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7448809 Angle-specific multi-fiber ferrules and associated methods of manufacture  
The present invention provides a method of manufacture that minimizes the lateral offset of a plurality of optical fiber holes associated with a multi-fiber ferrule, including: determining an...
7430350 Multi-length flexible image bundle  
A method for manufacturing an image fiber bundle that includes the steps of aligning a plurality of image fibers into a bundle, bonding the plurality of image fibers in at least three regions to...
7403686 Fiber optic cable splicing technique  
The invention is a staggered splice and method for making the same. The staggered splice is used to join two multi-fiber optic cables. Each opposing pair of optic fibers is cleaved such that they...
7308807 Method of manufacturing a leached fiber bundle  
A mesh ( 36 ) is placed around a bundle ( 32 ) of fused glass fibers. The bundle is then immersed in a leaching bath ( 44 ). The ends of the bundle are protected from the bath fluid by furrules (...
7272956 Method for manufacturing a multimode fiber pump power combiner  
A multimode to low-mode optical fiber is constructed by forming a plurality of multimode optical fibers into a fiber bundle. The bundle is then selectively heated and drawn to form a bi-tapered...
7221448 Test cell for a noble gas polarizer  
The invention relates to a sample cell with a glass body comprising a gas inlet and a gas outlet and at least one orifice, a plane glass window is fused into the orifice, the shape and size of the...
7149399 Glass bonded fiber array and method for the fabrication thereof  
In accordance with the present invention a fiber optic array is provided. The array includes a substrate having a fiber support surface. The array further includes an optical fiber having a fiber...
7080529 Method for making large diameter optical waveguide having Bragg grating and being configured for reducing the bulk modulus of compressibility thereof  
The present invention provides a method for making a multicore large diameter optical waveguide having a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters, two or more inner cores, a cladding...
7024078 Fiber device with high nonlinearity, dispersion control and gain  
An optical fiber is tapered, for example, by heating it with a CO 2 laser. The tapering process is controlled such that the taper transition regions have taper angles selected to minimize loss....
6959131 Achromatic fiber-optic power splitter and related methods  
An achromatic power splitter is formed from multiple optical fibers. The achromatic power splitter operates single mode, which permits the power splitter to operate substantially insensitive to...
6928218 Fiber plate, manufacturing method thereof, radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system  
Disclosed is a technology for obtaining a large area fiber plate suited for downsizing a radiation imaging apparatus and reducing its cost and excellent of workability in the manufacturing process....
6879756 Optical delay line and manufacturing method therefor  
An optical delay line of a configuration in which a number of components such as a circulator and an optical coupler is reduced is to be provided. To this end, the optical delay line has a...
6865322 Fiber optic device with enhanced resistance to environmental conditions and method  
A method for producing fiber optic devices having improved intrinsic resistance to external environmental conditions and a fiber optic device made my the method are disclosed. The fabrication...
6785448 Coupling method of coupler  
A coupling method of a coupler includes the following steps: (1) making a pair of optical fibers with different photosensitivity fused and drawn, (2) irradiating specific portions of the pair of...
6763685 Fabrication of multiplexing and demultiplexing single-mode fiber optic couplers  
Multiplexing and demultiplexing single-mode fiber optic couplers are fabricated by aligning two single-mode fibers which have been stripped of their protective plastic jackets and cleaned so that...
6718106 Cladding-pumped optical fibre and method for making same  
The invention concerns an optical fiber pumped through the cladding, including: a core having an optical index n 1, around the core, a first cladding having an index n 2 lower than n 1 , and...
6640037 Thin walled core band-gap waveguides  
Disclosed is a method of making a photonic crystal preform which provides improved properties of the photonic band-gap crystal waveguide fiber drawn therefrom. The photonic crystal preform defect...
6614961 Method of fabricating a fused-type mode-selective directional coupler  
A method of fabricating a fused-type directional coupler that can be made in a simple manner. The present invention is characterized in that a pair of optical fibers satisfying a particular phase...
6543256 Optical fiber coupler making apparatus made from zirconia and method  
In an optical fiber coupler making apparatus which makes an optical fiber coupler by thermally fusing a plurality of optical fibers together by use of a heater and then elongating thus thermally...
6510709 Shaping mold optical fiber guide block processes for the production thereof and optical fiber array  
Disclosed are a shaping mold for producing an optical fiber guide block which permits highly accurate positioning and fixing of optical fibers, an optical fiber guide block having such excellent...
6442317 Holding ribbonized optical fibers  
Optical fibers which are disposed in parallel and at each other in a plane, are fixed in this position by pieces of tapes provided with an adhesive on their surfaces facing the fibers, so that the...
6434976 Method for manufacturing glass product  
A manufacturing method for a glass product not having a rotatively symmetric body like an optical fiber fixing member but having a fine structure as of optical fiber engagement portions, to...
6397636 Method of applying a precursor to an assembled fiber bundle and fusing the bundle together  
Optical fiber bundles having high optical throughput can be produced with relatively high yield if gaps between fibers are eliminated by application of a particle-containing glass precursor...
6289699 Wavelength selective optical couplers  
A wavelength selective optical fiber coupler having various applications in the field of optical communications is disclosed. The coupler is composed of dissimilar waveguides in close proximity. A...
6278821 Segmented cane mach-zehnder interferometer  
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer for performing an optical function on a plurality of optical fibers is provided. The interferometer includes a first cane segment surrounding the optical fibers. The...
6244323 Method for stripping coatings from optical fibers  
A method and apparatus are provided for removing protective coating material from a fiber optic cable including one or more optical fibers. A stream of hot inert gas is directed onto the cable to...
6237370 Apparatus for automated production, and/or packaging and/or testing of fiber optic devices including optical fiber system components and optical fibers  
A system for automated production of a fiber optic device includes a chamber regulating an environment and/or atmosphere within for the automated production of the fiber optic device. The system...
6123801 Method and apparatus for stripping coatings from optical fibers  
A method and apparatus are provided for removing protective coating material from a fiber optic cable including one or more optical fibers. A stream of hot inert gas is directed onto the cable to...
6105395 Manufacturing method for glass molded products  
In a method for molding glass products having a fine structure as of an optical fiber holder with a high size precision, a mold used for the molding has the fine structure in a size such that a...
6089044 Process for making preforms for multicore optical fibers  
Process for making preforms for multicore optical fibers. According to this process, several elementary preforms are made, a first machining is performed on them such that a chosen geometric model...
5996376 Methods of forming optical rods including three-dimensional patterns on end faces thereof  
A method of patterning a plurality of optical rods includes bonding a plurality of optical rods into an array wherein each of the optical rods is aligned so that an exposed end face of each of the...
5948202 Method for removing a protective coating from optical fibers and making a photonic device  
A method and apparatus are provided for removing protective coating material from a fiber optic cable including one or more optical fibers. A stream of hot inert gas is directed onto the cable to...
5944867 Method of manufacturing a multi-core optical fiber  
A method of manufacturing a multi-core optical fiber, the method including assembling together a plurality of substantially identical single-core optical fiber preforms (2', 2"), referred to as...
5938812 Method for constructing a coherent imaging bundle  
A method for constructing a glass fiber imaging bundle includes drawing a continuous glass fiber from a dispenser. The dispenser is mounted for movement parallel to a drum having first, second, and...
5935288 Method for producing fused fiber bundles  
A method for making a fused fiber bundle by providing a bundle of optical fibers, heating the fibers by a flame extending axially along the bundle, and translating the flame axially along the...
5889908 1xN fiber optic coupler/splitter  
The end portions of a plurality of optical optical fibers are stripped; the coated portions of the fibers constituting pigtails. The stripped portion of one of the fibers is fused to an uncoated...
5764830 1×N and N×N fiber optic couplers  
The present invention provides fiber optic couplers for use with at least three optic fibers. The optic fibers arranged in a linear array, that is, the optic fibers are coupled side by side. The...
5745626 Method for and encapsulation of an optical fiber  
A method and device is provided wherein a reinforcement is provided for one or more optical fibers. One or more fibers are inserted into a sleeve made of a material that is substantially the same...
5695540 Method of spacing fibers of optical fiber tapes and coupling the fibers  
Optical fibers are fixed to elongating tables by optical fiber fixing jigs. Coatings are removed from portions of the fibers and respective fibers of two different groups are placed into tight...
5682453 Method of securing optical fiber components, devices and fibers to the same or to mounting fixtures  
A method of bonding glass-based optical elements comprising the steps of positioning a first glass-based optical element relative to a second glass-based optical element, applying a glass-based...
5620494 Method for manufacturing optical fiber coupler  
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an optical fiber coupler in which an optical fiber is elongated and heated by using a heating source under a constant tension. The heat...
5594822 Fiber optic couplers, preform and method of making same  
Overclad fiber optic couplers are made by inserting the uncoated portions of a plurality of optical fibers into the bore of a glass tube, collapsing the tube midregion onto the fibers and...
5553179 Varied insertion loss fiber optic coupling and method of making same  
A varied ratio coupler, and a method of forming the same, constructed and arranged, in a unitary structure, to cause optical power in an input optical fiber to couple asymmetrically to at least two...
5524158 Method of making fiber optic couplers  
Overclad fiber optic couplers typically include an elongated glass body having a solid midregion through which at least two glass optical fibers extend in optical signal coupling relationship. At...
5417734 Method of producing optical fiber couplers using rectifier rods to provide even heat distribution  
Optical fibers are fixed to elongating tables by optical fiber fixing jigs. Coatings are removed from portions of the fibers and respective fibers of two different groups are placed into tight...
5295205 Environmentally stable monolithic Mach-Zehnder device  
A monolithic, environmentally stable Mach-Zehnder device is formed by threading first and second dissimilar optical fibers through the bore of a glass tube. The tube is evacuated and heated to...
5131735 Fiber optic coupler  
A fiber optic coupler is formed by providing a glass tube having a longitudinal aperture extending therethrough. Glass optical fibers, each having a core, cladding and coating are disposed within...
5119453 Wavelength-flattened 2x2 splitter for single-mode optical waveguides and method of making same  
The optical waveguide coupler device is formed on two laterally adjacent optical fibers for splitting with wavelength-flattened ratios an incident light intensity into the two fibers. Adjacent...
5024501 Manufacturing method for polarization maintaining optical fiber couplers  
The present invention discloses a manufacturing method for polarization maintaining optical fiber couplers which are used for joining light signals and at optical fiber branch points. The disclosed...
4950318 Method of joining self-aligning optical fibers  
A method of forming an optical fiber joint between a pair of elongated optical fibers each of which has a longitudinal axis surrounded by a core and cladding having different refractive indices and...
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