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8175422 Optical modulator  
In an optical modulator, a first electrode portion having a plurality of first electrodes is provided on the upper surface of a base part having a periodically-poled structure and a second...
8103136 Thermo-optic devices providing thermal recirculation  
Thermo-optical devices providing heater recirculation in an integrated optical device are described. The thermo-optical devices include at least one waveguide having a non-linear path length in...
8098965 Electroabsorption modulator based on fermi level tuning  
A novel electroabsorption modulator based on tuning the Fermi level relative to mid-gap states in a semiconductor. The modulator includes a semiconductor waveguide that has an input port and an...
8090229 Method and device for providing electronic circuitry on a backplate  
A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a...
8086078 Electronic device  
An electronic device in which a signal electrode has a bent portion. Earth electrodes are formed with the signal electrode between. A width of a gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode...
8081851 Electrooptical high-index contrast waveguide component  
A high-index contrast waveguide component is presented, which is based on the fast changing of the transmission properties of an optical waveguide by applying electric voltages, or by embossing...
8031012 Optoelectronic oscillator and pulse generator  
The objects of the present invention are to shorten a cavity length of an optoelectronic oscillator and to integrate on a semiconductor or SiO2-substrate. An optoelectronic oscillator 10 have an...
8031986 Optical control device  
The optical device includes a substrate having an electrooptic effect; a plurality of optical waveguides formed in the substrate in parallel to one another; and a polarization inversion region...
8019185 Unit-cell array optical signal processor  
This invention provides a versatile unit cell as well as programmable and reconfigurable optical signal processors (such as optical-domain RF filters) that are constructed from arrays of those unit...
7986452 High-speed multiplied signal generating method and device  
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus that can obtain a multiplied harmonic signal fast and with ease, and the method using the apparatus. The object is attained by the...
7978953 Methods for visually inspecting interferometric modulators for defects  
A method is provided for visual inspection of an array of interferometric modulators in various driven states. This method may include driving multiple columns or rows of interferometric modulators...
7973265 Coupled optical waveguide resonators with heaters for thermo-optic control of wavelength and compound filter shape  
An integrated optical device is disclosed comprising a substrate, optical waveguide, and compound optical resonator having a temperature sensor, at least two coupled optical resonators, and a...
7953305 Optical waveguide device and producing method thereof  
An optical waveguide device includes; a substrate having an electro-optic effect, and a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide formed substantially in parallel on a top face of the...
7949210 Silicon-compatible surface plasmon optical elements  
This invention provides fundamental science and novel device architectures for surface plasmon (SP)-based, complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible, optical elements such as...
7933476 Method and device for providing electronic circuitry on a backplate  
A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a...
7933483 Electro-optical memory cell  
An electro-optical memory cell having a non-volatile programmable refractive index and a method of making. The memory cell includes: a waveguiding structure having a transition metal oxide with...
7925123 Optical control device  
A light control element is provided with a thin board having electro-optical effects; an optical waveguide formed on the thin board; and a control electrode for controlling light that passes...
7925122 Slot waveguide for color display  
A slot waveguide utilized as a color-selecting element. The slot waveguide includes a first layer of plasmon supporting material, the first layer being optically opaque and having an input slit...
7920769 Optical element, integrated optic device and optical information transmission system  
In a compact formed by subjecting an ultrafine particle brittle material supplied on a substrate to mechanical impact force as a load, whereby the ultrafine particle brittle material is crushed and...
7912327 Hybrid strip-loaded electro-optic polymer/sol-gel modulator  
A hybrid strip-loaded EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap...
7912326 Optical control device  
A light control element is provided with a thin board having electro-optical effects; an optical waveguide formed on the thin board; and a control electrode for controlling light that passes...
7903910 Coupled optical waveguide resonators with heaters for thermo-optic control of wavelength and compound filter shape  
An integrated optical device is disclosed comprising a substrate, optical waveguide, and compound optical resonator having a temperature sensor, at least two coupled optical resonators, and a...
7873329 Transceiver having mixer/filter within receiving/transmitting cavity  
A transceiver capable of processing signals having wavelengths of less than 1 millimeter and/or more than 1 millimeter comprising a mixer/filter circuit coupled to an IF filter where said...
7865053 Multi-semiconductor slab electro-optic modulator and process for using the same  
In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a substrate having a surface and an optical waveguide having a ridge-shaped semiconductor optical core, the ridge-shaped semiconductor optical core being...
7848601 Integrated optical latch  
Techniques are disclosed for optical switching and data control, without the interaction of electronic switching speeds. In one example embodiment, a common cavity optical latch is provided that...
7831358 Arrangement and method for obtaining information using phase difference of modulated illumination  
Land-based vehicle including an arrangement for monitoring objects in or about a vehicle includes a source from which modulated illumination is emitted into an area in or about the vehicle, a...
7831113 Optical pulse position modulator with chirp compensation  
An optical pulse position modulator includes a substrate with parallel first and second sides, the substrate including a first waveguide channel and a parallel second waveguide channel orthogonal...
7826688 Enhancing the sensitivity of resonant optical modulating and switching devices  
Embodiments of the inventions described herein comprise a device and method for manipulating an optical beam. The method comprises propagating an optical beam through a waveguide in proximity to a...
7809216 Bi-directional signal interface and apparatus using same  
A signal interface includes a dual-drive device having a first and a second input port that receive an outgoing signal. One of the first and the second input ports also receive an incoming signal....
RE41748 Tunable bragg grating and devices employing the same  
The present invention relates generally to electro-optically active waveguide segments, and more particularly to the use of a selective voltage input to control the phase, frequency and/or...
7801189 Cross modulation-based opto-electronic oscillator with tunable electro-optic optical whispering gallery mode resonator  
Examples and implementations of photonic devices and techniques based on whispering gallery mode resonators formed of electro-optic materials to effectuate cross modulation between whispering...
7787714 Optical modulators  
An object of the present invention is to widen the band of the velocity matching frequency as well as to reduce the electrode loss in the modulation electrode. An optical modulator has a substrate...
7782520 Duobinary modulation with a lumped-element Mach-Zehnder device  
Duobinary and NRZ modulation of an X-Gb/s optical signal is achieved with a lumped element InP Mach-Zehnder device configured to operate at X/k-Gb/s where k>1 and arranged in a push-pull...
7772551 Refractive index variable element and method of varying refractive index  
A refractive index variable element includes a structure including quantum dots having discrete energy levels and a dielectric matrix surrounding the quantum dots, and an electron injector...
7764851 Optical modulators  
An optical modulator has an optical waveguide substrate having a pair of principal surfaces, a pair of side surfaces an incident face and exit face of light, the substrate being composed of a...
7760970 Single photon absorption all-optical modulator in silicon  
A single-photon absorption all-optical modulator, systems employing the same, and methods of making and using the same. An illustrative example is provided based on silicon semiconductor technology...
7756367 Photonic systems and methods for encoding data in carrier electromagnetic waves  
Various embodiments of the present invention are related to photonic systems and methods that can be used to encode data in carrier electromagnetic waves. In one embodiment of the present...
7756376 Optical functional waveguide, optical modulator, arrayed waveguide grating, and dispersion compensation circuit  
An optical functional waveguide having a small size, used with stored energy, controlling the phase of light at high speed, and adjusting the optical path length. The optical functional waveguide...
7738745 Method of biasing and operating electro-optic polymer optical modulators  
A method that includes (a) thermally biasing an electro-optic polymer device using an electrode; and (b) driving the electro-optic polymer device by applying a high frequency signal to the device...
7729575 Plasmon router  
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configuration scan support plasmons for routing.
7724999 Electro-optical device  
An electro-optical device having a non-volatile programmable refractive index. The device includes: a waveguiding structure with waveguiding material, the waveguiding structure defining an optical...
7720319 Regression and erosion measurement system and method  
A method and system for determining the length of collocated waveguides in a high erosion environment, such as a solid rocket motor or a braking system. The system provides for mating optical...
7715663 Integrated optical latch  
Techniques are disclosed for optical switching and data control, without the interaction of electronic switching speeds. In one example embodiment, a common cavity optical latch is provided that...
7711213 Nanowire-based modulators  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to nanowire-based modulators that can be used to encode information in a carrier channel of electromagnetic radiation. In one embodiment of...
7711215 Optical amplitude modulation system capable of cancelling high order component  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a DSB-SC system capable of suppressing a third order component. The DSB-SC modulation having high extinction ratio can be realized by adjusting...
7701630 External optical modulator with domain inversion for providing constant chip versus frequency  
The invention relates to an external optical modulator comprising a Mach-Zehnder having a signal electrode including at least four sections of unequal length to one another positioned over an...
7700936 Fabrication of quantum dots embedded in three-dimensional photonic crystal lattice  
In one embodiment, a method of producing an optoelectronic nanostructure includes preparing a substrate; providing a quantum well layer on the substrate; etching a volume of the substrate to...
7697793 Silicon modulator offset tuning arrangement  
A silicon-based optical modulator structure includes one or more separate localized heating elements for changing the refractive index of an associated portion of the structure and thereby...
7693356 Lithium niobate optical modulator  
An optical modulator comprises a Z-cut lithium niobate substrate on which is formed a Mach-Zehnder interferometer having two generally parallel waveguides lying beneath a buffer layer of dielectric...
7693355 Hybrid electro-optic polymer/sol-gel modulator  
A hybrid EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and ...