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7623745 |
Photonic funnels and anisotropic waveguides for subdiffraction light compression and pulse management at the nanoscale
The present invention provides an apparatus for propagating electromagnetic radiation of a selected vacuum wavelength beyond the diffraction limit. The apparatus comprises a waveguide core and a...
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7620290 |
Modified-output fiber optic tips
A laser handpiece is disclosed, including a shaped fiber optic tip having a side-firing output end with a non-cylindrical shape. The shaped fiber optic tip can be configured to side-fire laser...
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7616854 |
Optical coupling structure
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for operation therefore. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes an optical coupling structure disposed within a cladding region, wherein...
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7616368 |
Light concentrating reflective display methods and apparatus
Improved apparatus and methods for displays are disclosed that utilize light concentration array between mechanical light modulators and the viewing surface of the display. The light concentration...
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7609921 |
Optical fiber part and laser processing machine
An optical fiber part includes an optical fiber having a main fiber, a taper fiber and a small-diameter fiber. The core diameter of the taper fiber decreases along an optical axis. Further, a...
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7606452 |
Optical fiber fundamental mode field expander
A device for providing an expanded mode field from a single mode optical waveguide is formed by fusing a length of single mode optical fiber with a length of fiber rod absent a cladding and...
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7599596 |
Optical receiver for use with range of signal strengths
A receiver includes a waveguide defined in a layer of silicon positioned on a base. The waveguide is immobilized relative to the base along the length of the waveguide. The waveguide is unbranched...
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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...
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7587109 |
Hybrid fiber coupled artificial compound eye
A hybrid, wide angle imaging system combines high sensitivity superposition arrays with a high resolution apposition array to generate distortion free images with an infinite depth of field. A...
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7586085 |
Photo-detection device and method
The broad range measurement exploiting the usual propagated light and the high resolution measurement mode exploiting near-field light are to be accomplished with a sole as-assembled optical probe....
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7577327 |
Optical junction apparatus and methods employing optical power transverse-transfer
An optical apparatus comprises an optical device formed on a device substrate, a first optical waveguide formed on the substrate or on the optical device, and a second, mechanically discrete...
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7577325 |
Method of fabricating a polarization sorter
A method of fabricating a passive polarization sorter includes the steps of providing first and second waveguides. The first waveguide has an input and an output. The first waveguide supporting at...
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7577322 |
Optical integrated circuit comprising a light guide forming at least one optical separation
An optical integrated circuit with waveguide separation on a substrate includes at least one separating unit, including an optical input/output interface in relation with an external light wave...
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7577320 |
Low loss lateral optical waveguide intersections
A geometrically shaped optical waveguide crossing or intersection with minimal transmission loss is described. A symmetrically tapered waveguide intersection is used to minimize loss in the...
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7565046 |
Mode transformers for low index high confinement waveguides
The mode transforming structure includes a first waveguide structure. A slot waveguide region is coupled to the first waveguide structure. The slot waveguide region includes one or more...
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7555333 |
Integrated optical scanning image acquisition and display
An apparatus and method for providing image acquisition and/or image display in a limited region of interest (ROI). The apparatus comprises a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS), preferably...
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7551829 |
Waveguide, waveguide module, optical transmission device, and method of manufacturing waveguide
In a waveguide 10 including a substrate 1 , a lower clad 2 , an upper clad 3 , and a core 4 , the outline of a cross section perpendicular to the light propagating direction of the core 4 ...
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7546014 |
Optical directional coupler
An optical directional coupler ( 1 ) comprises first and second straight optical waveguides ( 2, 3 ) having respective cores ( 2 a, 3 a ) extending longitudinally close to each other to form an...
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7546007 |
Broadband optical via
A broadband optical via provides a low loss interconnection between waveguides in two vertically adjacent planar waveguiding layers. Two waveguides, one in each planar layer, evanescently interact...
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7542642 |
Multi-beam generating device and optical recording device using the same
A multi-beam generating device has plural semiconductor lasers, optical fibers to propagate laser beams generated by the semiconductor lasers, an optical fiber array to propagate the laser beams...
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7540646 |
Light guide element, light guide unit, backlight apparatus and light source apparatus
The present invention provides a light guide element, a light guide unit, a backlight apparatus and a light source apparatus. The light guide element is provided for guiding a light flux from a...
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7539377 |
Method and device for optically coupling optical fibres
An optical coupler, the optical coupler being usable with a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber. The second optical fiber defines a second fiber coupling section and a second fiber...
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7539373 |
Integrated lateral mode converter
The invention describes method and apparatus for a mode converter enabling an adiabatic transfer of a higher order mode into a lower order optical mode within a photonic integrated circuit...
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7535634 |
Optical device, system, and method of generating high angular momentum beams
An optical device, optical system, and method of generating optical beams having high angular momenta are provided. The optical device includes a whispering gallery mode resonator defining a...
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7532793 |
Segmented waveguide coupler
A planar light wave circuit may be formed with a pair of waveguides arranged in close proximity to one another. At least one of the waveguides may be segmented. Through segmentation, the average...
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7532792 |
Optical coupler, a method of its fabrication and use
An optical coupler for coupling light from at least two input fibers into one output fiber and a method of fabricating and use of an optical coupler. The coupler comprises a) an input section...
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7526165 |
Optical coupler devices, methods of their production and use
The present invention relates in general to coupling of light from one or more input waveguides to an output waveguide or output section of a waveguide having other physical dimensions and/or...
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7515804 |
Optical waveguide device
An optical waveguide device 1 a is configured to include a straight waveguide 2 a and bottleneck portions 3 a provided in two locations in the longitudinal direction of the waveguide 2 a ....
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7515789 |
Conical-wedge-shaped lensed fiber and the method of making the same
The present invention relates to a conical wedge-shaped lensed fiber and the method of making the same. The method comprises: (a) providing an optical fiber having a central axis and an end; (b)...
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7512291 |
Fiber bragg crating sensor interrogation method
The invention discloses multi-channel fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogation systems and manufacture thereof. The multi-channel fiber Bragg-grating sensor interrogation unit comprises at least one...
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7499613 |
Y branch circuit and method for manufacturing the same
A Y branch circuit according to the present invention includes; a under clad; a circuit core, formed on the under clad and having a main core and two branch cores, connected to the main core, and...
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7499610 |
Method of using a polarization sorter
A method of using a passive polarization sorter comprising the step of deploying a first waveguide and a second waveguide forming an adiabatic region along a portion of their length. Then, an input...
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7492977 |
All-fiber current sensor
Embodiments of the present invention provide a current sensing device. The current sensing device includes, inter alia, a three-by-three (3×3) optical coupler made of polarization-maintaining (PM)...
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7484899 |
Small-form-factor fiber optic transceiver module having built-in test capability and method
A fiber optic transceiver module having built-in test capability is packaged in a housing to meet small-form-factor (SFF) requirements. The module has a first optical fiber having an angled end...
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7481588 |
Optical fiber composite, devices, and methods of making same
This invention relates to an optical fiber composite comprising an asymmetric optical fiber comprising a first end with a substantially non-circular cross-section, and a substantially circular clad...
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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...
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7480423 |
All-fiber phase controlled delay interferometer and method of making the same
An all-fiber, phase controlled interferometer device is disclosed as well as its method of manufacture. This device is suitable for use in an optical DPSK demodulation system. It is comprised of...
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7477828 |
Optical waveguide
An optical waveguide includes a first end surface; a second end surface, such that the second end surface is smaller than the first end surface; and a body extending between the first end surface...
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7474812 |
Monitor photodetector equipped optical modulator
An optical modulator has, on a substrate having electro-optic effect, an optical waveguide including an input optical waveguide, two branching optical waveguides which branch a light beam incident...
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7474810 |
Method and apparatus for controlling light flux with sub-micron plasmon waveguides
Apparatuses and methods for modulating electromagnetic radiation are disclosed. A plasmon waveguide including an array of metallic nanoparticles disposed on a dielectric substrate is provided. The...
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7469084 |
Structure comprising an adiabatic coupler for adiabatic coupling of light between two optical waveguides and method for manufacturing such a structure
A structure comprises an inner strip waveguide ( 1 ) and an outer rib waveguide ( 2 ) on a common substrate. The thicker inner waveguide ( 1 ) is patterned into an inner core layer ( 3 ). The...
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7460757 |
Distributor system and method for fibre optic cables
The invention relates to a method and a device for coupling fiber optic cables. Said device comprises at least one module, which is equipped with at least one retaining unit for retaining at least...
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7460755 |
Method and apparatus for combining laser light
A fiber optic apparatus formed by fusing together multiple optical fibers and stretching the fused optical fibers to form a tapered portion. The tapered portion is cleaved or cut and polished to...
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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...
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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...
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7450802 |
Optical fiber coupler and optical fiber therefor
An optical fiber coupler is comprised of a fusion-elongated portion 15 in which an optical fiber 11 which is designed and fabricated for use at a wavelength in the vicinity of 1.55 μm and an...
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7447404 |
Photonic integrated circuit
An optical platform including optical bench, an optical or photonic coupling device and a photonic circuit. The photonic circuit includes a photonic crystal along a waveguide and/or defect. The...
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7444050 |
S-shaped curved optical waveguide and optical device
The present invention relates to a curved optical waveguide which is free of any axis-deviation structure in the middle of the waveguide and which has a sigmoidal core shape, wherein the curvature...
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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...
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7440664 |
Microstructured optical waveguide for providing periodic and resonant structures
A microstructured optical waveguide is formed to include a periodic sequence of “plugs” of optically active material within the inner cladding air tunnels. The plugs are utilized as a grating...
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