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8126297 MEMS device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate  
A microelectromechanical systems device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate having grooves formed therein. A lower electrode is deposited over the substrate and separated from an orthogonal...
8103138 Tunable filter  
A tunable filter is provided. The tunable filter comprises an input optical fiber for launching an optical signal into the tunable filter; a collimator disposed for collimating light transmitted...
8090229 Method and device for providing electronic circuitry on a backplate  
A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a...
8036502 Stress free mounting of optical bench for WSS  
An optical bench in a wavelength selective switch (WSS) is mounted using a combination of fixed mounts and stress-free mounts. The WSS is packaged in an enclosure including a base, a sidewall, and...
7889957 Optical selector switch and signal-processing apparatus  
An optical selector switch contains an optical waveguide that includes a first optical waveguide portion having a first light-transmissivity, a second optical waveguide portion having a second...
7872212 Use of mesa structures for supporting heaters on an integrated circuit  
An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is...
7856158 Virtual electronic switch system  
A virtual electronic switch system for a vehicle is provided. In one example, the system includes a switch assembly, a switch interface, and a computer. The switch assembly provides actuators that...
7826697 System and method for asymmetrical fiber spacing for wavelength selective switches  
A system and method of asymmetrical fiber or waveguide spacing comprising, in general, an asymmetrical fiber concentrator array (FCA), wherein an offset in the front face spacing of the output...
7787720 Wavelength selective reconfigurable optical cross-connect  
An optical coupling device including: at least a first input port for delivering an optical input signal beam that includes a plurality of wavelength channels; at least a first optical output port...
7720333 Optical module and data communication system including the optical module  
An optical module includes a fiber array, a laser diode array, a photodiode array and a micro-lens array. The fiber array includes optical fibers which are divided to a transmitter group and a...
7680369 Optical fibre switching assembly  
An optical beam steering arrangement, comprises: a moveable optical element; actuating means for causing the movement of said element; a connecting means between said element and said actuating...
7668415 Method and device for providing electronic circuitry on a backplate  
A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a...
7664345 MEMS device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate  
A microelectromechanical systems device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate having grooves formed therein. A lower electrode is deposited over the substrate and separated from an orthogonal...
7656568 Optical switch using frequency-based addressing in a microelectromechanical systems array  
Embodiments of the present invention provide structures for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that can be sensed, activated, controlled or otherwise addressed or made to respond by the...
7639910 Optical module and method of packaging the same  
An optical module is configured with a combination of a single-mode oscillating light source and an optical filter. In this optical module, the single-mode oscillating light source outputs a...
7574081 Optical system with optical waveguides  
The present invention provides an optical system with waveguides, which comprises first, second and third optical input/output means (12, 14, 16), fourth and fifth multi-mode optical waveguides...
7570848 Lens adjusting method, lens adjusting device, and optical switch  
An optical switch includes plural pairs of ports and first lenses, each of the ports emitting light in a diffused manner or receiving light input thereto in a collected manner, and the first lenses...
7570847 Method of forming an optical switch  
A method of forming an optical switch is disclosed. The optical switch is implemented with one or more cantilevered optical channels, which are formed in a flexible waveguide structure, and an...
7559703 Optical module and data communication system including the optical module  
An optical module includes a fiber array, a laser diode array, a photodiode array and a micro-lens array. The fiber array includes optical fibers which are divided to a transmitter group and a...
7551813 Simplified fiber-optic switch for all-optical fiber-optic lines  
Simplified and insensitive to ambient condition mechanical bi-directional fiber-optic switch that can work in fire and explosion hazardous environment. The switch houses a sensitive element—a l...
7539371 Optical apparatus with reduced effect of mirror edge diffraction  
A micromirror for use in an optical apparatus may comprise a reflective portion, configured to be rotatable about a switching axis and an attenuation axis that is different from the switching axis....
7529454 Photonic crystal surface states  
A photonic crystal may be configured to support a surface state for logic.
7526154 Cover for optical fibers and/or optical devices  
Apparatus and methods are provided for controlling a light emission from an end of an optical fiber by utilizing a cover that blocks the light emission at the fiber end, a detector situated between...
7522789 Optical switches and actuators  
An optical switch comprises one or more input ports for directing an optical beam into the switch; dispersive means configured to receive said optical beam and which spatially separate the optical...
7504630 Method and apparatus for attenuating a light beam  
Attenuators used to regulate optical signals are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, an assembly including an IR source and an IR sensor is provided to sense blockage of...
7480427 Electronic device and arrangement for providing communication between body parts thereof  
An electronic device comprises an arrangement for providing communication between a first body part and a second body part of the electronic device. The first body part and second body part are...
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 P2 of entrance surfaces of light guide pattern is 1/N as wide as an...
7465903 Use of mesa structures for supporting heaters on an integrated circuit  
An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is...
7466890 Cabinet access sensor  
A cabinet tamper detection device is disclosed. The tamper detection device includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a housing and a first magnet movable relative...
7444042 Optical switch  
An optical switch is implemented with one or more cantilevered optical channels, which are formed in a flexible waveguide structure, and an actuator which is connected to the cantilevered optical...
7418167 Optical switching using optical fiber connector  
An optical switching device, comprises an optical switch and an optical connector receiving means mateable with a connector., means for effectuating switching by engaging a connector in said...
7373036 Switching device and method  
A rocker styled switch includes an arm member moveable into and out of a beam path transmitting light between an optical transmitter and an optical receiver for blocking and allowing light to reach...
7356216 Optical cross-connect  
An optical cross-connect is provided. The optical cross-connect includes a glass wedge, having a front end and a back end, positioned between a first one-dimensional collimator array and a second...
7352927 Optical add-drop multiplexer architecture with reduced effect of mirror edge diffraction  
Effects of diffraction of a spectral beam from an edge of the micromirrors are reduced in order to optimize the passband in a wavelength selective switch. The effects of diffraction on the pass...
7340125 Optical switches and switching methods  
A device and method for collecting subject responses, particularly during magnetic imaging experiments and testing using a method such as functional MRI. The device comprises a non-metallic input...
7336865 Optical switch  
An optical switch for switching the connection of one or more movable optical fibers to one or more stationary optical fibers, comprising a movable soft magnetic block connected to an end portion...
7330616 Micromirror element and optical switch  
A micromirror element is configured such that a mirror body is arranged via a support on a wiring substrate on which a pair of mirror drive electrodes and a light detection unit are arranged. A...
7321704 Wavelength cross connect with per port performance characteristics  
A wavelength cross connect is provided in which there is a dispersive arrangement per port for each input port and each output port. Some of the dispersive arrangements have differing...
7301703 Tunable filter and method of manufacturing the same, and sensing device  
A tunable filter including; a fixed substrate provided with a fixed reflecting film and capable of transmitting light having a shorter wavelength than infrared light; a movable substrate provided...
7295727 Mounted MEMs optical diagnostic switch  
A parallel mounted MEMs optical diagnostic switch disposed within an optical connector for directing optical signals from one or a plurality of light sources to one or a plurality of light...
RE39833 Thermally actuated spectroscopic optical switch  
A thermally actuated spectroscopic optical switch including reflective surfaces which are selectively moved into a position intersecting a beam of light by applying electrical or heat energy to a...
7254292 Directing optical channels using a reflective device  
A device for directing one or more optical channels includes one or more micromirror elements. A micromirror element has a mirror and a mirror controller. The mirror is operable to reflect light at...
7236657 Optical switch and optical add/drop multiplexer using the same  
An optical switch easy to adjust optical parts without using a catoptric system and an optical add/drop multiplexer using the optical switch are provided. Between an input light outputting...
7233717 Reflective optical switch  
A reflective optical switch comprises an input/output port portion; a polarization separator/combiner for separating lights in the same optical path and combining lights in different optical paths;...
7228026 Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and manufacturing method thereof  
An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, wherein a core is arranged on each side of a filter element, and the light is caused to enter the filter...
7206474 Heating of trenches in an optical bubble switch  
An optical bubble switch having structures for heating trenches in response to applied electromagnetic energy. The structures for heating trenches according to the present teachings reduce the...
7183633 Optical cross-connect system  
An optical cross-connect switch comprises a base (216), a flap (211) and one or more electrically conductive landing pads (222) connected to the flap (211). The flap (211) has a bottom portion that...
7167609 Optical switch  
An optical switch has an input port, output ports, optical waveguides whose output path of an optical signal branch into two. A first stage optical switch section is provided in a branching portion...
7162117 Piezo-electric apparatus for acting on an optical path  
An apparatus for acting on an optical path, includes an at least partly opaque lever, and a bearance fulcrum about which at least a part of the lever is slewable at least partly in and out of the...
7162118 Dual optical switch  
A single-sided optical switching device for functioning as a dual switch wherein individual switches share common switching means is disclosed. The individual switches have separate ports and share...
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