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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...
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