Patents Examined by Erin Chiem
  • Laser beam mixing apparatus and method of sealing organic light emitting diode display using the same
    Patent number: 9563019
    Abstract: A laser beam mixing apparatus to convert a laser beam bundle into a single laser beam having a uniform energy density. The laser beam mixing apparatus includes: a barrel to adjust a distance between a multi-core optical cable and an optical lens included therein, to convert a laser beam bundle into a single beam; and a stage to adjust the position and angle a single-core optical cable with respect to the optical lens, to align the core of the single-core optical cable with the center of the single beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Cheul Shin, Won-Woong Jung, Je-Kil Ryu, Kyong-Teog Lee
  • Optical fiber adapter
    Patent number: 9557491
    Abstract: An adapter for mating optical fiber connectors may include an internal configuration that essentially holds the ferrules of the connectors in alignment when a force is applied to the connector in a sideways direction. An internal plate may be provided to essentially prevent displacement of the mating ends of the ferrules with respect to the adapter housing and one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takano, Yim Wong
  • SC optical fiber connector
    Patent number: 9557497
    Abstract: A fiber connector is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a fiber connector may comprise an outer housing for securing a fiber cable within the housing, the housing comprising a top wall; a bottom wall disposed opposite the top side wall; a right side wall and a left side wall, each side wall having a through opening formed to receive a latch, the side walls comprising a straight portion for maintaining the latch within the through opening; and a pair of release members slidably coupled with the side walls, each release member comprising a release mechanism for releasing the fiber connector from the latch by sliding along the side walls and forcing the latch out of the through openings with the release mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ARCHTECH ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Paul Foung
  • Beam-splitting integrated optical element and optical transmitter module
    Patent number: 9529164
    Abstract: A beam-splitting integrated optical element including a shell, at least one first lens, and at least one second lens is provided. The shell includes a first lens surface, a second lens surface, at least one first reflective surface, and at least one second reflective surface. A bottom edge of each first reflective surface and a bottom edge of each second reflective surface are not connected to each other. The at least one first lens is disposed on the first lens surface. The at least one second lens is disposed on the second lens surface, and each second lens has a second optical axis. Each second reflective surface is located at at least one side of the corresponding second optical axis and located on a transmission path of only a portion of a first beam. An optical transmitter module incorporating said beam-splitting optical element is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ELASER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chu-Liang Cheng, Yi-Tseng Lin
  • Optical probe with improved affixing structure for supporting a light-redirecting element
    Patent number: 9518895
    Abstract: An optical probe (10) includes an inner tube (30), and a light-redirecting element (54) disposed at a distal end (56) of the inner tube. The light-redirecting element is supported at the distal end by an affixing structure (57) not attached to an optically-working surface (58) of the light-redirecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Dennis H. Lemieux, David W. Fox, James P. Williams
  • Apparatus providing simplified alignment of optical fiber in photonic integrated circuits
    Patent number: 9507104
    Abstract: A structure for optically aligning an optical fiber to a photonic device and method of fabrication of same. The structure optically aligns an optical fiber to the photonic device using a lens between the two which is moveable by actuator heads. The lens is moveable by respective motive sources associated with the actuator heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej Sandhu, Roy Meade, Lei Bi, John Smythe
  • Single mode fiber combiners
    Patent number: 9494738
    Abstract: Single mode fiber beam combiners are formed by extending single mode fibers through a glass ferrule, and tapering and fusing the fibers and the ferrule. Tapers can be selected so that optical power input to each of the single mode fibers remains partially guided by the single mode fiber cladding, or is guided by the multimode fiber formed by the glass ferrule and the fused fiber claddings. Such combiners can include double clad fibers or actively doped fibers for use in lasers or amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: nLIGHT, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason N. Farmer, Robert G. Waarts, John Edgecumbe
  • Highly configurable fiber-optic interconnection tray
    Patent number: 9494760
    Abstract: The present description relates to an optical fiber interconnection tray. The interconnection tray has a base extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end, with a cable entrance at the first end of the tray. A first interconnection layer is disposed on the base, and a second interconnection layer is positioned over at least a portion of the first interconnection layer, wherein the second interconnection layer is disposed on a first repositionable mezzanine attached to the base at a plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Simmons, Zachary M. Thompson, Jeffrey L. Shields
  • Method and reflective apparatus for combining high-power laser beams
    Patent number: 9496675
    Abstract: Systems and methods that accept the emitted radiant power from such a combined diode laser structure (laser bar stack) and efficiently direct essentially all of it into the pump cladding of a double-clad fiber amplifier, such that the radiant power will then be absorbed by a rare-earth doped core in the active fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Science Research Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Plummer, Aland K. Chin
  • Optical fiber for silicon photonics
    Patent number: 9477037
    Abstract: An optical fiber for efficient coupling of optical signals to photonic devices. The glass optical fiber includes a core region, an optional inner cladding region, a depressed index region, and an outer cladding region. The relative refractive index profile of the fiber is designed to provide large effective area and low bending losses at wavelengths of interest for photonic devices. The photonic devices may be silicon photonic devices with an operating wavelength at or near 1310 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon
  • Planar lightwave circuit
    Patent number: 9459417
    Abstract: In an integrated optical receiver or transmitter, both the displacement of an optical axis caused by thermal changes and the property degradation of an optical functional circuit are inhibited. A planar lightwave circuit having a substrate and a waveguide-type optical functional circuit formed thereon composed of a material different from that of the substrate, and includes a waveguide region formed only of an optical wavelength that is in contact with a side forming an emission-end face of the optical waveguide for propagating the light emitted from the optical functional circuit or an incident-end face of an optical waveguide for propagating the light incident on the optical functional circuit. The planar lightwave circuit is fixed to a fixing mount only at the bottom of the substrate where the waveguide region is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nasu, Ryoichi Kasahara, Ikuo Ogawa, Kenya Suzuki, Fumihiro Ebisawa
  • Optics for solar concentrators
    Patent number: 9435934
    Abstract: Optics are provided for use in solar concentrators, the optics having a light guide, a redirecting layer including a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of reflector elements. Sunlight is received by the redirecting lenses, which focus the sunlight onto reflective surfaces of the reflector elements. The reflective surface of each reflector element redirects the light into the light guide, which guides the light toward a solar energy collector, such as a photovoltaic cell. The light from the light guide may be directed onto the solar energy collector by a light conditioning element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventors: John Paul Morgan, Michael Sinclair, Nigel Morris, Pascal Dufour
  • Displays with coherent fiber bundles
    Patent number: 9435939
    Abstract: A display may have an array of display pixels that generate an image. A coherent fiber bundle may be mounted on the display pixels. The coherent fiber bundle may have a first surface that is adjacent to the display pixels and a second surface that is visible to a viewer. The coherent fiber bundle may contain fibers that carry light from the first surface to the second surface. The second surface may be planar or may have a central planar region and curved edge regions that run along opposing sides of the central planar region. The fibers may have cross-sectional surface areas with a first aspect ratio on the first surface and a second aspect ratio that is greater than the first aspect ratio on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tseng-Mau Yang, Christopher D. Prest, Dale N. Memering
  • Fiber optic enclosure with internal cable spool assembly
    Patent number: 9417417
    Abstract: A fiber optic enclosure includes a housing having a base and a cover. The base and the cover cooperate to define an interior region. A cable spool assembly is disposed in the interior region of the housing and is rotatably engaged to the base. The cable spool assembly includes a drum portion and a tray assembly engaged to the drum portion. The tray assembly includes a first tray and a second tray mounted to the first tray. A fiber optic distribution cable is wrapped about the drum portion of the cable spool assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Todd Loeffelholz, Mao Nian Tang
  • Delay line interferometer multiplexer
    Patent number: 9405071
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a delay line interferometer (DLI) multiplexer (MUX) includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes a first DLI and a second DLI. The first DLI includes a first left input, a first right input, and a first output and has a free spectral range (FSR) that is about four times a nominal channel spacing. The second DLI includes a second left input, a second right input, and a second output and has an FSR that is about four times the nominal channel spacing. The second stage is coupled to the first stage and includes a third DLI. The third DLI includes a third left input optically coupled to the first output, a third right input optically coupled to the second output, and a third output. An FSR of the third DLI is about two times the nominal channel spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsui, Bernd Huebner, Charles B. Roxlo
  • Textile covering incorporating an optical fibre and associated installation method
    Patent number: 9388974
    Abstract: A textile covering, comprising an under-layer in contact with a rear face of a layer of textile fibers, and comprising an optical fiber housed inside a routing groove in the under-layer, an end portion of the optical fiber extending through the layer of textile fibers via a support device of the optical fiber. The support device comprises a fixing ring and a heat-shrink tubing covering part of the fixing ring and of the end portion. The fixing ring comprises a base in contact with the rear face and a cylindrical portion into which the end portion of the optical fiber is inserted. The textile covering may be used as carpet equipping the floor of an aircraft cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS CORPORATE JET CENTRE
    Inventors: Jean-Cyrille Destieu, Dorine Servant, Cyrille Nicolas, Isabelle Jamme
  • Systems and methods for laser systems with variable beam parameter product utilizing thermo-optic effects
    Patent number: 9366887
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a beam-parameter adjustment system and focusing system alters a spatial power distribution of a radiation beam, via thermo-optic effects, before the beam is coupled into an optical fiber or delivered to a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: TeraDiode, Inc.
    Inventors: Parviz Tayebati, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Bien Chann, Dat Nguyen, Michael Deutsch
  • Apparatus providing simplified alignment of optical fiber in photonic integrated circuits
    Patent number: 9341787
    Abstract: A structure for optically aligning an optical fiber to a photonic device and method of fabrication of same. The structure optically aligns an optical fiber to the photonic device using a lens between the two which is moveable by actuator heads. The lens is moveable by respective motive sources associated with the actuator heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej Sandhu, Roy Meade, Lei Bi, John Smythe
  • Optical fiber filter device and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9341784
    Abstract: An optical fiber filter device comprises: a first fiber pigtail assembly (110) having a first optical fiber (111), a second fiber pigtail assembly (120) having a second optical fiber (121), a first optical filtering element (114) and a second optical filtering element (124). The first optical filtering element is arranged between a first port (113) of the first optical fiber and a second port (123) of the second optical fiber and is inclined at an angle to an optical axis of the first optical fiber such that a light component within a first wavelength range emitted from the first port is transmitted through the first optical filtering element and enters the second optical fiber via the second port, and a light component within a second wavelength range emitted from the first port is reflected by the first optical filtering element to form a reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications (Shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaoyang Tong
  • Waveguide grating structure and optical measurement arrangement
    Patent number: 9341573
    Abstract: The present invention describes (bio)chemo-functional waveguide grating structures consisting of at least one (bio)chemo-functional waveguide grating structure unit or at least one (bio)chemo-functional sensor location with beam guidance permitting light beam separation, as well as detection methods for parallel analysis which are marking-free or based on marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ARTIFICIAL SENSING INSTRUMENTS ASI AG
    Inventor: Kurt Tiefenthaler