Optical Coupling Technology
- Detailed Technology Description
- None
- Supplementary Information
- Patent Number: US5666448A
Application Number: US1995532194A
Inventor: Schoenwald, Jeffrey S. | Clausi, Stephen W. | Peck, Jr., James L.
Priority Date: 22 Sep 1995
Priority Number: US5666448A
Application Date: 22 Sep 1995
Publication Date: 9 Sep 1997
IPC Current: G02B000628 | G02B000632
US Class: 385044 | 359636 | 385019 | 385034 | 385036
Assignee Applicant: Rockwell International Corporational Beach
Title: Variable splitting optical coupler
Usefulness: Variable splitting optical coupler
Novelty: Variable splitting optical coupler has three ports each with lensing element and with movable deflecting element positioned between them to deflect a variable amount of optical signal from input to outputs
- Industry
- Optics
- Sub Category
- Optical Element
- Application No.
- 6219477
- Others
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Tech ID/UC Case
17247/2003-045-0
Related Cases
2003-045-0
- *Abstract
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The Regents of the University of California has available for licensing a significant portfolio of patents related to optical coupling technology.
Patent No. 5,163,107 Fiber optic coupler/connector with GRIN lens: A robust, removable, optic fiber coupler which allows for a simple, passive optic fiber alignment without concern for large mechanical discrepancies of slight contamination between the couplers as found in severe environments within the manufacturing industries.
Patent No. 5,666,448 Variable splitting optical coupler: An optical coupler with a movable deflecting element to vary the relative splitting of an optical signal.
Patent No. 5,757,994 Three-part optical coupler: An optical coupler with deflecting element to passively couple fiber optic signals.
Patent No. 5,761,357 Fiber optic "T"coupler in-line splitter: A fiber optic "T" coupler using cutoff portions of GRIN lenses.
Patent No. 5,809,187 Multi-port network using passive optical couplers: A fiber optic network with passive optic fiber connections.
Patent No. 5,883,993 Fiber Optic "T" Coupler Modulator: Two quarter wave length GRIN lenses with their collimated ends facing each other with a modulation device between them. The modulation device acts on the collimated light transmitted between the GRIN lenses. The modulator can be a filter, a polarizer, an optical switch, an amplifier or any other device for modulating light.
Patent No. 5,892,868 Fiber optic coupler combiner: A fiber optic coupler having multiple small lens elements coupled to a larger lens element fo rtransferring collimated light at the interface for bilaterally combining or dividing light.
Patent No, 5,894,534 Fiber optic "T" coupler single-path transceiver: Fober ptic couplers for two-way communications on the same fiber optic cable.
Patent No. 6,219,477 Multiport single path optical system: An optic system for multiplexing on a single optic fiber.
Patent No. 6,272,226 Multipath optical coupler: Methods and apparatus for transmitting an inserted optical signal into an optical coupler and transmitting an extracted optical signal from the optical coupler so that the extracted optical signal does not contain any aspect of the inserted optical signal.
- *IP Issue Date
- Apr 17, 2001
- *Principal Investigator
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Name: NAME UNASSIGNED
Department:
Name: Susan Robinson
Department:
- Country/Region
- USA
