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A catheter is adapted to ablate tissue and provide optically-based lesion qualitative and quantitative monitoring, comprising a catheter body and a tip electrode distal the catheter body adapted for ablating tissue, the tip electrode having a shell and an alignment member defining a hollow distal portion therebetween. In accordance with the invention, the catheter further includes a plurality of optical waveguides adapted to transmit optical energy to and from the tip electrode. A distal portion of each waveguide extends through the hollow distal portion and terminates in openings formed in the shell. Advantageously, the alignment member fixedly secures the distal portion of each waveguide against movement relative to the alignment member and the shell.

A catheter is adapted to ablate tissue and provide lesion qualitative information on a real time basis, having an ablation tip section with a generally omni-directional light diffusion chamber with one openings to allow light energy in the chamber to radiate the tissue and return to the chamber. The chamber is irrigated at a positive pressure differential to continuously flush the opening with fluid. The light energy returning to the chamber from the tissue conveys a tissue parameter, including without limitation, lesion formation, depth of penetration of lesion, cross-sectional area of lesion, formation of char during ablation, recognition of char during ablation, recognition of char from non-charred tissue, formation of coagulum around the ablation site, differentiation of coagulated from non-coagulated blood, differentiation of ablated from healthy tissue, tissue proximity, and recognition of steam formation in the tissue for prevention of steam pop.

Disclosed is a holographic display including a spatial light modulator, and including a position detection and tracking system, such that a viewer's eye positions are tracked, with variable beam deflection to the viewer's eye positions being performed using a microprism array which enables controllable deflection of optical beams.

A catheter enables real-time light measurements, for example, without limitation, diffuse reflectance, fluorescence, etc., from biological materials, such as tissue (including blood), while performing RF ablation. The catheter tip design isolates illumination and collection paths such that light exits the catheter tip and travels through the tissue of interest (e.g., cardiac tissue or blood) before returning to the catheter tip. Such a design advantageously avoids saturation of the optical detector, and ensures diffusion of the illumination light within the medium of interest. The catheter has a catheter body and a tip electrode. The tip electrode has an exterior shell, an inner layer of diffuse material and a hollow cavity, wherein the inner layer is configured to transmit light outside the tip electrode to a tissue via a set of illumination openings in the shell wall and the hollow cavity is configured to receive light from the tissue via a set of collection openings in the shell wall and the inner layer. An inner surface of the inner layer has a reflective coating to isolate light injected into the inner layer from light collected in the hollow cavity. There are a first optical waveguide extending between the catheter body and the tip electrode to inject light into the inner layer and illuminate the tissue, and a second optical waveguide extending between the catheter body and the tip electrode to collect the recaptured light in the hollow cavity.

In the present invention, by forming a dispersion shifted optical fiber that has a refractive index profile comprising: a central core portion 1; a step core portion 2 provided at an outer periphery of the central core portion 1 and having a refractive index lower than that of the central core portion 1; and cladding 7 provided at an outer periphery of the step core portion 2 and having a refractive index lower than that of the step core portion 2, and which dispersion shifted optical fiber has, in a used wavelength band that is selected from between 1490 and 1625 nm, chromatic dispersion values of 7 to 15 ps/km/nm, an Aeff of 60 to 150 mum2, a dispersion slope of 0.09 ps/km/nm2 or less, a bending loss of 100 dB/m or less, and a cutoff wavelength that provides essentially single mode transmission, it is possible to reduce the cost of the system and to achieve n improvement in the transmission characteristics.

A thickness servo system using optical aberrations is provided. This system includes an objective lens facing a recording layer covered with a transparent layer accompanying thickness irregularity, a laser source for supplying a laser beam to the recording layer through the objective lens and transparent layer, a photodetector for detecting the laser beam reflected by the recording layer through the transparent layer and objective lens, and a thickness irregularity correction section which is placed in a laser beam optical path between the laser source and the recording layer to correct an optical aberration of the objective lens due to the thickness irregularity of the transparent layer. In this servo system, the photodetector detects an aberration amount corresponding to thickness irregularity, and the thickness irregularity correction section operates to minimize the detected aberration amount. The thickness irregularity of the transparent layer can also be calculated from the detected aberration amount.

A low reflective window structure in an existent electro-absorption optical modulator involves a trading off problem between the increase in the parasitic capacitance and the pile-up. This is because the capacitance density of the pn junction in the window structure is higher compared with the pin junction as the optical absorption region, and the application of electric field to the optical absorption region becomes insufficient in a case of receding the electrode structure from the junction between the optical absorption region and the window structure making it difficult to discharge photo-carriers generated in the optical absorption region. An undope waveguide structure comprising a structure having such compositional wavelength and a film thickness that the compositional wavelength for each of multi-layers constituting the waveguide structure is sufficiently shorter than that of the signal light and the average refractive index is about identical with that in the optical absorption region may be disposed. In a case of forming the electrode structure so as to overlap the junction boundary between the optical absorption region and the undope waveguide, and do not extend on the joined boundary between the undope waveguide and the window structure, increase in the parasitic capacitance due to the pn junction of the window structure and pile up can be suppressed simultaneously.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a touch screen and a corresponding OLED panel. A metal mesh touch circuit is fabricated on an encapsulation layer of a flexible OLED display screen, metal mesh touch circuit avoids the luminous zone of pixels, wire is arranged between adjacent pixels, at least one electrode of that drive electrode or the sensing electrode is connected and conducted througha metal bridge below, so that the flexible touch screen can be realized, and the thickness of the flexible touch screen becomes smaller by reducing the use of the transparent optical adhesive, and the production cost can be reduced.

An enhanced variable power zoom lens is lightweight in whole and in part, especially, having its focusing lens optics reduced in weight so as to relieve of a load on a focusing drive system, and having its anti-vibration lens optics reduced in both diameter and weight so as to relieve of a load on an anti-vibration drive system and downsize the same. The zoom lens has the foremost or first lens group of positive refractivity, the second lens group of negative refractivity, the third lens group of positive refractivity, the fourth lens group of negative refractivity, and the fifth lens group arranged in sequence from a position closer to the object. The fourth lens group moves toward the image plane for focusing on from the infinity to a proximity object while part of the third lens group moves orthogonal to the optical axis for shifting an image.

Tire made of a rubber-based material of black color comprising at least one design on an outer surface of the said tire, the material being a diene elastomer or rubber, the design having on its outer surface at least one light diffraction grating formed of a plurality of ridges or grooves of height H arranged parallel to one another with a period P. The process for obtaining a design of variable color on an article made of a rubber-based material of black color, the design being visible in at least one color different from black.

Method and apparatus for attenuating unwanted aspects of lighting from a luminaire which is disposed to illuminate an object or objects being photographed. A light attenuating mask is disposed between the luminaire and the object or objects. The light attenuating mask may diffuse, obstruct, or otherwise modify projected light such that light intensity is diminished, unwanted reflections of the luminaire are suppressed, or other aspects of the light are altered. The mask may attach to the luminaire or may be free standing and separate therefrom.

This invention discloses a method of forming an uneven structure on a substrate. Use a hard tool to penetrate into a mold to cut a first trench and a second trench in an order on a surface of a mold, wherein the hard tool has a smoothly-curved shape such that the transverse width of each of the first trench and the second trench increases as the penetrating depth of the hard tool increases, wherein when each of the first trench and the second trench marches along a first direction, the penetrating depth of the hard tool is controlled by repeating moving the hard tool up and down to cut the mold such that the transverse width of each of the first trench and the second trench varies according to the controlled penetrating depth of the hard tool, wherein the first trench and the second trench completely overlap with each other with no space therebetween. Then, use the surface of the mold to emboss a thin film on a substrate.

The invention discloses an LLO-based single-wavelength quantum and classic communication simultaneous transmission method. A multi-user Alice terminal, a multiplexing module and a multi-user Bob terminal are included, and the multi-user Alice terminal, the multiplexing module and the multi-user Bob terminal are connected in sequence through optical fibers. Quantum signals and classic signals are coded on the same weak coherent pulse by adopting a single-wavelength multiplexing method, so that additional requirements of QKD for hardware equipment are reduced, and the practicability of the QKD technology is improved. The LLO scheme is adopted to close security vulnerabilities brought by an eavesdropper by manipulating the LO on the common channel, and the LLO is realized by adopting the unbalanced delay line interferometer, so that the system can tolerate stronger phase noise. Wavelength division multiplexing is combined with single-wavelength multiplexing, the system capacity of the system is further improved, and a realistic way is opened up for developing a coherent quantum and classical fusion system compatible with a next-generation network.

The invention relates to a control device (16) for a comfort system (12) of a motor vehicle (10). The control device comprises a touch-sensitive screen (18) having a control surface (20). The touch-sensitive screen (18) according to the invention is designed as a frame element for a component (14) of the comfort system (12) and is designed to wholly or partly frame the component (14). The invention further relates to a comfort system (12) having such a control device (16).