| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5425123 |
Multifiber endoscope with multiple viewing modes to produce an image free of fixed pattern noise |
June 13, 1995 |
| A fiberoptic endoscope scanning system with multiple scanning modes. The first mode is a multifiber scanning along its longitudinal axis and a second scanning mode is a chromatic scan comprising a prism and/or grating at the distal end of the endoscope. The multiple scanning modes result |
| 5355285 |
Surgeon's headlight system |
October 11, 1994 |
| A surgeons headlight system which comprises a short arc xenon lamp in optical communication with a proximal end of a light pipe. The light pipe having beam shaping optics located at a distal end thereof. The light pipe also having a first long section which is fixed in an elevated manner |
| 5198894 |
Drape for endoscope |
March 30, 1993 |
| An endoscope having a sleeve-like drape secured in a retracted position at the proximal end of the endoscope. The proximal end of the endoscope is secured to a CCD camera, the drape is extended to telescope over and envelope the camera such that the resulting outer surface of the drape i |
| 5133035 |
Multifiber endoscope with multiple scanning modes to produce an image free of fixed pattern nois |
July 21, 1992 |
| A fiberoptic endoscope scanning system with multiple scanning modes. A first mode is a multifiber scanning about its longitudinal axis and a second scanning mode is a chromatic scan, comprising a prism and/or grating at the distal end. |
| 5103497 |
Flying spot endoscope |
April 7, 1992 |
| A fiber optic scanning system having a multifiber. The multifiber having a first group of cores having an index of refraction N1 and a second group of cores having an index of refraction N2. The cores being positioned in a matrix. The cores of the groups being arrayed so that the adjacen |
| 5074642 |
Multifiber endoscope with fibers having different indices of refraction |
December 24, 1991 |
| A multi-fiber for use in an endoscope having a plurality of fiber optic bundles. Each bundle comprises cores A, B, C and D, each core having a different index of refraction. The index difference between cores is at least 0.02 to produce mismatch in the propagation constants in the cores |
| 5003216 |
Electron amplifier and method of manufacture therefor |
March 26, 1991 |
| A novel vacuum tube type of electric apparatus preferably utilizes cold cathode emission to provide an electron source. A grid element is employed to vary path direction for the particles, which are directed to alternative positions of an anode element. Secondary electron emission fr |
| 4922481 |
Optical communication systems enabling minimal subscriber components |
May 1, 1990 |
| A fiber optics communications network system that is adapted for operation with either electrical or optical central office functions, i.e. switching and routing functions, is adapted for connection to electrical or fiber optic conduits for subscriber entrance sites, and which is compose |
| 4911525 |
Optical communication cable |
March 27, 1990 |
| An optical communication cable includes an elongated flexible strip or tape, one or more optical fibers affixed to the tape, and an adhesive on a surface of the tape. The optical cable is utilized for interconnecting points within a building by applying the adhesive to an interior wall, |
| 4886333 |
Fiber laser sensor |
December 12, 1989 |
| A fiber laser differential sensor measures changes in a selected parameter by means of several single fiber laser sensors which are sensitive to both changes in the selected parameter and changes in other parameters which are not of interest. Each single sensor is comprised of two fiber |
| 4789843 |
Laser diode optical modulating devices |
December 6, 1988 |
| An optical modulator for modulating a light beam includes a laser diode having an active region with optically flat faces at opposite ends thereof. The modulator is constructed so that oscillation of the laser diode is suppressed and a time-varying electrical modulation signal is app |
| 4778238 |
Optical communications systems and process for signal amplification using stimulated brillouin s |
October 18, 1988 |
| Communications Systems particularly suited for manipulating stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), or similar tunable laser amplification effects, to acheive improved means for selecting an optical signal from many such signals carried on a single fiber. This disclosure also describe |
| 4730886 |
Fiber laser sensor |
March 15, 1988 |
| A fiber laser sensor is comprised of two fiber lasers which are each optically coupled to a third fiber so that energy is exchanged between each of the laser fibers and the third fiber. The coupling is accomplished by arranging the laser fibers parallel to and on either side of a third |
