High-speed wavelength-scale spatial light modulators with two- dimensional tunable microcavity arrays

    公开(公告)号:US11614643B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-28

    申请号:US16876477

    申请日:2020-05-18

    Abstract: A reflective spatial light modulator (SLM) made of an electro-optic material in a one-sided Fabry-Perot resonator can provide phase and/or amplitude modulation with fine spatial resolution at speeds over a Gigahertz. The light is confined laterally within the electro-optic material/resonator layer stack with microlenses, index perturbations, or by patterning the layer stack into a two-dimensional (2D) array of vertically oriented micropillars. Alternatively, a photonic crystal guided mode resonator can vertically and laterally confine the resonant mode. In phase-only modulation mode, each SLM pixel can produce a π phase shift under a bias voltage below 10 V, while maintaining nearly constant reflection amplitude. This high-speed SLM can be used in a wide range of new applications, from fully tunable metasurfaces to optical computing accelerators, high-speed interconnects, true 2D phased array beam steering, beam forming, or quantum computing with cold atom arrays.

    CAVITY FOR GAS MEASUREMENTS
    22.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230010477A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17782118

    申请日:2020-12-15

    Applicant: Tunable AS

    Inventor: Truls SIMENSEN

    Abstract: This invention relates to retrievable measuring cell for optical measurements in gas, the cell being defined by a gas conducting pipe having an input end adapted to be connected to a gas flow input intruding gas into the cell and an output end adapted to be connected to a gas flow output. The pipe ends also being adapted to be coupled to optical components including an optical transmitter transmitting light into said cell and an optical receiver adapted to receive light having passed through said cell, the optical beam in said cell having a predetermined shape, the optical components including a light source, at least two minors and a light receiver being mounted in known positions on an external frame covered by the pipe ends. The cell has an elongated shape corresponding to the optical beam shape.

    Optical device and electronic device

    公开(公告)号:US11536884B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US16554681

    申请日:2019-08-29

    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical member having a plurality of first optical layers and a plurality of second optical layers having a refractive index different from that of the first optical layer in which the first optical layers and the second optical layers are laminated, and a layer thickness changing electrode that changes a thickness of the first optical layer in a lamination direction of the first optical layers and the second optical layers, in which the optical member is provided in a pair, and the pair of optical members is disposed to face each other through a gap, and a gap changing driver that changes a dimension of the gap.

    SENSOR DEGRADATION EVALUATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220381608A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17818202

    申请日:2022-08-08

    Inventor: Masato MORIYA

    Abstract: A sensor degradation evaluation method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an evaluation step of evaluating degradation of at least one of a sensor for coarse measurement that receives interference fringes produced by a spectrometer for coarse measurement and a sensor for fine measurement that receives interference fringes produced by a spectrometer for fine measurement, and the evaluation step includes causing a plurality of kinds of laser light having wavelengths different from one another to be sequentially incident on the spectrometer for coarse measurement and the spectrometer for fine measurement and acquiring a coarse-measurement wavelength and a fine-measurement wavelength on a wavelength basis from a plurality of the received interference fringes, acquiring a degradation parameter on a wavelength basis from the coarse-measurement wavelength and the fine-measurement wavelength on a wavelength basis, and comparing the degradation parameter on a wavelength basis with a threshold.

    LIGHT DETECTION DEVICE
    26.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220333988A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-20

    申请号:US17847881

    申请日:2022-06-23

    Abstract: A light detection device includes a Fabry-Perot interference filter provided with a light transmitting region on a predetermined line, a light detector disposed on one side with respect to the Fabry-Perot interference filter on the line, a package having an opening positioned on the other side with respect to the Fabry-Perot interference filter on the line, a light transmitting member provided in the package such that the opening is blocked, and a temperature control element having an endothermic region thermally connected to the Fabry-Perot interference filter and the light detector. The endothermic region is positioned on one side with respect to the light detector on the line.

    GAS DETECTOR
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220317039A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17639539

    申请日:2020-08-12

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas measuring system for measuring the presence of a predetermined gas including a light source and a light receiver separated by a gas volume, the light source emitting light within a chosen range of wavelengths including characteristic absorption wavelengths of the gas to be measured and the light receiver being capable of detecting light in said wavelength range and the system including a spectrum analyzer and a storage means for storing the specific absorption wavelengths of the gas thus to recognize a gas absorbing at said specific wavelengths. The storage means also includes specific absorption wavelengths characterizing at least one other material having absorption wavelengths partially overlapping the absorption wavelengths of said gas, and thus detect the material in the volume. The system includes an analyzer unit being adapted to detect said other material from the gas measurements so as to distinguish between said material and gas in the volume, and to provide a measure of said gas.

    COLOR MEASUREMENT APPARATUS
    28.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220299366A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17654837

    申请日:2022-03-15

    Abstract: A color measurement apparatus includes a substrate including an optical filter that processes light arriving from a measurement target, a reduction portion that reduces a quantity of light heading toward the optical filter from the measurement target, a frame that is a frame arranged to face the substrate and to which the substrate is fixed, and has a shape avoiding the optical filter and in which the reduction portion is positioned at a position facing the optical filter, and a positioning section that decides a relative position between the substrate and the frame in a direction intersecting with a center axis of the reduction portion.

    Managing stability in spectroscopy measurement systems

    公开(公告)号:US11422029B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-23

    申请号:US17101509

    申请日:2020-11-23

    Abstract: Input light comprising an optical signal associated with a spectrum of at least a portion of the input light is received into an interferometer. Data comprising an image is provided using a detector array comprising detection elements. Output light is received from the interferometer into a set of one or more optical elements, which provide an optical interference pattern associated with an intensity of at least a portion of the output light that is distributed over a set of detection elements. Detection of the optical signal is stabilized based at least in part on the data using a control system comprising: a light-control module that controls a first feedback loop that stabilizes the portion of the output light; and/or a temperature-control module that controls a second feedback loop that stabilizes a temperature sensed by at least one temperature sensor within a thermal environment associated with the interferometer.

    Optical device and spectrometer comprising such a device

    公开(公告)号:US11378448B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-05

    申请号:US16981527

    申请日:2019-03-21

    Abstract: The optical device comprises a group of Fabry-Perot resonators, formed by a stack of a first and second partial reflection layer and an intermediate layer between the first and second partial reflection layer. The intermediate layer comprises a dielectric material and a group of arrays of posts embedded in the dielectric material at different positions along the intermediate layer. Each array in the group contains posts of a different non-circular shape and/or orientation in cross-section with a plane parallel to the reflection layers. As a result, Fabry-Perot resonators are formed in areas that contain different arrays, each having first and second resonance peaks at mutually different resonance frequencies for different polarization components. Light intensity sensors may be provided located below the different areas. From the intensities measured by the sensors, the intensities of different polarization components of the light can be computed over a range of wavelengths.

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