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7010196 Method of forming laser induced grating pattern  
A method of forming a laser-induced grating comprising the steps of providing a substrate with a polished surface having a plurality of reflective regions thereon, providing a pulsed layer beam and...
7006730 Multichannel integrated tunable thermo-optic lens and dispersion compensator  
A thermo-optic lens of the present invention includes a plurality of parallel heating elements having substantially constant center-to-center spacing and respective dimensions varying from the...
7006731 Apparatus and method for adjusting the spectral response of an optical waveguide grating  
Apparatuses and methods for adjusting the spectral response of an optical waveguide grating. A controlled extension is imparted to a surface of a support member and an optical waveguide grating is...
7006729 Optical components having reduced insertion loss  
An optical device is provided which includes a slab waveguide and at least one input waveguide coupled to a first side of the slab waveguide. The device also includes a plurality of output...
7006733 Method and apparatus for channel selective control of light propagation in an optical waveguide  
A variable optical device for selectively controlling propagation of light within an optical waveguide. The optical device comprises: a relief modulation defining a grating disposed proximal the...
7006727 Combined multiplexer and demultiplexer for optical communication systems  
A combined multiplexer/demultiplexer for use in optical communication systems is disclosed. The combined multiplexer/demultiplexer includes a plurality of waveguide arrays and a plurality of signal...
7003196 External grating structures for interfacing wavelength-division-multiplexed optical sources with thin optical waveguides  
A coupling arrangement for allowing multiple wavelengths to be coupled into and out of a relatively thin silicon optical waveguide layer utilizes a diffractive optical element, in the form of a...
7003190 Switching matrix configuration for reducing loss  
The present invention discloses a switching matrix configuration to reduce the optical propagation losses and coupling losses. The switching matrix comprises M horizontal waveguides interested with...
7003195 Dynamic power equalizer  
A dynamic power equalizer comprises an array waveguide grating having an input waveguide and an output waveguide at one end, and an input waveguide group and an output waveguide group at the other...
7003199 Tunable dispersion compensator for optical communication system  
The present invention relates to a tunable distribution compensator, including: an optical fiber having a chirped optical fiber grating; first and second frames having first and second stepped...
7003198 Integrateable band filter using waveguide grating routers  
The inventors propose herein a novel band filter design for planar lightwave circuits. In one embodiment of the present invention, the band filter includes two waveguide grating routers...
7003187 Optical switch with moveable holographic optical element  
An optical switch formed of a holographic optical element (HOE) disposed above a top surface of a substrate and moveable relative thereto is shown. Light is traveling through the substrate under...
6999662 Segmented waveguide array grating filters  
An optical device for filtering an optical signal is described. The optical filtering device comprises an optical input receiving the optical signal; an elongated waveguide connected to the input...
6999660 Highly efficient focusing waveguide grating coupler using leaky mode  
Provided is a focusing waveguide grating coupler using a leaky mode which can form single output beam while relieving the dependency on manufacturing processes. The focusing waveguide grating...
6999156 Tunable subwavelength resonant grating filter  
In accordance with the invention, a tunable subwavelength resonant grating filter comprises a liquid crystal cell having a pair of major surface walls. One wall of the cell is a coated...
6999659 Fiber transmission element for generating a chromatic dispersion  
The invention describes a transmission component for producing chromatic dispersion which can be predetermined, having a glass fiber optical waveguide in which it is possible to carry not...
6996316 Large diameter D-shaped optical waveguide and coupler  
A large diameter D-shaped optical waveguide device 9 , includes an optional circular waveguide portion 11 and a D-shaped waveguide portion 10 having at least one core 12 surrounded by a...
6996296 Polarizing device  
The present invention provides polarizing devices and illumination devices that include the polarizing devices. The polarizing devices and illumination devices can be advantageously used in a wide...
6996300 Device for optical signal transmission between two units movable relative to each other  
A device for transmitting information between at least two units mobile relative to each other comprises a light guide having a light-guiding medium, the optical properties of which can be changed...
6996343 Dispersion compensator  
A dispersion compensator having relatively uniform transmission characteristics over the bandwidth of a communication channel. The compensator is designed to process an optical signal corresponding...
6993220 Temperature-compensated optical fiber component  
A temperature-compensated optical fiber component for use in high-density WDM optical communication includes an optical fiber which has a Bragg grating serving as a monochromatic filter, an inner...
6993258 WDM transmitter  
A WDM transmitter comprising an array of M pump lasers multiplexed by an M×N multiplexer, in the form of a coupler, and used to feed an array of N optically pumped fiber lasers emitting at...
6993241 Bragg grating optical fiber  
The present invention provides an optical fiber providing high photosensitivity in the absence of hydrogen loading as well as a low numerical aperture. One aspect of the present invention relates...
6991891 Optical fiber laser  
A method of fabricating a distributed feedback optical fiber laser, comprises the step of exposing an optical fiber ( 20 ) to a transverse light beam ( 30 ) to form a grating structure in a section...
6993223 Multiple distributed optical structures in a single optical element  
An optical apparatus comprises an optical element having at least two sets of diffractive elements, each diffractive element comprising at least one diffracting region thereof. At least one...
6993222 Optical filter device with aperiodically arranged grating elements  
A method for producing aperiodic gratings and waveguides with aperiodic gratings uses a simulated annealing process that starts with a random configuration of grating elements and iteratively...
6993217 Optical switch device  
In an optical switch device: output waveguides are arranged with such a pitch as to realize a split wavelength gap equal to or smaller than half of a gap between operating wavelengths of optical...
6992825 Volume phase grating, a method for producing such a volume phase grating, an optical module and a semiconductor laser module using such a volume phase grating  
In a volume phase grating, a plurality of phase gratings for causing a refractive index of a substrate having an incident surface and a launched surface facing each other to be cyclically changed...
6990272 Apparatus for generating an optical interference pattern  
Apparatus for producing an interference pattern from an input optical beam, including a first optical element for separating the input optical beam into a plurality of divergent optical sub-beams...
6990276 Optical waveform recognition and/or generation and optical switching  
A planar optical waveguide has sets of diffractive elements, each routing between input and output optical ports diffracted portions of an input optical signal. The diffractive elements are...
6990273 Optical multi-band device with grating  
Apparatus for filtering optical radiation, which apparatus comprises a waveguide ( 50 ), and which waveguide ( 50 ) comprises a grating ( 51 ) having a first reflection wavelength band ( 52 )...
6990275 Stray light absorber including grating array  
An optical component comprising an optical waveguide and adjacent to it at least one grating array adapted to reflect stray light away from said optical waveguide. The use of a grating array with a...
6987897 Fiber-optic flow cell and method relating thereto  
The present invention is for a fiber optic flow cell. The flow cell comprises a substrate having at least one sample channel and at least one optical fiber channel holder. At least one optical...
6987910 Silicon light waveguide with MOS capacitors positioned on the waveguide  
The present invention provides a silicon wave-guide ( 3 ), with a silicon oxide cladding ( 2, 4 ) on a silicon substrate ( 1 ). At predetermined positions along the length of the wave-guide, are...
6987908 Grating dispersion compensator and method of manufacture  
A grating dispersion compensator (GDC), including: a substrate; a dielectric grating layer; a planar waveguide; and a passivation layer. The dielectric grating layer may be formed on the substrate...
6987909 Optical systems and athermalized optical component apparatuses and methods for use therein  
An athermalized optical fiber component assembly including a limiting member, a mounting structure attached to the limiting member, a temperature compensating substrate attached to the mounting...
6987901 Optical switch with 3D waveguides  
An optical switch for routing optical signals between optical fibers is shown. Signals are guided internally in an optically transparent substrate by buried waveguides that are directly coupled to...
6985664 Substrate index modification for increasing the sensitivity of grating-coupled waveguides  
A grating-coupled waveguide (GCW) and a method are described herein that can be used to detect the presence of a biological substance (e.g., cell, drug, chemical compound) in a sensing region of...
6985663 Optical waveguides and grating structures fabricated using polymeric dielectric compositions  
Using polymeric dielectric materials (preferably materials derived from bisbenzocyclobutene monomers) and an electron beam lithography process for patterning this material, we have developed a...
6985654 Device and a method for transforming signal propagation mode by interference  
An optical device (D) is dedicated to transforming the propagation mode of optical signals. The device comprises mode transformation means ( 3–5 ) associated with a multimode fiber ( 2 ) and...
6985656 Temperature-compensated planar waveguide optical apparatus  
An optical apparatus (spectral filter, temporal encoder, or other) comprises a planar optical waveguide having at least one set of diffractive elements. Each diffractive element set routes by...
6980578 Optical bandpass filter using long period gratings  
The specification describes an optical filter wherein long period gratings (LPGs) are used in a new configuration to provide in-line bandpass filtering of optical signals. In the basic embodiment,...
6980362 Optical filters  
An optical interference filter ( 2 ) is provided by a substrate ( 1 ) in which is formed a plurality of parallel slots so as to define layers (slots and substrate laminae) of alternating refractive...
6980719 Optical device of variable refractive index  
The present invention relates to an optical device comprising an ionic conductor and a pair of electrodes, the ionic conductor being made of a material that is transparent to light and contains...
6978066 Method for fabricating fiber bragg grating elements and planar light circuits made thereof  
A method for fabricating Fiber Bragg Grating elements and planar light circuits made thereof. A mask having a predetermined pattern and a wafer are provided, wherein a light-guiding channel filled...
6978057 Optical waveguide and a method for providing an optical waveguide  
A laser diode ( 1 ) having an optical path ( 15 ) defined in an active layer ( 2 ) which is sandwiched between a substrate layer ( 3 ) and a top layer ( 4 ) and defined by a ridge ( 14 ) formed in...
6975795 Refractive index grating, and mode coupler having a refractive index grating  
A refractive index grating has at least one configuration of heating elements on or adjacent to a wave-guiding structure. Regions are introduced into the wave-guiding structure and/or into an...
6975794 Method and apparatus for fabricating a waveguide Bragg grating using pulsed light  
A system for fabricating Bragg gratings includes an optical waveguide (e.g., an optical fiber, a planar waveguide), an interference pattern generator (e.g., a transmission phase grating such as a...
6972886 Variable blazed grating  
In one aspect of the invention, an apparatus operable to provide optical signal processing includes an inner conductive layer including an at least substantially conductive material and a plurality...
6973237 Method of producing optical fiber grating and production device therefor  
A super structure fiber Bragg grating is produced without being limited by a phase mask length. First, a beam is allowed to scan with the relative position between a mask and an optical fiber fixed...