Abstract: A smart ring includes a battery, memory, processing circuitry, a plurality of sensors, a plurality of antennas, and a battery, each coupled to one another and all enclosed in a casing, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to conserve the battery by any of sending data to the cloud service when an application is open on the user device, sending data to the cloud service when a threshold is crossed, waking up processing or communicating when there is a change in motion detected by the accelerometer.

Abstract: A decryption key and a network name are received by a cloud-based social bandwidth manager from an Internet-connected device that acts as a wireless access point for a wireless network, wherein a beacon broadcasted by the Internet-connected device includes the network name and an encrypted passphrase, and wherein the encrypted passphrase can be decrypted using the decryption key. An indication that a wireless enabled device is an authorized device to associate with the wireless network and share an Internet connection of the Internet-connected device is received from the Internet-connected device The network name and the decryption key are transmitted to the authorized wireless enabled device, wherein the authorized wireless enabled device is configurable to detect the beacon and decrypt the encrypted passphrase included in the beacon using the decryption key and associate with the wireless network using the decrypted passphrase to share the Internet connection of the Internet-connected device.

Abstract: A wavelength independent wave-locker arrangement is used to control the output wavelength of a laser diode. In the wave-locker arrangement, a narrow-band power splitter is responsive to the reception of a portion of an optical output signal from the laser diode for splitting the received optical signal into first and second coupler optical output signals, respectively. First and second photodetectors are coupled to receive the first and second coupler optical output signals, respectively, and generate respective corresponding first and second electrical output signals. A control unit is responsive to the reception of the first and second electrical output signals from the first and second photodetectors for generating predetermined control signals to the laser diode for maintaining the wavelength of the laser diode at a predetermined constant value.

Abstract: An optical arrangement provides dispersion slope compensation to a received dispersion distorted input signal comprising N×M wavelength multiplexed channels. In the optical arrangement, a major dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) provides a first predetermined chromatic dispersion correction value to the N×M wavelength channels. A plurality of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are serially coupled along an optical fiber. Each FBG is arranged to reflect a separate one of N groups of wavelength channels received in the input signal back along the optical fiber in order to provide a second dispersion slope compensating value. Either, the FGBs can chirped to compensate for the dispersion slope within each group of wavelength channels, or each FBG only reflects one group or wavelength channels and small DCFs introduce dispersion slope compensation into the FBG reflected signals.

Abstract: An unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer is useable in an optical wavelength division multiplexer or demultiplexer to provide wavelength stability. First and second fused tapered couplers in the unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer are each responsive to the reception of at least one first and second optical input signals for generating separate predetermined first and second optical output signals. The first and second output signals from the first fused tapered coupler are coupled via first and second optical waveguides, respectively, to respective first and second optical inputs of the second fused tapered coupler. First and second output signals from the second fused tapered coupler are provided as first and second output signals from the unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

Abstract: A method of producing an optical fiber ferrule having an angled, domed end face with the vertex of the dome and the axis of the fiber being substantially coincident. This result is achieved by orienting the ferrule and grinding the end face to a first angle relative to the ferrule axis, then orienting the ferrule at a second angle relative to the grinding surface and grinding the radius thereon.