Seagate Technology Incorporated

Adc Telecommunications, Inc.

Craig A Parsons

Edward Charles Gage

John C Holman

Ronald Evan Gerber

Eric Karl Lindmark

Timothy S Gardner

Sham Sunder Nayar

John George Gerogeorge

Thomas J Schmitt

Kevin D Batko

Ronald Jacob Smith

Steven C Dohmeier

The application discloses an adjustable head stack comb having adjustable first and second comb plates. The adjustable comb plates include at least one tooth segment which cooperatively form a comb having at least one tooth. The first and second comb plates are adjusted to adjust dimensions of the at least one tooth cooperatively formed by the tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. In the embodiments disclosed, a relative position of the first and second comb plates is adjusted to adjust a thickness dimension of the at least one tooth formed by the at least one tooth segments of the first and second comb plates. Also in illustrated embodiments, the comb plates are cooperatively adjusted to adjust an elevation or z-height of the at least one tooth of the comb.

Adjustable head stack comb

An improved fiber optic tap monitor has characteristics that are flatter over the wavelength range of interest. The polarization dependence of the characteristics of the tap monitor is reduced, and the package for the tap monitor is smaller. The tap monitor reduces the amount of light reflected back to the source. The tap monitor is also assembled in a manner to improve temperature stability, so that its characteristics over a range of temperatures are more nearly constant.

Fiber optic tap

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Victoria, MN, United States of America

Craig A Parsons