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7493001 Waveguide-based detector module for x-radiation or gamma radiation  
A detector module, in at least one embodiment, is disclosed for x-radiation or gamma radiation that includes one or more optical waveguide sections that are arranged next to one another in order to...
7492990 Optical switching element, optical switching device, and color image displaying apparatus  
An optical switching element includes a resonant reflection element and a driving unit. The resonant reflection element has a thickness portion functioning as a waveguide layer, with one surface in...
7488117 Large tolerance fiber optic transmitter and receiver  
An optical transmitter relaxes the tolerance between a source assembly and a fiber receptacle to facilitate passive alignment. The source assembly includes a light source and a lens. The lens is...
7489841 Device for transferring optical signals by means of planar optical conductors  
What is described here is a method of or a device for transferring optical signals. An optical conductor including a light-conducting core, which has at least two parallel interfaces provided with...
7489846 Photonic crystal sensors  
Photonic crystal sensors may be created from two and three dimensional photonic crystals by introducing defects. The localization of the optical field in the defect region affords the ability to...
7486865 Substrates for performing analytical reactions  
Substrates, including zero mode waveguide substrates that have been fabricated to provide additional functional elements and/or components including increased volumes for positioning of active...
7483603 Optical device and method for manufacturing the same, optical module, and optical transmission device  
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide optical devices including optical members whose disposed positions, shapes and sizes are excellently controlled, and methods for manufacturing...
7483606 Planar power splitter  
The present invention provides a splitter. The splitter includes a substrate and a layer formed on the substrate. The layer is patterned such that a signal applied to at least one input port is...
7480429 Chip to Chip optical interconnect  
An apparatus for optical communication is provided. The apparatus includes a first waveguide formed on a first surface and a second waveguide formed on a second surface. The first and second...
7480435 Embedded waveguide printed circuit board structure  
In some embodiments a channel is formed in printed circuit board material, the formed channel is plated to form at least two side walls of an embedded waveguide, and printed circuit board material...
7480434 Low loss terahertz waveguides, and terahertz generation with nonlinear optical systems  
A silicon based source for radiation in the 0.5-14 Terahertz regime. This new class of devices will permit continuously tunable, milli-Watt scale, continuous-wave, room temperature operation, a...
7477819 Two-dimensional photonic crystal  
A two-dimensional photonic crystal, wherein on a plane in which four adjoining unit lattices L are arranged so as to have one angle in common with the unit lattice L being a rectangle whose shorter...
7477823 Optical waveguide device and fabricating method thereof  
Optical waveguide device has waveguide strip-shaped in the depth direction of the drawing and protruding from peripheral portion. A core (not illustrated) is disposed inside waveguide. Wall to be...
7477813 Multi-beam light source, method for manufacturing the same, light scanning unit using the same, and image forming apparatus using the same  
The invention provides a multi-beam light source including a light guide array by which the yield can be improved. An array pitch P 2 of entrance surfaces of light guide pattern is 1/N as wide as...
7474811 Nanowire photonic apparatus employing optical field confinement  
A photonic apparatus and system employ a plurality of nanowires distributed in a low-index optical waveguide. The plurality of nanowires collectively one or more of produces, enhances, modulates...
7474815 Interconnecting (mapping) a two-dimensional optoelectronic (OE) device array to a one-dimensional waveguide array  
For integrated circuits including circuit packaging and circuit communication technologies provision is made for a method of interconnecting or mapping a two-dimensional optoelectronic (OE) device...
7474816 Waveguide with a three dimensional lens  
Optical transmission structures include a waveguide and an optical lens wherein the optical lens has a sufficiently large thickness to allow the formation of a curved front lens surface that...
7471866 Waveguiding structures with embedded microchannels and method for fabrication thereof  
The invention provides a method for fabricating planar waveguiding structures with embedded microchannels. The method includes the step of depositing, over a planar template having at least one...
7471859 Programmable optical grating device and method  
An optical waveguide has a surface. An array of separately actuated bodies is disposed proximal to the exposed surface, and an actuator separately actuates at least some of the bodies to change a...
7470549 Measurement method using biosensor  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for simultaneously carrying out the detection or measurement of a substance interacting with a physiologically active substance...
7471856 Short reach optical interconnect  
An optical link includes a polymer waveguide having a top cladding layer, a core polymer layer, and a bottom cladding layer, supported by a substrate, with mirrors and optical vias. The core...
7471863 Near-field interaction control element  
A near-field interaction control element includes a near-field optical waveguide containing particles formed of a metal, a metal anion or a metal cation with a diameter of 0.5 nm or more and 3 nm...
7468237 Integrated optical circuits having drop-in locations for optical circuit elements  
A plurality of mask images defines an optical circuit image in photoresist. Each of the mask images comprises parts of the optical circuit and the totality of all mask images together defines an...
7465588 Apparatus and method of assay in utilizing attenuated total reflection  
An assay apparatus is loaded with a sensor unit as surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor, which includes a transparent dielectric medium and thin film. A first surface of the thin film is a...
7466889 High-quality-factor tunable microdisk  
An optical device includes a waveguide and a microdisk that is optically coupled to the waveguide. The gap between the microdisk and the waveguide is between 0.3 microns and 0.7 microns. The...
7463814 Method for fabricating three-dimensional photonic crystal  
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method for fabricating a three-dimensional photonic crystal. In the method for fabricating the three-dimensional photonic crystal, a plurality of...
7460298 Integrated optical dual amplifier  
An apparatus is provided comprising a dual optical amplifier. The two optical amplifiers are integrated, in that they share at a set of optical, electrical, or opto-electrical components. The two...
7457492 Multichannel opticalcommunication module and method of producing multichannel opticalcommunication module  
A multichannel optical communication module includes: a board, and a signal-converting element having optical-action points aligned with a first pitch to emit and receive signal light. The element...
7457501 Electromagnetic energy coupler  
A technique for coupling electromagnetic energy into an aperture smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic energy desired to be coupled is disclosed.
7456039 Method for manufacturing semiconductor optical device  
An SiO 2 film is formed on a semiconductor layer stack, the SiO 2 film having a thickness da and an etch rate Ra in buffered (BHF). A waveguide ridge with the SiO 2 film thereon is formed using...
7454111 Optical device of waveguide type and its production method  
Input ports ( 103 a, 103 b ) formed from fundamental mode waveguides are provided at one end of a multimode waveguide ( 104 ). Further, an output port ( 105 ) formed from a fundamental mode...
7454110 Method of constructing a reconfigurable photonic band gap device  
A method for constructing a reconfigurable photonic band gap device having a substrate and a crystal membrane with a lattice structure having its ends attached to a substrate so that a midportion...
7454102 Optical coupling structure  
An optoelectronic coupling structure, a method of manufacture, and a method of operation are described. The optical coupling structure includes a waveguide that is formed within a device layer of...
7454112 Ridge and mesa optical waveguides  
Apparatus including: a substrate layer having a substantially planar top surface; an optically conductive peak located and elongated on, and spanning a first thickness measured in a direction...
7454098 Mechanically decoupled opto-mechanical connector for flexible optical waveguides embedded and/or attached to a printed circuit board  
Printed circuit boards that include optical interconnects include a flexible optical waveguide embedded or locally attached to the board having at least one end mechanically decoupled from the...
7449343 Method for measuring surface plasmon resonance  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a measurement method which can suppress noise when a specific binding reaction between a physiologically active substance and a test substance is...
7450810 Two-dimensional photonic crystal cavity and channel add/drop filter  
In 2D photonic crystals, cavities having a heightened Q factor are made available, wherein combining the high Q cavities with waveguides affords channel add/drop filters having high resolution. In...
7450803 Optical waveguide  
The invention is directed to an optical waveguide that reduces an excess loss caused in a curved waveguide region by a deviation of the center axis of a beam propagating mode from the center axis...
7450809 Optical unit, a method of manufacturing the same, a backlight assembly having the same and a display device having the same  
An optical unit, a method of manufacturing the same, a backlight assembly having the same and a display device have the same are provided. The optical unit includes a transparent body, a diffusion...
7450811 Optical waveguide device and optical modulator  
In an optical waveguide device according to the present invention, a multi-layer cladding which is formed by laminating one or more high refractive index layers having the refractive index higher...
7447391 Planar-resonator based optical chemo- and biosensor  
A biological or chemical optical sensing device comprises at least one planar micro-resonator structure included in a light emitting waveguide, and at least one biological or chemical probe bound...
7447393 Thermal control of optical components  
A linearized thermal and optical model of an optical integrated circuit can be used to temperature-stabilize one or more optical elements of the circuit using active temperature regulation. To...
7447410 CHG ring resonators  
A ring resonator structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a core, and a cladding. Either the core or the cladding comprises chalcogenide glass to improve electromagnetic confinement in the...
7447405 Ferrule for optical wave guide  
An apparatus includes an optical wave guide and a ferrule. The optical wave guide has a prespecified horizontal-positioning surface and a prespecified vertical-positioning surface. The ferrule is...
7447411 Photonic structure  
A photonic structure has rods arranged with periodicity which is of a non-translational symmetry and defined in a polar coordinate system, which uses a distance in a radial direction and an angle...
7444053 Integrated electrical and optical sensor for biomolecule analysis with single molecule sensitivity  
An optical waveguide is constructed so as to comprise a non-solid core layer surrounded by a solid-state material, wherein light can be transmitted with low loss through the non-solid core layer,...
7443902 Laser-based optical switches and logic  
Optical switches and logic devices comprising microstructure-doped nanocavity lasers are described. These switches and logic devices have gain and thus can be cascaded and integrated in a network...
7444045 Hybrid sphere-waveguide resonators  
Microresonators, such as a microsphere resonators and planar microresonators, are optically coupled to waveguides for input and output of light. It is important that the relative positions of the...
7444054 Apparatus for focusing plasmon waves  
An apparatus comprises a thin film metallic layer, a first dielectric layer arranged on a first side of said thin film metallic layer and having a first index of refraction, a second dielectric...
7444055 Integrated optics arrangement for wavelength (De)multiplexing in a multi-grade vertical stack  
The invention describes an integrated-photonics arrangement, implementable in a multi-guide vertical integration structure composed from III-V semiconductors and grown in one epitaxial growth run,...