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7340138 Optical fiber devices and methods for interconnecting dissimilar fibers  
A coupling waveguide is interconnected between a launching fiber and a receiving fiber to reduce coupling loss. The coupling waveguide includes an integrally formed graded index lens having a...
7340131 Collimator and optical filter device using the same  
It is a collimator adapted to convert divergent light beams outputted from an optical fiber bundle to parallel light beams through a collimator lens. A large diameter optical fiber is disposed...
7340136 Multi-wavelength optical fiber  
The invention features a fiber that includes an optical fiber ( 110 ) containing a gain medium having a Raman active material with a Raman gain spectrum. The optical fiber is configured to receive...
7336864 Opto-electronic board  
An opto-electronic board including a printed wiring board with an optical waveguide, a metallic area, and a hole, wherein an abutting face of the optical waveguide and an abutting face of the...
7336861 Fiber-optic sensor or modulator using tuning of long period gratings with self-assembled layers  
The provision of an ionic self-assembled multilayer (ISAM) film on a fiber-optic element including a long period grating (LPG) by a simple, room temperature process provides tuning of the LPG...
7333690 Evanescent waveguide couplers  
A multi-port planar evanescent coupler having N inputs and M outputs, where both N and M are each no less than three, formed of combinations of at least one of at least one planar evanescent 2×2...
7333702 Fiber optics transmission line  
Even if a fiber fuse phenomenon occurs to start fire spreading, the fire spreading is shut off. A graded index fiber (GIF) 3 is inserted between transmission-use single mode fibers (SMF) 2 a , 2...
7333696 Tape-shaped optical fiber cable  
A tape-shaped optical fiber cable has: a tape member formed of a fiber material and a cured resin formed around the fiber material; and an optical fiber embedded in the tape member. The optical...
7333705 Photonic crystal energy converter  
A photonic crystal is configured with wavelength converting material to act as a concentrator for electromagnetic energy. The concentrator may also be configured with energy conversion devices to...
7333692 Optical waveguide assembled with an optical subunit having a diffractive element set and an optical component  
An apparatus comprises an optical transmission element, a diffractive element set formed in or on the transmission element, and an optical component. The diffractive element set is positioned to...
7333691 Low loss tunable ring resonator allpass filter  
An apparatus, including an optical ring resonator having a waveguide ring with substantially straight waveguide segments and bent waveguide segments. The bent waveguide segments are optically...
7333686 System and method for a re-configurable optical channel dropping de-multiplexer  
A re-configurable channel dropping de-multiplexer comprises an input, an output, a first 1×2 optical switch optically coupled to the input, a second 1×2 optical switch optically coupled to the...
7330613 Waveguide type optical device  
A waveguide type optical device has an optical waveguide formed on a substrate, functional optical waveguide an optical input end face and an optical output end face which are provided to...
7330618 Waveguide structure  
An improved waveguide structure employing blocks of waveguide core material positioned sufficiently close to a waveguide core thereby eliminating strain effects and its resulting undesirable...
7324724 Optical fiber devices using component insertion  
The present invention provides an optical fiber device that takes advantage of the fiber structure to construct mechanically stable devices with components inserted in the optical path. An optical...
7324729 Optical device  
An optical device is made up of a glass substrate, an optical fiber array fixed to an upper portion of the glass substrate, a slit that extends from an upper surface of the optical fiber array into...
7324723 Optical waveguide having specular surface formed by laser beam machining  
An optical waveguide having means for performing optical coupling with high efficiency at a predetermined position in an optical circuit substrate and which optionally includes an...
7324725 Tunable optical add-drop multiplexer based on SOI wafer and manufacturing method thereof  
A tunable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on an SOI (silicon-on-insulator) wafer is disclosed. The tunable OADM includes a multimode interference region, at least a grating formed on the...
7315672 Optical device  
An optical variable attenuator 1 has a planar waveguide 2 and an actuator structure 3. The planar waveguide 2 is provided with an input optical waveguide core 4 A for input of an optical...
7315665 Liquid-crystal planar-waveguide apparatus and method for fast control of polarization and other properties of light  
A polarization controller includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells positioned as cladding on a waveguide that propagates a beam of light so that the evanescent field extends into the liquid...
7315667 Propagating light to be sensed  
Light to be sensed is spreaded across an entry surface of a transmission structure with a laterally varying energy transmission function. For example, the light could be output from a...
7310468 Photonic crystal waveguide, homogeneous medium waveguide, and optical device  
A photonic crystal waveguide and a homogeneous medium waveguide for enabling a steep bend and arrangement at an arbitrary angle with low propagation loss. A photonic crystal waveguide has a core...
7309169 Single-channel communication device for optical fibre  
The field of the invention is that of fiber-optic communication devices known as transceivers, used in the aeronautical field for ensuring that on-board electronic computers can converse with one...
7310462 Biochemical assay detection in a liquid receptacle using a fiber optic exciter  
Biochemical assays that are performed in cuvettes and in the wells of multi-well plates and that utilize excitation and light emission as labels for detection are enhanced by an illumination and...
7309880 Display apparatus and method for producing the same  
A display apparatus includes an array of fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a layered structure having a first...
7308173 Optical fiber coupler with low loss and high coupling coefficient and method of fabrication thereof  
An optical fiber coupler capable of providing a low loss, high coupling coefficient interface between conventional optical fibers and optical waveguide devices is provided. The novel coupler, which...
7308170 Optical fiber coupler having a relaxed alignment tolerance  
An optical coupler converts a light distribution from a light source into a small angle distribution that extends over a volume larger than the variations in the alignment of an optical fiber. In...
7306378 Method and apparatus providing an electrical-optical coupler  
An electrical-optical coupling device. An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first trench defined in a first semiconductor substrate. A first reflector is...
7308167 Optical assembly with optoelectronic device alignment  
At least one optical waveguide is supported on a substrate and has a plurality of key apertures formed in a complaint element thereof. An optoelectronic device such as a vertical cavity surface...
7308161 System and method for wavelength selective switching employing single-element gratings  
A wavelength selective switch device is disclosed that includes an elongated signal communication path extending from a first end of the device to a second end of the device. The signal...
7308205 Optical transmission apparatus  
In an optical transmission apparatus in which a plurality of nodes are optically connected to one another via an optical transmission path, a light signal which is coded so that a mixture ratio of...
7305159 Dual-reflector light coupler  
A reflector chamber, used to couple a light source to a downstream light-transport medium, includes a forward reflector which folds the light impinging upon it forward and a backward reflector that...
7304734 Fluorescence analysis optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, fluorescence analysis optical module, fluorescence analyzer, fluorescence/photothermal conversion spectroscopic analyzer, and fluorescence analysis chip  
A fluorescence analysis optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, a fluorescence analysis optical module, a fluorescence analyzer, a fluorescence/photothermal conversion spectroscopic analyzer, and a...
7301879 Optical print head  
An optical print head for recording on a medium includes a plurality of lasers having laser emissions within a desired wavelength range, an optical fiber adapted to receive combined light from the...
7302189 Optical component provided with demultiplexing function and wavelength dispersion compensator  
It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical component provided with a demultiplexing function capable of reducing an insertion loss and downsizing, and a wavelength dispersion...
7302137 Optical coupler apparatus and method  
A planar lightwave circuit coupler including first and second waveguides with curved coupling portions having radii of curvature selected such that the coupler has a splitting ratio that is...
7302136 Assembly of optical components and method for assembling same  
An assembly is disclosed for optical components, the assembly comprising: a platform for receiving and supporting a plurality of carrier components having optical components mounted thereon;...
7301686 Optically controlled optical-path-switching apparatus, and method of switching optical paths  
An optical signal optical path switching method comprising steps of using a thermal lens based on a distribution of refractive index produced reversibly caused by temperature increase generated in...
7298943 Monolithic optical component  
The present invention relates to a monolithic optical component ( 400 ) comprising a light-absorbing layer and a waveguide structure ( 2 ). The invention is more particularly adapted to a...
7298940 Illumination system and display system employing same  
A compact, light weight, efficient and cost-effective illumination system for optical displays is disclosed. The illumination system is capable of producing a self-luminous light beam of selected...
7295738 System and method for performing dispersion compensation  
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an optical circulator. The circulator may have, for example, a first port, a second port, and a third port. The first port may be...
7292754 Compensating interferometer including delay lines with reduced noise  
Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in optical apparatus comprising a delay line by utilizing a plurality of wavelength specific delay lines to delay an input waveform such as a pulse rather...
7292750 Signal processing system  
A signal processing system ( 10 ) has a plurality of optical fibers ( 40, 42, 43 ) with their one ends ( 40 ) mounted in an array board ( 41 ) to receive electromagnetic radiation. A coupler ( 54 )...
7289702 Optical waveguide apparatus  
The present invention provides an optical module using optical waveguides which permits easy fabrication of a PLC type optical multiplexer/demultiplexer with reduced loss. The optical module...
7289700 Blazed grating optical fiber polarizing coupler  
The blazed grating optical fiber polarizing coupler comprises a first optical fiber with a Bragg diffraction grating formed in its core at substantially the Brewster's angle with respect to an...
7286763 Optical add/drop multiplexer having a banded channel configuration  
An optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) adapted to route optical signals having at least two different bit rates. The OADM has at least two sets of DWDM channels, e.g., with channels in a first set...
7283709 Integrated microelectromechanical wavelength selective switch and method of making same  
A fully integrated microelectromechanical (MEMS) lxK wavelength selective switch (WSS) includes an array of N solid-immersion micromirrors (SIMs) and a K+1 dispersion waveguide arrays that are...
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.
7283701 Optical fiber transmission system with increased effective modal bandwidth transmission  
A multi-mode optical fiber link is described that includes a single-mode optical fiber having an input that receives an optical signal for transmission through the multi-mode optical fiber link. A...
7283697 Point to strip optical communication system  
A point to strip optical communication system ( 200 ) for transmitting light between a first housing ( 102 ) and a second housing ( 104 ) of a device is provided. The point to strip optical...