| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,522,827 |
Laser devices for performing a myringotomy A lasing device for performing a myringotomy or like procedure is provided. The distal end portion of an optical fiber used to transmit a laser energy beam to... |
| US-6,522,826 |
System and method of winding a fog coil An optical fiber coil assembly includes an optical fiber wound about an axis of rotation. A first section of the fiber, from the intermediate point to the first... |
| US-6,522,825 |
Optical-to-electrical conversion on rear-panel transition cards A method and apparatus for improving fault tolerance of a midplane system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus provide a rear optical ... |
| US-6,522,824 |
Corner wall-mount fiber optic connector housing A corner wall-mount fiber optic connector housing includes an enclosure having a back plate for mounting in a corner between two walls. The enclosure is provided... |
| US-6,522,823 |
Low profile cable exit trough A low profile cable exit trough including an arch-wall with a sidewall portion. A projecting member extends from a concave surface of the arch-wall and is spaced... |
| US-6,522,822 |
Strongly confined polarization-independent single-mode optical ridge
waveguide A strongly confined ridge waveguide that provides substantially reduced polarization sensitivity, without significant compromise for other waveguide... |
| US-6,522,821 |
Dispersion-compensating optical fiber and optical transmission system
including the same The present invention relates to a dispersion-compensating optical fiber which can transmit, with a low loss, light signals having a high power; and an optical... |
| US-6,522,820 |
Method of fabricating microstructured optical fibers A method of fabricating a microstructured optical fiber is described in which a plurality of solid silica wafers are generated corresponding to longitudinally... |
| US-6,522,819 |
Optical fiber and optical transmission line using the optical fiber An optical fiber for forming an optical transmission line suitable for the wavelength division multiplexing transmission by connecting to a positive dispersion... |
| US-6,522,818 |
Method for efficient four-wave mixing generation and short pulse generation
equipment using the method The present invention provides a method for generating four-wave mixing to obtain idler light with high efficiency, in which the range of lengths of an optical... |
| US-6,522,817 |
Optical fiber array and method of formation Preselected alignment of an array of N optical fibers is obtained using a relatively thick primary substrate with a thin layer mounted thereon. The primary... |
| US-6,522,816 |
Optical fiber bundle array component An optical component 10 is constructed in such structure that a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel to each other and the component has an... |
| US-6,522,815 |
Method of producing an optical cable with an excessive length of the
optical waveguides The invention relates to a method of producing an optical cable (1) or a modular unit for an optical cable. According to the inventive method, a metal strip that... |
| US-6,522,814 |
Wiring of optical communication cable to buildings Wirings of optical fiber cable to a building having at least one story including optical core wires or taped optical core wires including at least one wire for... |
| US-6,522,813 |
Alignment technique for optical fiber array Improved apparatus and method allow rapid and precise alignment of a fiber optic array on a substrate, in which the offset between the end faces of the array and... |
| US-6,522,812 |
Method of precision fabrication by light exposure and structure of tunable
waveguide bragg grating A method of fabricating a tunable waveguide Bragg grating is provided. The tunable Bragg grating is preferably formed through an ultra-violet (UV) exposure... |
| US-6,522,811 |
Arrayed waveguide grating An optical waveguide device for guiding an optical signal comprising a substrate, a waveguide extending at least partially across the substrate, and at least two... |
| US-6,522,810 |
Optical loss filter The optical loss filter according to the present invention is configured such that a first long-period grating and a second long-period grating are formed in... |
| US-6,522,809 |
Waveguide grating device and method of controlling Bragg wavelength of
waveguide grating A waveguide grating device controlling Bragg wavelength after manufacture of the device includes an optical waveguide on a substrate. A variable stress is... |
| US-6,522,808 |
System and method for writing fiber gratings and other components A system for writing fiber gratings has a plurality of writing stations, each writing station including a fiber mounting fixture for receiving an optical fiber... |
| US-6,522,807 |
High efficiency reflector for directing collimated light into light guides A reflector for reflecting light from an elongate light source into the input end of a light guide having a diameter "D". The light source is inserted through... |
| US-6,522,806 |
Optical fiber including a diffuser portion and continuous sleeve for the
transmission of light A novel optical fiber, and a method for its production, having a diffuser portion and continuous unitarily-constructed outer sleeve, which is adapted for the... |
| US-6,522,805 |
Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer An optical filter has at least one input waveguide, a wavelength dispersive device receiving light from the optical input, and an optical output having a... |
| US-6,522,804 |
Connectorized outside fiber optic drop A connectorized outside fiber optic drop that facilitates the deployment of fiber to the home by connecting a local terminal to a fiber optic interface device,... |
| US-6,522,803 |
Optical cross-connect equipment Optical cross-connect equipment in which the intensity of a signal light input to optical amplifiers is held constant. Optical cross-connect equipment includes... |
| US-6,522,802 |
Optical switch using support structures with both fixed mirrors and
pivotable mirrors An optical switch uses composite mirrors having individually addressable pivotable micromirrors on one side and a fixed mirror arrangement on another side.... |
| US-6,522,801 |
Micro-electro-optical mechanical device having an implanted dopant included
therein and a method of manufacture... The present invention provides a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) optical device. The micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) optical device includes a... |
| US-6,522,800 |
Microstructure switches A microstructure switch (10, 50) having a main body (13), a moveable switching element (17), one or more membranes (26, 52) which connect the moveable switching... |
| US-6,522,799 |
Optical planar waveguide device and method of fabrication A device for processing an optical signal, the device comprising a processing element monolithically integrated with a planar silica-based waveguide structure in... |
| US-6,522,798 |
Modular optoelectric array transducer An optoelectric transducer module is adapted for mounting at or near the edge of a printed circuit board, for transducing between optical signals flowing in an... |
| US-6,522,797 |
Seismic optical acoustic recursive sensor system A marine seismic fiber optic acoustic sensor system having internal mirrors with a low reflectivity written into the fiber to form a series of continuous, linear... |
| US-6,522,796 |
Depolarizing polarization mode combiner A pump source for a fiber Raman amplifier uses multiple lasers to generate high pump power or to generate a pump beam having a tailored spectrum for producing a... |
| US-6,522,795 |
Tunable etched grating for WDM optical communication systems In accordance with the present invention, a waveguide grating comprises a core and a first cladding material adjacent the core. The first cladding is configured,... |
| US-6,522,794 |
Display panel with electrically-controlled waveguide-routing A flat panel display is based on a new switching technology for routing laser light among a set of optical waveguides and coupling that light toward the viewer.... |
| US-6,522,793 |
Low voltage electro-optic modulator with integrated driver An electro-optic modulator is provided which comprises an electro-optic substrate, a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer optical waveguide structure, and at least two... |
| US-6,522,792 |
Light modulator of waveguide type An optical waveguide modulator 40 has a substrate 1 made of a material with an electrooptic effect, an optical waveguide 2 to guide a lightwave 2, a travelling... |
| US-6,522,791 |
Dynamic user interface with scanned image improvement assist The present invention generally relates to a digital scanner for scanning images and is directed to a method and apparatus for accurately scanning documents and... |
| US-6,522,790 |
Method and apparatus for merging images Two document images which have been compressed using the JBIG-2 standard for facsimile applications so as to include a plurality of index numbers, one or more... |
| US-6,522,789 |
Apparatus and method for processing images An image processing apparatus which is capable of combining two images desirably by providing weight and performing an image editing operation. The image... |
| US-6,522,788 |
Imaging apparatus with offset compensation The imaging apparatus comprises a detector constituted by a two-dimensional matrix of opto-electronic sensors and by correction means for correcting the output... |
| US-6,522,787 |
Method and system for rendering and combining images to form a synthesized
view of a scene containing image... An image processing system for imaging a scene to mosaic, selecting a new viewpoint of the scene, and rendering a synthetic image from the mosaic of the scene... |
| US-6,522,786 |
Gradient filter and method for three dimensional NMR data set A method and apparatus for reducing noise in a three dimensional rectilinear parallelepiped data point array includes both erosion and dilation processes for... |
| US-6,522,785 |
Classified adaptive error recovery method and apparatus A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for restoring a deteriorated signal to an undeteriorated signal. A deteriorated signal consists of a plurality of... |
| US-6,522,784 |
Enhanced compression of gray-level images A method for compression of an input image that includes a plurality of pixels having respective input pixel values. The method includes quantizing the input... |
| US-6,522,783 |
Re-indexing for efficient compression of palettized images A method for re-indexing a palette-indexed image is disclosed. The method uses an array of symbol cross-counts that indicate the degree of occurrence, within the... |
| US-6,522,782 |
Image and text searching techniques Conducting a search for both text and images includes receiving input, which may include one or more search criteria for at least one of searchable image... |
| US-6,522,781 |
Particle image analyzer A particle image analyzer that facilitates display by designating on a distribution an image desired to be displayed from among a large number of recorded images... |
| US-6,522,780 |
Indexing of images and/or text Indexing images for use in a searchable index includes receiving an image. A joint histogram may be computed for the received image such that the joint histogram... |
| US-6,522,779 |
Representing an image with a posterized joint histogram Representing an image includes extracting information reflecting one or more characteristics of an image that then is used to compute a first histogram vector.... |
| US-6,522,778 |
Method of converting colorimetric values, and color image output apparatus In a color image output apparatus for producing a color proof, even when target gradations corresponding to printing conditions (inks, sheets, and printing press... |