International Business Machines Corporation

Philip Charles Danby Hobbs

Peter Alfred Gruber

Maurice McGlashan-Powell

Theodore Gerard Van Kessel

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe

Martin Patrick O'Boyle

Richard John Lebel

A method for fine positioning a component through the use of fusible elements having two or more melting points so as to establish intermediate displacements between totally melted fusible elements and unmelted fusible elements. Because of the use of non-eutectic fusible materials, fine adjustments in the displacement may be achieved.

Method and apparatus providing fine alignment of a structure relative to a support

An apparatus (and method) for launching a modulated optical signal, includes a waveguide, an antenna structure for communicating with the waveguide and with an externally-applied optical field and having an output port, and an electrically-variable-impedance device connected at the antenna's output port, capable of responding at a frequency of an externally-applied optical field and having its impedance at the optical frequency changed by an applied electrical signal.

Apparatus and method for optical interconnection

A system and method are disclosed for an optical backplane in an electronic processor that comprises of a plurality of processing units. The backplane is comprising of a network of optical waveguides which can guide polarized light. Furthermore, the backplane has magneto optic routers for steering light at the vertexes of the network, and the backplane also has optical devices for operationally connecting the processing units to the network. The backplane network affords an optical interconnection amongst all of the processing units.

Magneto-optical switching backplane for processor interconnection

An optical system includes a spectrometer and a multipass optical probe. The multipass optical probe includes a retroreflective element such that light propagating, in a first direction, from the probe to a sample under test and passing through or reflecting from the sample under test, is reflected back in a second direction opposite the first direction, so as to pass through the sample under test a total of at least two times.

System and multipass probe for optical interference measurements

A method for constructing a thin-film infrared photodetector includes providing a thin film including ferroelectric polymer, and applying at least one electrically conductive coating to the polymer so that the coating is nonuniform in surface conductivity to thereby provide an area of higher surface resistance connected to an output region by an area of lower surface resistance.

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Philip Charles Danby Hobbs