Corning Incorporated

Corning Optical Communications LLC

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International Business Machines Corporation

Jds Uniphase Corporation

Corning Research & Development Corporation

Robert Adam Modavis

Daniel Aloysius Nolan

William James Miller

Thomas A Cook

Donald B Keck

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

David Andrew Pastel

George Edward Berkey

Garrett Andrew Piech

Venkata Adiseshaiah Bhagavatula

Qi Wu

Wageesha Senaratne

Joel P Carberry

Stephen Joseph Caracci

Glenn E Kohnke

Peter Knowles

Laura A Weller-Brophy

Gang Chen

Evelyn McGee DeLiso

Ming-Jun Li

Douglas Llewellyn Butler

Mark A Newhouse

Vikram Bhatia

Yanming Liu

Pamela Arlene Maurey

David Eugene Baker

Peter C Jones

Alan J Morrow

Thomas W Webb

Li Liu

James Phillip Luther

Ying Geng

Micah Colen Isenhour

Vitor Marino Schneider

Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov

Christopher Lee Timmons

Mark Alejandro Quesada

Kevin Wallace Bennett

David L Weidman

Seldon David Benjamin

Dean Michael Thelen

Mark Francis Krol

Michael Brian Webb

David John McEnroe

Thomas Philip Seward, Iii

Alranzo Boh Ruffin

Rostislav Radiyevich Khrapko

Jun Yang

Elvis Alberto Zambrano

Michael Joseph Dailey, Jr

Christopher D Robson

Sukru Ekin Kocabas

Steven R Matejka

Deepti J Mudaliar

Lisa Wan-I Liou

David W Yau

Xiao Li

An article includes an optical transforming layer and a guide region positioned inside and adjacent to at least a portion of a perimeter of the optical transforming layer. The guide region comprises an inlet end positioned adjacent to a first surface of the optical transforming layer and an outlet end positioned adjacent a second surface of the optical transforming layer. The guide region propagates light from the inlet end to the outlet end such that the light is directed from the first surface to the second surface. The guide region includes a phase-separated glass comprising a continuous network phase and a discontinuous phase. A relative difference in index of refraction between the continuous network phase and the discontinuous phase is greater than or equal to 0.3%. The discontinuous phase comprises elongated shaped regions aligned along a common axis and having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 10:1.

Optical transforming article

A multi core optical fiber that includes a plurality of cores disposed in a cladding. The plurality of cores include a first core and a second core. The first core has a first propagation constant β, the second core has a second propagation constant β, the cladding has a cladding propagation constant β, and (I).

Optical systems comprising multi-core optical fibers for realizing direct core to core coupling

A non-contact system for measuring an insertion loss of a cable assembly with cable fibers includes a light source system that emits light and a launch connector supporting launch fibers. A detector system includes receive fibers supported by a receive connector. The detector system has detectors optically coupled to the receive fibers, with one detector directly optically coupled to the light source system for calibration. A first movable stage supports the launch connector and a second movable stage supports the receive connector. A launch optical system images output end faces of the launch fibers onto input end faces of the cable fibers of the cable assembly. A receive optical system images output end faces of the cable fibers onto input end faces of the receive fibers. The light exiting the receive fibers is detected and processed to determine the insertion loss of the cable assembly.

Non-contact insertion loss measurement systems for optical fiber cable assemblies

An apparatus for light diffraction and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) incorporating the light diffraction apparatus is disclosed. An apparatus for light diffraction may comprise an optional planarization layer, a transparent substrate, a waveguide layer. The planarization layer may have a refractive index of n. The transparent substrate may have a refractive index of n. The waveguide layer may have a refractive index ndistributed over of the transparent substrate. The waveguide layer may comprise a binding matrix, at least one nanoparticle. The waveguide layer may be interposed between the transparent substrate and the optional planarization layer.

OLED light extraction using nanostructured coatings

A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket, and a side-emitting optical fiber. The side-emitting optical fiber includes a core having a first index of refraction and a cladding having a second index of refraction that is different than the first index of refraction. The cladding substantially surrounding the core and has an exterior surface with spaced apart scattering sites penetrating the exterior surface. The scattering sites are capable of scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations. The core also includes one or more mode coupling features capable of changing at least some low order mode light in the side-emitting optical fiber to high order mode light, thereby increasing light emitted from the scattering sites.

Preferential mode coupling for enhanced traceable patch cord performance

A multicore optical fiber that includes seventeen cores arranged in a hexagonally close-packed configuration, each core having a core center and comprising silica and an up-dopant; and a cladding region surrounding the seventeen cores, the cladding region having a cladding edge, an outer diameter, and a cladding composition comprising silica. The outer diameter of the cladding region is between about 100 microns and 150 microns. Further, the hexagonally close-packed configuration has bi-lateral symmetry to accommodate bi-directional data flow within the fiber.

Multicore optical fibers and interconnection methods for the same

Disclosed are interposer including an interposer coupling assemblies for communicating optical signals to an integrated circuit and other interposer structures having an optical interface for optical connections. In one embodiment, the interposer coupling assembly includes a connector attachment saddle having an optical alignment structure, an optical pathway that includes a GRIN lens, and an optical signal turning element adjacent to the GRIN lens. The interposer coupling assembly may be optically attached to an integrated circuit or a base that is attached to an integrated circuit to form an interposer structure that allows high-speed data transfer. Also disclosed are complimentary optical assemblies that may be optically connected to the interposer coupling assembly.

Interposer coupling assembly having an optical pathway including a GRIN lens and related optical plug assemblies

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) device having enhanced light extraction is disclosed. The OLED device includes an upper waveguide structure having an organic layer and supports first guided modes, and a lower waveguide structure with a light-extraction waveguide that supports second guided modes substantially matched to the first guided modes. The lower waveguide structure includes a light-extraction waveguide interfaced with a light-extraction matrix. The light-extraction waveguide includes one or more light-redirecting features. The upper and lower waveguide structures are configured to facilitate mode coupling from the first guided modes to the second guide modes while substantially avoiding coupling the first guided modes to surface plasmon polaritons. The light traveling in the second guided modes is redirected to exit the OLED device by light-redirecting features of the light-extraction waveguide.

OLEDs with improved light extraction using enhanced guided mode coupling

A beam-shaping optical system suitable for use with optical coherence tomography including a sheath defining a central cavity, a beam-shaping insert defining a beam-shaping element positioned within the central cavity, and an optical fiber having a core and a cladding. The optical fiber defines an angularly prepared fiber end configured to emit an electromagnetic beam toward the beam-shaping element with the core of the optical fiber locally expanded at the fiber end.

Reduced back reflection optical coherence tomography probe

An optical coupling device includes a multi-core fiber alignment station, a single-mode fiber alignment station, and a furcation lens assembly. The multi-core fiber alignment station and single-mode fiber alignment station include alignment hardware configured to position optical fibers at fixed positions relative to an optical axis of the furcation lens assembly. The furcation lens assembly includes a furcating and projecting axicon surfaces that are rotationally invariant and are configured such that optical modes of an optical fiber aligned in one of the fiber alignment stations are spatially separated and substantially telecentrically mapped to corresponding optical modes of optical fibers aligned in the other fiber alignment station.

Furcating optical coupling devices and furcation systems incorporating the same

An expanded beam optical connector including a connector body, an optical element in the form of a waveguide or active device, a beam width altering optical lens, and a transmit/receive window. The optical element, the beam width altering optical lens, and the transmit/receive window are configured such that optical signals propagate between the optical element and the transmit/receive window via the beam width altering optical lens. The transmit/receive window includes an optical medium that forms an interior surface of the transmit/receive window, an optical transition layer between the interior surface formed by the optical medium, and a protective layer forming an exterior surface of the transmit/receive window. The connector body is configured to place the exterior surface of the transmit/receive window in close contact with a mating exterior surface of a mating transmit/receive window of a complementary optical device to define a close contact portion.

Expanded beam optical connectors and methods for using the same

An optical fiber connector for coupling light to or from an input fiber is disclosed. The connector includes a first alignment member that holds an achromatic GRIN lens. The achromatic GRIN lens has a half-pitch axial length L, wherein 0.5 mm&#x2266;L&#x2266;5 mm. The optical fiber connector has a field fiber that interfaces with the achromatic GRIN lens. The connector is operable between operating wavelengths of 800 nm and 1600 nm with a coupling loss of less than 0.2 dB.

Optical fiber connector with achromatic grin lens

A multi-grating resonant waveguide (RWG) biosensor for an optical reader system having a spatial resolution limit is disclosed. The multi-grating RWG biosensor includes one or more signal-grating regions and one or more reference-grating regions. The multi-grating RWG biosensor can also include a non-resonance region that spatially separates the one or more signal-grating regions, that spatially separates the one or more reference-grating regions, and that spatially separates the one or more reference-grating regions from the one or more signal-grating regions. The non-resonance region can have a minimum width greater than the optical reader system spatial resolution limit. The RWG biosensor can have an asymmetric split-grating configuration. Methods of measuring a signal resonant wavelength of a multi-grating RWG biosensor using an optical reader having a spatial resolution limit are also disclosed.

Multi-grating biosensor for label-independent optical readers

The disclosure relates to a system and a method for light beam interrogation of an optical biosensor and for monitoring a biological event on the biosensor for use, for example, in microplate image analysis. The system and method correct pointing-errors that can be encountered, for example, in scanning label-independent-detection biosensor applications.

System and method for image analysis pointing-error correction

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