Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Input/output coupler
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-29
2005-03-29
Nguyen, Tu T. (Department: 2877)
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Input/output coupler
Reexamination Certificate
active
06873764
ABSTRACT:
A coupling grating formed as a line grating with a grating period between 100 nm and 2500 nm, a substrate (1) is covered with a photoresist layer (10) and exposed for instance at the Lithrow angle (ΘL) or at 0° to a mercury-vapour lamp (11) via a folding mirror (13, 13′) through a phase mask (14) in the near field of which the photoresist layer is arranged, then structured by reactive ion etching and provided with a transparent layer by reactive DC magnetron sputtering, particularly pulsed DC sputtering or AC-superimposed DC sputtering. The phase mask (14) is structured in advance with the laser two-beam interference method. The process is particularly suited for the production of optical elements, particularly evane-scent field sensor plates and optical couplers for communications technology which can be employed in particular as filters for wavelength multiplexing in fibre-optic networks.
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Duveneck Gert
Edlinger Johannes
Heine Claus
Maisenholder Bernd
Pawlak Michael
Crowell & Moring LLP
Nguyen Tu T.
Unaxis Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
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