Waveguide design incorporating reflective optics
    1.
    发明申请
    Waveguide design incorporating reflective optics 失效
    波导设计结合反射光学

    公开(公告)号:US20060188196A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-24

    申请号:US11350387

    申请日:2006-02-07

    IPC分类号: G02B6/32 G02B6/26 G02B6/42

    摘要: This invention relates to devices for coupling light between an optical waveguide and an optical element in a manner that is substantially independent of temperature, using reflective optics. Certain embodiments of the invention concern improved designs for the transmit and receive optics of a waveguide-based optical touch screen sensor, incorporating reflective optics. The improved designs have substantially temperature independent operation and reduced optical losses. In one preferred embodiment the improved design incorporates a parabolic or quasi-parabolic reflector. In another preferred embodiment the improved design incorporates an elliptical or quasi-elliptical reflector. The transmit and receive elements and associated waveguides preferably comprise photo-patternable polymers.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及使用反射光学器件以基本上与温度无关的方式在光波导和光学元件之间耦合光的装置。 本发明的某些实施例涉及用于包括反射光学器件的基于波导的光学触摸屏传感器的发射和接收光学器件的改进的设计。 改进的设计具有基本的温度无关操作和减少的光学损耗。 在一个优选实施例中,改进的设计包括抛物面或准抛物面反射器。 在另一个优选实施例中,改进的设计包括椭圆形或准椭圆形反射器。 发射和接收元件和相关联的波导优选地包括光可图案化的聚合物。

    Waveguide design incorporating reflective optics
    2.
    发明授权
    Waveguide design incorporating reflective optics 失效
    波导设计结合反射光学

    公开(公告)号:US07352940B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-01

    申请号:US11350387

    申请日:2006-02-07

    IPC分类号: G02B6/10 G06F3/042

    摘要: This invention relates to devices for coupling light between an optical waveguide and an optical element in a manner that is substantially independent of temperature, using reflective optics. Certain embodiments of the invention concern improved designs for the transmit and receive optics of a waveguide-based optical touch screen sensor, incorporating reflective optics. The improved designs have substantially temperature independent operation and reduced optical losses. In one preferred embodiment the improved design incorporates a parabolic or quasi-parabolic reflector. In another preferred embodiment the improved design incorporates an elliptical or quasi-elliptical reflector. The transmit and receive elements and associated waveguides preferably comprise photo-patternable polymers.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及使用反射光学器件以基本上与温度无关的方式在光波导和光学元件之间耦合光的装置。 本发明的某些实施例涉及用于包括反射光学器件的基于波导的光学触摸屏传感器的发射和接收光学器件的改进的设计。 改进的设计具有基本的温度无关操作和减少的光学损耗。 在一个优选实施例中,改进的设计包括抛物面或准抛物面反射器。 在另一个优选实施例中,改进的设计包括椭圆形或准椭圆形反射器。 发射和接收元件和相关联的波导优选地包括光可图案化的聚合物。

    Planar lenses for integrated optics
    3.
    发明申请
    Planar lenses for integrated optics 失效
    用于集成光学的平面透镜

    公开(公告)号:US20060088244A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-04-27

    申请号:US11257736

    申请日:2005-10-25

    IPC分类号: G02B6/32 G02B6/42

    摘要: A planar lenses for integrated optics applications, in particular for use in optical touch screen sensors are disclosed. The disclosed planar lenses include a slab waveguide and an optical waveguide, preferably formed in unitary fashion, wherein the slab waveguide has a curved end face to focus light into or out of the optical waveguide, and wherein at least one additional lens is included within the slab waveguide. In one aspect of this disclosure, the additional lens is a diverging lens. In a second aspect the additional lens is a converging lens. The additional lens may match the acceptance angle of the optical waveguide to the curved end face of the slab waveguide. Alternatively, it may improve the tolerance of the planar lens to design or assembly errors and/or temperature variations. Preferably, the planar lenses are composed of a photo-patternable polymer, and the additional lenses are composed of air.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于集成光学应用的平面透镜,特别是用于光学触摸屏传感器。 所公开的平面透镜包括平板波导和光波导,其优选地以单一方式形成,其中平板波导具有弯曲的端面以将光聚焦入或流出光波导,并且其中至少一个附加透镜包括在 平板波导。 在本公开的一个方面,附加透镜是发散透镜。 在第二方面,附加透镜是会聚透镜。 附加透镜可以匹配光波导对平板波导的弯曲端面的接受角度。 或者,可以提高平面透镜对设计或组装误差和/或温度变化的公差。 优选地,平面透镜由可光图案化的聚合物组成,并且附加透镜由空气组成。

    Planar lenses for integrated optics
    4.
    发明授权
    Planar lenses for integrated optics 失效
    用于集成光学的平面透镜

    公开(公告)号:US07546009B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-09

    申请号:US11257736

    申请日:2005-10-25

    IPC分类号: G02B6/32 G02B6/26 G02B6/10

    摘要: Planar lenses for integrated optics applications, in particular for use in optical touch screen sensors are disclosed. The disclosed planar lenses include a slab waveguide and an optical waveguide, preferably formed in unitary fashion, wherein the slab waveguide has a curved end face to focus light into or out of the optical waveguide, and wherein at least one additional lens is included within the slab waveguide. In one aspect of this disclosure, the additional lens is a diverging lens. In a second aspect the additional lens is a converging lens. The additional lens may match the acceptance angle of the optical waveguide to the curved end face of the slab waveguide. Alternatively, it may improve the tolerance of the planar lens to design or assembly errors and/or temperature variations. Preferably, the planar lenses are composed of a photo-patternable polymer, and the additional lenses are composed of air.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于集成光学应用的平面透镜,特别是用于光学触摸屏传感器。 所公开的平面透镜包括平板波导和光波导,其优选地以单一方式形成,其中平板波导具有弯曲的端面以将光聚焦入或流出光波导,并且其中至少一个附加透镜包括在 平板波导。 在本公开的一个方面,附加透镜是发散透镜。 在第二方面,附加透镜是会聚透镜。 附加透镜可以匹配光波导对平板波导的弯曲端面的接受角度。 或者,可以提高平面透镜对设计或组装误差和/或温度变化的公差。 优选地,平面透镜由可光图案化的聚合物组成,并且附加透镜由空气组成。

    Laser direct writing of planar lightwave circuits
    5.
    发明授权
    Laser direct writing of planar lightwave circuits 失效
    激光直接写平面光波电路

    公开(公告)号:US06577799B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-06-10

    申请号:US09720802

    申请日:2001-03-02

    IPC分类号: G02B600

    CPC分类号: G02B6/13 G02B2006/12107

    摘要: A laser beam with an annular or ring shaped intensity distribution, such as a TEM01* beam, is scanned across the surface of a photosensitive thin film to directly produce changes of refractive index in selected regions of the film. This method is suitable for producing channel waveguides for planar lightwave circuits, where the refractive index profile (solid curve) of such a waveguide is more uniform than the prior art refractive index profile (dashed curve) produced by a TEM00 laser beam, and has a reduced bend loss.

    摘要翻译: 具有环形或环形强度分布的激光束(例如TEM01 *光束)被扫描在感光薄膜的表面上,以直接在膜的选定区域产生折射率的变化。 该方法适用于制造平面光波电路的通道波导,其中这种波导的折射率分布(实线)比现有技术的由TEM00激光束产生的折射率分布(虚线)更均匀,并具有 减少弯曲损失。

    Method of deposition of thin films of amorphous and crystalline microstructures based on ultrafast pulsed laser deposition
    6.
    发明授权
    Method of deposition of thin films of amorphous and crystalline microstructures based on ultrafast pulsed laser deposition 有权
    基于超快脉冲激光沉积法沉积非晶态和结晶微结构薄膜的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06312768B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-11-06

    申请号:US09508346

    申请日:2000-06-21

    IPC分类号: C23C1430

    摘要: Powerful nanosecond-range lasers using low repetition rate pulsed laser deposition produce numerous macroscopic size particles and droplets, which embed in thin film coatings. This problem has been addressed by lowering the pulse energy, keeping the laser intensity optional for evaporation, so that significant numbers of the macroscopic particles and droplets are no longer present in the evaporated plume. The result is deposition of evaporated plume on a substrate to form thin film of very high surface quality. Preferably, the laser pulses have a repetition rate to produce a continuous flow of evaporated material at the substrate. Pulse-range is typically picosecond and femtosecond and repetition rate kilohertz to hundreds of megahertz. The process may be carried out in the presence of a buffer gas, which may be inert or reactive, and the increased vapour density and therefore the collision frequency between evaporated atoms leads to the formation of nanostructured materials of increasing interest, because of their peculiar structural, electronic and mechanical properties. One of these is carbon nanotubes, which is a new form of carbon belonging to the fullerene (C60) family. Carbon nanotubes are seamless, single or multishell co-axial cylindrical tubules with or without dome caps at the extremities. Typically diameters range from 1 nm to 50 nm with a length >1 &mgr;m. The electronic structure may be either metallic or semiconducting without any change in the chemical bonding or adding of dopant. In addition, the materials have application to a wide range of established thin film applications.

    摘要翻译: 使用低重复率脉冲激光沉积的强大的纳秒范围激光器产生许多宏观尺寸的颗粒和液滴,其嵌入薄膜涂层中。 通过降低脉冲能量,保持激光强度可选择蒸发来解决这个问题,从而在蒸发的羽流中不再存在大量的宏观颗粒和液滴。 结果是将蒸发的羽毛沉积在基底上以形成非常高的表面质量的薄膜。 优选地,激光脉冲具有重复率,以在衬底处产生蒸发材料的连续流动。 脉冲范围通常是皮秒和飞秒,重复频率千赫兹到数百兆赫兹。 该方法可以在缓冲气体存在下进行,缓冲气体可以是惰性的或反应性的,并且增加的蒸气密度,因此蒸发的原子之间的碰撞频率导致形成越来越受关注的纳米结构材料,因为它们具有特殊的结构 ,电子和机械性能。 其中之一是碳纳米管,碳纳米管是属于富勒烯(C60)族的新型碳。 碳纳米管是在四肢具有或不具有圆顶盖的无缝的单壳同轴圆柱形小管。 通常,直径范围为1nm至50nm,长度> 1um。 电子结构可以是金属或半导体的,而化学键合或掺杂剂的添加没有任何变化。 此外,这些材料已经应用于广泛的已建立的薄膜应用。

    Eyesafe optical parametric system pumped by solid state lasers
    7.
    发明授权
    Eyesafe optical parametric system pumped by solid state lasers 有权
    由固体激光器泵浦的眼睛光学参数系统

    公开(公告)号:US6031853A

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-29

    申请号:US11517

    申请日:1998-09-25

    CPC分类号: G02F1/39 G02F1/37

    摘要: A solid state laser beam generating system includes a solid state laser which produces a laser beam having a wavelength outside the eyesafe range of 1.5 .mu.m to 1.8 .mu.m. A converter including a non-linear structure is used to convert the laser beam to a beam having a wavelength within the eyesafe range. The non-linear structure has three defined principal axes and the input laser beam to the structure travels in a direction offset from one of the principal axes by an angle greater than 2.degree..

    摘要翻译: PCT No.PCT / AU96 / 00477 Sec。 371日期:1998年9月25日 102(e)1998年9月25日PCT PCT 1996年7月29日PCT公布。 出版物WO97 / 05677 日期1997年2月13日固体激光束发生系统包括固体激光器,其产生波长在1.5μm至1.8μm的眼睛的范围之外的波长的激光束。 使用包括非线性结构的A转换器将激光束转换成具有在眼睛安全范围内的波长的光束。 非线性结构具有三个限定的主轴,并且到结构的输入激光束沿从主轴之一偏移大于2°的角度的方向行进。

    Photonic devices using optical waveguides induced by dark spatial
solitons
    8.
    发明授权
    Photonic devices using optical waveguides induced by dark spatial solitons 失效
    使用由黑暗空间孤子诱导的光波导的光子器件

    公开(公告)号:US5469525A

    公开(公告)日:1995-11-21

    申请号:US313169

    申请日:1994-12-07

    IPC分类号: G02B6/122 G02F1/35

    摘要: Optical switching devices for use in photonics applications are created in a body of an optically transparent defocusing material having a third order non-linear susceptibility which is negative. The switching devices use optical waveguides which are created by the propagation through the material of dark spatial solitons, which are induced when an intense quasi-planar light wave, having an amplitude or phase perturbation to at least one point or region of its wavefront, is projected onto at least one location on the surface of the body, to cause a change in its refractive index at the (or each) location. If the change in refractive index is rapid and transitory, an active photonic device is created. The devices created include steerable optical switches, cross-couplers, and multi-port optical switchyards.

    摘要翻译: 在光学应用中使用的光学开关装置在光学透明散焦材料的主体中产生,其具有为负的三阶非线性磁化率。 开关器件使用通过通过暗空间孤子的材料的传播而产生的光波导,当具有对其波前的至少一个点或区域的幅度或相位扰动的强准准平面光波是 投射到身体表面上的至少一个位置,以在(或每个)位置引起其折射率的变化。 如果折射率的变化是快速和短暂的,则产生有源光子器件。 创建的设备包括可转向光开关,交叉耦合器和多端口光学开关。

    Tuneable filter arrangement
    9.
    发明申请
    Tuneable filter arrangement 审中-公开
    可调节滤波器布置

    公开(公告)号:US20050180683A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-08-18

    申请号:US10506118

    申请日:2003-03-05

    IPC分类号: G02B6/34 H04J14/02 G02B6/26

    摘要: A tuneable filter arrangement (10) includes a plurality of tuneable Bragg gratings (22, 24), each grating (22, 24) arranged, in use, to be independently tuneable to different wavelengths, a first switch (16) for selectively directing an incoming optical signal (26) to any one of the gratings (22, 24), a first optical element (18) arranged, in use, such that an optical signal transmitted through any one of the gratings (22, 24) is directable to a through-output of the filter arrangement (10), and an optical drop structure (20) arranged, in use, such that a filtered optical signal from any one of the gratings (22, 24) is dropped at a drop-output (28) of the filter arrangement (10). The first switch (16) and the first optical element (18) maybe Y junction thermo-optic switches, and the optical drop structure (20) may be an optical circulator. Another optical circulator may be provided at the through-output of the filter arrangement (10) for adding WDM channels to the through-output signal.

    摘要翻译: 可调谐滤波器装置(10)包括多个可调谐布拉格光栅(22,24),每个光栅(22,24)在使用中被布置为可独立调谐到不同的波长;第一开关(16),用于选择性地引导 输入光信号(26)到光栅(22,24)中的任何一个,第一光学元件(18)在使用中布置成使得通过任何一个光栅(22,24)传输的光信号可被定向到 滤波器装置(10)的通过输出,以及在使用中布置使得来自光栅(22,24)中的任何一个的经滤波的光信号在液滴输出处被丢弃的光学液滴结构(20) 28)。 第一开关(16)和第一光学元件(18)可以是Y结热电开关,并且光学液滴结构(20)可以是光学循环器。 可以在滤波器装置(10)的通过输出处提供另一个光循环器,用于将WDM通道加到通过输出信号。

    Laser beam activated ion source
    10.
    发明授权
    Laser beam activated ion source 失效
    激光束激活离子源

    公开(公告)号:US4199685A

    公开(公告)日:1980-04-22

    申请号:US787421

    申请日:1977-04-14

    CPC分类号: H01J27/24 B01D59/34 B82Y10/00

    摘要: This invention relates to an apparatus in which laser pulses of up to about one nanosecond duration (.about.10.sup.-9 secs) and high intensity, more than 10.sup.11 watts cm.sup.-2, generate energetic (>>10 keV) ions, which can have very high charge states of more than twenty times the charge state of a single electron, from solid or liquid targets using non-liner, electrodynamic forces operating within the target material. In the present invention the energetic, highly charged ions are produced in such a manner that isotopes of a particular element forming the target can be separated into their respective groups travelling at particular velocities and directions, at distances of more than one meter from the irradiated target. In the present invention, the energetic, highly charged ions are generated and accelerated with high efficiency (>25%) within a relatively cold plasma (

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种装置,其中高达约一纳秒持续时间(DIFFERENCE 10-9秒)和高强度(大于1011瓦特cm -2)的激光脉冲产生能量(>> 10keV)离子,其可以具有非常 高电荷状态是单个电子的电荷状态的二十倍以上,使用在目标材料内操作的非线性,电动力的固体或液体目标。 在本发明中,能量的高电荷离子以这样一种方式产生,使得形成靶的特定元素的同位素可以被分离成它们各自以特定的速度和方向行进的基团,距辐射靶的距离大于一米 。 在本发明中,在从目标材料产生的相对冷的等离子体(<1000eV)内,高能量,高电荷的离子以高效率(> 25%)产生和加速。 能量高的带电荷的离子以等于或大于107cms sec-1的速度从等离子体喷出,从而允许使用本领域熟知的技术通过电场和磁场分离混合同位素。