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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ....
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...