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Controlling Pulse Energy Of An Optical Amplifier By Controlling Pump Diode Current, Peter Delfyett, Richard Stoltz
Controlling Pulse Energy Of An Optical Amplifier By Controlling Pump Diode Current, Peter Delfyett, Richard Stoltz
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The present invention includes the method of using optically-pumped optical amplifiers to remove material from a body by optical-ablation through time-compressing the amplified pulse and illuminating a portion of the body with the time-compressed optical pulse. The pulse energy of semiconductor optical amplifiers may also be adjusted by controlling the pump diode current.
Variable Focus Liquid Lens, Shin-Tson Wu, Hongwen Ren
Variable Focus Liquid Lens, Shin-Tson Wu, Hongwen Ren
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A liquid-filled variable focus lens cell is disclosed. The liquid lens cell consists of four parts: a clear distensible membrane, a transparent wall member, liquid with a fixed volume stored in lens cell chamber, and an annular periphery sealing ring. The inner surfaces of the annular sealing ring are sealed with distensible membrane. The radius of the annular sealing ring is changeable, similar to a conventional iris diaphragm. By tuning the radius of the annular sealing ring, the stored liquid in the lens cell will be redistributed, thus change the curvature of the distensible membrane. Therefore, the liquid lens cell …
Genetic Engineering Of Plant Chloroplasts, Henry Daniell, Bruce Mcfadden
Genetic Engineering Of Plant Chloroplasts, Henry Daniell, Bruce Mcfadden
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Novel chimeric constructions and methods for their use are provided for expression of exogenous genes in a plant chloroplast. Particularly, expression is achieved by the use of a chloroplast or bacterial 5' untranslated region in the expression cassette. The expression cassette may be integrated into the chloroplast genome by the use of chloroplast DNA flanking sequences, or may replicate autonomously if provided with a chloroplast origin of replication. Plants and cells containing the transformed chloroplasts are also provided. The constructs may be used with both monocotyledenous and dicotyledenous chloroplasts.
Universal Chloroplast Integration And Expression Vectors, Transformed Plants And Products Thereof, Henry Daniell
Universal Chloroplast Integration And Expression Vectors, Transformed Plants And Products Thereof, Henry Daniell
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The invention provides universal chloroplast integration and expression vectors which are competent to stably transform and integrate genes of interest into chloroplast genome of multiple species of plants. Transformed plants and their progeny are provided. Monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants are transformed which have never been transformed heretofore. Plants transformed with a synthetic gene express valuable biodegradable protein-based polymers (PBPs). Transformed plants produce high value molecules. Resistance is provided to agricultural crops against the major classes of chemical herbicides. Herbicide resistance is used as a lethal selectable marker for chloroplast transformation. The transformed plants are capable of expressing in addition to …
Ring Geometry Diode Lasers Arrays And Methods So That They Are Coherent With Each Other., Michael Bass, Jun Dong
Ring Geometry Diode Lasers Arrays And Methods So That They Are Coherent With Each Other., Michael Bass, Jun Dong
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Systems, configurations and methods of using laser diodes in ring-shaped arrays placed a distance away from thin disk solid-state laser gain media, which provide uniformly absorbed pump power distribution with high absorption efficiency. This results in major improvements in the scalability and ruggedness of such lasers and disk laser amplifiers. Use of the diode laser pump configurations of the invention results in compact, robust and scalable lasers that produce high quality, high power outputs.
Head Mounted Projection Display With A Wide Field Of View, Jannick Rolland, Larry Davis, Yonggang Ha
Head Mounted Projection Display With A Wide Field Of View, Jannick Rolland, Larry Davis, Yonggang Ha
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A ultra-wide field of view head mounted display has been realized by integrating an ARC display component having a greater than about 70 degrees field of retro-reflection with an optical tiling display which provides a greater than about 80 degrees horizontal field of view by about 50 degrees vertical field of view whereby an overall binocular horizontal field of view greater than about 120 degrees is realized with a greater resolution than about 2 arc minutes. There is also taught a method of providing a wide field of view head mounted display by the steps of: combining an ARC display …
System And Method For Immunosensor Regeneration, Hyoungjin Cho, Shekhar Bhansali, Beverly Rzigalinski
System And Method For Immunosensor Regeneration, Hyoungjin Cho, Shekhar Bhansali, Beverly Rzigalinski
UCF Patents
The present invention allows for regeneration of any chemical and biological sensor systems without totally destroying the primary antibodies in the system. The present invention provides regeneration of the sensor by debinding of the antigen/antibody complex utilizing a controlled electrical impulse. The technique is generic and can be used with most immunoassay-based detectors.
Combined Methane Decomposition And Ammonia Formation Cell Div, John Bradenburg
Combined Methane Decomposition And Ammonia Formation Cell Div, John Bradenburg
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An ammonia synthesis process and apparatus are provided which are energy efficient and minimize greenhouse-gas-emission during the processing of natural gas and air. In the process a strem of natural gas is divided into two streams, one of which is mixed with air and ignited to provide heat for the thermal decomposition of natural gas nto hydrogen and carbon and also to provide deoxygenated nitrogen for an ammonia synthesis process. The process essentially prepares hydrogen and nitrogen on a low average temperature side of the chemical reactor where they react to form ammonia. The formation of ammonia is exothermic, whereas …
Multispectral Multpolarization Antenna-Coupled Infrared Focal Plane Array, Glenn Boreman, Francisco Gonzalez, James Porter
Multispectral Multpolarization Antenna-Coupled Infrared Focal Plane Array, Glenn Boreman, Francisco Gonzalez, James Porter
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Adjacent pixels of an infrared focal plane array (IR FPA) can be configured to have different spectral or polarization responses by adjustment of the lengths or orientations of the antenna arms which couple radiation into the sensors. The manufacturing costs of such an antenna-coupled IR FPA would be much less than integration of spectral or polarization filters onto each pixel, or fabrication of adjacent pixels with materials of different bandgaps. The antenna-coupled pixels can be made smaller than usual pixels, allowing this diversity of spectral or polarization information on the FPA without losing spatial resolution. The infrared (IR) sensors can …
Extreme Chirped/Stretched Pulsed Amplification And Laser, Peter Delfyett, Bojan Resan, Kyungbum Kim
Extreme Chirped/Stretched Pulsed Amplification And Laser, Peter Delfyett, Bojan Resan, Kyungbum Kim
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Methods, devices and systems for generating ultrashort optical linear chirped pulses with very high power by amplifying the pulses so that their temporal duration is longer than the storage time of the amplifying medium. The additional gain factor is related to the ratio of the storage time to the stretched pulse. A preferred embodiment connects a mode locked laser source that generates optical pulses whose duration is stretched with a chirped fiber Bragg grating. Embodiments include methods, devices and systems causing an extreme chirped pulse amplifier (XCPA) effect in an oscillator.
Euv, Xuv And X-Ray Wavelength Sources Created From Laser Plasma Produced From Liquid Metal Solutions [Div], Martin Richardson
Euv, Xuv And X-Ray Wavelength Sources Created From Laser Plasma Produced From Liquid Metal Solutions [Div], Martin Richardson
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Metallic solutions at room temperature used a laser point source target droplets. Using the target metallic solutions results in damage free use to surrounding optical components since no debris are formed. The metallic solutions can produce plasma emissions in the X-rays, XUV, and EUV(extreme ultra violet) spectral ranges of approximately 11.7 nm and 13 nm. The metallic solutions can include molecular liquids or mixtures of elemental and molecular liquids, such as metallic chloride solutions, metallic bromide solutions, metallic sulphate solutions, metallic nitrate solutions, and organo-metallic solutions. The metallic solutions do not need to be heated since they are in a …
Iterative Least-Squares Wavefront Estimation For General Pupil Shapes, Jannick Rolland, Weiyao Zou
Iterative Least-Squares Wavefront Estimation For General Pupil Shapes, Jannick Rolland, Weiyao Zou
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Iterative algorithm methods and systems for slope or gradient-type data is presented for wavefront zonal estimation of regular and irregular pupil shapes. The methods and systems bears universal wavefront estimation matrices that are directly applicable to any pupil shape without the need to set up new matrices. The algorithm consists in first extending the sampling pupil to a larger regular square shape and second extrapolating the sampled slope data outside of the sampling pupil employing Gerchberg-type iterations. Unbiased least-squares wavefront estimation is then performed in the square domain. Results show that the RMS deviation error of the estimated wavefront from …
Light Source Using Emitting Particles To Provide Visible Light, Michael Bass, Alfred Ducharme, Alexandra Rapaport
Light Source Using Emitting Particles To Provide Visible Light, Michael Bass, Alfred Ducharme, Alexandra Rapaport
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Upconversion methods and devices that converts near-infrared light to the visible spectrum using a rare-earth-doped crystalline host for use as general and decorative lighting. The pseudo-monochromatic output of the processes can be specified by altering the amount and type of rare-earth material used and by selection of an appropriate host. Using rare-earth materials such as ytterbium-erbium or ytterbium-thulium can produce red, green and blue emissions, where the additive mixture of these colors yields a high-quality white light. The materials can be adjusted to achieve white light with any color temperature and high color-rendering index (CRI) for any general and decorative …
Electronically Tunable Polarization-Independent Micro-Lens Polymer Network Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal, Shin-Tson Wu, Yuhua Huang, Hongwen Ren, Xinyu Zhu
Electronically Tunable Polarization-Independent Micro-Lens Polymer Network Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal, Shin-Tson Wu, Yuhua Huang, Hongwen Ren, Xinyu Zhu
UCF Patents
Inhomogeneous concentrated polymer network with approximately 90.degree. twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN-LC) is used for fabricating lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the approximately 90.degree. TN-LC polymer network concentration can gradually decrease from the center to the side edges. For forming a negative lens, the approximately 90.degree. TN-LC polymer network concentration can gradually increase from the center to the side edges. The lens can be created by ultra violet (UV) light exposure to patterned photo masks. The lens can be tuned by applying voltage above the threshold voltage to the polymer network. The inhomogeneous 90.degree. TN-LC polymer network …
High Efficiency Collector For Laser Plasma Euv Source., Jonathan Arenberg
High Efficiency Collector For Laser Plasma Euv Source., Jonathan Arenberg
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Collector optics for an EUV radiation source for collecting EUV radiation. The collector optics includes an elliptical dish reflector where light generated at a focal point of the reflector and is directed to a collection location. A frustal annual reflector is positioned around an outer edge of the dish reflector to collect more of the EUV radiation that may otherwise be lost. The radiation reflected by the annual reflector is directed to a center axicon reflector positioned between the focal point of the dish reflector and the collection location to redirect the radiation reflected by the annual reflector to be …
Method And Apparatus For Decoupled Thermo-Catalytic Pollution Control (Div), Ali Raissi, Eric Martin, Nazim Muradov
Method And Apparatus For Decoupled Thermo-Catalytic Pollution Control (Div), Ali Raissi, Eric Martin, Nazim Muradov
UCF Patents
A new method for design and scale-up of thermocatalytic processes is disclosed. The method is based on optimizing process energetics by decoupling of the process energetics from the DRE for target contaminants. The technique is applicable to high temperature thermocatalytic reactor design and scale-up. The method is based on the implementation of polymeric and other low-pressure drop support for thermocatalytic media as well as the multifunctional catalytic media in conjunction with a novel rotating fluidized particle bed reactor.
Substrate Design For Optimized Performance Of Up-Conversion Phosphors Utilizing Proper Thermal Management, Michael Bass, Hans Jennsen, Anne Milliez, Alexandra Rapaport
Substrate Design For Optimized Performance Of Up-Conversion Phosphors Utilizing Proper Thermal Management, Michael Bass, Hans Jennsen, Anne Milliez, Alexandra Rapaport
UCF Patents
Methods and compositions for using an up-conversion phosphor as an emitting material in a reflective displays and Polymer compositions for display mediums, and blue green red (BRG) display mediums. Roles of the pumping duration and character on the temperature and the efficiency of the up-conversion process in (Ytterbium, Erbium or Thulium) co-doped fluoride crystals are set forth. Methods, compositions and display mediums for using up-conversion phosphors in both reflective and transmissive displays in which the substrate and pixel shapes are designed to maximally remove heat deposited in the emitting material and thereby improve the efficiency of up conversion.
Treatment Of Leukemia, Delbert Miles, Elena Goun, Krasnych Pertrovna, Pimenova Valentinovna, Solodnikov Yyrejvitsh
Treatment Of Leukemia, Delbert Miles, Elena Goun, Krasnych Pertrovna, Pimenova Valentinovna, Solodnikov Yyrejvitsh
UCF Patents
A preferred embodiment of the invention encompasses a compounds having the property of anti-carcinogenic activity against human leukemia comprising the use of 4-(4-Ethoxy-phenyl)-2-(N'-fluoren-9-ylidene-hydrazino)-2-hydroxy-4-oxo-butyric acid methyl ester (OF-13), and/or 4-Chloro-4-(4-ethoxy-phenyl)-2-(fluoren-9-ylidene-hydrazono)-but-3-enoic acid methyl ester (3F-19) in humans as therapeutic means for the eradication of leukemia from the human's body.
Method Of Predicting Optical Properties And Physical Characteristics To Formulate Optimum Coating System, Aristide Dogariu, Gary Freeman, Richard Carter
Method Of Predicting Optical Properties And Physical Characteristics To Formulate Optimum Coating System, Aristide Dogariu, Gary Freeman, Richard Carter
UCF Patents
Method of predicting optical properties and physical characteristics of coated paper or other sheet products for the purpose of formulating enhanced coating or sheet forming systems, and in particular to a method, which uses a diffusion approximation model derived from a radiative transfer theory employing various inputs of the properties and/or characteristics to predict coating or sheet system performance.
Tunable Electronic Lens And Prisms Using Inhomogeneous Nano Scale Liquid Crystal Droplets, Shin-Tson Wu, Hongwen Ren
Tunable Electronic Lens And Prisms Using Inhomogeneous Nano Scale Liquid Crystal Droplets, Shin-Tson Wu, Hongwen Ren
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Using inhomogeneous sized liquid crystal (LC) droplets for lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the LC droplet size can gradually increase from the center to the side edges. For forming a negative lens, the LC droplet size can gradually decrease from the center to the side edges. The lens can be created by Ultra Violet light exposure to patterns. The lens can be tuned by applying voltage to the droplets. The inhomogeneous droplets can also be used in Fresnel lens and prisms. Applications of the invention can be used for eyeglasses, arrays, camera type zoom lenses and beam …
Plasma Reactor For Ammonia Cracking To Hydrogen, John Bradenburg
Plasma Reactor For Ammonia Cracking To Hydrogen, John Bradenburg
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Processes and systems for generating hydrogen gas from resonant cavities are disclosed. A preferred version includes separating a resonant cavity into two compartments with a dielectric type diaphragm, injecting gases such as ammonia into one compartment and generating electromagnetic energy from an antenna, microwave generator or waveguide into the other compartment so that a plasma discharge is formed in the cavity, and hydrogen gas can be selectively released from an outport of the cavity.
Full Color Transflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display With Slant Reflectors Above Transmissive Pixels, Shin-Tson Wu, Yi-Pai Huang, Hongwen Ren, Xinzhang Wu, Xinyu Zhu
Full Color Transflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display With Slant Reflectors Above Transmissive Pixels, Shin-Tson Wu, Yi-Pai Huang, Hongwen Ren, Xinzhang Wu, Xinyu Zhu
UCF Patents
A device and method for making full color cholesteric displays such as a narrow band and a broad band cholesteric display using high birefringence LC materials with color filtering processes. The invention includes positioning slant reflector(s) in the transmissive portion of the display to reflect backlight into reflection pixels. The LCD can display the same color images in both reflective and transmissive modes, maintain good readability in any ambient, has low power consumption, high brightness, full color capability and has a fabrication process that is compatible with conventional LCD fabrication.
High Efficiency Air Conditioner Condenser Fan, Danny Parker, Bart Hibbs, John Sherwin
High Efficiency Air Conditioner Condenser Fan, Danny Parker, Bart Hibbs, John Sherwin
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Novel twisted blades with an air foil for use with air conditioner condensers and heat pumps that provide improved airflow efficiency to minimize operating power requirements having an overall diameter across the blades being approximately 19 inches, and approximately 27.6 inches. The blades (AC-A) can run at approximately 840 rpm to produce approximately 2200 cfm of air flow using approximately 110 Watts of power from an 8-pole motor. Using an OEM 6-pole 1/8 hp motor produced approximately 2800 cfm with approximately 144 Watts of power while running the blades at approximately 1100 rpm. Power savings were 25% (50 W) over …
Self Designing Intelligent Signal Processing System Capable Of Evolutional Learning For Classification/Recognition Of One And Multidimensional Signals, Wasfy Mikhael, Manal Abdelwahab, Venkatesh Krishnan
Self Designing Intelligent Signal Processing System Capable Of Evolutional Learning For Classification/Recognition Of One And Multidimensional Signals, Wasfy Mikhael, Manal Abdelwahab, Venkatesh Krishnan
UCF Patents
A Self-Designing Intelligent Signal Processing System Capable of Evolutional Learning for Classification/Recognition of One and Multidimensional Signals is described which classifies data by an evolutionary learning environment that develops the features and algorithms that are best suited for the recognition problem under consideration. The System adaptively learns what data need to be extracted in order to recognize the given pattern with the least amount of processing. The System decides what features need to be selected for classification and/or recognition to fit a certain structure that leads to the least amount of processing according to the nature of the given data. …
Transflective Liquid Crystal Display With Partial Switching, Shin-Tson Wu
Transflective Liquid Crystal Display With Partial Switching, Shin-Tson Wu
UCF Patents
A high reflection and transmission transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD) that requires only a single cell gap. Instead of reducing the cell gap of the R sub-pixel region, the invention reduces the birefringence change .DELTA.n of reflective pixels (R) so that the total retardation change .DELTA.nd of R is equal to that of the transmissive pixels (T). This is realized by a partial switching of the pixels of approximately 45 degrees which occurs in the reflective pixel (R) region of the single cell gap by applying fringing fields, generated by a discontinuous electrode, to the molecules in the reflective pixel …
Method For Drawing Continuous Fiber, Aravinda Kar, Yonggang Li, Raymond Mcneice, Nathaniel Quick
Method For Drawing Continuous Fiber, Aravinda Kar, Yonggang Li, Raymond Mcneice, Nathaniel Quick
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An apparatus and method is disclosed for drawing continuous metallic wire having a first diameter to a metallic fiber having a reduced second diameter. A feed mechanism moves the wire at a first linear velocity. A laser beam heats a region of the wire to an elevated temperature. A draw mechanism draws the heated wire at a second and greater linear velocity for providing a drawn metallic fiber having the reduced second diameter.
Carbon Nanotube With A Graphitic Layer, Process And Application, Lee Chow, Stephen Kleckley, Dan Zhou
Carbon Nanotube With A Graphitic Layer, Process And Application, Lee Chow, Stephen Kleckley, Dan Zhou
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A method for manufacturing carbon nanotubes with an integrally attached outer graphitic layer is disclosed. The graphitic layer improves the ability to handle and manipulate the nanometer size nanotube device in various applications, such as a probe tip in scanning probe microscopes and optical microscopes, or as an electron emitting device. A thermal chemical vapor deposition reactor is the preferred reaction vessel in which a transition metal catalyst with an inert gas, hydrogen gas and a carbon-containing gas mixture are heated at various temperatures in a range between 500.degree. C. and 1000.degree. C. with gases and temperatures being adjusted periodically …
3-Pi Algorithm For Spiral Ct, Alexander Katsevich
3-Pi Algorithm For Spiral Ct, Alexander Katsevich
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Methods and systems for reconstructing images of moving objects being spirally scanned with two dimensional detectors with a 3PI algorithm. The moving objects can be scanned at a rate of up to approximately three times slower than those of pre-existing systems. In a preferred embodiment, the invention allows for a patient on a table moving through a spiral scanner to be slowed down by a factor of up to three, and still use the same size detector array as those in existing spiral scanning systems.
Fabrication Of Nano-Scale Temperature Sensors And Heaters. Div, Lee Chow, Fred Stevie, Dan Zhou
Fabrication Of Nano-Scale Temperature Sensors And Heaters. Div, Lee Chow, Fred Stevie, Dan Zhou
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The method for the fabrication of nano scale temperature sensors and nano scale heaters using focused ion beam (FIB) techniques. The process used to deposit metal nano strips to form a sensor is ion beam assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The FIB Ga.sup.+ ion beam can be used to decompose W(CO).sub.6 molecules to deposit a tungsten nano-strip on a suitable substrate. The same substrate can also be used for Pt nano-strip deposition. The precursors for the Pt can be trimethyl platinum (CH.sub.3).sub.3Pt in the present case. Because of the Ga.sup.+ beam used in the deposition, both Pt and W nano-strips …
Achromatic Quarter-Wave Films, Shin-Tson Wu, Yuhua Huang, Xinzhang (Thomas) Wu
Achromatic Quarter-Wave Films, Shin-Tson Wu, Yuhua Huang, Xinzhang (Thomas) Wu
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The achromatic quarter-wave film of this invention has a laminated twisted nematic liquid crystal film sandwiched between two uniaxial polymer films to provide a optical component which converts linearly polarized light into circularly polarized radiation which upon reflection back through said optical component is blocked from outward radiation by the polarizer for the initial incident wide spectrum light thus realizing wider broadband width for full color flat panel displays.