Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell device assembly comprising: (i) at least one solid oxide fuel cell device including one electrolyte sheet sandwiched between at least one pair of electrodes; and (ii) a non-steel frame fixedly attached to said at least one fuel cell device without a seal located therebetween.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprising: (i) a core; (ii) a cladding surrounding the core; wherein the cladding comprises a cladding ring that: (a) has a width W equal to or less than 10 microns; (b) includes at least 50 airlines, each airline having a maximum diameter or a maximum width of not more than 2 microns and more than 50% of said airlines have a length of more than 20 m; (c) has an air fill fraction of 0.1% to 10%, and (d) has an inner radius Rin and an outer radius Rout, wherein 6 ?m?Rin?14 ?m, and 8 ?m?Rout?14 ?m; and (iii) an outer cladding surrounding said cladding ring.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an optical package comprises one or more semiconductor lasers coupled to a wavelength conversion device with adaptive optics. The optical package also comprises a package controller programmed to operate the semiconductor laser and the adaptive optics based on modulated feedback control signals supplied to the wavelength selective section of the semiconductor laser and the adaptive optics. The wavelength control signal supplied to the wavelength selective section of the semiconductor laser may be adjusted based on the modulated wavelength feedback control signal such that the response parameter of the wavelength conversion device is optimized. Similarly, the position control signals supplied to the adaptive optics may be adjusted based on the modulated feedback position control signals such that the response parameter of the wavelength conversion device is optimized.

Abstract: An optical fiber, comprising: (i) a core having a core center and a radius or a width a, (ii) a cladding surrounding the core, and (iii) at least one stress member situated proximate to the fiber core within the cladding, said stress member comprising silica co-doped with F and at least one dopant selected from the list consisting of: GeO2, P2O5, Y2O3, TiO2 and Al2O3, wherein distance b between the stress member and the core center satisfies the following equation: 1?b/a<2.

Abstract: The present invention provides devices and methods for Raman amplification and dispersion compensation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a dispersion compensating device includes a dispersion compensating fiber having a dispersion more negative than about ?50 ps/nm/km over a wavelength range of about 1555 nm to about 1615 nm; a Raman gain fiber having a dispersion more positive than about ?40 ps/nm/km over a wavelength range of about 1555 nm to about 1615 nm; and a pump source operatively coupled to the dispersion compensating fiber and the Raman gain fiber, the pump source operating at a pump wavelength, wherein the dispersion compensating fiber has a Raman Figure of Merit at the pump wavelength, and wherein the Raman gain fiber has a Raman Figure of Merit at least about equivalent to the Raman Figure of Merit of the dispersion compensating fiber, and wherein the dispersion compensating fiber and the Raman gain fiber are arranged in series between the input and the output of the device.

Abstract: An optical waveguide fiber comprising: (i) a Ge free core having an effective area of 90 ?m2 to 160 ?m2, at a 1550 nm wavelength, and ? value 12???25, said core comprising: (a) a central core region extending radially outwardly from a centerline to a radius r0?2 ?m, and having a relative refractive index percent profile ?0(r) wherein ?0.1% ??0(r) ?0.1%, and wherein the central core region has a maximum relative refractive index, ?0MAX, (b) a first annular core region surrounding and directly adjacent to the central core region and extending to an outer radius r1, wherein 4.8 ?m ?r1?10 ?m, and having a relative refractive index percent profile, ?1(r), and a minimum relative refractive index, ?2MIN, and the relative refractive index measured at a radius r=2.5 ?m being ?0.15??1(r=2.5 ?m) ?0, and ?0MAX ??1(r=2.

Abstract: An exemplary fuel cell device assembly includes: (i) an electrolyte sheet; (ii) a plurality of cathodes disposed on one side of the electrolyte sheet; (iii) a plurality of anodes disposed on another side of the electrolyte sheet; and (iv) a frame supporting the electrolyte sheet, the frame having a plurality of channels. Preferably the cross-sectional area of the frame has channel density of at least 20/in2 and channel wall thickness of 50 mils or less.

Abstract: According to one example of the invention an optical fiber comprises: (i) a silica based core, said core having a core diameter greater than 80 ?m and a numerical aperture NA?0.24; and (ii) a silica based cladding in contact with and surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2; wherein the cladding includes B and F. Preferably the numerical aperture NA is at least 0.3.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprising: a glass core extending from a centerline to a radius R1; a glass cladding surrounding and in contact with the core, the cladding comprising: a first annular region extending from R1 to a radius R2, the first annular region comprising a radial width, W2=R2?R1, a second annular region extending from R2 to a radius R3, the second annular region comprising a radial width, W3=R3?R2, and a third annular region extending from R3 to an outermost glass radius R4; wherein (i) the core comprises a maximum relative refractive index, ?1MAX, relative to the third annular region; (ii) wherein the first annular region comprises a radial width W2; and (iii) the second annular region comprises a minimum relative refractive index, ?3MIN, relative to the third annular region wherein ?1MAX>?2MAX>?3MIN, and ?2MIN>?3MIN; and the core and the cladding provide a fiber with cable cutoff less than 1500 nm, dispersion at 1550 nm less than 12 ps/nm/km, effective area at 1550 nm greater than 60 ?m2, a

Abstract: A double-clad optical fiber includes a core, an inner cladding and an outer cladding of silica-based glass. The core may have a radius of less than about 5 ?m, a first index of refraction n1 and does not contain any active rare-earth dopants. The inner cladding may surround the core and includes a radial thickness of at least about 25 ?m, a numerical aperture of at least about 0.25, and a second index of refraction n2 such that n2<n1. The relative refractive index percent (?%) of the core relative to the inner cladding may be greater than about 0.1%. The outer cladding may surround the inner cladding and include a radial thickness from about 10 ?m to about 50 ?m and a third index of refraction n3 such that n3<n2. The relative refractive index percent (?%) of the inner cladding relative to the outer cladding may be greater than about 1.5%.

Abstract: An optical communication system and a communication network are disclosed herein capable of transmitting optical signals with high optical launch power over unrepeatered optical fiber links. A method of transmitting optical signals is also disclosed herein which comprises transmitting optical signals at high optical launch power over unrepeatered links.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprising a core having a refractive index profile and a centerline; and a cladding layer surrounding and directly adjacent the core; wherein core includes updoping material and is doped with Aluminum in at least one region of the core, such that either: (a) the average longitudinal acoustic wave velocity within the core is within 0.05% of the longitudinal acoustic wave velocity within the cladding; or (b) the longitudinal acoustic wave velocity in the core changes by at least 0.2%.

Abstract: An electrolyte sheet comprises a body of a varied thickness. The electrolyte sheet has at least one non-porous surface. This non-porous surface is a textured surface with multiple indentations therein. The thickest part of the electrolyte sheet is at least 0.5 micrometers greater than the thinnest part of the sheet.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprising: a silica based core having a first index of refraction n1; and at least one silica based cladding surrounding the core, the at least one silica based cladding comprising index lowering non-periodic voids containing a gas, wherein at least 80% of said voids have a maximum cross-sectional dimension of less than 2000 nm, and the NA of the fiber layer situated immediately adjacent to and inside said at least one silica based cladding is at least 0.2.

Abstract: An optical fiber system comprising: (i) a dispersion pre-compensator including dispersion compensating fiber DCF characterized by the overall dispersion value DDCF at the operating wavelength ?; and (ii) a passive optical network (PON) including a plurality of transmission paths provided by a plurality of optical fibers, said plurality of transmission paths having a minimum and maximum dispersion value DMIN and DMAX; wherein the dispersion pre-compensator includes an output port operatively coupled to an input port of the a passive optical network and ?DMAX<DDCF<?DMIN.

Abstract: Both a system and method are provided for modulating the intensity of an output beam generated by semiconductor laser. The exemplary system includes a source of pulsating current connected to the laser that generates a pulsating beam of laser light, an external modulator having an input that receives the pulsating beam, and an output controlled by pulsating control signal, wherein the output beam transmitted by the external modulator output is modulated by changing a relative phase angle between the pulsating current powering the laser, and the control signal of the external modulator over time. The external modulator may be an intensity-type modulator whose output is controlled by a gate signal having a constant phase, and the source of pulsating current powering the laser may be variable phase in order to modulate the output beam with an external modulator having a simple structure.

Abstract: An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, Yb doped core having a first index of refraction n1, said core comprising more than 1 wt % of Yb, said core having less than 5 dB/km loss at a wavelength situated between 1150 nm and 1350 nm and less than 20 dB/km loss at the wavelength of 1380 nm and slope efficiency of over 0.8; and (ii) at least one silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention a fuel cell device comprises: a plurality of fuel cells, each of the plurality of fuel cells having an active area, wherein at least two of the plurality of fuel cells have differently sized active area, such that ratio of the active areas of these two fuel cells is at least 1.1:1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fiber bundles and methods for making fiber bundles. According to one embodiment of the invention, at the endface of the fused fiber bundle, the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the endface to the cross sectional area of the plurality of optical fibers is at least about 2.5. According to another embodiment of the invention, a fused fiber bundle includes a plurality of optical fibers, and a glass tube surrounding the terminal segments of the optical fibers, wherein the refractive index of the glass tube is less than the refractive index of the claddings of the optical fibers. Other embodiments of the present invention provide methods for making fused bundles.

Abstract: An RGB light source that uses an optical fiber laser to generate a near-infrared (NIR) output light beam, and a wavelength conversion system that receives the output NIR light beam and forms therefrom red, green and blue light beams. The fiber laser includes multiple stages, wherein the first stage includes a solid-state laser to generate an initial NIR light beam. One or more subsequent stages operate to amplify the NIR light beam to form a relatively high-average-power output NIR light beam. Only light from the fiber laser is used to generate the red, green and blue-wavelength output light beams. The wavelength conversion system includes three or fewer non-linear optical (NLO) units. A color display that utilizes the RGB light source is also disclosed.