Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
385048000 | Access couplers, power tappers, or power dividers | 10 |
20080279504 | OPTICAL SUBSTRATE, OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE SUBSTRATE - An optical substrate includes: a submount; a planar optical element which is mounted on the submount; a pair of positioning members which are disposed at an interval across the planar optical element on the submount; an optical waveguide in which a core and a clad are formed by a flexible material; and a holding member which holds the optical waveguide to allow a tip end of the optical waveguide to be inserted between the pair of positioning members, and the optical waveguide to be bent to extend parallel to the submount. | 11-13-2008 |
20090103867 | Variable Optical Attenuator - A compact variable optical attenuator having optical-tap functionality is described comprising a planar waveguide attenuator, a lens, and a photodetector. Input and output waveguides are located close to the optical axis of the lens, which reduces optical aberrations and insertion loss. The waveguide attenuator works by light absorption with virtually no scattered light present, which improves fidelity of measurements of the tapped optical power by the photodetector. The entire tap-attenuator assembly is packaged into a small form pluggable (SFP) package having two optical connectors. | 04-23-2009 |
20090202205 | Adjustable optical tap - An adjustable optical tap for adjusting input power, output power and drop power in a communications network includes an enclosure having a plurality of connector assemblies being configured for interconnecting input and output cables; a cover attachable to the enclosure, the cover including a plurality of drop cable ports; and a tunable splitter disposed in the enclosure in communication with the input cable and the drop cable ports, the tunable splitter being configured for adjustment to affect attenuation in a broad wavelength band. | 08-13-2009 |
20100150501 | Direct-Connect Optical Splitter Module - A compact optical splitter module is disclosed. One type of compact optical splitter module is a planar attenuated splitter module that includes a branching waveguide network having j≧1 50:50 splitters that form up to n≦2 | 06-17-2010 |
20100166370 | Bi-Directional Tap Assemblies for Two-Way Fiber Topologies - Bi-directional tap assemblies for two-way fiber topologies are disclosed. The assembly includes a fiber-optic cable having a cable optical fiber adapted to carry bi-directional optical signals and that is preterminated at a mid-span location to form at least one first cable fiber end and at least one second cable fiber end. First and second tether fibers are respectively spliced to the first and second cable fiber ends. In one version of the assembly, the tether fibers are contained in respective first and second tether covers to form first and second tethers that extend in opposite directions from the tap point. In another version of the assembly, the tether fibers are bend-insensitive fibers and are contained in a single tether cover to form a single tether. The tether fibers bend back on themselves within the tether cover and terminate at a common end of the tether, thereby allowing both downstream and upstream optical signals to be accessed at the tether end. The single tether is configured to be translateable along the fiber-optic cable by allowing the bend locations in the bend-insensitive fibers to change as the tether is translated. | 07-01-2010 |
20100209047 | MULTIMODE FIBER TAP FOR A LRM CONNECTION - A device for processing data being optically transmitted via a LRM connection includes an optical splitter for splitting an input signal into a first output signal and a second output signal, the optical splitter having an operating wavelength with a value that is between 1260 nm and 1355 nm, wherein the optical splitter has an input end for receiving the input signal, a first output end for outputting the first output signal, and a second output end for outputting the second output signal. | 08-19-2010 |
20110110629 | PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - A planar optical waveguide including a clad layer, an optical waveguide having a core embedded in the clad layer; and a groove formed in the clad layer and having a reflection interface for totally reflecting a leaked light leaked from the optical waveguide to the clad layer. Since the reflection interface for totally reflecting the leaked light is formed in the clad layer, the leaked light is prevented from entering into the tap coupler, and the variation of the branching ratio can be reduced. | 05-12-2011 |
20140193117 | Antivirus optical tap - An antiviral optical tap system for a fiber optic circuit that uses an Optical Circulator or an Isolator or any other unidirectional optical device that is connected to the secondary optical tap output of an optical tap that prevents unwanted optical signals or optical noise from entering a fiber optic circuit through the secondary optical tap output and allows optical signals to pass to an external device through the Optical Circulator or Isolator or any other unidirectional device. | 07-10-2014 |
20140199026 | WAVEGUIDE POWER COMBINER/SPLITTER - There is provided a waveguide combiner/splitter comprising an input waveguide, a first and a second waveguide matching section, and at least a first and a second output waveguide. The lengths and the widths of the matching sections may be adjusted for tuning to frequency bands of interest. The combiner/splitter may be incorporated into a corporate feed structure for use in an antenna system. | 07-17-2014 |
20140219608 | OPTICAL POWER SPLITTERS - Waveguide array optical power splitters that provide compact, low-cost implementation of optical power splitting for one and two dimensional optical waveguide arrays are disclosed. The optical power splitters do not introduce mode dependent loss and preserve polarization, enabling the optical power splitters to be used with multimode and single mode light sources. In one aspect, an optical power splitter includes a beamsplitter to receive a plurality of incident beams of light. The beamsplitter splits each incident beam of light into a plurality of output beams of light with each output beam output in a different direction from the beamsplitter. The optical power splitter includes a first set of lenses with each lens to approximately collimate one of the incident beams of light, and includes a second set of lenses with each lens to focus the output beams of light. | 08-07-2014 |