Patents by Inventor Sander Johannes Floris
Sander Johannes Floris has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230258882Abstract: A light source unit generates an optical signal out of a bend-insensitive (“BI”) optical fiber that is compliant with a desired encircled flux (“EF”). The unit includes a light source to generate an optical light signal and a conventional multimode optical fiber coupled to receive the optical light signal from the light source at a first end. A modal conditioner is arranged to condition the optical light signal propagating along different modes of the conventional multimode fiber. A first bend-insensitive (BI) multimode optical fiber has an input end, the input end of the first BI multimode optical fiber being coupled at a second end of the conventional multimode optical fiber to receive the conditioned optical light signal from the conventional multimode fiber. The output from the first BI multimode optical fiber outputs an optical signal having the desired EF.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Antonius Bernardus Gerardus BOLHAAR, Sander Johannes FLORIS, Gary Federico GIBBS, Bradley Scott BILLMAN
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Patent number: 11579381Abstract: A transceiver assembly for mounting on a mother board, said transceiver assembly comprising: (a) a frame defining a first plane configured for mounting parallel to said motherboard, said frame defining a plurality of slots perpendicular to said first plane; and (b) one or more opto-electric cards, each of said one or more opto-electric cards disposed in one of said plurality of slots and comprising at least, (i) a substrate having a first edge parallel to said first plane when said opto-electric card is mounted in said slot, (ii) an electrical interface along said first edge, (iii) and an interposer electrically connected to said electrical interface and comprising at least one optical component operatively connected to said electrical interface, and (iv) at least one optical fiber extending freely from said interposer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY NEDERLAND BVInventors: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin, Sander Johannes Floris, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Alexander Dorrestein
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Patent number: 11579385Abstract: A light source unit generates an optical signal out of a bend-insensitive (“BI”) optical fiber that is compliant with a desired encircled flux (“EF”). The unit includes a light source to generate an optical light signal and a conventional multimode optical fiber coupled to receive the optical light signal from the light source at a first end. A modal conditioner is arranged to condition the optical light signal propagating along different modes of the conventional multimode fiber. A first bend-insensitive (BI) multimode optical fiber has an input end, the input end of the first BI multimode optical fiber being coupled at a second end of the conventional multimode optical fiber to receive the conditioned optical light signal from the conventional multimode fiber. The output from the first BI multimode optical fiber outputs an optical signal having the desired EF.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Antonius Bernardus Gerardus Bolhaar, Sander Johannes Floris, Gary Federico Gibbs, Bradley Scott Billman
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Patent number: 11316587Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Patent number: 11243140Abstract: The output profile of light from a multimode optical fiber is determined using a geometrical optics approach where the rays launched into the fiber conform to LP-modes of the fiber. This output profile can then be employed as an input to a second fiber to calculate the transmission losses of a coupler that introduces various coupling inaccuracies, such as lateral offset, axial offset, and angular offset.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Sander Johannes Floris, Bastiaan Pieter De Hon, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Antonius Bernardus Gerardus Bolhaar, Earl R. Parsons
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Publication number: 20210124136Abstract: A light source unit generates an optical signal out of a bend-insensitive (“BI”) optical fiber that is compliant with a desired encircled flux (“EF”). The unit includes a light source to generate an optical light signal and a conventional multimode optical fiber coupled to receive the optical light signal from the light source at a first end. A modal conditioner is arranged to condition the optical light signal propagating along different modes of the conventional multimode fiber. A first bend-insensitive (BI) multimode optical fiber has an input end, the input end of the first BI multimode optical fiber being coupled at a second end of the conventional multimode optical fiber to receive the conditioned optical light signal from the conventional multimode fiber. The output from the first BI multimode optical fiber outputs an optical signal having the desired EF.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Antonius Bernardus Gerardus BOLHAAR, Sander Johannes FLORIS, Gary Federico GIBBS, Bradley Scott BILLMAN
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Publication number: 20210072466Abstract: A transceiver assembly for mounting on a mother board, said transceiver assembly comprising: (a) a frame defining a first plane configured for mounting parallel to said motherboard, said frame defining a plurality of slots perpendicular to said first plane; and (b) one or more opto-electric cards, each of said one or more opto-electric cards disposed in one of said plurality of slots and comprising at least, (i) a substrate having a first edge parallel to said first plane when said opto-electric card is mounted in said slot, (ii) an electrical interface along said first edge, (iii) and an interposer electrically connected to said electrical interface and comprising at least one optical component operatively connected to said electrical interface, and (iv) at least one optical fiber extending freely from said interposer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin, Sander Johannes Floris, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Alexander Dorrestein
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Publication number: 20210075510Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Publication number: 20200400899Abstract: A transceiver assembly for mounting on a mother board, said transceiver assembly comprising: (a) a frame defining a first plane configured for mounting parallel to said motherboard, said frame defining a plurality of slots perpendicular to said first plane; and (b) one or more opto-electric cards, each of said one or more opto-electric cards disposed in one of said plurality of slots and comprising at least, (i) a substrate having a first edge parallel to said first plane when said opto-electric card is mounted in said slot, (ii) an electrical interface along said first edge, (iii) and an interposer electrically connected to said electrical interface and comprising at least one optical component operatively connected to said electrical interface, and (iv) at least one optical fiber extending freely from said interposer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin, Sander Johannes Floris, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Alexander Dorrestein
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Patent number: 10852489Abstract: A transceiver assembly for mounting on a mother board, said transceiver assembly comprising: (a) a frame defining a first plane configured for mounting parallel to said motherboard, said frame defining a plurality of slots perpendicular to said first plane; and (b) one or more opto-electric cards, each of said one or more opto-electric cards disposed in one of said plurality of slots and comprising at least, (i) a substrate having a first edge parallel to said first plane when said opto-electric card is mounted in said slot, (ii) an electrical interface along said first edge, (iii) and an interposer electrically connected to said electrical interface and comprising at least one optical component operatively connected to said electrical interface, and (iv) at least one optical fiber extending freely from said interposer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Inventors: Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin, Sander Johannes Floris, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Alexander Dorrestein
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Patent number: 10823637Abstract: A method for testing optical fibers includes using an optical testing instrument to measure a characteristic, such as clad non-circularity, of an optical fiber at a multiple angles of rotation of an optical fiber around its optical axis. From the measurements data points indicative of measured values of the characteristic at the respective angles of rotation are generated. A model is created of the optical fiber having the characteristic as a variable parameter, and from the model a functional relationship between an expected measured value of the characteristic and the angle of rotation and the variable parameter is generated. By varying the parameter a fit of the functional relationship to the data points is made according to one or more predetermined criteria, such as least-squares fit. The value of the characteristic can be found based on the fit. Instrumental parameters, such as fiber misalignment and cleave angle, can also be ascertained by the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: COMMSCOPE ASIA HOLDINGS B.V.Inventors: Sander Johannes Floris, Ton Bolhaar, Bastiaan Pieter De Hon
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Patent number: 10784961Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Publication number: 20200217750Abstract: The output profile of light from a multimode optical fiber is determined using a geometrical optics approach where the rays launched into the fiber conform to LP-modes of the fiber. This output profile can then be employed as an input to a second fiber to calculate the transmission losses of a coupler that introduces various coupling inaccuracies, such as lateral offset, axial offset, and angular offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Sander Johannes Floris, Bastiaan Pieter De Hon, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink, Antonius Bernardus Gerardus Bolhaar, Earl R. Parsons
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Publication number: 20200186248Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Patent number: 10567080Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Patent number: 10488598Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic component including a ferrule having a distal end and a proximal end. The ferrule defines a fiber passage extending though the ferrule along a fiber passage axis in a proximal-to-distal orientation. The fiber optic component also includes an optical fiber structure affixed within the fiber passage. The optical fiber structure includes a beam expansion section optically coupled to a sacrificial section. The beam expansion section has a construction adapted to expand an optical beam from a first beam diameter to an enlarged second beam diameter. The sacrificial section is configured to receive the optical beam having the second beam diameter from the beam expansion section. The sacrificial section is positioned at the distal end of the ferrule and has a polished end face at the distal end of the ferrule. The sacrificial section has a core-less construction or has a core with a core diameter that is larger than the enlarged second beam diameter.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignees: CommScope Technologies LLC, CommScope Asia Holdings B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Sander Johannes Floris, Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen, Dwight Andrew Bretz, Rutger Wilhelmus Smink
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Patent number: 10234637Abstract: A fiber optic cable and connector assembly is disclosed. In one aspect, the assembly includes a cable optical fiber, an optical fiber stub and a beam expanding fiber segment optically coupled between the cable optical fiber and the optical fiber stub. The optical fiber stub has a constant mode field diameter along its length and has a larger mode field diameter than the cable optical fiber. In another aspect, a fiber optic cable and connector assembly includes a fiber optic connector mounted at the end of a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic connector includes a ferrule assembly including an expanded beam fiber segment supported within the ferrule. The expanded beam fiber segment can be constructed such that the expanded beam fiber segment is polished first and then cleaved to an exact pitch length. The expanded beam fiber segment can be fusion spliced to a single mode optical fiber at a splice location behind the ferrule.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: CommScope Technologies LLC, CommScope Asia Holdings B.V.Inventors: Yu Lu, Jeroen Antonius Maria Duis, Sander Johannes Floris, Simon Petrus Andreas Bartholomeus Nouws
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Publication number: 20190007138Abstract: A space-division multiplexed optical fiber includes a relatively high refractive index optical core region surrounded by alternating regions of relatively low and relative high refractive index material, forming concentric high index rings around the core. The optical core region supports propagation of light along at least a first radial mode associated with the optical core region and a high index ring region supports propagation of light along at least a second radial mode associated with the high index ring region. The second radial mode is different from the first radial mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: John Charles Chamberlain, Sander Johannes Floris
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Publication number: 20180246281Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic component including a ferrule having a distal end and a proximal end. The ferrule defines a fiber passage extending though the ferrule along a fiber passage axis in a proximal-to-distal orientation. The fiber optic component also includes an optical fiber structure affixed within the fiber passage. The optical fiber structure includes a beam expansion section optically coupled to a sacrificial section. The beam expansion section has a construction adapted to expand an optical beam from a first beam diameter to an enlarged second beam diameter. The sacrificial section is configured to receive the optical beam having the second beam diameter from the beam expansion section. The sacrificial section is positioned at the distal end of the ferrule and has a polished end face at the distal end of the ferrule. The sacrificial section has a core-less construction or has a core with a core diameter that is larger than the enlarged second beam diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Jeroen Antonius Maria DUIS, Sander Johannes FLORIS, Michael Aaron KADAR-KALLEN, Dwight Andrew BRETZ, Rutger Wilhelmus SMINK
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Publication number: 20180059334Abstract: A fiber optic cable and connector assembly is disclosed. In one aspect, the assembly includes a cable optical fiber, an optical fiber stub and a beam expanding fiber segment optically coupled between the cable optical fiber and the optical fiber stub. The optical fiber stub has a constant mode field diameter along its length and has a larger mode field diameter than the cable optical fiber. In another aspect, a fiber optic cable and connector assembly includes a fiber optic connector mounted at the end of a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic connector includes a ferrule assembly including an expanded beam fiber segment supported within the ferrule. The expanded beam fiber segment can be constructed such that the expanded beam fiber segment is polished first and then cleaved to an exact pitch length. The expanded beam fiber segment can be fusion spliced to a single mode optical fiber at a splice location behind the ferrule.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicants: CommScope Technologies LLC, CommScope Asia Holdings B.V.Inventors: Yu LU, Jeroen Antonius Maria DUIS, Sander Johannes FLORIS, Simon Petrus Andreas Bartholomeus NOUWS