Resonant Cavity Patents (Class 356/480)
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Patent number: 12055439Abstract: A quantum absorption spectroscopy system (100) includes a laser light source (1), a quantum optical system (201), a photodetector (31), and a controller (4). The laser light source (1) emits pump light. The quantum optical system (201) includes a nonlinear optical crystal (23) that generates a quantum entangled photon pair of a signal photon and an idler photon by irradiation with pump light, and a moving mirror (25) that changes a phase of the idler photon, and causes quantum interference between a plurality of physical processes in which the quantum entangled photon pair is generated. The photodetector (31) detects the signal photon when the phase of the idler photon is changed by the nonlinear optical crystal (23) in a state where a sample is disposed on an optical path of the idler photon, and outputs a quantum interference signal corresponding to the detected number of photons.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Shigeki Takeuchi, Ryo Okamoto, Yu Mukai
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Patent number: 12042273Abstract: A system is presented for non-invasive monitoring one or more blood conditions of a media in a region of interest. The system comprises: a sensor device comprising at least one antenna sensor configured to be placed in the vicinity of the media and configured and operable to generate antenna beams of different frequencies in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to 90 GHz, receive radiation responses from the medium, and generate corresponding sensing data; and a control unit configured to receive and process said sensing data to determine a dielectric spectrum of the media indicative of dielectric response of cytoplasm containing cells (red blood cells) in the media and determine one or more blood conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD.Inventors: Yuri Feldman, Paul Ben-Ishai, Saul Yedgar, Gregory Barshtein, Andreas Caduff
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Patent number: 12044591Abstract: A miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor, and fabrication method and application thereof. A miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor includes an optical fiber, a hollow-core optical fiber, and a pressure sensing diaphragm, wherein the optical fiber and the hollow-core optical fiber have the same diameter, the two are spliced by arc welding; and the pressure sensing diaphragm is bonded to the endface of the hollow-core optical fiber by hydroxide catalysis bonding. The FP pressure sensor can not only realize the all-silica structure of a sensor, but also make the joint of each component free of organic polymer, and has extremely high long-term stability and thermal stability. Meanwhile, by a fabrication method of the miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor, the application range and service life of the sensor are increased, and fabrication costs are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Zhenguo Jing, Wei Peng, Yueying Liu, Qiang Liu, Ang Li
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Patent number: 12025438Abstract: A miniature, micrometer-accuracy, three-dimensional (3D) position-to-optical displacement sensor that has at least one extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) in Z direction and a series of plasmonic metasurface resonators with distinctive wavelength-selective characteristics in X and Y directions. The interferometer comprises at least one single mode optic fiber for light propagation, and a substrate mirror to create a light interference fringe as a function of distance between the mirror and the distal end of the optic fiber. Each plasmonic resonator is capable of modifying the substrate mirror and comprises an array of multiple unit nanostructure unit cells that are arranged in a two-dimensional (2D) square lattice or array in the X-Y plane. The nanostructure unit cells are preferably inscribed in the top layer of a three-layer thin film via the focused ion beam (FIB).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Genda Chen, Jie Gao, Chuanrui Guo
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Patent number: 11898902Abstract: Provided is a swim bladder bionic amphibious optical fiber ocean acoustic sensor, belonging to the field of optical fiber ocean sensors, consisting of a sound sensitive diaphragm, a diaphragm supporting shell, a section of coated optical fiber, a single-hole optical fiber sleeve and a single-mode optical fiber. An upper surface of the supporting shell is provided with two symmetrical overflow holes, and a structure includes a back cavity communicated with the overflow holes. A medium in the back cavity of the sensor may be replaced by inflating, deflating and filling water through the overflow holes, to achieve impedance matching with external environments. When the back cavity is inflated, the sensor serves as a fiber-optic microphone, and when the back cavity is deflated and filled with water, the sensor serves as a fiber-optic hydrophone. The working states could be switched flexibly to achieve a working mode like a swim bladder.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: OINGDAO INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY, HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITYInventors: Yongyao Chen, Xin Wang, Junjie Li, Zedong Ma, Liang Zhang
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Patent number: 11719994Abstract: A miniaturized PPKTP crystal-based entanglement source system using multi-mode reception is provided, which includes a pump light source, a pump light transmission module, an entanglement device, a first collection device, and a second collection device. In the entanglement source system, entangled lights are received by using multi-mode optical fibers, and an entangled light processing scheme of combining a temporal filtering technology and a spatial filtering technology is applied into a collecting device at one side of the entanglement source system, to form asymmetric device structures in the entanglement source system, to enable multi-mode reception.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: JINAN INSTITUTE OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGYInventor: Fei Zhou
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Patent number: 11680901Abstract: Building blocks are provided for on-chip chemical sensors and other highly-compact photonic integrated circuits combining interband or quantum cascade lasers and detectors with passive waveguides and other components integrated on a III-V or silicon. A MWIR or LWIR laser source is evanescently coupled into a passive extended or resonant-cavity waveguide that provides evanescent coupling to a sample gas (or liquid) for spectroscopic chemical sensing. In the case of an ICL, the uppermost layer of this passive waveguide has a relatively high index of refraction that enables it to form the core of the waveguide, while the ambient air, consisting of the sample gas, functions as the top cladding layer. A fraction of the propagating light beam is absorbed by the sample gas if it contains a chemical species having a fingerprint absorption feature within the spectral linewidth of the laser emission.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Jerry R. Meyer, Igor Vurgaftman, Chadwick Lawrence Canedy, William W. Bewley, Chul Soo Kim, Charles D. Merritt, Michael V. Warren, R. Joseph Weiblen, Mijin Kim
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Patent number: 11644301Abstract: A system and method are provided for optical homodyne detection in an optical fiber interferometer. A detection signal is obtained by interfering an optical data signal with a phase-modulated optical reference signal. The modulator for the optical reference signal is phase-locked to an oscillatory modulation waveform. In embodiments, the modulator includes a piezoelectric element. In more specific embodiments, the modulator is a piezoelectric optical fiber-stretcher.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Aaron Michael Katzenmeyer, Christopher Todd DeRose
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Patent number: 11633735Abstract: A sensor and method for use in measuring a physical characteristic of a fluid in a microfluidic system is provided. A microfluidic chip has a thin deformable membrane that separates a microfluidic channel from a microwave resonator sensor. The membrane is deformable in response to loading from interaction of the membrane with the fluid. Loading may be fluid pressure in the channel, or shear stress or surface stress resulting from interaction of the membrane with the fluid. The deformation of the membrane changes the permittivity in the region proximate the sensor. A change in permittivity causes a change in the electrical parameters of the sensor, thereby allowing for a characteristic of the fluid, such as flow rate, or a biological or chemical characteristic, to be measured. Also, a microwave sensor with improved sensitivity for characterizing a fluid in a microfluidic channel is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: UTI Limited Partnership, The Governors of the University of AlbertaInventors: Hamid Sadabadi, Mohammad Hossein Zarifi, Mojgan Daneshmand, Amir Sanati-Nezhad
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Patent number: 11619580Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods suitable to measure trace amounts of specific ions in fluid samples. An example system includes a resonator having an input coupler and an output coupler. The example system also includes an ion-selective membrane (ISM) optically coupled to at least a portion of the resonator. The system additionally includes a light source configured to illuminate the resonator by way of the input coupler. Furthermore, the system includes a detector configured to receive output light by way of the output coupler and provide information indicative a concentration of a specific ion proximate to tire ISM.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: The University of Chicago, UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Xufeng Zhang, Supratik Guha, Tijana Rajh
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Patent number: 11536720Abstract: The present invention relates to an optoelectronic device (1) for detection of a target substance dispersed in a fluid (50). The optoelectronic device comprises:—a light source (2) adapted to emit a light radiation (LE) having an adjustable wavelength ?S;—an integrated electronic circuit (100) comprising a photonic circuit (10) operatively coupled to said light source;—a control unit (9) operatively coupled to said light source and to said photonic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: FTH S.r.L.Inventor: Carlo Guardiani
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Patent number: 11346770Abstract: A fiber-optic salinity and temperature measurement includes a first Fabry-Perot interferometer and a second Fabry-Perot interferometer. Each of the Fabry-Perot interferometers includes a first optical fiber fusion spliced to a second optical fiber such that a relatively large cavity is formed between the fibers. The relatively large cavity forms the measurement chamber for each Fabry-Perot interferometer. The input port on each of the Fabry-Perot interferometers is coupled to an optical splitter such that a single optical signal input is provided to each Fabry-Perot interferometer. The output port on each of the Fabry-Perot interferometers is coupled to an optical combiner that combines the interference signal received from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometers. An optical signal analyzer coupled to an output port of the optical combiner determines the salinity and temperature of a sample material in the large cavity of the second Fabry-Perot interferometer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Jaime Viegas, Raquel Flores, Ricardo Janeiro
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Patent number: 11287575Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a passive optical sensor on a tip of an optical fiber. The method includes perpendicularly cleaving a tip of an optical fiber and mounting the tip of the optical fiber in a specimen holder of a photosensitive polymer three-dimensional micromachining machine. The method includes forming a three-dimensional microscopic optical structure within the photosensitive polymer that comprises a two cavity Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) having a hinged optical layer that is pivotally coupled to a suspended structure. The method includes removing an uncured portion of the photosensitive polymer using a solvent. The method includes depositing a reflective layer on a mirror surface of the hinged optical layer. The method includes positioning the pivotally hinged optical layer to a closed position with the suspended structure, aligning the mirror surface with the cleaved tip of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Jeremiah C Williams, Hengky Chandrahalim
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Patent number: 11236732Abstract: A generator, in particular of a wind power installation, for generating electric current, comprising a rotor and a stator having stator teeth and grooves arranged between said stator teeth for receiving at least one stator winding, wherein a measuring device is provided to determine the deflection of at least one stator tooth of the stator in connection with the generator, wherein the measuring device is connected to at least one measuring unit, which is embodied as a strain gauge.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbHInventor: Peter Rosenbusch
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Patent number: 11204468Abstract: A passive microscopic Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) sensor includes an optical fiber a three-dimensional microscopic optical structure formed on a cleaved tip of an optical fighter that reflects a light signal back through the optical fiber. The reflected light is altered by refractive index changes in the three-dimensional structure that is subject to at least one of: (i) thermal radiation; and (ii) volatile organic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Hengky Chandrahalim, Jonathan Smith
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Patent number: 11181454Abstract: A photonic aerosol particle sensor includes a plurality of photonic waveguide resonators each having a photonic waveguide disposed along a separate waveguide resonator path and each photonic waveguide having a lateral waveguide width different than the waveguide width of other photonic waveguide resonators in the plurality. All waveguides in the plurality of photonic waveguide resonators have a common vertical thickness and are formed of a common photonic waveguide material. An optical input connection couples light into the waveguide resonators. A particle input conveys aerosol particles toward the waveguide resonators and an aerosol particle output conveys aerosol particles away from the waveguide resonators. At least one optical output connection is optically connected to accept light out of the plurality of photonic waveguide resonators to provide a signal indicative of at least one characteristic of the aerosol particles to be analyzed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Robin Singh, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Danhao Ma, Peter X. Su, Brian W. Anthony
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Patent number: 11156782Abstract: A method of making passive microscopic Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) sensor includes forming a three-dimensional microscopic optical structure on a cleaved tip of an optical fiber that reflects a light signal back through the optical fiber. The reflected light is altered by refractive index changes in the three-dimensional structure that is subject to at least one of: (i) thermal radiation; and (ii) volatile organic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Hengky Chandrahalim, Jonathan Smith
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Patent number: 11150144Abstract: A system for measuring pressure, temperature or both includes a diaphragm that responds to a change in temperature or pressure, and a base connected to the diaphragm that has a sapphire element. Between the diaphragm and the base is a cavity. An optical fiber that conducts light reflected off of a surface of the diaphragm is adjacent the cavity. An interrogator is used for detecting a deflection of the diaphragm based on at least two reflected light signals having similar wavelengths and coherence lengths. A quadrature phase detection unit demodulates signals received by the interrogator.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SENTEK INSTRUMENT LLCInventors: Bo Dong, Anbo Wang
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Patent number: 11073421Abstract: Optical detectors and methods of forming them are provided. The detector includes: a controller, pump and probe laser generators that generate modulated pump laser and probe lasers, respectively, a microring cavity that receives the lasers, a microbridge, and a photodetector. The microring cavity includes covered and exposed portions. The microbridge is suspended above the exposed portion and interacts with an evanescent optical field. The wavelength and modulated power of the pump laser are controlled to generate the evanescent optical field that excites the microbridge to resonance. The microbridge absorbs optical radiation which changes the resonance frequency proportionately. The probe laser is modulated in proportion to a vibration amplitude of the microbridge to form a modulated probe laser which is provided to the photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Marcel Pruessner, Doewon Park, Todd Stievater, Dmitry Kozak, William Rabinovich
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Patent number: 11029509Abstract: An optical module includes a wavelength variable interference filter having a fixed reflective film, a movable reflective film which faces the fixed reflective film with a gap between reflective films interposed therebetween, and an electrostatic actuator that changes the gap between reflective films, and a gap control unit that controls the electrostatic actuator. The gap control unit controls the electrostatic actuator on the basis of an order which is set in accordance with a wavelength to be measured, and changes the gap between the reflective films.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Inventors: Tomonori Matsushita, Nozomu Hirokubo
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Patent number: 10942313Abstract: A passive microscopic Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) sensor an optical fiber a three-dimensional microscopic optical structure formed on a cleaved tip of an optical fighter that reflects a light signal back through the optical fiber. The reflected light is altered by refractive index changes in the three-dimensional structure that is subject to at least one of: (i) thermal radiation; and (ii) volatile organic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Hengky Chandrahalim, Jonathan Smith
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Patent number: 10838472Abstract: A power analysis apparatus includes antenna circuitry gathers readings of electromagnetic waves that emanate from a power delivery network of a circuit to be analysed. Spectral analysis circuitry analyses the readings to determine a resonance frequency from said electromagnetic waves and processing circuitry performs one or more actions based on the resonance frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: Arm Limited, University of CyprusInventors: Zacharias Hadjilambrou, Shidhartha Das, Yanos Sazeides
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Patent number: 10731969Abstract: An in-line fiber-optic sensing element, a system, and methods for detecting strain using a fiber optic sensor are described that include using at least two chirped grating structures. In an implementation, an in-line fiber-optic sensing element that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes an optically transmissive fiber including a core and an outer layer; a Fabry-Perot cavity defined by a portion of the optically transmissive fiber and two chirped fiber-Bragg grating structures, where the two chirped grating structures are separated and are configured to reflect light.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NUTECH VENTURES, Inc.Inventor: Ming Han
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Patent number: 10655949Abstract: Inspecting a multilayer sample. In one example embodiment, a method may receiving, at a beam splitter, light and splitting the light into first and second portions; combining, at the beam splitter, the first portion of the light after being reflected from a multilayer sample and the second portion of the light after being reflected from a reflector; receiving, at a computer-controlled system for analyzing Fabry-Perot fringes, the combined light and spectrally analyzing the combined light to determine a value of a total power impinging a slit of the system for analyzing Fabry-Perot fringes; determining an optical path difference (OPD); recording an interferogram that plots the value versus the OPD for the OPD; performing the previous acts of the method one or more additional times with a different OPD; and using the interferogram for each of the different OPDs to determine the thicknesses and order of the layers of the multilayer sample.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: APPLEJACK 199 L.P.Inventors: Wojciech Jan Walecki, Alexander Pravdivtsev
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Patent number: 10495508Abstract: A sensor is provided. The sensor includes at least one optical waveguide and an optical reflector. The optical reflector is optically coupled to the at least one optical waveguide and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is configured to reflect a first portion of light back to the at least one optical waveguide. The second portion is configured to reflect a second portion of light back to the at least one optical waveguide. The reflected second portion of the light differs in phase from the reflected first portion of the light by a phase difference that is not substantially equal to an integer multiple of ? when the second portion of the optical reflector is in an equilibrium position in absence of the perturbation.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Michel J. F. Digonnet, Onur Kilic, Wonuk Jo, Olav Solgaard, Behrad Habib Afshar
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Patent number: 10444866Abstract: Examples are provided for measuring force applied to a device, such as a stylus tip. An example stylus includes a stylus body, a stylus tip, and the stylus tip including a light emitting device and a compressible light reflecting optic, the light emitting device comprising a light emitter and a light detector, and the compressible light reflecting optic comprising a first reflective layer configured to (i) allow a first portion of light from the light emitting device to pass and (ii) to reflect a second portion of light from the light emitting device, and a second reflective layer, more reflective than the first reflective layer, configured to reflect light from the light emitting device, the first layer being spaced from the second layer by a light-transmissive material. A force exerted on the stylus tip is measurable based at least on a parameter of light received at the light detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Nigel Stuart Keam, John Michael Lutian
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Patent number: 10338328Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for a ruggedized photonic crystal (PC) sensor packaging. In particular, the present disclosure teaches a ruggedized packaging for a photonic crystal sensor that includes of a hermetic-seal high-temperature jacket and a ferrule that eliminate the exposure of the optical fiber as well as the critical part of the photonic crystal sensor to harsh environments. The disclosed packaging methods enable photonic crystal based sensors to operate in challenging environments where adverse environmental conditions, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI), corrosive fluids, large temperature variations, and strong mechanical vibrations, currently exclude the use of traditional sensor technologies.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael A. Carralero, Eric Y. Chan, Dennis G. Koshinz
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Patent number: 10274432Abstract: A guided mode resonance (GMR) sensor assembly and system are provided. The GMR sensor includes a waveguide structure configured for operation at or near one or more leaky modes, a receiver for input light from a source of light onto the waveguide structure to cause one or more leaky TE and TM resonant modes and a detector for changes in one or more of the phase, waveshape and/or magnitude of each of a TE resonance and a TM resonance to permit distinguishing between first and second physical states of said waveguide structure or its immediate environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Inventors: Robert Magnusson, Debra Wawro-Weidanz
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Patent number: 10256917Abstract: Aspects are generally directed to receivers and methods for optically demodulating optical signals. In one example, a receiver includes an optical resonator to receive an optical signal, the optical resonator including an optical medium interposed between first and second semi-reflective surfaces, where the first and second semi-reflective surfaces are positioned to resonate optical signal energy, and the optical resonator is configured to disrupt the optical signal energy resonance responsive to a variation in the received optical signal. The receiver may further include a probe source positioned to provide an optical probe beam to the optical medium, the optical medium being configured to interrupt the optical probe beam during the optical signal energy resonance and to transmit at least a portion of the optical probe beam in response to the disruption of the optical signal energy resonance, and a detector to detect the transmitted portion of the optical probe beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventors: Benjamin P. Dolgin, Gary M. Graceffo, Andrew Kowalevicz
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Patent number: 10234444Abstract: A system and method includes nano opto-mechanical-fluidic resonators (nano-resonators), e.g., for identification of particles, e.g., single viruses and/or cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Gaurav Bahl, Kewen Han
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Patent number: 9939254Abstract: The present invention provides the sensor for measuring the relative sliding between two interfaces based on the principle of EFPI. The sensor comprises two optical fibers and two slopes arranged on the reflective slope. Each surface of the slope is disposed with reflecting surface; and the bottom of each optical fiber is arranged with reflecting end surface. The reflecting surfaces are perpendicular to each of an optical axis of the fiber, thus the Fabry-Perot cavity is formed between reflective end surface and emitting surface to measure the sliding of object B relative to object A in a plane. A fiber and a slope can also be further added to measure the sliding of object B relative to object A in a three dimensional space. The sensor does not affected by the temperature and electromagnetic interference; and has the advantages of high accuracy, strong resisting interference capability and durability.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Inventor: Yizheng Chen
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Patent number: 9890925Abstract: There is provided a device arranged to couple with an electromagnetic source. The device comprises an optical metamaterial arranged to increase the intensity of radiation at a predetermined optical wavelength. The optical metamaterial has a periodic reflective component having a dimension no greater than the predetermined wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: LAMDA GUARD TECHNOLOGIES LTDInventors: George Palikaras, Themos Kallos
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Patent number: 9880029Abstract: A fiber optic transducer is provided. The fiber optic transducer includes a fixed portion configured to be secured to a body of interest, a moveable portion having a range of motion with respect to the fixed portion, a spring positioned between the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and a length of fiber wound between the fixed portion and the moveable portion. The length of fiber spans the spring. The fiber optic transducer also includes a mass engaged with the moveable portion. In one disclosed aspect of the transducer, the mass envelopes the moveable portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Avalon Sciences Ltd.Inventors: James Kengo Andersen, Eric Lee Goldner, Agop Hygasov Cherbettchian, Gerald Robert Baker, David T. Beatson
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Patent number: 9823113Abstract: Disclosed is detecting changes in pressure in a medium, with an optical fiber having a core diameter at an immersion surface contact of the fiber of less than 10 ?m; a layer of material deposited on said end of the fiber, the material being of a thickness of from about 2 nm to about 10 nm. Also disclosed is detecting pressure waves in a medium comprising: contacting the medium with a fiber optic, the fiber integrated with a light source and a detector, the fiber optic having a diameter of less than 10 ?m at an immersion surface contact of the fiber; providing a thin layer of material on the immersion surface contact, wherein said thin layer of material is of a thickness in a range of from about 2 nm to about 10 nm; and detecting Fresnel back reflections from the immersion end of the fiber.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Afshin S Daryoush, Peter A Lewin, Rupa Gopinath Minasamudram, Mahmoud El-Sherif
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Patent number: 9810594Abstract: Certain example implementations of the disclosed technology include an optical-interferometer sensor assembly for measuring pressure or acceleration. The sensor assembly includes a diaphragm configured to deflect responsive to an applied stimulus, a diaphragm support structure in communication with the diaphragm, a sensing optical interferometer having a first optical cavity in communication with at least a portion of the diaphragm and the diaphragm support structure, and a reference optical interferometer having a second optical cavity in communication with the diaphragm support structure. The sensor assembly can include a sensing optical fiber in communication with the sensing optical interferometer and a reference optical fiber in communication with the reference optical interferometer. The sensor assembly can include a housing in communication with the diaphragm and the diaphragm support structure, and configured to reduce a thermal expansion mismatch in the sensor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.Inventor: Martin A. Sanzari
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Patent number: 9766178Abstract: An optical sensor is described for distinguishing between liquids of different refractive index, through strength of interference caused by an optical cavity having an exposed optical boundary in contact with such liquids. The sensor may be used, for example, to distinguish between water and aviation fuel in an aircraft fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Oxsensis LimitedInventor: Ralf-Dieter Pechstedt
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Patent number: 9722147Abstract: Networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings and methods of fabricating networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes an insulator network. A plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is disposed in the insulator network. Each of the plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is spaced apart from one another by the insulator network.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Pacific Light Technologies Corp.Inventors: Benjamin Daniel Mangum, Weiwen Zhao, Kari N. Haley, Juanita N. Kurtin
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Patent number: 9703092Abstract: An optical filter includes: a lower substrate; a lower mirror provided to the lower substrate; a lower electrode provided to the lower substrate; an upper substrate disposed so as to be opposed to the lower electrode; an upper mirror provided to the upper substrate, and opposed to the lower mirror; and an upper electrode provided to the upper substrate, and opposed to the lower electrode, wherein the upper substrate has a groove surrounding the upper mirror in a plan view, the groove includes a first side surface section, a second side surface section, a bottom surface section, a first end section located between the first side surface section and the bottom surface section, and a second end section located between the second side surface section and the bottom surface section, in a cross-sectional view, and the first end section and the second end section each have a curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Susumu Shinto, Seiji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 9696135Abstract: An optical sensor apparatus illuminates nested optical cavities by a broadband light source, such as a tunable laser. A composite interference signal is obtained from light reflected from the nested optical cavities, partial interference spectra are recovered from the composite interference signal, cavity depths are measured based on the partial interference spectra, and electrical signals are provided based on the final measured cavity depths.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: PETROSPEC ENGINEERING LTD.Inventors: Yi Yang, Trevor Wayne MacDougall
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Patent number: 9507178Abstract: An electromagnetic waveguide assembly is disclosed, which includes a microresonator and a perturbative member. A gap is between the perturbative member and the nearest surface of the microresonator. The perturbative member is within a range for perturbing the electromagnetic wave supported by the microresonator.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Inventor: Charles Wesley Blackledge
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System and method for interoperating a radio-over-fiber based network in a fiber-to-the-home network
Patent number: 9419715Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for interoperating a full-duplex radio-over-fiber (RoF) network in a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network and to a method associated with the system. The system comprises, at the central station (100), a laser diode (105a), a first optical circulator (105b), an optical carrier generating unit (105c), and a second optical circulator (105d). The system comprises, at a base station (101), a third optical circulator (101a) a band pass filter (101b) coupled to the third optical circulator (101a) and configured to select only the optical signal having a corresponding pass band in which is used for converting an uplink signal as a remote local oscillator signal. The unselected optical signal is transmitted as downlink data.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: TELEKOM MALAYSIA BERHADInventors: Norhakimah Md Samsuri, Amiza Rasmi, Norhapizin Kushairi, Mohd Azmi Ismail, Romli Mohamad -
Patent number: 9372337Abstract: A movable substrate of a wavelength variable interference filter includes a movable portion and a groove which is provided outside of the movable portion, in a plan view when the movable substrate is seen from a substrate thickness direction, the groove includes a bottom surface having an even groove depth dimension and a side surface which is continued to the bottom surface, and the side surface is configured with arc-like first curved surface portion and second curved surface portion, in a cross-sectional view when the movable substrate is cut along the substrate thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Katsuji Arakawa
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Patent number: 9103727Abstract: A self-referencing composite Fabry-Pérot cavity sensor, including methods of use and manufacture. The cavity sensor comprises a substrate defining a first cavity portion juxtaposed to a second cavity portion. The first and second cavity portions are provided having a predetermined depth offset. A polymer or other dielectric material is disposed within the first and second cavity portions. An interference spectrum resulting from a light source of a known wavelength is reflected through the sensor and produces a first refractive index from the first cavity portion offset by a second refractive index from the second cavity portion. The difference in refractive indices can be used to determine various physical parameters. An optical sensor according to the present technology may be used with vapor sensing, pressure sensing, protein detection, photo-acoustic imaging, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: The Regents of The University of MichiganInventors: Xudong Fan, Karthik Reddy, Yunbo Guo
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Patent number: 9097505Abstract: A fiber optic transducer is provided. The fiber optic transducer includes a fixed portion configured to be secured to a body of interest, a moveable portion having a range of motion with respect to the fixed portion, a spring positioned between the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and a length of fiber wound between the fixed portion and the moveable portion. The length of fiber spans the spring. The fiber optic transducer also includes a mass engaged with the moveable portion. In one disclosed aspect of the transducer, the mass envelopes the moveable portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: US Seismic Systems, Inc.Inventors: James Kengo Andersen, Eric Lee Goldner, Agop Hygasov Cherbettchian, Gerald Robert Baker, David T. Beatson
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Publication number: 20150036147Abstract: A device and method include a broadband light source in communication with a waveguide to provide a light signal for interrogating each of a plurality for sensors within the waveguide. An analyzer modulates the light signal with a microwave signal and demodulates and evaluates light signals reflected by the sensors. An amplitude and a phase of each reflected signal from each sensor is distinguished in the time domain and the modulated signal is reconstructed in the frequency domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Hai Xiao, Jie Huang, Xinwei Lan, Ming Luo
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Patent number: 8940238Abstract: The present invention is directed to an assembly for use in detecting an analyte in a sample based on thin-film spectral interference. The assembly comprises a waveguide, a monolithic substrate optically coupled to the waveguide, and a thin-film layer directly bonded to the sensing side of the monolithic substrate. The refractive index of the monolithic substrate is higher than the refractive index of the transparent material of the thin-film layer. A spectral interference between the light reflected into the waveguide from a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface varies as analyte molecules in a sample bind to the analyte binding molecules coated on the thin-film layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Access Medical Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hong Tan, Yushan Tan, Erhua Cao, Ming Xia, Robert F. Zuk
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Publication number: 20140368829Abstract: An optical sensor including a MEMS structure, and a grating coupled resonating structure positioned adjacent to the MEMS structure, the grating coupled resonating structure comprising an interrogating grating coupler configured to direct light towards the MEMS structure. The interrogating grating coupler is two dimensional, and the interrogating grating coupler and the MEMS structure form an optical resonant cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: John Marcel Dell, Mariusz Martyniuk, Adrian John Keating, Gino Michael Putrino, Lorenzo Faraone, Dilusha Silva, Roger Jeffery
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Patent number: 8897610Abstract: A method for fabricating a sensor is provided, with the sensor including a reflective element and an optical fiber positioned relative to the reflective element such that light emitted from the optical fiber is reflected by the reflective element and propagates in an optical cavity between the optical fiber and the reflective element. The method includes positioning an element within the optical cavity. The element has a coefficient of thermal expansion and a thickness that compensate a refractive index change with temperature of a medium within the optical cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Onur Can Akkaya, Michel J. F. Digonnet, Onur Kilic, Gordon S. Kino, Olav Solgaard
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Patent number: 8885170Abstract: A gyroscope and a method of detecting rotation are provided. The gyroscope includes a structure configured to be driven to move about a drive axis. The structure is further configured to move about a sense axis in response to a Coriolis force generated by rotation of the structure about a rotational axis while moving about the drive axis. The structure further includes at least one first torsional spring extending generally along the drive axis and at least one second torsional spring extending generally along the sense axis. The gyroscope further includes an optical sensor system configured to optically measure movement of the structure about the sense axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Onur Kilic, Michel J. F. Digonnet, Gordon S. Kino, Olav Solgaard
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Publication number: 20140327919Abstract: A system for sensing downhole pressure in in a hydrocarbon well using a Fabry-Perot (F-P) sensor in series with a Fiber Bragg Grating and maintaining the back pressure on the sensor system with a surface sealing system and a surface pressure control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services. Inc.Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, William N. Gibler, Ian B. Mitchell