Patents by Inventor Ciaran Polley

Ciaran Polley 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 and system for continuous sweeping of a tunable laser
    Patent number: 7649917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for providing a set of continuous tuning regions from a discontinuously tuned laser, by providing a wavelength reference having at least first and second resonance peaks, sweeping the laser across a pre-determined wavelength range of the wavelength reference, and defining, within the laser sweep, one or more regions of continuous tuning operation of the laser, each of the regions corresponding to a response of the laser between adjacent resonance peaks of the wavelength reference. The advantage of the invention is that it provides a way for stitching together continuous regions of a multi-section tunable laser in an efficient and accurate manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Intune Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Tommy Mullane, David McDonald, Thomas Farrell, Ciaran Polley, Peter B. O'Connor
  • Method and system for continuous sweeping of a tunable laser
    Publication number: 20070183465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for providing a set of continuous tuning regions from a discontinuously tuned laser, by providing a wavelength reference having at least first and second resonance peaks, sweeping the laser across a pre-determined wavelength range of the wavelength reference, and defining, within the laser sweep, one or more regions of continuous tuning operation of the laser, each of the regions corresponding to a response of the laser between adjacent resonance peaks of the wavelength reference. The advantage of the invention is that it provides a way for stitching together continuous regions of a multi-section tunable laser in an efficient and accurate manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Intune Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Tommy Mullane, David McDonald, Thomas Farrell, Ciaran Polley, Peter Oconnor