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7620276 Optimized grating based biosensor and substrate combination  
A grating-based biosensor is disclosed where the biosensor is constructed and arranged such that the grating lines of the sensor align with an optical axis of a birefringent substrate, so as to...
7618201 Optical module  
An optical-waveguide device mounted on a fixing member having a pair of opposing upright walls and a sub-mount unit including a metallic sub-mount of a rectangular solid shape inserted between the...
7616851 Tunable wavelength filter device  
A tunable wavelength filter device that includes a light wave circuit having an input light wave path, an output light wave path, and a plurality of reflector elements between the input light wave...
7613378 Optical device comprising an optical component and an optical medium with different refractive indices  
The present invention consists in an optical device comprising an optical component and an optical medium with different refractive indices, said optical component being at least partly immersed in...
7609919 Coupling-enhanced surface etched gratings  
The invention describes the method and apparatus for enhancement of coupling efficiency in effective-ridge laterally-coupled surface-etched grating waveguide structures, where a slab waveguide has...
7609917 Method and apparatus for controlling waveguide birefringence by selection of a waveguide core width for a top cladding  
A method and apparatus for controlling waveguide birefringence by selection of a waveguide core width for a tuned top clad is described herein. In one example, a dopant concentration within a top...
7606488 Wavelength-division-multiplexing optical transmission system and control method thereof  
In a wavelength-division-multiplexing optical transmission system in which optical-node apparatuses that perform relay transmission of wavelength-division-multiplexed light are located at specified...
7604984 Spatially scanned optical reader system and method for using same  
An optical reader system is described herein that uses a scanned optical beam to interrogate a biosensor to determine if a biomolecular binding event occurred on a surface of the biosensor. In one...
7603004 Neural network demodulation for an optical sensor  
Methods and systems of neural network demodulation for an optical sensor. An optical sensor may be coupled to a structure and be capable of reflecting a reflected optical signal. A wavelength of...
7602823 Light-emitting element  
A light-emitting element includes a light amplification unit and an external resonator. The light amplification unit has a function of amplifying light. The external resonator is connected to the...
7599587 Wavelength selective switch  
In a wavelength selective switch according to the present invention, an isolator is disposed between a lens array and a first lens. The isolator includes an isolator element and a transmitting...
7599586 Integrated chip  
An integrated chip for data communication, telecommunication and optical analysis for at least one, two or more wavelengths where the chip can be used not only to emit light but also to detect...
7596157 Laser optical apparatus  
A laser optical apparatus which removes speckles from a screen by changing the phase of a laser beam so as to form an image having high visibility. The laser optical apparatus includes an incident...
7593638 Secure upstream transmission in passive optical networks  
A method and system for ensuring confidentiality of signal transmission in a point-to-multi point data transmission network like Ether net passive optical network, including at least one hub, at...
7593615 Optical devices for guiding illumination  
Optical devices for guiding illumination are provided each having a body of optical material with staircase or acutely angled ramp structures on its top surface for distributing light inputted from...
7593609 Method for modulating refractive indices of optical fiber gratings  
The present invention proposes a method for modulating refractive indices of optical fiber gratings, wherein the UV exposure on a least one assigned location of an optical fiber grating is divided...
7593606 Optical modulator including waveguide grating structure and multiple quantum well layer  
An optical modulator and related methods are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the optical modulator comprises a horizontal waveguide grating structure (WGS) receiving an incident...
7590318 Optoelectronic component comprising a diffraction grating with a transverse structure  
The field of the invention is that of optoelectronic components with a buried stripe structure. The optoelectronic device according to the invention is a stripe structure, comprising at least one...
7587112 Optical device and light control method  
In order to prevent a spectrum of a wavelength channel from becoming narrower, a device according to the present invention includes a light dividing section capable of dividing a wavelength...
7587103 Method for ultrafast optical deflection enabling optical recording via serrated or graded light illumination  
In one general embodiment, a method for deflecting an optical signal input into a waveguide is provided. In operation, an optical input signal is propagated through a waveguide. Additionally, an...
7583875 Illumination device, image display device, and projector  
An image display device includes: a first face; a laser light source device emitting laser light; and a diffractive optical element on which the laser light emitted from the laser light source...
7583423 Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements  
Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements....
7580602 Beam apodization for a planar solid immersion mirror  
An apparatus includes a planar waveguide, first and second gratings for coupling electromagnetic radiation into the planar waveguide, and a beam shaper for controlling the amplitude distribution of...
7580599 Optical switch and MEMS package  
An optical switch switches ports through which a beam is input and output and includes an optical system through which the beam passes; a movable reflector that is enclosed in a casing and...
7580184 Gires-Tournois etalons and dispersion compensators  
A Gires-Tournois etalon (GTE) ( 10 ) comprising an optical fiber ( 12 ) in which a primary chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) ( 16 ) is provided, an RF signal generator ( 20 ), a piezoelectric...
7574083 Optical device having diffraction gratings coupling guided wave, and its manufacture method  
An optical waveguide structure formed over a substrate defines an optical waveguide for guiding light along a direction parallel to the substrate surfaces, and biasing a light intensity...
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...
7558481 Method for optimizing enhanced DWDM networks  
An enhanced Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network is optimized through bundling subchannel traffic in DWDM channels at network nodes and “hubbing” the DWDM channels at nodes receiving...
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...
7557990 Method and apparatus for a Bragg grating tunable filter  
The present invention relates to tunable filters. More specifically, the present invention pertains to a method and apparatus that allows tuning of a wavelength over a large optical band. The...
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...
7555175 Arrayed waveguide grating optical multiplexer/demultiplexer  
An arrayed waveguide grating optical multiplexer/demultiplexer 10 of the present invention 10 comprises one arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) 20 having two input waveguides 21, 22 and two...
7551818 High power optical fiber laser array holographic coupler manufacturing method  
A chirped grating is made in a thin film layer or a glass layer for producing a holographic optical element within the layer well suited for use as an optical coupler for coupling side fired laser...
7551815 Method of monitoring and controlling the bit error rate (BER) in an optical communication network  
A method is disclosed for monitoring and controlling the bit error rate (BER) in an optical communication network where an optical receiver in the optical transmission network. The method includes...
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...
7548671 Optical device including waveguide grating structure  
Optical devices including waveguide grating structures are described. In accordance with one embodiment, an optical device is provided comprising a horizontal waveguide grating structure having at...
7546017 Electro-photonic modulators  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to modulators that can be operated electronically and used to modulate electromagnetic radiation. In one embodiment of the present...
7546012 Waveguide system with diffracting structure  
An optical waveguide system includes an optical element, a three-dimensional diffracting structure positioned around the optical element, and a waveguide. The optical element and the diffracting...
7546011 Monolithically integrated optical devices with amorphous silicon arrayed waveguide gratings and InGaAsP gain  
An optical waveguide assembly and method of forming the same is described. The optical waveguide assembly includes a waveguide, an amorphous silicon arrayed waveguide grating communicative with the...
7542641 Multi-channel optical device  
The multi-channel optical device includes a demultiplexer in a laser cavity. The demultiplexer is configured to demultiplex a multi-channel light beam into a plurality of channels. The device also...
7542639 Holographic pump coupler and laser grating reflector  
In the present invention, a volume holographic optical element is used as a pump coupler. The holographic coupler allows at least one pump wavelength to be coupled into the laser medium. The...
7539368 Arrayed waveguide grating  
An arrayed waveguide grating has optical input waveguides, a first slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide comprising plural waveguides of mutually-different lengths, a second slab waveguide and...
7539361 Fiber optic device for measuring a parameter of interest  
An optical fiber ( 100 ) utilized as a sensor for measuring a parameter of interest 122 such as temperature, strain, photonic energy intensity, electric field intensity and magnetic field...
7532791 Ultrafast laser machining system and method for forming diffractive structures in optical fibers  
An ultrafast laser machining system and method to form diffractive structures in optical fibers. The fiber is mounted with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to the beam path of the laser pulses....
7532780 Method for locating and measuring deformations in a work of civil engineering  
A process for locating and measuring deformation in a civil engineering structure wherein at least one geosynthetic fabric ( 1 ) containing a plurality of optical fibers ( 2 a to 2 e ) in...
7532779 Single mode (SM) fiber optical reader system and method for interrogating resonant waveguide-grating sensor(s)  
An optical reader system is described herein which has a single mode (SM) optical fiber launch/receive system that uses one or more SM optical fibers to interrogate a biosensor and does not use...
7529442 Polarization-independent electro-optical (EO) switching  
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a passive element including one or more first waveguides and one or more second waveguides. The apparatus also includes an active element integrated into...
7529437 Scalable and defect-tolerant quantum-dot-based quantum computer architectures and methods for fabricating quantum dots in quantum computer architectures  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to quantum-dot-based quantum computer architectures that are scalable and defect tolerant and to methods for fabricating quantum dots in...