Patents by Inventor Bryan Gregory

Bryan Gregory 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).

  • Method to align optical components to a substrate and other optical components
    Publication number: 20020034363
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for aligning an array of optical devices with optical processing equipment. The method includes the steps of providing a transparent substrate with a plurality of optical transmission paths passing directly through the substrate, providing a plurality of alignment guides on the optical array, providing a complementary plurality of respective alignment guides on the transparent substrate and guiding the optical devices of the array into alignment with the substrate using respective pairs of the alignment guides on the optical array and transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Randy Wickman, John Greene, Gary O'Connor, Daniel Mansur, David Barneson, Bryan Gregory
  • C and L band laminated fabric optical amplifier
    Publication number: 20020033999
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for amplifying a first optical signal having a first wavelength and a second optical signal having a second wavelength. The method includes the steps of routing the first and second optical signal into a first and second optical amplifier coupled in parallel and amplifying the first optical signal at the first wavelength in the first optical amplifier and the second optical signal at the second wavelength in the second optical amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Bryan Gregory, Randy Wickman