Patents by Inventor Lane Zong

Lane Zong 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).

  • Flexible waveband aggregator and deaggregator and hierarchical hybrid optical cross-connect system
    Patent number: 7239772
    Abstract: A flexible waveband deaggregator/aggregator design is disclosed, including an embodiment that utilizes flexible band tunable filters and an embodiment that utilizes tunable interleavers. An optical cross-connect design is also disclosed which utilizes the flexible waveband deaggregators and which can replace a core all-optical switch with a fiber interconnect matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignees: NEC Laboratories America, Inc., NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Philip Nan Ji, Lane Zong, Osamu Matsuda
  • Flexible band tunable filter
    Patent number: 7099529
    Abstract: A flexible band tunable filter design is disclosed which is capable of selecting any single channel or multiple of adjacent channels in a waveband of an optical signal in an optical communication network. The flexible band tunable filter has particular application in wavelength division multiplexing communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignees: NEC Laboratories America, Inc., NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Philip Nan Ji, Lane Zong, Osamu Matsuda, Kojiro Watanabe
  • Flexible band tunable add/drop multiplexer and modular optical node architecture
    Publication number: 20050281558
    Abstract: An improved optical add/drop multiplexer design is disclosed which utilizes flexible band tunable filters and colorless demultiplexers to process any contiguous group of channels. A modular optical add/drop architecture is also disclosed which allows additional processing capabilities to be added module by module in a cost-effective fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Philip Ji, Lane Zong, Osamu Matsuda
  • Flexible waveband aggregator and deaggregator and hierarchical hybrid optical cross-connect system
    Publication number: 20050281504
    Abstract: A flexible waveband deaggregator/aggregator design is disclosed, including an embodiment that utilizes flexible band tunable filters and an embodiment that utilizes tunable interleavers. An optical cross-connect design is also disclosed which utilizes the flexible waveband deaggregators and which can replace a core all-optical switch with a fiber interconnect matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Philip Ji, Lane Zong, Osamu Matsuda
  • Flexible band tunable filter
    Publication number: 20050213879
    Abstract: A flexible band tunable filter design is disclosed which is capable of selecting any single channel or multiple of adjacent channels in a waveband of an optical signal in an optical communication network. The flexible band tunable filter has particular application in wavelength division multiplexing communication networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Philip Ji, Lane Zong, Osama Matsuda, Kojiro Watanabe