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7639900 Photonic band gap router  
An arrangement includes a photonic band-gap assembly comprising at least one input wave guide and at least one output wave guides, and at least one routing element responsive to signals to...
7620284 Optical waveform shaping device including portions for respectively absorbing and amplifying transmitted optical signal  
An optical waveform shaping device includes a first waveguide portion, formed on a substrate, for transmitting the optical signal and simultaneously absorbing a portion of the optical signal, which...
7616843 Optical functional device and fabrication process of the same  
Arranged for at least one of a pair of branch optical waveguides in a Mach-Zehnder type interference optical system is a ring resonance type phase shifter for modulating a light wave signal...
7587107 Plasmon switch  
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for logic.
7583868 3R recovery system  
A full 3R (re-timing, re-shaping, re-amplifying) recovery system is provided. In the full 3R recovery system, a self-pulsating laser diode (SP-LD) and an electroabsorption modulator (EAM) are...
7580594 Optical modulation element and optical modulation device having the same  
An optical modulation element includes a waveguide defined based on a defect in a photonic crystal, a carrier conducting region for conducting a carrier to the waveguide, an electrode for injecting...
7570849 Integrated circuit device having optically coupled layers  
In an integrated circuit device comprising a vertical arrangement of integrated circuit layers, coupling of an optical signal between a first integrated circuit layer thereof and a second...
7557980 Optical path switching device  
An optical path switching device is provided. The optical path switching device utilizes the electro-optic effect to apply an electric field on different reflective elements without moving an...
7542633 Plasmon gate  
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for logic.
7532776 Optical element and optical switch  
A core layer of an optical waveguide is grown as a film comprised of an electro-optic material with a rhombohedral structure and grown above a substrate with (100) crystal orientation on a major face.
7532785 Photonic interconnects for computer system devices  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic interconnects that can be used for on-chip as well as off-chip communications between computer system components. In one...
7519240 Multi-section coupler to mitigate guide-guide asymmetry  
A wavelength independent multi-section optical coupler having at least three optical couplers, and at least two differential phase cells. Each optical coupler has two waveguides forming a coupling...
7515774 Methods and apparatus for single fiber optical telemetry  
Single fiber optical telemetry systems and methods are disclosed. The methods and systems facilitate input and output via a single fiber optic interface. The optical telemetry systems and methods...
7505649 Plasmon router  
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for routing.
7499604 Optically coupled resonant pressure sensor and process  
A process for fabricating an optically coupled resonant pressure sensor includes the steps of forming a sensor die including at least one optically coupled resonator from a first semiconductor...
7489836 Optical interconnect system for high speed microprocessor input/output (IO)  
A microchip includes optical layers with integrated waveguides and modulators. A continuous wave light beam coupled to incoming waveguide(s) is modulated and transmitted off-chip by outgoing...
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...
7460739 Lithium niobate optical modulator  
An optical modulator comprises a Z-cut lithium niobate substrate ( 21 ) on which is formed a Mach-Zehnder interferometer having two generally parallel waveguides ( 23, 25 ) lying beneath a buffer...
7450788 Optical splitter/coupler and optical communication system  
An optical splitter/coupler has: a multimode waveguide having an electrooptic effect, and propagating light in a multimode; one incident waveguide propagating light in a single mode, and inputting...
7447395 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...
7440643 Variable light controlling device and variable light controlling method  
A variable light controlling device comprising a substrate, an optical waveguide disposed on the substrate, a first heater and a second heater to change the optical waveguide's temperature is...
7434940 Light coupling system and method  
A light coupling system includes a waveguide, configured to receive light from at least two light sources and to internally reflect light therein; a diffraction grating, disposed upon the...
7428348 Electro-optical switching using coupled photonic crystal waveguides  
An electro-optical switch implemented in coupled photonic crystal waveguides is disclosed. The switch is proposed and analyzed using both a finite-difference time-domain (“FDTD”) method and a...
7426326 Low loss bridge electrode with rounded corners for electro-optic modulators  
An electro-optic modulator having a substrate, one or more optical waveguides, at least one active electrode formed on the substrate and aligned over the optical waveguide, the active electrode...
7400788 Linearized optical modulator having a plurality of coupling functions  
Invention discloses an apparatus that provides linear optical modulation of light carrier signals by an electrical modulation signal. Linearized modulation is achieved through the selection of a...
7382942 Optical waveguide devices  
It is provided an optical waveguide device in which the radius of curvature of a curved part of an optical waveguide can be lowered and the radiation loss of light in the curved part can be...
7379672 Photonic RF distribution system  
The present photonic RF generation and distribution system provides a system and method for distributing an RF output signal. The photonic RF distribution system includes two optical sources for...
7366373 Plasmon switch  
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for logic.
7359599 Optical near-field generator and near-field optical recording and reproduction apparatus  
Decrease in optical near-field intensity is prevented when an light propagating medium made of a high refractive index material, such as a waveguide or a lens, is combined with a scatterer for...
7349603 Optical arrangement with two optical inputs/outputs and production methods  
Optical arrangement comprising two parallel plates each with a through-hole forming an optical input/output with a given optical axis and one at least partly optical component placed between the...
7340142 Integrated optoelectronic device and method of fabricating the same  
An integrated optoelectronic device includes optical waveguide elements containing InGaAlAs as a principal component, formed on an InP substrate and connected in an end-to-end fashion by butt...
7336855 Integration of a waveguide self-electrooptic effect device and a vertically coupled interconnect waveguide  
A self-electrooptic effect device (“SEED”) is integrated with waveguide interconnects through the use of vertical directional couplers. Light initially propagating in the interconnect waveguide...
7333682 Photoelectric composite interconnection assembly and electronics device using same  
A photoelectric composite interconnection assembly having: a flexible substrate having an electric interconnection; and an electrical interface provided at both ends of the electric...
7315665 Liquid-crystal planar-waveguide apparatus and method for fast control of polarization and other properties of light  
A polarization controller includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells positioned as cladding on a waveguide that propagates a beam of light so that the evanescent field extends into the liquid...
7315663 Electronically controlled photonic crystal optical switch  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic crystal switches. In one embodiment, a photonic crystal switch a photonic crystal switch includes a photonic-crystal-based...
7310454 Photonic bandgap modulator, amplifier, demux, and TDM devices  
An optical device includes at least two photonic bandgap crystal (PBG) stacks that are each comprised of alternating layers of high and low index materials. A defect region is formed in a cavity...
7308161 System and method for wavelength selective switching employing single-element gratings  
A wavelength selective switch device is disclosed that includes an elongated signal communication path extending from a first end of the device to a second end of the device. The signal...
7302140 Optical switch and matrix optical switch  
The invention provides an optical switch including a substrate which has conductivity or semiconductivity, an optical waveguide layer which is formed on the substrate, and a control electrode which...
7302141 Y-branch-based thermo-optic digital optical switches and variable optical attenuators with non-uniform heating  
The present invention is concerned with 1×2 thermo-optic digital optical switches known in the art as “Y-branch digital optical switches” and variable optical attenuators.
7292740 Apparatus and method for controlling transmission through a photonic band gap crystal  
An apparatus ( 10 ) and method for dynamic frequency control of a photonic band gap crystal includes an acoustic band gap crystal ( 12 ) having a defect site ( 14 ), a photonic band gap crystal (...
7260286 Optical fiber coupling having liquid crystal adaptive coupler  
An optical fiber coupling, for example, an optical switch, for coupling a light source with a light-receiving end face of an optical waveguide comprises a lens for focusing a light beam emitted...
7260280 Optical device  
The present invention provides a highly-integrated and compact optical element and further provides an optical element having various functions such as lower driving voltage, chirping suppression...
7242821 Enhanced performance mode converter  
An optical mode converter comprising a slow wave electrode structure and including Schottky barriers for preventing an accumulation of free carriers in the optical waveguide region of the...
7233725 1×N fanout waveguide photodetector  
A 1×N fanout waveguide detector is disclosed. The detector includes a multiple-mode interference (MMI) cavity with input and output ends. A single-mode waveguide is optically coupled to the input...
7231102 Electrooptic modulator employing DC coupled electrodes  
Optical devices are provided for optical signal modulation under the control of an electrical signal propagating along a traveling wave electrode structure. The electrode structure comprises a...
7228014 System for reducing the electrical return loss of a lithium niobate traveling wave optical modulator with low characteristic impedance  
An electro-optical modulator is disclosed that has a microwave input, chip with a thin film resistor or a lumped resistor located between an input RF connector and an RF electrode on a Lithium...
7224869 Low loss electrodes for electro-optic modulators  
An electro-optic modulator includes a substrate, at least two parallel optical waveguides, at least one ground plane, at least one active electrode with at least two lower portions of the active...
7212700 Electro-optic hybrid circuit board  
The invention provides an electro-optic hybrid circuit board having an optical waveguide superposed on a wiring circuit board, the electro-optic hybrid circuit board comprising: an insulating...
7200290 Optical switch  
An optical switch has an optical waveguide whose output path of an optical signal branches into two, a carrier injection section which is provided to a branch portion of the optical waveguide and...
7197197 Method for detecting projectile impact location and velocity vector  
A method of determining the path of a projectile comprises detecting multiple time of arrivals of the projectile in multiple intersecting planes and determining the path and speed of the projectile...
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