shift device for light  
A phase shifter includes at least one photonic crystal structure having alternating high and low index dielectric layers. At least two defect structures are positioned between said photonic crystal...
7529453 Optical fiber and optical transmission medium  
An optical fiber includes a core region and a cladding region. The cladding region includes a first cladding region on outer circumference of the core region, which includes a main-medium region...
7529452 Method for manufacturing single mode optical fiber having low polarization mode dispersion  
A method for manufacturing a single mode optical fiber with a reduced PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion), by drawing an optical fiber preform composed of a core and a clad surrounding the core,...
7526168 Optical fiber, transmission system, and wavelength division multiplexing system  
An optical fiber has a first mode field diameter in a dominant mode of an acoustic mode generated in the optical fiber different from a second mode field diameter in a light intensity distribution...
7526166 High numerical aperture fiber  
An optical fiber comprising: a silica based core having a first index of refraction n 1 ; and at least one silica based cladding surrounding the core, the at least one silica based cladding...
7526165 Optical coupler devices, methods of their production and use  
The present invention relates in general to coupling of light from one or more input waveguides to an output waveguide or output section of a waveguide having other physical dimensions and/or...
7526164 Reflective polarizers containing polymer fibers  
A polarizer is formed with an arrangement of polymer fibers substantially parallel within a polymer matrix. The polymer fibers are formed of at least first and second polymer materials. At least...