Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical guide comprising a bend with a pseudo-index gradient
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Application No.: US16332846Application Date: 2017-09-18
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Publication No.: US10551563B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Karim Hassan , Salim Boutami
- Applicant: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: FR1658809 20160920
- International Application: PCT/FR2017/052479 WO 20170918
- International Announcement: WO2018/055267 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: G02B6/10
- IPC: G02B6/10 ; G02B6/125 ; G02B6/14 ; G02B6/12

Abstract:
An optical guide comprising a core that has a entrance segment that is rectilinear in an entrance direction, an exit segment that is rectilinear in an exit direction, and a transition segment between the rectilinear entrance segment and the rectilinear exit segment. The exit direction is different from the entrance direction so that light propagates between the entrance segment and the exit segment in a propagation direction that has a bend having an interior side and an exterior side. The transition segment comprises a region with a pseudo-index gradient, this region having an interior edge on the interior side of the bend and an exterior edge on the exterior side of the bend. The region with the pseudo-index gradient comprises trenches formed in the core in order to make a refractive index decrease from the interior edge to the exterior edge.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190212493A1 OPTICAL GUIDE COMPRISING A BEND WITH A PSEUDO-INDEX GRADIENT Public/Granted day:2019-07-11
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