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Thin-Film-Glass Organic Electro-Optic Modulator for Ultra-High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Optical Interconnects
This invention is a type of ultra-high-speed electro-optic modulator (>100GHz) that integrates nonlinear optical polymers with thin film waveguides to allow for high-bandwidth modulation with low drive voltage. These devices could offer a practical replacement for silicon nitride or thin-film lithium niobate modulators. Unlike conventional silicon...
Published: 7/17/2026
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Updated: 6/26/2026
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Inventor(s): Yasufumi Enami
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Data Storage, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication
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Task-Oriented Efficient Measure of Reservoir Computing Power
This technology addresses gaps in existing reservoir computing technologies by establishing mathematical bounds on computational expressivity and analyzing factors such as reservoir dynamics, generalization capabilities, and limitations in temporal processing. The technique allows suitable reservoirs to be rapidly selected in order to build efficient...
Published: 3/2/2026
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Updated: 3/2/2026
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Inventor(s): Daniel Soh
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Quantum, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Data Storage, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO
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Scalable Deformable Mirror Technology using Thin Mirror Substrate
This invention is a novel deformable mirror technology allowing the construction of deformable thin mirrors using a “green process” that allows for 90% of the manufacturing to be done using standard machining operations and finalized using classic optical process. By integrating these thin mirrors with a compact actuator array, the technology...
Published: 7/2/2025
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Updated: 7/2/2025
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Inventor(s): Daewook Kim, Oscar Montoya
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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Integrated Photonic Encoding Systems and Methods for High Speed and Low Power Image Processing
The photonic processing system described in this invention is able to perform large-scale matrix multiplication in an energy-efficient manner with the encoding matrix being designed such that encoded data can be decoded with high-fidelity for post-processing, such as reconstructing compressed images and image conditioning applications.
In addition,...
Published: 6/15/2026
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Updated: 7/2/2025
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Inventor(s): David Brady, Raktim Sarma, Jayson Briscoe, Michael Goldflam, Nicholas Karl, Christopher Long, Brandon Redding
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Data Storage, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO
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High-Speed Modulation Using Photonic Crystals on Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs)
This technology integrates photonic crystals into digital micromirror devices (DMDs). The photonic crystals are incorporated on the surface of the DMD mirror in such a way as to achieve guided mode resonance, creating resonance features that are highly sensitive to changes in the angle of incidence. This increased sensitivity to angle changes minimizes...
Published: 12/23/2025
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Updated: 9/16/2024
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Inventor(s): Mohamed ElKabbash
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Data Storage, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO
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Dense Optical Storage Media with Angular-Selective Thin Film Coatings
The invention is an improved optical storage media system designed to increase storage capacity on optical media, such as compact discs. This system encodes data by varying the width of pits on the disc, allowing each pit to represent multiple bits of information. By exploiting the diffraction properties of light, this technology employs angular-selective...
Published: 8/5/2024
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Updated: 8/5/2024
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Inventor(s): Mohamed ElKabbash
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Data Storage, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO
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Synthesis of New Polysulfide Materials derived from Sulfur Monochloride with for Optical Material Applications
This invention describes a range of low-cost polymer compositions and method of making for high index, high Abbe number consumer optics. This process improves upon the synthesis of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, achieving both high molecular weight in linear thermoplastics and highly crosslinked thermosets. It was also found that these materials...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Updated: 1/24/2023
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Jon Njardarson, Kyung-Seok Kang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers
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Functionalization of Soluble Polydienes and Polyisoprenes using Dithiophosphoric Acids
Researchers at the University of Arizona have found that functionalized polymers of a reaction product of a polymer including one or more olefins and a dithiophosphoric acid compound can provide a wide range of olefinic polymers in bulk-neat conditions or in solution via eletrophilic addition processes. Suitable olefins include polybutadienes, polyisoprenes,...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Updated: 1/11/2023
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Jon Njardarson
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Materials > Coatings, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers
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System for Figuring Thin Mirrors Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses
The inventors have developed an optical system, laser spot position determination process, and calibration process for deterministically figuring thin mirrors by creating stress inside the glass substrate (or other material transparent to the laser beam wavelength) using an ultrashort pulsed (USP) laser. This process is especially useful for low spatial...
Published: 6/20/2024
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Updated: 7/19/2022
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Inventor(s): Brandon Chalifoux, Ian Arnold, Kevin Laverty
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Polarization State Scrambler Using Birefringent Phase Mask
A University of Arizona researcher has designed a device to efficiently convert partially polarized and polarized light into light having randomly distributed polarizations, or more generally, into output light having a plurality of polarizations. The passive device provides almost instantaneous conversion of polarization, as opposed to the current...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Updated: 7/14/2022
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO
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