Patents Examined by Michael Stahl
-
Patent number: 11977258Abstract: Disclosed are a structure with a substrate-embedded waveguide and a method of forming the structure. The waveguide includes cladding material lining a trench in a substrate, a core in the trench on the cladding material, and at least one cavity within the core. Each cavity extends from one end of the core toward the opposite end and contains a low refractive index material or is under vacuum so the waveguide is an arrow waveguide. An insulator layer is on the substrate and extends laterally over the waveguide and a semiconductor layer is on the insulator layer. Additionally, depending upon the embodiment, an additional waveguide can be aligned above the substrate-embedded waveguide either on the isolation region or on a waveguide extender that extends at least partially through the isolation region and the insulator layer to the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.Inventors: Laura J. Silverstein, Steven M. Shank, Judson R. Holt, Yusheng Bian
-
Patent number: 11976982Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring the temperature of optical fibers during fusion splicing or thermal processing, said method comprising: a) measuring, using an interferometric method, a change in an optical path length in an optical fiber due to temperature dependent properties of the optical fiber during fusion splicing or thermal processing; and b) determining the temperature of the optical fiber based on the measured changes in the optical path length.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NorthLab Photonics ABInventor: Michael Fokine
-
Patent number: 11971579Abstract: A multi-mode interferometric optical waveguide device includes: a multi-mode interferometric optical waveguide which includes a first reflective surface; a first single-mode waveguide connected to the multi-mode interferometric optical waveguide; and a second single-mode waveguide connected to the multi-mode interferometric optical waveguide and oppose the first reflective surface. Consequently, the multi-mode interferometric optical waveguide device can propagate light from the first single-mode waveguide to the second single-mode waveguide, with further reduced optical losses.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Takabayashi, Kenichi Abe, Satoshi Nishikawa, Koichi Akiyama
-
Patent number: 11971590Abstract: In the adjustment method of optical coupling for an optical integrated circuit according to the present disclosure, the optimal adjustment position of optical coupling is determined on the basis of, for example, a sum of a plurality of photocurrents at electrodes on arm waveguides respectively formed on the plurality of MZIs in the polarization-multiplexing IQ modulator. According to the maximum value of the sum of the plurality of photocurrents, the light condensing spot position is adjusted to the center position of the end face core of the optical waveguide of the integrated chip. Typically, the light condensing spot position is adjusted to the center of the end face core by displacing the two input lenses.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Hashizume, Yoshihiro Ogiso, Josuke Ozaki
-
Patent number: 11965905Abstract: An electronic module is provided. The electronic module includes a carrier, a movable component and an optical component. The movable component is on the carrier and configured to be movable with respect to the carrier. The optical component is configured to detect a movement of the movable component by an optical coupling between the optical component and the movable component.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Shih-Chieh Tang
-
Patent number: 11960133Abstract: A converged enclosure is provided. The converged enclosure comprises a base panel, a housing coupled with the base panel and a plurality of ports housed on a front surface of the housing. The plurality of ports is arranged in a plurality of rows such that each row has one or more ports. The one or more ports in each of the plurality of rows is inclined at a predefined row angle (R1, R2, R3, R4) from a vertical base axis such that the predefined row angle of each of the plurality of rows is different. The plurality of ports is arranged in a plurality of columns such that each column has one or more ports. The one or more ports in each of the plurality of columns is inclined at a predefined column angle (C1, C2, C3) from a horizontal base axis such that the predefined column angle of each of the plurality of columns is different.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventors: Sam Leeman, Binod Balachandran, Shantha Kumar, Nitin Joshi
-
Patent number: 11953743Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical fibre ribbon (100) with intermittent bonding. The optical fibre ribbon (100) includes a plurality of optical fibres (102). The plurality of optical fibres (102) are placed parallel to each other. The plurality of optical fibres (102) adjacent to each other are bonded intermittently along a length. The optical fibre ribbon (102) has a bond ratio of about 15 to 22. The bond ratio is a ratio of a number of a plurality of bonds (106) per unit length of the optical fibre ribbon (100) to a number of optical fibres in the optical fibre ribbon (100).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Sterlite Technologies LimitedInventors: Atul Mishra, Sourabh Singh Panwar
-
Patent number: 11947168Abstract: A stacked edge coupler for a photonic chip is provided. The stacked edge coupler includes an insulating layer, a waveguide core, a first assisting waveguide, and a back-end-of-line stack. The first assisting waveguide is on the insulating layer. The waveguide core is over the first assisting waveguide and includes a tapered section. The back-end-of-line stack is over the waveguide core. The back-end-of-line stack includes a side edge, a dielectric layer, and a second assisting waveguide. The second assisting waveguide is on the dielectric layer and arranged adjacent to the side edge. The second assisting waveguide has an overlapping arrangement with the tapered section of the waveguide core.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.Inventor: Yusheng Bian
-
Patent number: 11940624Abstract: An optical device and a wearable image display device are provided with a light guiding plate, a plurality of half mirrors, and an incident angle adjustment member. The optical member that causes the video light to be incident as a virtual image on a person's eye and be displayed as a display image, and has a reflection characteristic that a part of the video light is reflected on a back surface thereof. The incident angle adjustment member is an optical member configured to adjust the incident angle of the video light according to the reflection characteristic of the half mirror to form video light that does not satisfy a total reflection condition in another part of the video light, to balance the brightness of the display image.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BLUE OPTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Masuda, Nobuhiro Shirai
-
Patent number: 11934011Abstract: An optical connection structure 1 includes a waveguide substrate; a Si waveguide formed on one surface of the waveguide substrate and having a first end surface; an optical fiber having a second end surface facing the first end surface; a terrace section extending further toward the optical fiber side from an end portion on the optical fiber side of the waveguide substrate; and a lens disposed on the terrace section, and arranged on an optical axis connecting the first end surface and the second end surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake
-
Patent number: 11933985Abstract: A method for producing light-guide optical elements (LOEs) (16, 18, 56, 58) each having a set of mutually-parallel partially-reflecting surfaces (17) located between, and oriented non-parallel to, a pair of major external surfaces, and at least one region (30a, 30b, 30c) without partially-reflecting surfaces. The method includes bonding together parallel-faced plates (4) at interfaces to form a stack (42) of plates with partially-reflecting coatings between them. The stack is cut and polished to form a boundary plane (48, 48a, 48b) intersecting the interfaces, and a block (50, 50a, 50b) of transparent material is bonded to the stack. The resulting precursor structure (52, 52?) is sliced along parallel planes to form slices, each containing a part of the stack for the active region of the LOE and a part of the block.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LUMUS LTD.Inventors: Ido Fuchs, Edgar Friedmann, Elad Sharlin, Kobi Greenstein, Lilach Zuaretz, Tsion Eisenffeld, Shimon Grabarnik, Amir Shapira, Dror Hermoni
-
Patent number: 11927496Abstract: An optical sensing system comprising an optical fiber, a light source, a first interrogator and a second interrogator. The optical fiber includes one or more optical sensors. The light source is placed at a first end of the optical fiber and is configured to direct light towards the one or more optical sensors. The first interrogator is placed at the first end of the optical fiber. The second interrogator placed at a second, opposite end of the optical fiber. The first interrogator is configured to receive reflected light from the one or more optical sensors, and the second interrogator is configured to receive transmitted light from the one or more optical sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventor: Matthew Gadd
-
Patent number: 11927808Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a holder for attaching an optical component to a structure such as a tray. The holder includes integrated first mounting features including end tabs and integrated second mounting features including dovetail projections.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Peter Pall, David Novak, Bart Mattie Claessens, Geert Van Genechten
-
Patent number: 11921366Abstract: A multi core optical fiber that includes a plurality of cores disposed in a cladding. The plurality of cores include a first core and a second core. The first core has a first propagation constant ?1, the second core has a second propagation constant ?2, the cladding has a cladding propagation constant ?0, and (I).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Rostislav Radiyevich Khrapko, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, Robert Adam Modavis, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Jun Yang
-
Patent number: 11921329Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for making or assembling fiber optic connectors that allows a pre-terminated fiber optic cable to be made compatible with any number of different styles or types after optic connectors or fiber optic adapters. The present disclosure also relates to a fiber optic connector having first and second pieces connected to twist-to-engage interface and also including a rotational interlock. The present disclaimer relates to a fiber optic connector having a boot that mounts in multiple different axial positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Yu Lu, Ryan Kostecka
-
Patent number: 11914207Abstract: A fiber optic terminal having a radio access node for providing wireless connectivity within a coverage area. The fiber optic terminal can also include active modules capable of gathering data and reporting the data to a network operator. The active modules can be accommodated at the exterior of a terminal and may gather data such as information relating to the environment of the terminal. Active terminals can also be accommodated within the terminal and can gather and/or process information such as an operating status of a network, terminal operating status, and other information.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Vanesa Granullaque Diaz, Radawan Ripumaree, Sattam Sengupta
-
Patent number: 11914265Abstract: In an embodiment, a phase shifter includes: a light input end; a light output end; a p-type semiconductor material, and an n-type semiconductor material contacting the p-type semiconductor material along a boundary area, wherein the boundary area is greater than a length from the light input end to the light output end multiplied by a core width of the phase shifter.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huan-Neng Chen, Chewn-Pu Jou, Lan-Chou Cho, Feng-Wei Kuo
-
Patent number: 11906804Abstract: A telecommunications panel assembly (10) includes a chassis (14) defining a front (16), a top (20), a bottom (22), and two sides (24) and a plurality of adapter mounting modules (26) mounted to the chassis (14) at the front (16), each adapter mounting module (26) including a plurality of fiber optic adapters (36) mounted in a line. At least one of the adapter mounting modules (26) is mounted to the chassis (14) with a pair of supports (50) that are pivotable with respect to the at least one adapter module (26) such that the at least one adapter module (26) is removable from the chassis (14) and remountable at a position spaced linearly apart from another of the adapter mounting modules (26), wherein all of the adapter mounting modules (26) are also pivotally mounted about horizontal rotation axes (42) extending parallel to the top (20) and bottom (22) and transversely to the sides (24).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBAInventors: Johan Geens, Pieter Vermeulen, Bart Vos
-
Patent number: 11906803Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fiber cores arranged in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cores, and a coupling member configured to couple the plurality of optical fiber cores. In the optical fiber ribbon, a plurality of coupled sections and a plurality of separate sections are alternately provided in the longitudinal direction. Each of the plurality of coupled sections is in a state in which all of the adjacent optical fiber cores are coupled by the coupling member. Each of the plurality of separate sections is in a state in which at least two of the optical fiber cores adjacent to each other are not coupled by the coupling member.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Shimazu, Kenichiro Otsuka, Yuuki Shimoda, Shinji Yamane
-
Patent number: 11899240Abstract: Photonic device, system and methods of making photonic devices and systems, the method including: providing a substrate, forming an insulator layer over the substrate, depositing a plurality of waveguide layers and a plurality of insulator spacers at different vertical levels over the insulator layer, wherein adjacent waveguide layers in the plurality of waveguide layers are isolated by one or more insulator spacers in the plurality of insulator spacers, and forming a plurality of waveguide patterns at the plurality of waveguide layers, wherein at least two waveguide patterns at different vertical levels in the plurality of waveguide patterns are coupled.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiwei Song, Stefan Rusu