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公开(公告)号:US09864109B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-09
申请号:US15331435
申请日:2016-10-21
Applicant: California Institute of Technology
Inventor: Ho Wai Lee , Stanley Burgos , Georgia Papadakis , Harry A. Atwater
CPC classification number: G02B5/008 , B82Y20/00 , G02B6/1226 , G02F1/011 , G02F1/025 , G02F1/0356 , G02F2001/0151 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2203/10 , G02F2203/15 , Y10S977/932
Abstract: A plasmonic device having a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) waveguide and a tunable voltage applied across the TCO and a metal layer for modulating an input optical signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20180004062A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-04
申请号:US15540434
申请日:2015-12-22
Applicant: PILKINGTON GROUP LIMITED
Inventor: Andrew Thomas STANLEY , Jonathan Barclay DIXON , Jonathan Peter VOSS
CPC classification number: G02F1/172 , B60J3/04 , E06B3/6722 , E06B9/24 , E06B2009/2464 , G02F1/139 , G02F2201/12
Abstract: A switchable device for changing the opacity of at least a portion of a glazing is described. The switchable device comprises at least two (a first and a second) switchable regions in electrical communication with at least two (a first and a second) electrical connector regions. Each switchable region comprises an electrically actuated variable opacity layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, the first switchable region being arranged relative to the second switchable region such that upon connecting the first and second electrical connector regions to a suitable power supply, the opacity of the first and second switchable region changes such that at least two (a first and a second) portions of the switchable device have a change of opacity, the first portion of the switchable device having a different opacity to the second portion of the switchable device.
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公开(公告)号:US20170336657A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-23
申请号:US15527521
申请日:2015-11-11
Applicant: NEC Corporation
Inventor: Hiroyuki YAMAZAKI
IPC: G02F1/01
CPC classification number: G02F1/0147 , G02F2201/12
Abstract: In order to provide a technology in which a heater resistance can be reduced without increasing the thickness or width of a heater, a heater for optical waveguide comprises a heater formed near an optical waveguide, a first electrode formed in such a way as to electrically connect to the heater to which a first electric potential is applied, and a second electrode formed in such a way as to electrically connect to the heater to which a second electric potential different from the first electric potential is applied, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are alternately to disposed in such a way that the heater is sectioned into two or more areas.
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公开(公告)号:US20170307954A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-26
申请号:US15649455
申请日:2017-07-13
Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
Inventor: Nadir Dagli
IPC: G02F1/225 , G02B6/42 , G02B6/125 , G02F1/01 , G02F1/017 , G02F1/025 , G02B6/132 , G02B6/12 , G02F1/21
CPC classification number: G02F1/2255 , G02B6/125 , G02B6/132 , G02B6/42 , G02B2006/1204 , G02B2006/12047 , G02B2006/12054 , G02B2006/12078 , G02B2006/12128 , G02B2006/12142 , G02B2006/12159 , G02F1/0121 , G02F1/01708 , G02F1/025 , G02F1/2257 , G02F2001/212 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2202/20 , G02F2202/42
Abstract: Electro-optical modulators and methods of fabrication are disclosed. An electro-optical modulator includes a Mach-Zehnder interferometer containing an intrinsic silicon layer semiconductor layer and a coplanar waveguide. Signals from the coplanar waveguide are capacitively coupled to the Mach-Zehnder interferometer through first and second dielectric layers.
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公开(公告)号:US09774930B2
公开(公告)日:2017-09-26
申请号:US14374628
申请日:2013-01-23
Applicant: CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Inventor: Daping Chu , Neil Collings , John Richard Moore , Mykhaylo Pivnenko , Brian Robertson
IPC: G02F1/07 , G02F1/03 , G02B5/18 , H04Q11/00 , B82Y20/00 , G02F1/29 , H04J14/02 , G02B27/01 , G02B27/09 , G02B5/32 , G02B5/20 , G02F1/1362 , G02B1/11 , G02F1/137
CPC classification number: H04Q11/0005 , B82Y20/00 , G02B1/11 , G02B5/1828 , G02B5/1861 , G02B5/203 , G02B5/32 , G02B6/3512 , G02B6/3524 , G02B6/3534 , G02B6/3592 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0927 , G02B27/0944 , G02F1/03 , G02F1/0338 , G02F1/07 , G02F1/136277 , G02F1/292 , G02F1/293 , G02F1/31 , G02F2001/13793 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2201/38 , G02F2203/06 , H04J14/0212 , H04J14/0221 , H04Q2011/0016 , H04Q2011/0024 , H04Q2011/0035
Abstract: We describe methods and devices for manipulating optical signals. A method of manipulating an optical signal comprises providing a device (100) comprising a layer (106) of blue phase liquid crystal in the path of the optical signal; and applying a dynamically varying spatial pattern of voltages across the layer (106) of blue phase liquid crystal, thereby causing the refractive index of the layer (106) of blue phase liquid crystal to vary according the dynamically varying spatial pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US20170269454A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-21
申请号:US15492262
申请日:2017-04-20
Applicant: Chen-Kuo Sun
Inventor: Chen-Kuo Sun , Dingbo Chen
CPC classification number: G02F1/3132 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/136 , G02B6/138 , G02B2006/12142 , G02F1/065 , G02F1/3133 , G02F2001/3135 , G02F2201/06 , G02F2201/12 , H01P11/003
Abstract: An optical modulator for switching an optical signal of wavelength λ from one waveguide-electrode to another requires that both waveguide-electrodes be made of an electrically conducting material. Also, a non-conducting cross-coupling material fills a slot along a length L between the waveguide-electrodes. Importantly, cross-coupling material in the slot provides a separation distance xc between the waveguide-electrodes that is less than 0.35 microns. When a switching voltage Vπ is selectively applied to the waveguide-electrodes, a strong uniform electric field E is created within the cross-coupling material. Thus, E modulates the cross-coupling length of the optical signal by an increment ±Δ each time it passes back and forth through the cross-coupling material along the length L. Thus, after an N number of cross-coupling length cycles along the length L, when NΔ equals one cross-coupling length, the optical signal is switched from one waveguide-electrode to the other.
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公开(公告)号:US09746746B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-29
申请号:US14756096
申请日:2015-08-01
Applicant: Mohammad A Mazed , Rex Wiig , Angel Martinez
Inventor: Mohammad A Mazed , Rex Wiig , Angel Martinez
IPC: G02F1/01 , G02B6/122 , G02F1/313 , G02B6/35 , G02F1/00 , G02F1/365 , G02F1/35 , H04Q11/00 , H04J14/02 , G02F1/19
CPC classification number: G02F1/3132 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/3592 , G02F1/0054 , G02F1/0147 , G02F1/19 , G02F1/3521 , G02F1/3536 , G02F1/365 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2202/32 , G02F2203/585 , H04J14/0212 , H04Q11/0005 , H04Q2011/0011 , H04Q2011/0016
Abstract: A fast optical switch can be fabricated/constructed, when vanadium dioxide (VO2) ultra thin-film or a cluster of vanadium dioxide particles (less than 0.5 microns in diameter) embedded in an ultra thin-film of a polymeric material or in a mesh of metal nanowires is activated by either an electrical pulse (a voltage pulse or a current pulse) or a light pulse just to induce rapid insulator-to-metal phase transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide ultra thin-film or vanadium dioxide particles embedded in an ultra thin-film of a polymeric material or in a mesh of metal nanowires. The applications of such a fast optical switch for an on-Demand optical add-drop subsystem, integrating with or without a wavelength converter are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US09740077B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-22
申请号:US15229800
申请日:2016-08-05
Applicant: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
Inventor: Masaharu Doi , Yoshinobu Kubota
CPC classification number: G02F1/2257 , G02F1/0121 , G02F1/2255 , G02F2001/212 , G02F2201/12
Abstract: An optical modulator module includes: a substrate in which a plurality of optical modulators are formed; a connector configured to include a plurality of terminals to which a plurality of signals for driving the plurality of optical modulators are input; and a relay board provided between the substrate and the connector. Each of the optical modulators includes an optical waveguide, a modulation electrode formed near the optical waveguide, and a feeder electrode electrically connected to one end of the modulation electrode. The terminals are arranged in parallel to a longitudinal direction of the substrate. Positions of respective ends of the modulation electrodes at which the respective feeder electrodes are electrically connected are the same as positions at which the respective terminals are provided in the longitudinal direction. Wiring patterns are formed on the relay board so as to electrically connect the terminals to the respective feeder electrodes.
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公开(公告)号:US20170230132A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-10
申请号:US15435181
申请日:2017-02-16
Applicant: CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Inventor: Daping Chu , Brian Robertson
CPC classification number: H04Q11/0005 , B82Y20/00 , G02B1/11 , G02B5/1828 , G02B5/1861 , G02B5/203 , G02B5/32 , G02B6/3512 , G02B6/3524 , G02B6/3534 , G02B6/3592 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0927 , G02B27/0944 , G02F1/03 , G02F1/0338 , G02F1/07 , G02F1/136277 , G02F1/292 , G02F1/293 , G02F1/31 , G02F2001/13793 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2201/38 , G02F2203/06 , H04J14/0212 , H04J14/0221 , H04Q2011/0016 , H04Q2011/0024 , H04Q2011/0035
Abstract: Methods and devices for manipulating optical signals. In one example, a LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) device includes a surface bearing an anti-reflection structure. The anti-reflection structure includes i) a physical surface having a topography with features having lateral dimensions of less than 2000 nm and having an average refraction index which decreases with distance away from the surface; and ii) a configuration of the topography, averaged over lateral dimensions of greater than 2000 nm, varies with lateral position on the surface.
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公开(公告)号:US20170219851A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-03
申请号:US15126747
申请日:2015-01-07
Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd
Inventor: Norikazu MIYAZAKI
CPC classification number: G02F1/035 , G02F1/011 , G02F1/0316 , G02F1/0356 , G02F1/225 , G02F1/2255 , G02F2001/212 , G02F2201/12 , G02F2201/127
Abstract: Provided is an optical-waveguide-element module in which a common connecting substrate is used for different optical waveguide elements and deterioration of the propagation characteristics of electrical signals in a curved section of a signal electrode is suppressed. A control electrode in an optical waveguide element is consisted of a signal electrode SL and ground electrodes GD which put the signal electrode therebetween, a connecting substrate is provided with a signal line SL1 (SL2) and ground lines GD1 (GD2) which put the signal line therebetween, the signal electrode and the signal line, and, the ground electrodes and the ground lines are respectively connected to each other using wires (WR1, WR2, and WR20 to WR22) , the control electrode in which a space W1 between the ground electrodes GD at an input end or an output end of the control electrode is wider than a space W2 between the ground lines GD1 (GD2) on the optical waveguide element side in the connecting substrate, has a portion in which the space between the ground electrodes GD forms a space W3 which is narrower than the space W2 in a portion away from the input end or the output end, furthermore, the signal electrode SL in the control electrode has a curved section in a place from the input end or the output end to an operating part in which the control electrode applies an electric field to the optical waveguide, and suppression means (WR20 to WR32) for suppressing generation of a local potential difference between the ground electrodes which put the signal electrode therebetween in the curved section of the signal electrode is provided.
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