Optical Frequency Converter Patents (Class 359/326)
  • Patent number: 9983054
    Abstract: An ultraviolet light sensing circuit and sensing system. The ultraviolet light sensing circuit comprises a modulation unit and a phase delay unit, wherein the modulation unit comprises a first stage of inverter which is used for sensing ultraviolet light and is used as a voltage feedback modulation stage; and the phase delay unit comprises N stages of inverters which are connected in sequence, where N is an even number which is greater than or equal to 2. The modulation unit is connected to the phase delay unit in sequence, and the output voltage of the phase delay unit is fed to the modulation unit; and the modulation unit is modulated by a control signal which is a pulse signal. The ultraviolet light sensing circuit and sensing system can be used for ultraviolet light information communications. The ultraviolet light sensing circuit can sense ultraviolet light signals and output amplitude modulation wave signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
    Inventors: Shengdong Zhang, Congwei Liao, Zhijin Hu, Wenjie Li, Junmei Li
  • Patent number: 9983052
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a coherent light generator, imaging optics and a detection system. The coherent light generator is configured to generate squeezed light. The imaging optics is arranged to direct the squeezed light from the coherent light generator onto a target object and to receive squeezed light reflected by the target object. The detection system includes a local oscillator configured to generate un-squeezed light at a same frequency and phase as the squeezed light, a combiner arranged to combine the received squeezed light from the imaging optics and the un-squeezed light from the local oscillator to provide combined light, and a detector arranged to receive and detect the combined light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert G. Brown
  • Patent number: 9961420
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an optical packet buffer control device, without making device construction large in scale, that is capable of dynamically responding to traffic and suppressing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirayama, Hideaki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9958607
    Abstract: A light waveguide includes a first cladding layer, a groove formed in the first cladding layer, a core layer embedded in the groove, and a second cladding layer formed on the first cladding layer and the core layer. A width and thickness of one end of the core layer are larger than a width and thickness of the other end of the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 9935421
    Abstract: An improved solid-state laser for generating sub-200 nm light is described. This laser uses a fundamental wavelength between about 1030 nm and 1065 nm to generate the sub-200 nm light. The final frequency conversion stage of the laser creates the sub-200 nm light by mixing a wavelength of approximately 1109 nm with a wavelength of approximately 234 nm. By proper selection of non-linear media, such mixing can be achieved by nearly non-critical phase matching. This mixing results in high conversion efficiency, good stability, and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Yung-Ho Chuang, J. Joseph Armstrong, Yujun Deng, Justin Dianhuan Liou, Vladimir Dribinski, John Fielden
  • Patent number: 9912410
    Abstract: A system for optically down-converting a radio-frequency signal includes phase modulators in a push-pull configuration. Separately tuned optical bandpass filters pass through one or more harmonics and inverse harmonics based on the RF signal to produce a local oscillator. A balanced photo-detector receives a coherent interference signal and derives the down-converted local oscillator from a filtered harmonic and inverse harmonic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim S. Jepsen, Raymond Zanoni, Wenlu Chen
  • Patent number: 9905999
    Abstract: Microwave-frequency signal generation by generating multiple sideband optical signals separated by phase-modulation frequency fM, generating beat signals between one or two sidebands and one or two optical reference signals, generating a loop-filtered error signal by comparing an electrical reference signal to one of the beat signals or their difference, and controlling with the error signal in a phase-locked loop arrangement a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that drives the sideband generation at the frequency fM. A portion of the VCO output is the generated microwave-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Kerry Vahala
  • Patent number: 9897893
    Abstract: In a terahertz wave generation apparatus including a first non-linear optical crystal 3 on which first laser L1 and second laser L2 from laser generation means 2 are incident to generate terahertz wave TH1, the laser generation means includes a second non-linear optical crystal 7 on which laser having the same wavelength as that of the second laser is incident to generate idler light L1 including a plurality of wavelengths, and makes the idler light L1 generated from the second non-linear optical crystal incident on the first non-linear optical crystal as the first laser L1, to generate terahertz wave including a plurality of wavelengths from the first non-linear optical crystal 3, and wavelength selection means including a transmission section which transmits an idler light having the specific wavelength in the idler light including the plurality of wavelengths can be provided, as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SHIBUYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kodo Kawase, Toshiaki Naka, Motoi Sasaki, Akito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9880445
    Abstract: Systems and methods implementing a stack on a substrate, where the stack includes a plurality of films structured as layers to convert radiation incident to the stack to radiation of a nonlinear optical signal different from the incident radiation or to a harmonic of the incident radiation, can be used in a variety of applications. The stack can be structured having parameters selected with respect to conversion efficiency and bandwidth the converted radiation. Additional systems and methods can be used in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Wolfgang G. Rudolph, Cristina Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9861297
    Abstract: To provide a gas analysis device comprising: a cell; a light source; and a detector, wherein two or more types of gaseous components contained in the gas are measurement targets, a mid-infrared light with a wavelength that is caused to match the absorption spectrum of the measurement target gaseous components is output from the light source, and concentrations of the gaseous components are obtained based on light intensity detected by the detector. The gas analysis device sets a cumulative measurement time for the mid-infrared lights with the wavelengths for respective ones of the measurement target gaseous components; and controls at least one of an output time of the light source and a detection time of the detector in accordance with the cumulative measurement times, thereby efficiently measuring the plurality of types of gaseous components contained in the gas by using the mid-infrared lights with the plurality of wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Masaki Yumoto, Koji Miyazaki, Satoshi Wada, Takayo Ogawa, Shinichi Imai
  • Patent number: 9844410
    Abstract: A laser can produce pulses of light energy to eject a volume of the tissue, and the energy can be delivered to a treatment site through a waveguide, such as a fiber optic waveguide. The incident laser energy can be absorbed within a volume of the target tissue with a tissue penetration depth and pulse direction such that the propagation of the energy from the tissue volume is inhibited and such that the target tissue within the volume reaches the spinodal threshold of decomposition and ejects the volume, for example without substantial damage to tissue adjacent the ejected volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: PRECISE LIGHT SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Gerald Mitchell, Kenneth Arnold
  • Patent number: 9833135
    Abstract: An optical apparatus applied to ophthalmology detection is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a first light source module, a second light source module, and an interference module. The first light source module is formed by a laser light source and lens units and used to emit a first light signal. The second light source module is formed by fiber units and lens units. The second light source module is coupled to the first light source module in series. The second light source module is used to receive a first light signal and emit a second light signal. The interference module is coupled to the second light source module and used to receive the second light signal and provide a first incident light and a second incident light to an object to be detected and a reference mirror respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: Crystalvue Medical Corporation
    Inventors: William Wang, Chung-Ping Chuang, Meng-Shin Yen, Chung-Cheng Chou, Sheng-Lung Huang, Kuang-Yu Hsu, Chien-Chung Tsai, Tuan-Shu Ho
  • Patent number: 9821409
    Abstract: A laser cutting method and a laser cutting apparatus cut a metallic work with a laser beam of a one-micrometer waveband. The method and apparatus carry out the laser cutting of the work with a ring beam RB passed through a focus position of a condenser lens 13 and having inner and outer diameters that tend to expand. The outer diameter of the ring beam is in a range of 300 ?m (micrometers) to 600 ?m, an inner diameter ratio of the same is in a range of 30 % to 70 %, and a focal depth of the condenser lens is in a range of 2 mm to 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiko Sugiyama, Hiroaki Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9810967
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses and methods for generating frequency combs. A non-linear optical medium may generate new optical waves centered at frequencies differing from the input waves, while retaining the input wave properties. In the case when a parametric mixer is used to generate frequency combs with small frequency pitch, the phase correlation of the input (seed) waves can be achieved by an electro-optical modulator and a single master laser. In the case when a frequency comb possessing a frequency pitch that is larger than frequency modulation that can be affected by an electro-optic modulator, the phase correlation of the input (seed) waves is achieved by combined use of an electro-optical modulator and injection locking to a single or multiple slave lasers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROSHMERE, INC.
    Inventor: Ping Piu Kuo
  • Patent number: 9804101
    Abstract: A DUV laser includes an optical bandwidth filtering device, such as etalon, which is disposed outside of the laser oscillator cavity of the fundamental laser, and which directs one range of wavelengths into one portion of a frequency conversion chain and another range of wavelengths into another portion of the frequency conversion train, thereby reducing the bandwidth of the DUV laser output while maintaining high conversion efficiency in the frequency conversion chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Yujun Deng, Yung-Ho Chuang, John Fielden
  • Patent number: 9774162
    Abstract: A potassium fluoroboratoberyllate crystal oblique-incidence laser frequency multiplier, comprising: a flake-like potassium fluoroboratoberyllate crystal having parallel front and back polished surfaces; a front antireflection film and a back antireflection film; a columnar crystal support provided with a square holding slot and a light through-hole; and external heating jackets; the crystal is disposed in the square holding slot, the front and back surfaces of the crystal conforming to a main surface of the square holding slot, a normal of the main surface of the holding slot forming an angle ? with the central axis of the crystal support; a laser at a fundamental frequency passes through the front antireflection film, and a frequency-multiplied laser generated in the crystal is transmitted out through the back antireflection film. The present invention has a simple structure and a low cost, and is suitable for medium- and high-power laser systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Chuangtian Chen, Bo Xu, Xiaoyang Wang, Feidi Fan, Lijuan Liu, Rukang Li
  • Patent number: 9753352
    Abstract: The present invention includes a fundamental laser light source configured to generate fundamental wavelength laser light, a first nonlinear optical crystal configured to generate first alternate wavelength light, a second nonlinear optical crystal configured to generate second alternate wavelength light, a set of Brewster angle wavefront processing optics configured to condition the first and second alternate wavelengths of light, and a harmonic separator configured to receive the first alternate wavelength light and the second alternate wavelength light from the set of Brewster angle wavefront processing optics, the harmonic separator configured to at least partially separate the first alternate wavelength light from the second alternate wavelength light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventor: J. Joseph Armstrong
  • Patent number: 9735543
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for improving tolerances of in-plane optical alignment of optical interconnects. An example method includes depositing a first reflector with a first spectral reflectivity on an end of an optical fiber, coupling a laser to another end of the optical fiber, changing a spectral reflectivity of a region of the first reflector adjacent to the end of a core of the optical fiber from the first spectral reflectivity by exposure to the laser, resulting in a first reflector with multiple regions of spectral reflectivity, and coupling the first reflector to an integrated unit comprising an optical cavity deposited on a second reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Peter John Reece
  • Patent number: 9722707
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal transmitting device, and a direct detection method and a direct detection system using the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal. The direct detection system using the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal comprises a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device is configured to generate and transmit a dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal to be detected, wherein the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal is modulated with a modulation signal. The receiving device is configured to receive the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal, and recover amplitude and phase information of the modulation signal based on the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: WUHAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Rong Hu, Qi Yang, Shaohua Yu
  • Patent number: 9713855
    Abstract: A method of drilling a part, or a turbine engine part, by a pulse laser generator including a cavity in which there is mounted a solid bar for generating laser pulses, the method including determining values of a plurality of operating parameters of the laser generator for forming orifices of predetermined diameter in the part, and taking account, among the parameters, of a setpoint value for the temperature of the laser cavity, which value is determined as a function of characteristics of the orifices to be drilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Yves Le Meur, Jean-Baptiste Mottin
  • Patent number: 9696568
    Abstract: Provided are a light source apparatus and an inspection apparatus that can stably output a wavelength converted light beam. A light source apparatus includes a laser light source that generates a first fundamental light beam, at least one nonlinear optical crystal that generates a wavelength converted light beam using the fundamental light beam or a harmonic laser beam of the fundamental light beam as an incident light beam, a detector that detects the wavelength converted light beam, an acousto-optic modulator that is disposed in an optical path of the incident light beam in such a way that a zero-order light beam enters the nonlinear optical crystal, and a controller that controls an output intensity of the wavelength converted light beam according to a detection signal from the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lasertec Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Sakuma
  • Patent number: 9673895
    Abstract: A Wavelength Adaptation Module and a method therein for adapting an Optical Time Domain Reflectometry, OTDR, signal for supervision of Optical Network Terminals, ONTs, in a Passive Optical Network, PON, are provided. The wavelength of the OTDR signal is adapted to have a selected wavelength to enable a splitter in a remote node to forward the OTDR signal to a dedicated group of ONTs in the PON, thereby supervising the fiber links between the remote node and the dedicated group of ONTs. Likewise, a remote node and a method therein for receiving an OTDR signal having a pre-selected wavelength from the Wavelength Adaptation Module and for outputting the OTDR signal to a dedicated group of ONTs with regards to the pre-selected wavelength of the received OTDR signal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Patryk Urban, Gemma Vall-Ilosera
  • Patent number: 9658396
    Abstract: Described herein are an apparatus, system, and method for providing a vertical optical coupler (VOC) for planar photonics circuits such as photonics circuits fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. In one embodiment, the VOC comprises a waveguide made from a material having refractive index in a range of 1.45 to 3.45, the waveguide comprising: a first end configured to reflect light nearly vertical by total internal reflection between the waveguide and another medium, a second end to receive the light for reflection, and a third end to output the reflected light. The VOC couples with a Si waveguide having a first region including: a first end to receive light; and an inverted tapered end in the direction of light propagation to output the received light, wherein the inverted tapered end of the Si waveguide is positioned inside the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Haisheng Rong, Ofir Gan, Pradeep Srinivasan, Assia Barkai, I-Wei Andy Hsieh, Mahesh Krishnamurthi, Yun-Chung Neil Na
  • Patent number: 9634201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a light emitting device (LED 10), a first wavelength converting material (13, in a matrix 14 to form a layer 12), and a second wavelength converting material (forming layer 16). The first wavelength converting material includes a nanostructured wavelength converting material. The nanostructured wavelength converting material includes particles having at least one dimension that is no more than 100 nm in length. The first wavelength converting material (13) is spaced apart from the light emitting device (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Debasis Bera, Mark Melvin Butterworth, Oleg Borisovich Shchekin
  • Patent number: 9625320
    Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to automatically-locked homodyne detection are described. A described system includes a first nonlinear element, a filter, and second nonlinear elements. The first nonlinear element can produce, based on an input signal and a first continuous wave (CW) signal, a first output signal that includes the input signal and a phase conjugate copy of the input signal. The filter can produce a filtered signal based on the first output signal and can be programmable to adjust an induced delay between the input signal and the phase conjugate signal. The second nonlinear elements can produce second output signals based on a second CW signal and differently weighted combinations of signal components within the filtered signal. The second output signals can include an in-phase output signal based on an in-phase version of the filtered signal and a quadrature output signal based on a quadrature version of the filtered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Mohammad Reza Chitgarha, Alan E. Willner, Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei, Morteza Ziyadi, Salman Khaleghi
  • Patent number: 9605998
    Abstract: A measurement system, comprising: a first light source that generates first light and irradiates an object with the first light, at least one of an intensity, a polarization state, and a wavelength being modulated with a first period in the first light; a second light source that generates second light, at least one of an intensity, a polarization state, and a wavelength being modulated with a second period in the second light; a first optical system that mixes light from the object based on the first light with the second light; a nonlinear optical crystal that generates third light from the mixed light by sum-frequency generation phenomenon, the third light having a frequency equivalent to a sum of a frequency of the light from the object based on the first light and a frequency of the second light; and a photodetector that measures an intensity of the third light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuya Nozawa
  • Patent number: 9599875
    Abstract: An optical apparatus to provide several light bands on a single coaligned beam line or axis. The apparatus generally comprises five main components: a pump, a fold mirror, an input coupler, a nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal, and an output coupler. Alternatively, the present invention may comprise four main components, namely, a pump, an acute porro prism, a NLO crystal, and an input-output coupler. The pump input beam makes two passes through the nonlinear optical crystal and generates two new colors, having different wavelengths, during each pass through the nonlinear optical crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan E. Rines
  • Patent number: 9594288
    Abstract: A tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG) lens and system are provided that permit, in one aspect, dynamic selection of the lens output, including dynamic focusing and imaging. The system may include a TAG lens and at least one of a source and a detector of electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be provided in electrical communication with the lens and at least one of the source and detector and may be configured to provide a driving signal to control the index of refraction and to provide a synchronizing signal to time at least one of the source and the detector relative to the driving signal. Thus, the controller is able to specify that the source irradiates the lens (or detector detects the lens output) when a desired refractive index distribution is present within the lens, e.g. when a desired lens output is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventors: Craig B. Arnold, Euan McLeod, Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin
  • Patent number: 9595805
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate structure including a semiconductor material layer that is present directly on a buried dielectric layer in a first portion of the substrate structure and an isolation dielectric material that is present directly on the buried dielectric layer in a second portion of the substrate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a III-V optoelectronic device that is present in direct contact with the isolation dielectric material in a first region of the second portion of the substrate structure. A dielectric wave guide is present in direct contact with the isolation dielectric material in a second region of the second portion of the substrate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Ning Li, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9588399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of laser frequency-mixing technologies, and in particular, to an all-fiber laser frequency mixer and a frequency-mixing fiber laser thereof. In the all-fiber laser frequency mixer and the frequency-mixing fiber laser thereof, a graded index fiber coupling technology is used to implement an all-fiber laser frequency mixer, and the all-fiber laser frequency mixer is further combined with a fiber laser to implement an all-fiber frequency-mixing fiber laser. The apparatus can implement all-fiber frequency doubling, sum frequency or difference frequency on any one or two of the following linearly polarized narrow linewidth fiber lasers: a 1 ?m fiber laser, a 1.5 ?m fiber laser, a 1.9 ?m thulium-doped fiber laser, a 2 ?m thulium holmium co-doped fiber laser, a Raman fiber laser, and a frequency-mixing fiber laser and implement an all-fiber fiber laser covering ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shuangchen Ruan, Chunyu Guo, Chenlin Du, Deqin Ouyang, Huaiqin Lin, Weiqi Liu
  • Patent number: 9590382
    Abstract: An enhancement resonator (20) being configured for generating intra-resonator laser light (1) by coherent superposition of input laser light, comprises at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) spanning a ring resonator path in one common resonator plane, said resonator path being free of a laser light amplifying medium, wherein the at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) include at least two toroidal mirrors and/or at least one cylindrical mirror. Furthermore, a laser device (100) comprising the enhancement resonator (20) and a method of generating intra-resonator laser light (1) are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    Inventors: Ioachim Pupeza, Henning Carstens, Simon Holzberger, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz
  • Patent number: 9563101
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA). Two approaches for classes of NOPA are described: phase-mask NOPA and Wollaston NOPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Daniel B. Turner, Alexander T. Martin, Laurie A. Bizimana
  • Patent number: 9557263
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are disclosed for interrogating characteristics of a substrate material surface and sub-surface by evaluating Terahertz output signals generated by non-Terahertz, optical source inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Hunt, John H. Belk
  • Patent number: 9553253
    Abstract: A lower electrode and an adhesive layer made of an insulator are formed on a back surface on the ion implantation layer side of a piezoelectric single crystal substrate. A supporting substrate in which sacrificial layers made of a conductive material have been formed is bonded to the surface of the adhesive layer. By heating the composite body including the piezoelectric single crystal substrate, the lower electrode, the adhesive layer, and the supporting substrate, a layer of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate is detached to form a piezoelectric thin film. A liquid polarizing upper electrode is formed on a detaching interface of the piezoelectric thin film. A pulsed electric field is applied using the polarizing upper electrode and the sacrificial layers as counter electrodes. Consequently, the piezoelectric thin film is polarized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Iwamoto, Hajime Kando
  • Patent number: 9551647
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tunable optical light source spanning the UV-range and possible also the visible and near-IR wavelengths. The tunable optical light source includes an input light source, a focusing element, a non-linear crystal arranged to convert the frequency of at least part of the output spectrum of the super continuum source, and a holding unit for the non-linear crystal. The input light source is a super continuum light source with a spectral bandwidth of at least about 300 nm and the holding unit is adjustable for changing the frequency converted output wavelength of the non-linear crystal wfc such that the lowest obtainable output wavelength wUV of said tunable light source is ultraviolet. The disclosure further relates to an illumination source and an optical measurement system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: NKT PHOTONICS
    Inventors: Carsten L. Thomsen, Frederik Donbaek Nielsen, Sascha Hauser, Eberhard Riedle, Maximilian Bradler
  • Patent number: 9542749
    Abstract: Fast general multipath correction in time of flight imaging is described, for example, to obtain accurate depth maps at frame rate from a time of flight camera. In various embodiments accurate depth maps are calculated by looking up corrected depth values stored in a look up table. In various embodiments the corrected depth values are highly accurate as they take into account three or more possible light ray paths between the camera and a surface in a scene being imaged. In an example accurate depth maps are computed at a frame rate of a time of flight camera. In an example accurate depth maps are computed in less than 30 milliseconds for an image having over 200,000 pixels using a standard CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Freedman, Eyal Krupka, Yoni Smolin, Ido Leichter, Mirko Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9520521
    Abstract: The invention relates to optically active coatings for improving the yield of photosolar conversion, consisting of a transparent matrix containing a plurality of optically active constituents absorbing the light energy in a first absorption wavelength lambdaA1 and reemitting the energy in a second wavelength lambdaR1 different from lambdaA1, said optically active constituents being selected such that the reemission wavelength lamdaR1 of at least one type of constituent corresponds to the absorption wavelength lambdaA2 of at least one second type of constituent, characterised in that the C2/C1 ratio of concentration C1 of the optically active constituents of a first type in relation to the concentration C2 of the optically active constituents of said second type is between 0.13 and 0.26; Ci designating the concentration in moles per liter of the constituent i in relation to the doped matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DU RAYONNEMENT ET DE LA LUMIÈRE, CASCADE
    Inventors: Marc Schiffmann, François Le Poull, Philippe Gravisse
  • Patent number: 9521464
    Abstract: System and method to extend the data carrying capacity of a hybrid fiber cable (HFC) network by adding wideband RF signal capability above 1 GHz, and replacing the CATV amplifier devices with an improved type of Coax Domain Amplifier-Repeater (CDAR) device that, in addition to being a smart reconfigurable amplifier and cable signal diagnostic device, also segments the CATV cable portion of the HFC network into a series of smaller domains. The CDAR often alter RF signals from 5-865 MHz, while more freely passing RF signals over 1 GHz. Upstream capability is enhanced because the CDAR intercept 5-42 MHz upstream signals from each domain and convert to 1 GHz+ signals. Downstream capability is also enhanced because the CDAR can take efficiently encoded 1 GHz+ digital data, modulate it, and locally inject into each domain without crosstalk between domains. CDAR can use active cancellation, and active restoration techniques to improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Gainspeed, Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomo Selim Rakib
  • Patent number: 9450370
    Abstract: A laser medium 21 is shaped like a plate and has a waveguide structure in a direction of the thickness of a surface thereof perpendicular to the optical axis thereof. A nonlinear material 31 is placed on the optical axis of the laser medium 21 close to the laser medium 21 and has a waveguide structure in the same direction as that of the waveguide structure of the laser medium 21. A ¼ wavelength plate 41 is placed close to one of surfaces, which are perpendicular to the optical axis, of the nonlinear material 31, the one being opposite to a surface close to the laser medium 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Fukahori, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Kyosuke Kuramoto, Fumio Shoda
  • Patent number: 9429850
    Abstract: A laser device includes: a laser light output unit that outputs a fundamental wave laser light; a wavelength conversion unit that performs wavelength conversion of the fundamental wave laser light and outputs a converted laser light; an output detector that detects a power of the converted laser light; a power feedback circuit that controls the power of the fundamental wave laser light such that the power of the converted laser light is in constant; a phase matching adjustment configuration that adjusts a quantity of state at the wavelength conversion optical element; and a phase matching control circuit that controls an operation the phase matching adjustment configuration, wherein in a state that the power of the converted laser light is controlled in constant, the phase matching control circuit adjust the quantity of state in a predetermined range such that the power of the fundamental wave laser light is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Takada
  • Patent number: 9413456
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optical communication. A plurality of optical signals having a plurality of different frequencies is received at a receiver. The plurality of optical signals received at the receiver is sent through a non-linear optical element in the receiver such that a resulting optical signal is generated that has a frequency based on at least one of the plurality of different frequencies. Information is identified in the resulting optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Hunt, Nicholas Koumvakalis
  • Patent number: 9407376
    Abstract: An example embodiment includes optical receiver that includes a polarization beam splitter (PBS), a polarization controller, and a forward error correction (FEC). The PBS is configured to split a received optical signal having an unknown polarization state into two orthogonal polarizations (x?-polarization and y?-polarization). The polarization controller includes no more than two couplers and no more than two phase shifters per wavelength channel of the x?-polarization and the y?-polarization. The polarization controller is configured to demultiplex the x?-polarization and the y?-polarization into a first demultiplexed signal having an first polarization on which a data signal is modulated and a second demultiplexed signal having a second, orthogonal polarization on which a pilot carrier oscillator signal is encoded. The FEC decoder module is configured to correct a burst of errors resulting from resetting one of the phase shifters based on error correction code (ECC) data encoded in the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ilya Lyubomirsky
  • Patent number: 9405168
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a wavelength conversion device that is capable of suppressing unintended and random polarization reversal due to heating thereby achieving higher wavelength conversion efficiency. The method includes: forming an insulating layer on one place of a crystal substrate naturally and uniformly polarized in a thickness direction; forming an insulating layer pattern with line-and-space by photolithography; then supplying conductive fluid to both planes of the crystal substrate to apply voltage to the crystal substrate, thereby a wavelength conversion device that is periodically polarization-reversed is fabricated. When temperature of the crystal substrate decreases after heating, an ionizer supplies ions to a surface of the crystal substrate, negative ions collect on +z plane, and positive ion collect on ?z plane, thereby unintended and random polarization reversal is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke Ota
  • Patent number: 9396580
    Abstract: A method for creating artistic effects for volumetric illumination in a scene is provided. Data representing a scene is received. User input is received, which specifies a target appearance of the scene, including illumination effects that are at least in part non-physically-based. Photon beams representing volumetric illumination in the scene are generated; this step may incorporate user input-based modifications of the photon beams. Shading associated with the photon beams is computed; this step may also incorporate user input-based modifications. Any modifications in the generating or computing steps are derived from the specified target appearance of the scene. Finally, the photon beams are rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz, Jared Johnson, Jesse Dylan Lacewell, Andy Selle, Michael Kaschalk
  • Patent number: 9360590
    Abstract: A metamaterial-based dispersion compensator includes a plurality of layers arranged in a geometric structure; wherein the plurality of layers comprise engineered metamaterials; wherein the engineered metamaterials and the geometric structure are configured to compensate dispersion across a wavelength spectrum. The metamaterial-based dispersion compensator utilizes a specifically engineered frequency response, in a compact metamaterial form-factor, to correct for naturally occurring and problematic dispersion in physical systems such as in optical communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Inventors: Hossein Alisafaee, Michael Fiddy
  • Patent number: 9348233
    Abstract: A laser device includes: a laser light output unit that outputs a fundamental wave laser light; a wavelength conversion unit that performs wavelength conversion of the fundamental wave laser light and outputs a converted laser light; an output detector that detects a power of the converted laser light; a power feedback circuit that controls the power of the fundamental wave laser light such that the power of the converted laser light is in constant; a phase matching adjustment configuration that adjusts a quantity of state at the wavelength conversion optical element; and a phase matching control circuit that controls an operation the phase matching adjustment configuration, wherein in a state that the power of the converted laser light is controlled in constant, the phase matching control circuit adjust the quantity of state in a predetermined range such that the power of the fundamental wave laser light is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Takada
  • Patent number: 9341567
    Abstract: A terahertz wave generation device includes a light source device emitting an optical pulse, and an antenna generating a terahertz wave through irradiation of the optical pulse that is emitted from the light source device onto the antenna, wherein the light source device includes an optical pulse generation unit generating the optical pulse, a first pulse compression unit performing pulse compression based on saturable absorbers with respect to the optical pulse generated by the optical pulse generation unit, a second pulse compression unit performing pulse compression based on group velocity dispersion compensation with respect to the optical pulse already compressed by the first pulse compression unit, and an amplifying unit installed between the first pulse compression unit and the second pulse compression unit to amplify the optical pulse emitted from the first pulse compression unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9335607
    Abstract: A combined Brillouin gain and loss process has been created in a polarization maintaining optical fiber to realize all-Optical NAND/NOT/AND/OR logic gates in the frequency domain. A model describing the interaction of a Stokes, anti-Stokes and continuous wave, and two acoustic waves inside a fiber, ranging in length from 350 m-2300 m, was used to theoretically model the gates. Through the optimization of the gain and loss process, switching contrasts of 20-88% have been achieved, under different configurations. Experimental setups for NAND/NOT/AND/OR optical logic gates have been described. A method and system for designing the all-optical logic gates have been also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Inventors: Daisy Williams, Xiaoyi Bao, Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 9329452
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tunable optical frequency converter based on an ultrasonic grating, which includes a laser, a first optical isolator, and a circulating frequency shift module. Said circulating frequency shift module is composed of an optical coupler, an ultrasonic grating, a lens group, an optical amplifier, a second optical isolator, a first optical circulator, a fiber Bragg grating, a second optical circulator, a tunable filter and a tunable attenuator. Light outputted by said laser is inputted to said circulating frequency shift module to conduct frequency shifting repeatedly after passing through the first optical isolator, and then separated by a tunable filter and a second optical circulator, then frequency converted light is outputted from the port of the circulating frequency shift module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen University
    Inventors: Zhengbiao Ouyang, Chunchao Qi
  • Patent number: 9323068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a spatial stereoscopic display device and an operating method thereof. The spatial stereoscopic display device comprises: a laser source; a two-dimensional scanning unit, receiving and projecting the laser light onto a variable isoclinic transflective unit; the variable isoclinic transflective unit, receiving and dividing the laser light into a first and second splitting lights intersecting in an imaging space, by transmission and reflection; a power source and position sensor unit, connected with the variable isoclinic transflective unit to control an intersection of the first and second splitting lights in the imaging space; the imaging space, provided with an up-conversion material inside, and the up-conversion material at the intersection of the first and second splitting lights is excited to form a light-emitting point; and the 3D modulator, connected with the laser source, the two-dimensional scanning unit, the power source and position sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanxia Xin, Seungyik Park, Yuqing Yang