Apparatus and methods for remakeable connections to optical waveguides
    6.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and methods for remakeable connections to optical waveguides 失效
    用于与光波导重新连接的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07412134B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-12

    申请号:US11540268

    申请日:2006-09-30

    IPC分类号: G02B6/34

    摘要: A single-mode optical waveguide with a core, surrounded by a cladding consisting of an inner soft layer and an outer harder layer is described. The outer layer has a grating structure on its inner surface, whose spatial frequency is the same as that of the guided mode. The thickness of the inner cladding is sufficient to keep the grating outside the mode field in undeformed regions of the waveguide, so that normally no out-coupling of the light results. Connections are made by crossing two such waveguides at an angle and pressing them together. This results in deformation of the two waveguides such that the gratings are brought into proximity with the cores. Light is coupled out of one waveguide and into the other in the deformed region, resulting in a self-aligning optical connection. The out-coupled light propagates normal to the waveguide axis, so errors in the crossing angle cause little change in efficiency. Because the cladding system is sufficiently resilient to recover after deformation, the connection is remakeable.

    摘要翻译: 描述了具有由包含内软层和外硬层的覆层围绕的芯的单模光波导。 外层在其内表面具有光栅结构,其空间频率与导向模式相同。 内包层的厚度足以将光栅保持在波导的未变形区域中的模场外,使得通常不会导致光的外耦合。 通过将两个这样的波导以一定角度交叉并将它们压在一起而形成连接。 这导致两个波导的变形,使得光栅与芯接近。 光从一个波导耦合到变形区域中的另一个,导致自对准光学连接。 输出耦合光垂直于波导轴传播,因此交叉角的误差几乎不会导致效率的变化。 因为包层系统具有足够的弹性以在变形后恢复,所以连接是可重新制造的。

    Multi-node system networks with optical switches

    公开(公告)号:US09143259B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-22

    申请号:US13597763

    申请日:2012-08-29

    IPC分类号: H04J14/00 H04Q11/00 H04B10/80

    摘要: A system and method for optical switching of networks in a multi-node computing system with programmable magneto-optical switches that enable optical signal routing on optical pathways. The system includes a network of optical links interconnecting nodes with switching elements that are controlled by electrical control signals. Data transmission is along the optical links and an optical pathway is determined by the electrical control signals which are launched ahead of optical signal. If links are available, an optical pathway is reserved, and the electrical signal sets the necessary optical switches for the particular optical pathway. There is thereby eliminated the need for optical-electrical-optical conversion at each node in order to route data packets through the network. If a link or optical pathway is not available the system tries to find an alternative path. If no alternative path is available, the system reserves buffering. After transmission, all reservations are released.

    Heat transfer control structures using thermal phonon spectral overlap
    10.
    发明授权
    Heat transfer control structures using thermal phonon spectral overlap 有权
    热传导控制结构使用热声子光谱重叠

    公开(公告)号:US08178153B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-15

    申请号:US11395857

    申请日:2006-03-31

    IPC分类号: B05D5/12 H05K7/20

    摘要: A heat transfer control structure and a method for fabrication thereof includes at least one heat transfer control layer interposed between and contacting a heat source material and a heat sink material. The at least one heat transfer control layer is selected predicated upon thermal phonon spectra overlap between the heat source material, the at least one heat transfer control layer and the heat sink material. The at least one heat transfer control layer may enhance or retard heat transfer between the heat source material and the heat sink material. The at least one heat transfer control layer may be selected based upon a value of a thermal phonon correlating parameter such as a Debye temperature, a density or a lattice constant.

    摘要翻译: 传热控制结构及其制造方法包括插入在热源材料和散热材料之间并与之接触的至少一个传热控制层。 根据热源材料,至少一个传热控制层和散热材料之间的热声子光谱重叠来选择至少一个传热控制层。 至少一个传热控制层可以增强或延缓热源材料和散热材料之间的热传递。 可以基于诸如德拜温度,密度或晶格常数的热声子相关参数的值来选择至少一个传热控制层。