Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090079967 | METHOD FOR MAPPING OF DISPERSION AND OTHER OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES - A method is provided for measurement of dispersion or other optical and mechanical properties within a waveguide by inducing four-photon mixing at different locations within the waveguide by timing a pump signal to counter-collide with and abruptly amplify or attenuate one or both of a probe pulse and a signal pulse at each location. The measurement of the components of the resulting mixing signal created by each collision is used to calculate dispersion defined by the location at which the collision occurred. By combining the measurements from all of the locations, a spatial map of dispersion or other optical or mechanical properties within the waveguide can be generated. | 03-26-2009 |
20090303572 | SPECKLE REDUCTION IN IMAGING APPLICATIONS AND AN OPTICAL SYSTEM THEREOF - Speckle effect in imaging applications is reduced by generating additional speckle patterns on the screen such that the speckle patterns are overlapped and the overlapped speckle patterns average out on the screen to appear as a noise background to the viewers. The speckle patterns are generated by discrete optical signals of a visible frequency comb. A visible frequency comb having discrete optical signals is generated through modulation-instability processes, phase-conjugation processes, and Bragg-scattering processes using a non-linear optical material and a wavelength converter. | 12-10-2009 |
20120257270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIBER OPTIC PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL FIBER FOR USE THEREIN - A high confinement nonlinear optical fiber is provided along with methods of parametric amplification for use thereof. The nonlinear optical fiber may include a plurality of concentric layers which are configured to provide different guiding regimes to low-frequency and high-frequency components through transverse geometry and refractive index profiling, thus reducing waveguide dispersion. The resulting optical fiber provides a parametric device with phase-matching in any spectral region of interest, such that a fiber optic parametric amplifier (FOPA) implementing the optical fiber can amplify in any spectral window of interest. A narrow-band FOPA configured to minimize phase mismatching is also provided for use with the optical fiber, and may be implemented as a light source or a monochromator. | 10-11-2012 |
20130223459 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FAST TUNING OF OPTICAL SOURCES - A method and device are provided for fast, continuous tuning of an optical source. A first pump signal with a first pump frequency is input into a mixer along with a first seed signal having a first seed frequency. Within the mixer, the first pump signal and the first seed signal generate at least one idler having an idler frequency defined as two times the pump frequency minus the seed frequency. Shifting the pump signal across a frequency range at a sweep rate causes the idler frequency to be shifted by two times the frequency range at two times the sweep rate. The shifted at least one idler is mixed with the shifted pump signal to generate a first mix product that has two times the sweep rate and frequency range of the pump signal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130314767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIBER OPTIC PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL FIBER FOR USE THEREIN - A high confinement nonlinear optical fiber is provided along with methods of parametric amplification for use thereof The nonlinear optical fiber may include a plurality of concentric layers which are configured to provide different guiding regimes to low-frequency and high-frequency components through transverse geometry and refractive index profiling, thus reducing waveguide dispersion. The resulting optical fiber provides a parametric device with phase-matching in any spectral region of interest, such that a fiber optic parametric amplifier (FOPA) implementing the optical fiber can amplify in any spectral window of interest. A narrow-band FOPA configured to minimize phase mismatching is also provided for use with the optical fiber, and may be implemented as a light source or a monochromator. | 11-28-2013 |
20140253915 | COHERENT DUAL PARAMETRIC FREQUENCY COMB FOR ULTRAFAST CHROMATIC DISPERSION MEASUREMENT - A wide-band optical frequency comb is provided to estimate an optical phase shift induced in a dispersive material. In contrast to the conventional techniques that rely on a single tunable laser for extracting the dispersion parameter at different frequencies, the wide-band optical frequency comb uses multiple comb lines for simultaneously evaluating the dispersion induced phase shifts in different frequencies. Since the frequency response of the dispersive material is a phase function, a phase associated with each comb line passed through the material represents a discrete measure of the material frequency response. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254619 | METHOD FOR WIDEBAND SPECTRALLY EQUALIZED FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION - The present invention relates to method for spectrally equalized frequency comb generation. In order to carry this method, the following steps are followed: seed laser or lasers are modulated to acquire frequency chirp necessary to enable temporal compression and an increase in peak optical intensity necessary for an efficient nonlinear optical mixing process to occur; the compressed waveform is reshaped by nonlinear-transfer optical element and subsequently used to generate frequency comb in nonlinear waveguide. Ultimately, at the conclusion of these steps, a frequency comb is generated with substantially flat optical spectrum, while retaining variability with respect to the frequency pitch, high coherency and substantially wide spectral band of coverage. | 09-11-2014 |
20140341265 | METHOD FOR SUBRATE DETECTION IN BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - The present invention relates to utilization of sampling rate at the receiver that is below the symbol rate of a bandwidth constrained communication system. Furthermore, if the appropriate up-sampling technique is used, the method avails full retrieval of the information from the under sampled received signal. | 11-20-2014 |