Light emitting slot-waveguide device

Details Light emitting slot-waveguide device Light emitting slot-waveguide device

2006-11-10

2009-10-20

Peng, Charlie (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Planar optical waveguide

Thin film optical waveguide

C385S132000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07606455

ABSTRACT:
An electroluminescent material slot waveguide generates light in response to current injection. In one embodiment, the waveguide is formed as part of an optical resonator, such as ring resonator waveguide or distributed Bragg reflector with an anode and cathode for electrical stimulation. A compact, electrically-driven resonant cavity light emitting devices (RCLED) for Si microphotonics may be formed. Several different rare-earth ions, such as erbium, terbium and ytterbium, can be used to dope SiO2 in order to emit light at different wavelengths.

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