Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tunable waveguide devices
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Application No.: US15398690Application Date: 2017-01-04
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Publication No.: US10122149B2Publication Date: 2018-11-06
- Inventor: Peter W. Evans , Mingzhi Lu , Fred A. Kish, Jr. , Vikrant Lal , Scott Corzine , John W. Osenbach , Jin Yan
- Applicant: Infinera Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Infinera Corporation
- Current Assignee: Infinera Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agent David L. Soltz
- Main IPC: H01S5/00
- IPC: H01S5/00 ; H01S5/06 ; H01S5/042 ; H01S5/22 ; H01S5/30 ; H01S5/10 ; H01S5/026 ; H01S5/024

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a laser including a layer having first and second regions, the first region including a void; a mirror section provided on the layer, the mirror section including a waveguide core, at least part of the waveguide core is provided over at least a portion of the void; a first grating provided on the waveguide core; a first cladding layer provided between the layer and the waveguide core and supported by the second region of the layer; a second cladding layer provided on the waveguide core; and a heat source configured to change a temperature of at least one of the waveguide core and the grating, where an optical mode propagating in the waveguide core of the mirror section does not incur substantial loss due to interaction with portions of the mirror section above and below the waveguide core.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170194764A1 TUNABLE WAVEGUIDE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2017-07-06
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