| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 385008000 | Electro-optic | 74 |
| 20080199124 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR GENERATING AND MODULATING THz AND OTHER HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNALS - Optical generation and modulation is carried out in the optical domain and converted to, for example, the THz band using suitable optical/electrical conversion hardware. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an electrooptic modulator is significantly overdriven to create sidebands on an optical carrier signal. An arrayed waveguide grating or other suitable filter is then used to filter the optical signal and remove the carrier signal and unwanted sidebands. The desired sidebands are then combined to create an optical signal that can be encoded with data through suitable modulation. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080279498 | MEMS STRUCTURES, METHODS OF FABRICATING MEMS COMPONENTS ON SEPARATE SUBSTRATES AND ASSEMBLY OF SAME - Methods of fabricating a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device with reduced masking and MEMS devices formed by the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device is fabricated by laminating a front substrate and a carrier, each of which has components preformed thereon. The front substrate is provided with stationary electrodes formed thereover. A carrier including movable electrodes formed thereover is attached to the front substrate. The carrier of some embodiments is released after transferring the movable electrodes to the front substrate. In other embodiments, the carrier stays over the front substrate, and serves as a backplate for the MEMS device. Features are formed by deposition and patterning, by embossing, or by patterning and etching. In some embodiments in which the MEMS device serves as an interferometric modulator, the front substrate is also provided with black masks to prevent or mitigate bright areas in the actuated state of the MEMS device. Static interferometric modulators can also be formed by shaping or preformation and lamination. The methods not only reduce the manufacturing costs, but also provide a higher yield. The resulting MEMS devices can trap smaller volumes between laminated substrates and are less susceptible to pressure variations and moisture leakage. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090046976 | High-Q resonators assembly - An electromagnetically responsive element includes sets of arrangements of self-resonant bodies, such as atoms or quantum dots that form an effective dielectric constant, typically at or near a resonance. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090154868 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTO-ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME - Provided are semiconductor opto-electronic integrated circuits and methods of forming the same. The semiconductor opto-electronic integrated circuit includes: an optical waveguide disposed on a substrate and including an input terminal and an output terminal; an optical grating formed on the optical waveguide; and an optical active device disposed on the optical grating and receiving an optical signal from the optical waveguide through the optical grating to modulate the optical signal. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090214151 | High Speed Optical Switch - A high speed optical switch may include a plurality of pairs each having a length L | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090245716 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An optical communication device has: an optical waveguide device having an optical waveguide core that guides light, a cladding portion enveloping the optical waveguide core, a mirror surface structured at an end surface of the cladding portion and the optical waveguide core, and changing an optical path of light that passes through the optical waveguide core, and an electrically-conductive film formed so as to cover the mirror surface; a reference potential member at which a predetermined potential is ensured; and a connecting member electrically connecting the electrically-conductive film and the reference potential member. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100002979 | Slot waveguide for color display - A slot waveguide utilized as a color-selecting element. The slot waveguide includes a first layer of plasmon supporting material, the first layer being optically opaque and having an input slit extending through the first layer; a second layer of plasmon supporting material facing the first layer and separated from the first layer by a first distance in a first direction, the second layer being optically opaque and having an output slit extending through the second layer and separated from the input slit by a second distance extending along a second direction differing from first direction; a dielectric layer interposed between the first layer and the second layer, the dielectric layer having a real or complex refractive index; and a power source electrically coupled to the first layer and the second layer to apply an electrical signal for modulation of the real or complex refractive index of the dielectric layer. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100021104 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - It is made possible to provide an optical waveguide system that has a coupling mechanism capable of selecting a wavelength and has the highest possible conversion efficiency, and that is capable of providing directivity in the light propagation direction. An optical waveguide system includes: a three-dimensional photonic crystalline structure including crystal pillars and having a hollow structure inside thereof; an optical waveguide in which a plurality of metal nanoparticles are dispersed in a dielectric material, the optical waveguide having an end portion inserted between the crystal pillars of the three-dimensional photonic crystalline structure, and containing semiconductor quantum dots that are located adjacent to the metal nanoparticles and emit near-field light when receiving excitation light, the metal nanoparticles exciting surface plasmon when receiving the near-field light; and an excitation light source that emits the excitation light for exciting the semiconductor quantum dots. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100129025 | MEMS DEVICE FABRICATED ON A PRE-PATTERNED SUBSTRATE - A microelectromechanical systems device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate having grooves formed therein. A lower electrode is deposited over the substrate and separated from an orthogonal upper electrode by a cavity. The upper electrode is configured to be movable to modulate light. A semi-reflective layer and a transparent material are formed over the movable upper electrode. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100166356 | OPTICAL MODULATOR - In an optical modulator, a first electrode portion having a plurality of first electrodes is provided on the upper surface of a base part having a periodically-poled structure and a second electrode portion is provided on the lower surface thereof, and voltage is applied in one direction between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion, to thereby cause a periodic change of the refractive index in a polarization-part array direction in the periodically-poled structure and diffract light which enters the base part. This allows reduction in the voltage applied between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion, and it is thereby possible to form a desired electric field inside the periodically-poled structure while achieving a high-density channel arrangement. By reducing the voltage, the rate of the optical modulation performed by the optical modulator can be increased. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110064352 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - An optical waveguide electro-optic device including: a support substrate; an optical waveguide which has a core layer formed of a ferroelectric material, and is formed on an upper side of the support substrate; a lower electrode layer formed on a lower side of the core layer and which is adhered to the support substrate through an adhesion layer; an upper electrode layer formed on an upper side of the core layer; and an external electrode part, wherein the optical waveguide has an incidence plane from where light enters and an outgoing plane from where the light exits, the core layer has a polarization inversion region and a polarization non-inversion region, the upper electrode layer has a plane in such a shape that a width of the plane expands from a side of the incidence plane toward a side of the outgoing plane, to cover the polarization inversion region of the core layer, and the lower electrode layer is connected electrically to the external electrode part on the side of the incidence plane. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110170821 | PIN DIODE TUNED MULTIPLE RING WAVEGUIDE RESONANT OPTICAL CAVITY SWITCH AND METHOD - An optical switch structure and a method for fabricating the optical switch structure provide at least two ring waveguides located and formed supported over a substrate. At least one of the at least two ring waveguides includes at least one PIN diode integral with the ring waveguide as a tuning component for an optical switch device that derives from the optical switch structure. The PIN diode includes different doped silicon slab regions internal to and external to the ring waveguide, and an intrinsic region there between that includes the ring waveguide. The method uses two photolithographic process steps, and also preferably a silicon-on-insulator substrate, to provide the ring waveguides formed of a monocrystalline silicon semiconductor material. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120063714 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL MODULATOR HAVING THE SAME - Provided are an electro-optic device with a high modulation rate and a mach-zehnder optical modulator having the same. The electro-optic device includes a slap, a rip waveguide, a first impurity region, a second impurity region, and a third impurity region. The slap is disposed on a substrate. The rip waveguide includes a mesa extending in one direction on the slap and the slap disposed under the mesa. The first impurity region is disposed in the slap of one side of the mesa. The third impurity region is disposed in the slap of the other side of the mesa to oppose the first impurity region. The second impurity region is disposed in the rip waveguide between the first impurity region and the third impurity region. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063715 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTROOPTIC ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEFLECTOR INCLUDING ELECTROOPTIC ELEMENT - An electrooptic element includes an optical waveguide layer made from a ferroelectric material and having a polarization inverted region of a predetermined shape having an optical incidence face and an optical exit face, and an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer formed on a top face and a bottom face of the optical waveguide layer, respectively, in which the ferroelectric material is magnesium-oxide-doped lithium niobate, and at least one of the optical incidence face and the optical exit face of the optical waveguide layer is formed in parallel with a crystal face of the ferroelectric material. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120251033 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION MODULE AND OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL HYBRID BOARD - There are provided an optical interconnection module and an optical-electrical hybrid board using the same to process optical and electric signals on a board at a low transmission loss at high speed in transmitting high-speed optical signals sent and received between chips or between boards in a data processing apparatus. An optical interconnection module has a structure in which an optical signal is emitted from a laser optical source device, propagates the inside of a modulator device, and is deflected by a beam turning structure in the vertical direction of a substrate, an optical signal is incident from the outside of a semiconductor substrate, and transmitted and received at a photo diode provided on the semiconductor substrate, and the optical signals are optically connected to each other through the inside of the semiconductor substrate in the vertical direction of the substrate with the outside of the semiconductor substrate. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120328229 | Optical Module - There is provided an optical module including photonic devices set in array, prepared by integrating a plurality of photonic devices with each other in such a state as arranged in such a array as to enable light beams to output in the common direction. The plural photonic devices each include a first electrode, and a second electrode, arranged in the same direction as the plural photonic devices are arranged, and the first and second electrodes of the photonic devices adjacent to each other are disposed such that respective electrode layouts are a mirror image of each other. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130034323 | Apparatus and Method for Guiding Optical Waves - Provided is a concept for variably guiding optical waves by using a layer-stack having an electro-optic core layer of electro-optic material for guiding light and an electrode arrangement with at least a first electrode layer in proximity to the electro-optic core layer, wherein the electrode arrangement is configured to activate an electro-optic effect in a region of the electro-optic core layer by an electric field generated by means of the electrode arrangement, such that a propagation of the light is manipulated in the region of the activated electro-optic effect. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130170785 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICE - A multifunctional integrated optical device includes an input collimator ( | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130259417 | LIGHT DEFLECTING ELEMENT - According to an embodiment, a light deflecting element includes a dielectric body, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second electrode is configured to sandwich the dielectric body with the first electrode so as to apply a voltage to the dielectric body. The second electrode includes orthogonal portions that are substantially orthogonal to an incident direction of a light beam passing through the dielectric body, parallel portions that are substantially parallel to the incident direction of the light beam. The orthogonal portions and the parallel portions are formed in an alternate manner on the light beam incident side of the dielectric body. The second electrode includes a linear sloping portion that slopes in a direction toward intersection with the incident direction of the light beam. The orthogonal portions, the parallel portions, and the linear sloping portion are formed integrally. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140003762 | MULTIPLE DEPTH PLANE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY USING A WAVE GUIDE REFLECTOR ARRAY PROJECTOR | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140241660 | OPTICAL CLOSED LOOP MICRORESONATOR AND THYRISTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A monolithic semiconductor device that includes a waveguide structure optically coupled to an optical resonator. The optical resonator is adapted to process light at a predetermined wavelength. The optical resonator includes a closed loop waveguide having a plurality of straight sections that are optically coupled together by bend sections. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140270619 | Optical Modulator Directional Measurement System - In an optical modulator directional measurement system embodiment, one or more modulation waves may be measured and directionally discriminated by measuring the modulations of one or more lightwaves. The optical modulator transmission function magnitude for a most phase-matched modulation may be substantially greater than that for other modulations. At sufficiently high modulation frequency, the most phase-matched modulation magnitude may be substantially greater than the other modulation magnitudes. Accordingly, a modulation wave may be distinctly measured by measuring the modulation of the most phase-matched lightwave. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140294338 | Actively Tunable Polar-Dielectric Optical Devices - Optical devices that include one or more structures fabricated from polar-dielectric materials that exhibit surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs), where the SPhPs alter the optical properties of the structure. The optical properties lent to these structures by the SPhPs are altered by introducing charge carriers directly into the structures. The carriers can be introduced into these structures, and the carrier concentration thereby controlled, through optical pumping or the application of an appropriate electrical bias. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150049979 | OPTICAL DEFLECTION ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEFLECTION DEVICE - An optical deflection element is provided with a substrate; an optical waveguide film made of an electro-optic medium, and constituting an optical waveguide formed on the substrate; a first electrode pair disposed on an incident side of the optical waveguide film at a position facing a film thickness direction of the optical waveguide film, and configured to deflect a light beam transmitting through the optical waveguide film in an in-plane direction of the optical waveguide film in accordance with a first applied voltage; and a second electrode pair disposed on an output side of the optical waveguide film at a position facing the film thickness direction of the optical waveguide film, and configured to deflect the light beam deflected in the in-plane direction of the optical waveguide film by the first electrode pair in the film thickness direction of the optical waveguide film in accordance with a second applied voltage. The second electrode pair includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are formed to have lengths different from each other in a direction of travel of the light beam transmitting through the optical waveguide film. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150086152 | QUASIOPTICAL WAVEGUIDES AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems and methods to communicate along pipes using a conductive waveguide at quasioptical frequencies. The communication can be conducted as propagation to and from a tool at the quasioptical frequencies. A communication architecture may include a transmitter and receiver at one end of the conductive waveguide and a modulation device at an opposite end of the conductive waveguide. Additional systems and methods are disclosed. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150378242 | NON-MECHANICAL BEAM STEERING TRACKING SYSTEM - A non-mechanical optical beam steering device includes one or more polarization gratings (PG) coupled to one or more Steerable Electro-Evanescent Optical Refractors (SEEOR). It provides the coarse steering advantage of the PG and also the continuous fine steering advantage of the SEEOR. The result is far less complexity, size, weight, and cost over the alternative non-mechanical beam steering approaches as well as considerably less complexity, size, weight, cost, scanning-time, and mechanical breakdown over the more traditional gimbaled mirrors commonly used. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160091774 | Optical Modulator Directional Measurement System - In an optical modulator directional measurement system embodiment, one or more modulation waves may be measured and directionally discriminated by measuring the modulations of one or more lightwaves. The optical modulator transmission function magnitude for a most phase-matched modulation may be substantially greater than that for other modulations. At sufficiently high modulation frequency, the most phase-matched modulation magnitude may be substantially greater than the other modulation magnitudes. Accordingly, a modulation wave may be distinctly measured by measuring the modulation of the most phase-matched lightwave. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160124251 | PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCORPORATING A BANDGAP TEMPERATURE SENSOR - An optical device that includes means for thermal stabilization and control is described. The optical device can be a ring resonator, or another device that requires accurate control of the phase of the optical signal. In an example involving an optical resonator, a thermal stabilization system includes a temperature sensor, a control circuit, and a heater local to the resonator. The temperature sensor can be a bandgap temperature sensor formed of a pair of matched p/n junctions biased in operation at different junction currents. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160154234 | ENHANCED CLOSED LOOP, OPTICAL FEEDBACK SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM FOR IMAGING APPLICATIONS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20170235207 | OPTICAL MODULATOR AND OPTICAL SWITCH | 08-17-2017 |
| 385009000 | Coupling between waveguides | 13 |
| 20080260322 | Optical splitter/coupler and optical communication system - An optical splitter/coupler has: a multimode waveguide having an electrooptic effect, and propagating light in a multimode; one incident waveguide propagating light in a single mode, and inputting the light to the multimode waveguide; one pair of emitting waveguides guiding-out, in a single mode, lights which have propagated-in through the multimode waveguide; at least one pair of individual electrodes provided so as to be positioned in vicinities of respective side edges on one surface of the multimode waveguide; and a ground electrode provided on another surface, wherein the multimode waveguide has a length such that 3(n+1) bright spots arise at a central portion and at both side edge portions due to incident light, the individual electrodes are provided at positions corresponding to an upstream-most one pair of the bright spots, and the emitting waveguides are connected to positions corresponding to a downstream-most one pair of the bright spots. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090067773 | RAPIDLY TUNABLE WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE RING RESONATOR - A system and method are disclosed for a rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator. An embodiment of a voltage-tunable wavelength selective ring resonator includes a ring-shaped waveguide formed on a semiconductor substrate, an electro-optic cladding layer formed over the ring-shaped waveguide, and voltage applying means for applying a voltage across the electro-optic cladding layer. The ring-shaped waveguide is configured to propagate optical signals having predetermined resonant wavelengths, the electro-optic cladding layer has a voltage-controlled variable refractive index, and the means for applying is configured to apply a wavelength-specific control voltage to the electro-optic cladding layer. The wavelength-specific control voltage will shift or tune the predetermined resonant wavelengths for the ring-shaped waveguide. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090169149 | STABILIZED RING RESONATOR MODULATOR - An optical ring resonator modulator comprises a circular waveguide, or ring, evanescently coupled to a first straight waveguide and a second straight waveguide. The ring may be surrounded by an outer ring or member of doped silicon and the region inside the ring may comprise an oppositely doped member, making the ring itself the intrinsic region of a positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) diode. When a voltage is applied between the outer and inner members the refractive index of the waveguide is changed. A photodiode at a throughput end of the first waveguide is connected to a feedback loop that controls the voltage to the members. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090180728 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE - An electro-optical device having a non-volatile programmable refractive index. The device includes: a waveguiding structure with waveguiding material, the waveguiding structure defining an optical beam path, where the waveguiding structure includes a transition metal oxide with oxygen vacancies that migrate when exposed to an electric field; and a plurality of electrodes for applying an electric field to a region including the transition metal oxide with oxygen vacancies; where the transition metal oxide and the electrodes are arranged such that under the applied electric field the oxygen vacancies migrate in a direction that has a component which is radial relative to a center of the beam path. Further, there is provided a method for making the electro-optical device, including: fabricating the waveguiding structure; positioning a plurality of electrodes for application of an electric field; and arranging the transition metal oxide and the electrodes. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090263068 | OPTICAL GUIDED MODE SPATIAL SWITCHES AND THEIR FABRICATION - Optical guided mode fast 1×2 and 2×2 spatial switches are provided that can be used in multimedia communication networks. These switches require a relative refractive index change of only 0.0001˜0.0002 and can be realized using Lithium Niobate, Polymers, semiconductors, etc. Extinction ratios of these switches are made to be better than 45 dB, by introductions of a rear edge adjusted broken electrode and a blocker electrode into their architecture. Optical losses are less than 3 dB, and excellent switching characteristics are achieved by suppressing cross talk to ˜50 dB. The two output ports of the 1×2 (2×2) switch are made to be spatially perpendicular (in opposition) by introduction of air grooves, allowing for two-dimensional integration of unit switches into matrices. System applications of the switch are made flexible due to a discrete drive requirement for each optical input to the 2×2 switch. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090285519 | INTEGRATED TUNABLE OPTICAL EQUALIZER - Provided is an apparatus and method for use thereof. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes first and second 1×N couplers integrated on a substrate and configured to receive an optical symbol having an intended time slot, N being at least three. The apparatus, in this embodiment, further includes N waveguide arms integrated on the substrate, having modulators and coupled between the first and second 1×N couplers. The apparatus, in this embodiment, additionally, includes a modulator controller configured to drive the modulators such that, following transmission over a distance, components of the optical symbol outside of the intended time slot are attenuated relative to components within the intended time slot. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100054655 | Dynamic Reconfigurable Optical Interconnect System - An optical interconnect system includes an integrated circuit, at least one optical modulator, and a slab waveguide. The optical modulator is coupled to the integrated circuit and receives an input light beam from a light source and data from a source device and generates a modulated output light beam. The slab waveguide is coupled to the optical modulator and includes at least one input waveguide microlens, a plurality of output waveguide microlenses, and at least one deflector prism. The input waveguide microlens focuses the modulated output light beam from the modulator into a collimated light beam. The deflector prism is coupled to the integrated circuit, receives the collimated light beam from the input waveguide microlens, and deflects the collimated light beam toward one of the output waveguide microlenses according to an input voltage. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100067843 | TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER - Consistent with the present disclosure an optical filter is provided that preferably includes a plurality of looped or ring-shaped waveguides provided on a substrate which are coupled to one another by tunable couplers. Portions of each waveguide constitute part of each tunable coupler, which may include, for example, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A heater may be thermally coupled to one or both arms of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, to thereby adjust an amount of optical coupling between adjacent looped waveguides. The filter bandwidth (i.e., the spectral width of the passband), which, as noted above, is related to such coupling, can thus also be tuned or varied. Additional heaters may be provided to tune the center wavelength of the passband so that a filter having both a variable passband spectral width and center wavelength can be obtained. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110002578 | OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided is an optical device that includes a ring-shaped optical waveguide and an input/output optical waveguide, and that changes a resonant wavelength of the ring-shaped optical waveguide, in which the ring-shaped optical waveguide includes in part a refractive index control section for controlling a refractive index at a guided wavelength, and the refractive index control section is formed of an optical material having a thermo-optic effect with its sign different from that of an optical material that forms a section of the ring-shaped optical waveguide other than the refractive index control section. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20120301071 | Optical Coupler - In some embodiments, an optical coupler comprises a substrate, and first and second optical waveguides positioned on the substrate. The second optical waveguide extends adjacent to and parallel with the first optical waveguide for at least one effective coupling length, the at least one length having a first end and a second end. The coupler further comprises a first phase shift section forming a portion of the first optical waveguide and located at a first predetermined distance from the first end of the length, and a second phase shift section forming a portion of the second optical waveguide and located at a second predetermined distance from the second end of the length, wherein the first predetermined distance is approximately equal to the second predetermined distance, and wherein the second optical waveguide does not have a phase shift section located at the first predetermined distance from the first end of the length. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20140099054 | Coupled Plasmonic Waveguides and Associated Apparatuses and Methods - An apparatus and corresponding method in which the apparatus includes a dielectric waveguide and a metallic waveguide. The dielectric waveguide has an effective mode index and a longitudinal dimension. The metallic waveguide has a longitudinal dimension and supports a surface plasmonic mode of propagation for a wavelength lambda. The metallic waveguide and the dielectric waveguide are adjacent to each other and overlap each other by a length along the longitudinal dimensions of both the dielectric waveguide and the metallic waveguide, wherein the length is greater than the wavelength lambda in the metallic waveguide. The metallic waveguide is coupled to the dielectric waveguide where the metallic waveguide and the dielectric waveguide overlap each other. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140169724 | Thermally Stabilised Resonant Electro-Optic Modulator and Use Thereof - Thermally stabilised resonant electro-optic modulator ( | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140199015 | SLOTTED Y-COUPLING WAVEGUIDE FOR SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for decreasing optical loss in a wave-guide of a modulator device. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate, and a waveguide of a modulator device formed on the substrate, the waveguide having a first portion that is configured to receive light for propagation along the waveguide, a second portion that includes two slots formed in the waveguide that merge into a single slot, the second portion being coupled with the first portion, a third portion that includes the single slot formed in the waveguide, the third portion being coupled with the second portion, a fourth portion that includes another two slots formed in the waveguide, the another two slots branching from the single slot, the fourth portion being coupled with the third portion, and a fifth portion that is configured to output the propagated light, the fifth portion being coupled with the fourth portion. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 07-17-2014 |
| 385010000 | Diffraction grating (e.g., Bragg) | 31 |
| 20080285907 | Systems and methods for creating localized refractive index modulations in an optical fiber - A technique is described for creating a localized modulation of an optical fiber's refractive index profile. A segment of optical fiber is loaded into a heating unit having a resistive heating element with a localized heating zone. A selected portion of the fiber segment is positioned within the heating zone, and the heating unit is used to create a refractive index modulation the selected fiber portion. The localized modulation is repeated along the length of the fiber segment to write a fiber grating. Also described is a resistive heating system for performing the described technique. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080310789 | Method of Changing the Birefringence of an Optical Waveguide by Laser Modification of the Cladding - A method of inducing birefringence in an optical waveguide is disclosed wherein the waveguide cladding is irradiated with energy of a sufficient intensity so as to induce a stress in the optical waveguide so as to cause a multitude of spaced stress induced regions within the cladding of the optical waveguide such that there are 10 to 5000 spaced regions per mm and wherein the stress induced regions are proximate the core greater than 2 microns distance from the core-cladding interface. This waveguide has numerous uses, for example a fiber sensor. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080317400 | Optical Element and Method for Controlling Its Transfer Function - Area: Optics | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090022448 | Optical device including waveguide grating structure - Optical devices including waveguide grating structures are described. In accordance with one embodiment, an optical device is provided comprising a horizontal waveguide grating structure having at least one waveguiding layer and at least one subwavelength periodic grating layer. The optical device further comprises upper and lower cladding layers immediately adjoining respective upper and lower surfaces of the waveguide grating structure and having refractive indices lower than a lowest-index one of the waveguiding layers, incident radiation propagating through one of the upper and lower cladding layers toward the waveguide grating structure. The waveguide grating structure is configured for peak reflection of the incident radiation at a peak reflection frequency. A cumulative thickness of the waveguiding layers is less than one tenth of a free space wavelength of the incident radiation at the peak reflection frequency divided by an average refractive index of the waveguiding layers. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090034899 | Optical modulator including waveguide grating structure and multiple quantum well layer - An optical modulator and related methods are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the optical modulator comprises a horizontal waveguide grating structure (WGS) receiving an incident radiation beam propagating in a non-horizontal direction. The WGS includes a horizontal waveguiding layer along which a lateral propagation mode is guided, the lateral propagation mode having a vertically extending mode profile. The optical modulator further comprises a multiple quantum well (MQW) layer sufficiently proximal to the horizontal waveguiding layer to be within a vertical extent of the mode profile of the lateral propagation mode. The optical modulator further comprises an electric field source applying a time-varying electric field to the MQW layer. The optical modulator modulates the incident radiation beam according to the time-varying electric field to generate a modulated radiation beam propagating in one of a transmitted direction and a reflected direction. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090034900 | BAND-PASS FILTER AND METHOD FOR MAKING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FOR THE BAND-PASS FILTER - A band-pass filter includes a photonic crystal having a local mode that generates a pass band in a stop band formed by Bragg reflection, a transmission channel that limits electromagnetic waves propagating in the photonic crystal to a mode in which an amplitude direction of an electrical field is a particular direction; and a magnetic field-applying unit for applying to the photonic crystal a DC magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves. The photonic crystal includes a periodic structure including a low permittivity dielectric member and a plurality of high permittivity dielectric members periodically arranged in the low permittivity dielectric member so that the Bragg reflection occurs in the periodic structure, and a magnetic member disposed in the periodic structure. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090052828 | FIBER BRAGG GRATING ELEMENT - The present invention provides a fiber Bragg grating element which is simply configured and capable of obtaining a high cut-off amount exceeding 40 dB in a wide range. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090060412 | High-Power High-Frequency Photodetector - A photodetector includes an optical distribution device having an optical input that receives an input optical signal and an optical waveguide grating coupler that converts the input optical signal from a longitudinal direction radiation mode to a surface-emitted radiation mode and that distributes the optical signal along a length of the optical waveguide grating coupler and emits the distributed optical signal from the surface. An optical detector includes an optical input that is positioned to receive the distributed optical signal emitted from the optical distribution device along a length the optical waveguide grating coupler. The optical detector generates a traveling wave RF signal. The optical distribution device reduces the optical power density of the input optical signal, thereby avoiding local saturation and damage to the optical detector. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090067774 | Tunable resonant leaky-mode N/MEMS elements and uses in optical devices - Mechanically tunable electromagnetic and photonic devices featuring enhanced spectral tunability with minimal mechanical movement are provided. These nano/micro-electromechanically (N/MEMS) tunable elements, including filters and pixels, rely on leaky-mode resonance effects in subwavelength photonic lattices that constitute periodic wavelengths. Such elements can operate in reflection (bandstop) or transmission (bandpass) modes, and can be arranged in one-dimensional or two-dimensional arrays, or operated as single units, and their spectral regions are controlled by the element design. Input electromagnetic radiation illuminates the element and is then filtered, modulated, analyzed or tuned by the element. Mechanical motion alters the structural symmetry, and therefore, the tuning properties, of the nanostructured subwavelength resonance elements. Further, incorporating metals and dielectrics to generate coexisting plasmonic and leaky-mode resonance effects adds to the versatility of the potential applications. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090154869 | Tunable Filter Device Comprising a Waveguide Containing Bragg Grating, and a Planer Substrate - A tunable filter device ( | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090274409 | Selectively Enhancing Angular Beam Deflection - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for deflecting light beams comprises an input deflector and one or more Bragg gratings. The input deflector receives light beams from input channels, and deflects each light beam to an initial deflection angle. A Bragg grating deflects at least one light beam from the initial deflection angle to an increased deflection angle, where the increased deflection angle is at least closer to an output channel than the initial deflection angle. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100054656 | SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED BROADBAND MODULATORS - An optical modulator is provided. The optical modulator includes a ridge-shaped active region comprising a plurality of alternating high and low index layers. The ridge-shaped active region is used to confine a selective optical mode for optical modulation. A plurality of oxidized layers positioned so as to confine the selective optical mode in the middle region of the ridge-shaped active region. The oxidized layers enable the optical modulator to withstand high operating voltages both in reverse and forward bias without concern of breakdown or carrier loss. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100104235 | Distributed Bragg Reflector Waveguide and Fabricating Method Thereof - A method for fabricating a distributed Bragg reflector waveguide is disclosed, which includes forming a first distributed Bragg reflector on a substrate; forming a sacrificial pattern on the first distributed Bragg reflector; forming a second distributed Bragg reflector on the sacrificial pattern and the first distributed Bragg reflector; and removing the sacrificial pattern. A distributed Bragg reflector waveguide is also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100202725 | LASER ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An Electrically Switchable Bragg Grating (ESBG) despeckler device comprising at least one ESBG element recorded in a hPDLC sandwiched between transparent substrates to which transparent conductive coatings have been applied. At least one of said coatings is patterned to provide a two-dimensional array of independently switchable ESBG pixels. Each ESBG pixel has a first unique speckle state under said first applied voltage and a second unique speckle state under said second applied voltage. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100278475 | Light Emitting Device and Planar Waveguide with Single-Sided Periodically Stacked Interface - Light emitting and waveguide devices with single-sided photonic bandgaps are provided. The light emitting device is formed from a heavily doped silicon (Si) bottom electrode, and a Si-containing dielectric layer embedded Si nanoparticles overlying the bottom electrode. A transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) top electrode overlies the Si-containing dielectric layer, and a photonic bandgap (PBG) Bragg reflector underlies the Si bottom electrode. The PBG Bragg reflector includes at least one periodic bi-layer of films with different refractive indexes. The single-sided photonic bandgap planar waveguide interface is formed from a planar waveguide and a PBG Bragg reflector underlying the planar waveguide. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100296770 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUSTAINABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS - An optical fiber | 11-25-2010 |
| 20120093455 | ULTRA-SENSITIVE ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTION DEVICE - An electric field detection device. In one embodiment, the electric field detection device includes an interferometer having a reference arm and an active arm. The reference arm comprises a first electro-optic waveguide. The active arm comprises a first electrically conductive plate, a second electrically conductive plate spaced apart from the first electrically conductive plate defining a first gap therebetween, a third electrically conductive plate disposed in the first gap and vertically extending from the first electrically conductive plate to define a T-shape structure and a second gap between the third electrically conductive plate and the second electrically conductive plate, where the second gap is substantially smaller than the first gap; and a second electro-optic waveguide disposed in the second gap and being in electrical communication with the second and third electrically conductive plates. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120189240 | Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Optical Modulation Apparatus - A wavelength division multiplexing and optical modulation apparatus includes at least two modulation region-added grating-assisted cross-state directional coupler units and a modulation region-added cross-state directional coupler. The modulation region-added grating-assisted cross-state directional coupler units and the modulation region-added cross-state directional coupler unit are connected to one another in serial. Each of the modulation region-added grating-assisted cross-state directional coupler units each includes a modulation region-added cross-state directional coupler, a grating and a modulation region. The modulation region-added cross-state directional coupler unit includes an output waveguide, an input waveguide and a modulation region. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120281943 | LASER ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An Electrically Switchable Bragg Grating (ESBG) despeckler device comprising at least one ESBG element recorded in a hPDLC sandwiched between transparent substrates to which transparent conductive coatings have been applied. At least one of said coatings is patterned to provide a two-dimensional array of independently switchable ESBG pixels. Each ESBG pixel has a first unique speckle state under said first applied voltage and a second unique speckle state under said second applied voltage. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130108205 | OPTICAL SWITCH | 05-02-2013 |
| 20140037242 | LASER ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An Electrically Switchable Bragg Grating (ESBG) despeckler device comprising at least one ESBG element recorded in a hPDLC sandwiched between transparent substrates to which transparent conductive coatings have been applied. At least one of said coatings is patterned to provide a two-dimensional array of independently switchable ESBG pixels. Each ESBG pixel has a first unique speckle state under said first applied voltage and a second unique speckle state under said second applied voltage. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140140653 | TRANSPARENT WAVEGUIDE DISPLAY - One embodiment provides an apparatus for displaying an image comprising: a first optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate light in a first direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the first optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract the light from the first substrate along the first direction; and a second optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate the light in a second direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the second optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract light from the second substrate along the second direction; wherein the at least one grating lamina of at least one of the first and second optical substrates comprises an SBG in a passive mode. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140140654 | TRANSPARENT WAVEGUIDE DISPLAY - One embodiment provides an apparatus for displaying an image comprising: a first optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate light in a first direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the first optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract the light from the first substrate along the first direction; and a second optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate the light in a second direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the second optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract light from the second substrate along the second direction; wherein the at least one grating lamina of at least one of the first and second optical substrates comprises an SBG in a passive mode. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140169725 | WAVEGUIDE LENS WITH MODULATING ELECTRODE AND GROUND ELECTRODES - A waveguide lens includes a substrate, a planar waveguide, a media grating, a modulating electrode, and two ground electrodes. The planar waveguide is formed on the substrate and is coupled to a laser light source which emits a laser beam into the planar waveguide. The media grating is formed on the planar waveguide and arranged along a direction that is substantially parallel with an optical axis of the laser beam. The modulating electrode is positioned on and covers the media grating. The ground electrodes are positioned on two sides of the planar waveguide and opposite to each other. The modulating electrode and the ground electrodes cooperatively change an effective refractive index of the planar waveguide to change an effective focal length of the diffractive waveguide lens, utilizing an electro-optical effect, when an electric field is applied thereto. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140169726 | WAVEGUIDE LENS WITH MODULATING ELECTRODE AND GROUND ELECTRODES - A waveguide lens includes a substrate, a planar waveguide, a media grating, a modulating electrode, and two ground electrodes. The planar waveguide is formed on the substrate and is coupled with a laser light source which emits a laser beam into the planar waveguide. The media grating is formed on the planar waveguide. The modulating electrode is positioned on and covers the media grating. The ground electrodes are positioned on the planar waveguide and arranged at opposite sides of the media grating. The modulating electrode and the ground electrodes cooperatively change an effective refractive index of the planar waveguide to alter the effective focal length of the diffractive waveguide lens, utilizing an electro-optical effect, when an electric field is applied thereto. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150010264 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An optical semiconductor device is provided as one achieving reduction of power in phase control. The optical semiconductor device has: a first optical waveguide having a plurality of segments each of which has a diffraction grating region with a diffraction grating and a space portion coupled to the diffraction grating region, having two ends interposed between the diffraction grating regions, and having a constant optical length, wherein at least one of the segments is provided with a phase shift structure; a first phase control device for adjusting a phase of light in each segment with the phase shift structure; and a second phase control device for adjusting a phase of light in each segment without the phase shift structure. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150010265 | CONTACT IMAGE SENSOR USING SWITCHABLE BRAGG GRATINGS - A contact image sensor having: an illumination; a first SBG array device; a transmission grating; a second SBG array device; a waveguiding layer having a multiplicity of waveguide cores separated by cladding material; an upper clad layer; and a platen. The sensor also including an optical device for coupling light from an illumination source into the first SBG array; and an optical coupler for coupling light out of the cores into output optical paths coupled to a detector having at least one photosensitive element. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150071584 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR RESONATOR, OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MODULE - In order to prevent non-uniformity in emission wavelength among different sites along an optical axis direction, provided is a resonator portion including: a waveguide which includes at least two areas where an effective refraction index varies in the optical axis direction; and diffraction gratings formed along the optical axis direction of the waveguide. The diffraction grating that is formed in one of the at least two areas of the waveguide where the effective refraction index is large has a pitch narrower than a pitch of the diffraction grating that is formed in another of the at least two areas of the waveguide where the effective refraction index is small. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150125109 | GRATING CONFIGURATIONS FOR A TILED WAVEGUIDE DISPLAY - Grating configurations are described for creating time sequenced field of view (FOV) tiles for a waveguide display. Pairings of non-output diffraction gratings and output diffraction gratings are activated to create a number of FOV tiles in a time sequence, for example in a frame update period for the image. Examples of a non-output grating are an input grating and a fold grating. For a set of at least three gratings used to make the pairings, each non-output grating is paired with each output grating. The number of pairings, and so the number of FOV tiles, is equal to a product of the total number of non-output gratings and the total number of output gratings. At least one diffraction grating in the pairing is an active pairing. Also described is a multiplexed diffraction grating including multiplexed K-vectors which increases the overall angular bandwidth for both incidence and diffraction. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150147020 | External Resonator Type Light Emitting System - An external resonator type light emitting system includes a light source oscillating a semiconductor laser light and a grating device providing an external resonator with the light source. The light source includes an active layer oscillating the semiconductor laser light. The grating device includes an optical waveguide having an incident face to which the semiconductor laser is incident and an emitting face of emitting an emitting light of a desired wavelength, a Bragg grating formed in the optical waveguide, and a propagating portion provided between the incident face and the Bragg grating. Formulas (1) to (4) are satisfied. | 05-28-2015 |
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