Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Particular coupling structure
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-22
2008-04-22
Doan, Jennifer (Department: 2874)
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Particular coupling structure
C385S015000, C385S140000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11603560
ABSTRACT:
An optical device comprises a first substrate wafer with at least one buried optical waveguide on an approximately flat planar surface of the substrate and a second substrate wafer with at least a second buried optical waveguide. The waveguides so formed may be straight or curved along the surface of the wafer or curved by burying the waveguide at varying depth along its length. The second wafer is turned (flipped) and bonded to the first wafer in such a manner that the waveguides, for example, may form an optical coupler or may cross over one another and be in proximate relationship along a region of each. As a result, three-dimensional optical devices are formed avoiding the convention techniques of layering on a single substrate wafer.
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Feuer Mark D.
Frigo Nicholas J.
AT&T Corp.
Doan Jennifer
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