Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Input/output coupler
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2009-02-17
Sanghavi, Hemang (Department: 2874)
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Input/output coupler
C359S586000, C359S587000, C359S589000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07492989
ABSTRACT:
A hybrid transmission-reflection grating includes an array of essentially parallel principal interfaces, with each principal interface separating a first medium and a second medium. The first medium has a first index of refraction, and the second medium has a second index of refraction. The first medium allows for transmission of quantum-mechanical objects in excess of one percent of an incident number of quantum-mechanical objects. The array of principal interfaces has a spacing distance between adjacent principal interfaces. The first medium has a width in the direction normal to the principal interfaces, the width being less than the spacing distance. Each principal interface has a length such that either (1) the length is greater that the width divided by tan(2θc), wherein θcis an critical angle of total external reflection for the quantum-mechanical objects at the principal interface, or (2) the length is greater that the width divided by tan(2θc), wherein θcis a critical angle defined by 2π sin(θc)σ=λ, with λ being de Broglie wavelength of the quantum-mechanical objects and σ being a roughness of the principal interface.
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Heilmann Ralf
Schattenburg Mark
Gauthier & Connors LLP
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sanghavi Hemang
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