Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Composite – Of silicon containing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Xu, Ling (Department: 1775)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Composite
Of silicon containing
C428S641000, C428S622000, C428S687000, C428S620000, C428S912200, C359S788000, C359S582000, C359S584000, C359S586000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07049004
ABSTRACT:
According to various embodiments and aspects of the present invention, there is provided a dynamically tunable thin film interference coating including one or more layers with thermo-optically tunable refractive index. Tunable layers within thin film interference coatings enable a new family of thin film active devices for the filtering, control, modulation of light. Active thin film structures can be used directly or integrated into a variety of photonic subsystems to make tunable lasers, tunable add-drop filters for fiber optic telecommunications, tunable polarizers, tunable dispersion compensation filters, and many other devices.
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Domash Lawrence H.
Ma Eugene
Murano Robert
Nemchuk Nikolay
Payne Adam
Aegis Semiconductor, Inc.
Rauschenbach Kurt
Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, LLC
Xu Ling
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