Vertical/Slanted Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing for Seismic Monitoring and Earthquake Prediction
This invention introduces a vertical/slanted distributed fiber optic sensing system for advanced earthquake prediction and seismic monitoring. It uses fiber optic sensors embedded in vertical or slanted boreholes to monitor seismic activity through distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), temperature sensing (DTS), strain sensing (DSS), and other techniques....
Published: 6/5/2025
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Inventor(s): Mehmetcan Akbulut
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls > Motion & Force
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Flexible Glass Interconnect Structures for Photonic Integrated Circuit
This technology introduces a flexible glass-based optical interconnect solution for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). It leverages a carefully designed array of high index and low index materials to make an optical connection that optimizes light coupling and reduces scattering and propagation loss. The method provides a solution to replace traditional...
Published: 3/24/2025
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau, Thomas Koch
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics
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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: 2/3/2025
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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: 2/3/2025
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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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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: 1/8/2025
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Inventor(s): Mohammed Hassan Mohammed, 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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