Method and Device for Imaging and Ranging through Optical Fibers
This invention is a novel method and device for imaging and ranging through various types of optical fibers, including multi-mode and multi-core fibers. This technique allows for depth measurements and imaging without needing prior knowledge of the scene or the fiber's transmission matrix. By generating a “synthetic wavefront” through...
Published: 11/7/2024
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Inventor(s): Florian Willomitzer, Stefan Forschner, Patrick Cornwall, Manuel Ballester, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji, Jürgen Czarske
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Optical Fab / Metrology, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Inspection
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Adaptive Profile Poling of Nanophotonic Lithium Niobate Waveguides for High Overall Nonlinear Efficiency
Innovators at the University of Arizona have overcome the non-uniformity issue of thin-film Lithium Niobate. Adaptive profile poling is promising to realize high nonlinear efficiency with strong material second-order nonlinearity. Nonlinear efficiency can actually increase quadratically with length using this method.
It was shown that the optical momentum...
Published: 7/5/2023
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Inventor(s): Linran Fan, Pao-Kang Chen
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics
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Trapped particle classification in additive manufacturing
This technology is an improvement to a rapid design approach for designing nanophotonic devices. It is a method of optical positioning and linking (OPAL) using highly focused lasers (sometimes called “optical tweezers”) used for nanofabrication of molecules for devices, drugs, and other nano-metamaterials.
Combined with the previous optical...
Published: 3/10/2024
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Inventor(s): Euan Mcleod, Natalie Shultz
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > MEMS & Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls > Biologic, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices
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Programmable Waveguide Device
This technology describes a programmable optical waveguide device that can be configured to operate as an optical switch, optical attenuator, interferometer, mode transformer and optical computer.
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An optical waveguide is a physical structure that guides electromagnetic waves in the optical spectrum. Common types of optical waveguides include...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices
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Improved Resolution in Imaging via Spatial Shifting
Inventors at the University of Arizona have developed a method to reduce aliasing of high frequency information from objects being imaged with optical fibers or a detector array system. This is accomplished by collecting multiple images through modification of the fiber bundle. The novel means of collection and the novel method of post processing combine...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Arthur Gmitro, Andrew Rouse, Neil Momsen
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics
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SmartPrint Polymer Material and Design for the Connection of Separate Optical Chips
This technology is a further development of interconnect polymer waveguides for photonics packaging and integration. Here, a flexible optical substrate is attached and aligned to individual photonic chip components to form an optical waveguide. The waveguide comprises a refractive index contrast (RIC) polymer directly patterned using a photolithography...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Linan Jiang, Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Tristan Kleine, Julie Frish, Thomas Koch, Stanley Pau, Roland Himmelhuber, Abhinav Nishant, Kyungjo Kim, Sasaan Showghi
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Assembly and Packaging, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Semiconductors, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers, Technology Classifications > Software & Information Technology > Communications & Networking, Technology Classifications > Software & Information Technology > Web & Internet, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Computer Hardware, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Digital Circuits
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Ultrafast Optical Switches and Transistors
The inventors have demonstrated attosecond switching speed in a light field-induced phase transition of a dielectric system. This switching occurs under ambient conditions and provides for data encoding by synthesized laser pulses. This technology may be used for ultrafast optical-based switches and data transfer with petahertz speed and optical transistors....
Published: 3/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Mohammad Hassan, Dandan Hui, Husain Alqattan
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Computer Hardware, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Digital Circuits, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Semiconductors, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices
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All-Optical Laser Field Sampling
This technology is a system and method configured for measurement of an electronic delay response of a dielectric system triggered by a strong driving optical field of sub-femto-second pulses. The produced electronic response demonstrates all-optical light field sampling operating with sub femto / attosecond resolution. This invention demonstrates...
Published: 9/27/2024
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Inventor(s): Mohammed Hassan, Husain Alqattan, Dandan Hui
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Networking, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Digital Circuits, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Testing & Measurement, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Semiconductors, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices
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Robust and Portable Microresontor Sensor Coupling Design
This technology is a novel design for an optical coupler that is more robust, easier to fabricate, and not as fragile as a regular coupler. This technology has great potential for portability due to it's robust design and does not require tapered optical fibers with high nano-positioning requirements, making it easier to mass produce.
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Regular...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Tsu-Te Su, Euan Mcleod
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications
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Bidirectional Mode-locked Fiber Laser for Dual Comb Spectroscopy
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a free-running bidirectional mode-locked fiber laser operating at telecommunications wavelengths. Two coherent femtosecond frequency combs are generated from a single laser cavity to ensure mutual coherent properties and common noise cancellation.
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Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Khanh Kieu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics
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