Abstract: Disclosed are a light transmitting substrate, an array substrate, a color filter substrate and a display device. The light transmitting substrate includes a substrate body (10) comprising at least one intensifier layer (11) and at least one micro-ring resonate structure with a gain located in the intensifier layer (11). By arranging micro-ring resonate structure(s) with a gain in the substrate body (10), the light incident on the substrate is intensified upon passing through the micro-ring resonate structure so as to increase the intensity of the incident light.
Abstract: A hollow-core waveguide structure for guiding an electromagnetic signal, comprising: a core material comprising a predetermined refractive index; and a cladding structure disposed about the core material, wherein the cladding structure has a refractive index that is less than unity; wherein the cladding structure comprises an Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial. The core material comprises air or the like. The cladding structure comprises one of substantially planar sheets disposed about the core material and a substantially tubular structure disposed about the core material. Optionally, the ENZ metamaterial comprises a plurality of nanostructures disposed in a host medium. The plurality of nanostructures comprise a transparent conducting oxide. Alternatively, the cladding structure is manufactured via a self-assembly method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 17, 2017
Assignee:
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Abstract: A composite structure includes a base and an auxiliary portion of dissimilar materials. The auxiliary portion is shaped by stamping. As the auxiliary portion is stamped, it interlocks with the base, and at the same time forming a desired structured feature on the auxiliary portion, such as a structured reflective surface, an alignment feature, etc. With this approach, relatively less critical structured features can be shaped on the bulk of the base with less effort to maintain a relatively larger tolerance, while the relatively more critical structured features on the auxiliary portion are more precisely shaped with further considerations to define dimensions, geometries and/or finishes at relatively smaller tolerances. The auxiliary portion may include a composite structure of two dissimilar materials associated with different properties for stamping different structured features.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2017
Assignee:
NANOPRECISION PRODUCTS, INC.
Inventors:
Shuhe Li, Robert Ryan Vallance, Michael K. Barnoski, Yongsheng Zhao, Matthew Gean, Tewodros Mengesha, Rand D. Dannenberg
Abstract: Provided is a butt-jointed (BJ) semiconductor integrated optical device having a high manufacturing yield. A semiconductor integrated optical device, which is configured such that, on a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor optical element including an active layer and a second semiconductor optical element including a waveguide layer are butt-jointed to each other with their optical axes being aligned with each other, includes: a semiconductor regrowth layer including at least one of a diffraction grating layer or an etching stop layer, which is formed by one epitaxial growth across an entire surface above the active layer and the waveguide layer; and a cladding layer formed above the semiconductor regrowth layer.
Abstract: An optical fiber including a core and a cladding including an inner cladding layer and an outer cladding layer is provided. The refractive index of the core ?1, the refractive index of the inner cladding layer ?2, and the refractive index of the outer cladding layer ?3 have a relationship denoted by the following expressions: ?1max>?2min and ?1max>?3, and 0.01%<|?2min??3|<0.03%. An outer circumference radius r1 of the core, an outer circumferential radius r2 of the inner cladding layer, and an outer circumferential radius r3 of the outer cladding layer have a relationship denoted by the following expressions: r1<r2<r3, and 0.2?r1/r2?0.5. A cable cut-off wavelength ?cc 1260 nm or less. A mode field diameter at a wavelength of 1310 nm is 8.6 ?m or more and 9.5 ?m or less.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 2017
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2017
Assignee:
FUJIKURA LTD.
Inventors:
Takayuki Kitamura, Sho Endo, Tatsuya Kishi, Ryo Maruyama
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to system and method for cleaning an end face of a bare optical fiber (100). The system and methods include inserting the end face of the bare optical fiber (100) through a layer of material (500) that includes electrospun fibers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
Inventors:
Jan Watte, Stefano Beri, Danny Willy August Verheyden, Keshari Sangram Samal, Ana Margarida Doamaral Cardoso Dos Santos, Peter Martha Dubruel, Ana Nedelcheva Hristova
Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an optical modulator including a substrate, a plurality of optical waveguides, and a plurality of modulation electrodes provided on the substrate in order to modulate light propagating through the optical waveguides. The modulation electrodes include signal electrodes, to which modulation signals are supplied, and ground electrodes. The signal electrodes include first and second signal electrodes. The ground electrodes include a first ground electrode provided between the first and second signal electrodes, a second ground electrode provided on the opposite side of the first signal electrode from the first ground electrode adjacent to the first signal electrode, and a third ground electrode provided on the opposite side of the second signal electrode from the first ground electrode adjacent to the second signal electrode. A concave groove is formed in each of the first to third ground electrodes.
Abstract: The present invention discloses an elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining large-mode-area gain fiber, structurally comprising a core of the elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining large-mode-area gain fiber, an inner cladding, an elliptical stress layer, a first outer cladding, a second outer cladding and a third outer cladding, wherein the inner cladding surrounds the core; the elliptical stress layer surrounds the inner cladding, and has an elliptical cross-sectional shape; the first outer cladding surrounds the elliptical stress layer; the second outer cladding surrounds the first outer cladding; and the third outer cladding surrounds the second outer cladding. As the birefringence of the elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining fiber is directly proportional to the ellipticity and the deposition of a stress-applying area occurs during the preform rod forming process, procedures of preform drilling and the like are eliminated, and the likelihood of preform contamination is greatly reduced.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 1, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2017
Assignee:
WUHAN RUIXIN SPECIAL OPTICAL FIBER CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Kanxian Wei, Rui Liu, Xiaotao Hu, You Li, Jianhua Bao, Yunli Li
Abstract: A process for producing an optical fiber including a glass fiber, a primary resin coating layer which covers the periphery of the glass fiber, and a secondary resin coating layer which covers the periphery of the primary resin coating layer, wherein the primary resin coating layer is formed by curing a curable resin composition which includes one or more oligomers, one or more monomers, and a reaction initiator, the curable resin composition containing a one-end-capped oligomer in an amount of 30% by mass or larger based on all the oligomers. The optical fiber produced by this production process does not deteriorate in low-temperature transmission loss, because the primary resin coating layer is inhibited from generating voids even when having a low Young's modulus.
Abstract: Optical communication apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a photoelectric unit electrically connected to the PCB, a supporting member positioned on the PCB, a coupler supported on the supporting member, and an optical fiber unit. The coupler optically couples the photoelectric unit to the optical fiber unit. The supporting member defines a through stepped hole having a larger first hole and a smaller second hole. The supporting member includes a step portion between the first hole and the second hole. The second hole is closer to the PCB than the first hole. The supporting member defines a number of positioning holes, and the coupler comprises a number of positioning poles corresponding to the positioning holes. The coupler is connected to the supporting member by inserting the positioning poles into the corresponding positioning holes.
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses that facilitate installation of a communications cable, e.g., an optical fiber cable, are disclosed. The system may include a communications cable and an adhesive for securing the cable to a surface. The method may include the use of an adhesive to secure the communications cable to a surface. The apparatus may include a pathway to avoid over-bending of the communications cable, which may otherwise result in transmission loss and compromise the performance of the cable.
Abstract: Disclosed are a method and structure providing a silicon-on-insulator substrate on which photonic devices are formed and in which a core material of a waveguide is optically decoupled from a support substrate by a shallow trench isolation region.
Abstract: A hollow-core photonic crystal fiber gas cell and method for preparing the same. The hollow-core photonic crystal fiber gas cell comprises a single-mode fiber, a fiber splicing protection sleeve, a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber, and a photoelectric detector. One end of the single-mode fiber is fusion spliced with one end of the hollow-core photonic crystal fiber to form a fusion splice and seal one end of the hollow-core photonic crystal fiber gas cell. The fiber splicing protection sleeve covers and protects the fusion splice. The other end of the hollow-core photonic crystal fiber is processed into an output end by fusion sealing, and the surface of the output end faces, but is not parallel to, a detection surface of the photoelectric detector.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 28, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2017
Assignee:
Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract: A right angle waveguide having a square rod-type square lattice photonic crystal and a single compensation scattering rod having a high refractive index. The right angle waveguide is a photonic crystal formed from first dielectric rods having a high refractive index arranged in a background dielectric having a low refractive index according to a square lattice. In the photonic crystal, one row and one column of the first dielectric rods having the high refractive index are removed to form the right angle waveguide. A second dielectric rod having a high refractive index is arranged at a corner of the right angle waveguide, the second dielectric rod being the compensation scattering rod. The first dielectric rods are square rods having the high refractive index. The right angle waveguide has extremely low reflectance and a very high transmission rate, and facilitates large-scale optical path integration.
Abstract: Fiber optic cable assemblies having a preconnectorized hardened connector on at least one end of a fiber optic cable that includes a subunit cable surrounded by an upjacketed portion having strength components and method for making are disclosed. The subunit cable has the optical fiber and a plurality of tensile yarns disposed within a subunit jacket. The hardened connector is attached to the optical fiber at a first end and strain-relieves at least some of the plurality of tensile yarns and the strength components. The cable assembly may also include a non-hardened connector on the second end of the optical fiber along with an optional pulling grip.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2017
Assignee:
CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC
Inventors:
Tory Allen Klavuhn, Bao Duy Nguyen, Lars Kristian Nielsen, Hieu Vinh Tran
Abstract: A method comprising: providing a core comprising a layer of electro-optic dielectric material, a first layer of semiconductor material provided below the electro-optic material and a second layer of the semiconductor material provided above the electro-optic material, and electrodes, configured for applying voltages.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 10, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 11, 2017
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Abstract: A communications connection system includes a fiber optic connector including a storage device having memory configured to store physical layer information. The storage device also includes at least one contact member that is electrically connected to the memory. Certain types of fiber optic connectors have the storage device mounted to a key of the fiber optic connector. Certain types of fiber optic connectors have the storage device mounted in a cavity defined in the fiber optic connector.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2015
Date of Patent:
June 20, 2017
Assignee:
COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventors:
John Paul Anderson, Steven J. Brandt, Joseph C. Coffey, Kamlesh G. Patel, Cyle D. Petersen, Michael D. Schroeder, John Stasny
Abstract: A device for the temporal shaping of the amplitude and phase of ultrashort pulses, includes: —a birefringent waveguide 1 of main axis ? consisting of a nematic liquid crystal 2 located between a photoconductive material 3 and a substrate 4, —two transparent electrodes, one of which 5 is located between the nematic liquid crystal 2 and the substrate 4, and the other 6 such that the photoconductive material 3 is located between the other electrode 6 and the nematic liquid crystal 2, and —projection optics 7 for projecting a programmable optical mask 8 onto the photoconductive material 3.
Abstract: A coating is applied on a first end face of an optical component which includes a cladding and a core for guiding light. The first end face has a cladding front face and a core front face. The core front face is covered with a mask, the coating is applied onto the first end face, the coating s removed from the masked core front face, and for covering the core front face, a lacquer layer made of a photo resist is applied onto the first end face. The photo resist is exposed to light from the rear side only in the region of one of the front faces such that light is input on the second end face of the component only in one of the two regions, and the lacquer layer is subsequently selectively removed.
Abstract: A technique that does not increase the circuit size, does not make the circuit design and manufacturing difficult, and can reduce insertion loss when light enters from a slab waveguide toward an arrayed waveguide or when the light enters from the arrayed waveguide toward the slab waveguide. An optical waveguide provided with a slab waveguide in which a grating is formed therein at a distance from an end, and an arrayed waveguide whose end is connected to an end of the slab waveguide at a position where a constructive interference portion of a self-image of the grating is formed.