Palomar Medicaltechnologies, Inc.

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Oldrich M Laznicka, Jr

Gregory B Altshuler

Liam O'Shea

Jurgen Gripp

Ilya Yaroslaysky

Stewart Wilson

Min Zhao-Huang

Light-based treatment device

The present invention provides a handheld dermatological device for visualizing a skin treatment region prior to, during, or after therapeutic treatment with therapeutic energy. An apparatus according to the teachings of the invention can include an image capture device and a display device mounted to the apparatus and electrically coupled to the image capture device. The display device is capable of displaying images of the treatment area captured by the image capture device. The apparatus can further include a head capable of transmitting therapeutic energy to a treatment area, which can be precisely aligned by the user to a desired portion of the treatment area through the use of the display device. In some embodiments, the apparatus can include one or more illumination sources for illuminating a skin target region, and shield for shielding the image capture device from direct reflection of the illuminating radiation from a selected skin surface portion.

Dermatological treatment with visualization

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a monitoring system configured to monitor output wavelengths, power, and channel switching of tunable lasers employed in an optical transmitter and provide feedback to those lasers, e.g., to lock on the wavelengths corresponding to optical channels in the transmitter. The monitoring system has a monitoring switch fabric, such as an optical waveguide grating (AWG), and one or more photodetector arrays coupled to the transmitter. Optical channels in the monitoring AWG may be offset relative to the optical channels in the transmitter and shaped to allow more sensitive monitoring of, e.g., wavelength drifting of the tunable lasers. The monitoring system may track the lasers in a non-disruptive continuous manner while data is transmitted through the transmitter.

Monitoring system for an optical transmitter

An optical component for use in optical devices, such as an interferometer fiber optic gyroscope including a polarizing beamsplitter and a non-reciprocal optical device mounted on a common substrate; and an optical transceiver. The optical component may be used in a low loss configuration with an optical source and a photodetector and associated focusing lenses and a fiber optic ring or coil sensor for a gyroscope. The non-reciprocal device rotates the polarization plane of light. transmitted from the source through the beamsplitter to the sensor, and light returned from the sensor toward the beamsplitter, by 45 degrees in the same direction so that substantially all return light incident on the beamsplitter is reflected toward the photodetector.

Optical source isolator with polarization maintaining optical fiber and

A hydrophone array employing a plurality of laser sources coupled onto a single optical fiber communications link. A matching plurality of optical fiber resonant rings, each having a resonance peak at a wavelength substantially equal to the center wavelength of one of the lasers, is selectively coupled to the optical fiber communication link so that substantially only optical energy in a narrow bandwidth around one of the laser center wavelengths is coupled to the corresponding one of the optical fiber resonant rings. Corresponding photodetectors are also wavelength selectively coupled to the optical fiber communications link so that each detector receives only optical energy corresponding to the wavelength of one of the lasers and its corresponding resonant ring, to provide an output signal indicating variations in acoustic pressure at individual resonant rings in the array.

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Wellesley, MA, United States of America

Oldrich M Laznicka, Jr