Patents
Patents for G02B 26 - Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating (46,502)
09/2001
09/18/2001US6292616 Optical attenuator and optical attenuator module
09/18/2001US6292600 Angular-precision enhancement in free-space micromachined optical switches
09/18/2001US6292434 Method for forming a spherical wave by superposition of a plurality of limited plane waves
09/18/2001US6292310 Dynamic light beam deflector
09/18/2001US6292300 Apparatus for generating independent coherent beam array using 45-degree mirrors
09/18/2001US6292299 Tunable optical add/drop device and method
09/18/2001US6292286 Plate for rotatably supporting a light path refraction plate in multi-directions and an image processing device employing the same
09/18/2001US6292285 Single rotating polygon mirror with v-shaped facets for a multiple beam ROS
09/18/2001US6292281 Protection for MEMS cross-bar switch
09/18/2001US6292278 Beam scanning system adopting deflection disc
09/18/2001US6292275 Image scanning apparatus and method, and mirror drive method and mechanism
09/18/2001US6292208 Sensing system to allow side-by-side writing of photonic imagers to create wide and seamless xerographic images
09/18/2001US6291831 Scanning apparatus
09/18/2001US6290363 Apparatus for reflecting light and changing the length of optical path
09/18/2001US6290132 Holographic-based bar code symbol position detection system for producing bar code symbol position data specifying the position of a detected bar code symbol within a 3-D scanning volume above a conveyor belt structure
09/15/2001CA2336492A1 Using crystalline materials to control the thermo-optic behavior of an optical path
09/13/2001WO2001067428A1 Method for producing display
09/13/2001WO2001067171A2 Flexible membrane for tunable fabry-perot filter
09/13/2001WO2001067162A1 Rolling shutter optical switch device with latch electrode and slits in shutter
09/13/2001WO2001067161A1 Rolling shutter optical switch device with mirror on shutter and open aperture optical port
09/13/2001WO2001067159A2 Optical switching apparatus and method of assembly
09/13/2001WO2001067158A2 Integrated tunable fabry-perot filter and method of making same
09/13/2001WO2001067157A2 Silicon on insulator optical membrane structure for fabry-perot moems filter
09/13/2001WO2001067156A2 Tunable fabry-perot filter
09/13/2001WO2001011419A3 Dynamic spectral shaping in optical fibre communication
09/13/2001US20010021945 Scanning device
09/13/2001US20010021295 Laser light interrupting device
09/13/2001US20010021294 Tuning of optical dispersion by using a tunable fiber bragg grating
09/13/2001US20010021165 Galvano mirror unit
09/13/2001US20010021060 Wavelength converter
09/13/2001US20010021058 Method of fabrication of a torsional micro-mechanical mirror system
09/13/2001US20010021057 Image scanning apparatus
09/13/2001US20010021056 Optical scanning apparatus
09/13/2001US20010021055 Optical scanning apparatus
09/13/2001US20010020974 Multibeam light source
09/13/2001US20010020908 High-speed serial-to-parallel and analog-to-digital conversion
09/13/2001DE10012017A1 Printing plate exposure device, has optical error and/or tolerance compensation device incorporated in electronic image processing device controlling light modulator
09/13/2001DE10010619A1 Laser exposure device for photosensitive printing plate, has combined beam provided by individual laser beams of different wavelength focusing by deflection device with spectral dispersive element
09/13/2001CA2402309A1 Compression-tuned grating-based optical add/drop multiplexer
09/12/2001EP1132804A1 Optical scanning type touch panel
09/12/2001EP1132763A1 Mechanical fiber optic encoder
09/12/2001EP1132633A1 Dynamic pressure bearing with improved starting characteristics
09/12/2001EP1131681A1 Method and apparatus for recording one-step, full-color, full-parallax, holographic stereograms
09/12/2001EP1131680A1 Apparatus and method for replicating a hologram using a steerable beam
09/12/2001EP1131666A1 Scanning head lens assembly
09/12/2001EP1131657A2 Laser scanning system mirror
09/11/2001US6288846 Variable focal-length lens assembly
09/11/2001US6288841 Optical mechanism for precisely controlling the angle of an incident light beam within a large incident angle range
09/11/2001US6288830 Optical image forming method and device, image forming apparatus and aligner for lithography
09/11/2001US6288829 Light modulation element, array-type light modulation element, and flat-panel display unit
09/11/2001US6288828 Programmable light beam shape altering device using programmable micromirrors
09/11/2001US6288824 Display device based on grating electromechanical shutter
09/11/2001US6288821 Hybrid electro-optic device with combined mirror arrays
09/11/2001US6288819 Scanning image forming lens and optical scanning apparatus
09/11/2001US6288818 Optical scanning apparatus
09/11/2001US6288817 High duty cycle synchronized multi-line scanner
09/11/2001US6288816 Miniature optical scanner for a two axis scanning system
09/11/2001US6288815 Light scanner with cylindrical lenses
09/11/2001US6288734 Scanning optical device and image forming apparatus using the same
09/11/2001US6288382 Micro-scanning multislit confocal image acquisition apparatus
09/11/2001US6287485 Volume-modulation coloration producing material, volume-modulation coloration producing composition, and optical element and method for optical modulation using the composition
09/11/2001US6286760 Automatic hand-supportable laser projection scanner for omni-directional reading of bar code symbols within a narrowly confined scanning volume
09/07/2001WO2001065489A2 Image tracker having means for eliminating systematic error in centroid determination of reconstructed images
09/07/2001WO2001065304A2 Scanning apparatus and method employing a lens spinning on an axis normal to the scan plane
09/07/2001WO2001065303A1 Rolling shutter optical switch device with dimples on shutter, annular rim at optical port and shortened shutter attachment edge
09/07/2001WO2001065302A1 Optical switch array using rolling shutter optical switch elements
09/07/2001WO2001065301A1 Semiconductor optoelectronic device with electrically adjustable transfer function
09/07/2001WO2001065292A1 Fluid-encapsulated mems optical switch
09/07/2001WO2001027683A3 Assembly, in which light from a light source is directed onto a surface
09/07/2001WO2000075720A3 Electrophoretic, high index, or phase transition control of total internal reflection in high efficiency variable reflectivity image displays
09/07/2001EP1145069A3 Assembly, in which light from a light source is directed onto a surface
09/06/2001US20010019564 Method and device for adjusting a multi-beam source unit, method for assembling the multi-beam source unit, and image forming apparatus using the multi-beam source unit
09/06/2001US20010019445 Galvano-micromirror and its manufacture process
09/06/2001US20010019444 Optical scanning apparatus
09/06/2001US20010019443 Method and apparatus for inner face scanning with multi beams
09/06/2001DE10008724A1 Telescope/telescopic camera lens attachment has a light deflection system with a tilting deflector and a second deflector for the remaining light to give a combined look and guide action
09/05/2001EP1130809A2 Satellite optical communication acquisition techniques
09/05/2001EP1130808A2 Method and apparatus for automatic tracking of an optical signal in a wireless optical communication system
09/05/2001EP1130447A2 Hologram scanner and method of recording and reproducing hologram in the hologram scanner
09/05/2001EP1130446A2 Actuators including serpentine arrangements of alternating actuating and opposing segments and related methods
09/05/2001EP1130444A2 Resistor array with position dependent heat dissipation
09/05/2001EP1130443A2 System and method for providing temperature control for a thermally activated optical switch using constant total power
09/05/2001EP1130442A2 Optical switches using dual axis micromirrors
09/05/2001EP1130438A2 Optical scanning aparatus including a lens having aspherical surfaces on both sides
09/05/2001EP1130432A2 Tunable optical add/drop filter and method
09/05/2001EP1130431A2 Attenuator element for use with an optical fiber adapter
09/05/2001EP1129383A1 Method and apparatus for determining optical distance
09/05/2001CN1311871A Laser printer having variable beam spacing
09/05/2001CN1311571A Radio frequency modular and moving target vertification modular
09/05/2001CN1311451A Light scanning device
09/04/2001US6285491 Adaptive temporal modulation of periodically varying light sources
09/04/2001US6285490 High yield spring-ring micromirror
09/04/2001US6285489 Frequency tunable resonant scanner with auxiliary arms
09/04/2001US6285488 Pattern generator for avoiding stitching errors
09/04/2001US6285487 Light modulation system including a superconductive plate assembly for use in a data transmission scheme and method
09/04/2001US6285485 Induction microscanner
09/04/2001US6285482 Optical deflecting-scanning apparatus
09/04/2001US6285388 Image forming apparatus having a plurality of image-forming modes and method of controlling the apparatus
09/04/2001US6285383 Method of controlling laser scanner phase in a multicolor electrophotographic machine
09/04/2001US6284352 Ferrofluidic electric paper