Optical waveguide

Details Optical waveguide Optical waveguide

2007-05-18

2008-10-21

Font, Frank G (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Having particular optical characteristic modifying chemical...

C385S129000, C385S142000, C385S143000, C385S144000, C385S145000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07440671

ABSTRACT:
Materials transparent to terahertz waves are very limited, and it is difficult to obtain the required performance by selecting the material. Further, it is also difficult to search for a novel material. Therefore, by letting a known material transparent to terahertz waves have a photonic crystal structure and controlling the structure, an optical waveguide having the required properties is provided.An optical waveguide for propagation of far-infrared radiation in the terahertz region, which optical waveguide is made of a fluorinated amorphous polymer. Particularly preferred is a polymer having a fluorinated aliphatic ring structure in its main chain, obtained by cyclopolymerization of a fluorinated monomer having at least two polymerizable double bonds.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5760139 (1998-06-01), Koike et al.
patent: 6266475 (2001-07-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 6385380 (2002-05-01), Friedrich et al.
patent: 6490400 (2002-12-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 6594431 (2003-07-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 2001/0028778 (2001-10-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 2004/0189788 (2004-09-01), Tanaka
patent: 2005/0237137 (2005-10-01), Dutta
R. Mendis, et al., “Plastic ribbon THz waveguides”, Journal of Applied Physics, Oct. 1, 2000, vol. 88, No. 7, pp. 4449-4451.
Kanglin Wang, et al., “Guided propagation of terahertz pulses on metal wires”, Optical Society of America, Sep. 2005, vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 2001-2008.
H. Han, et al., “Terahertz pulse propagation in a plastic photonic crystal fiber”, Applied Physics Letters, Apr. 15, 2002, vol. 80, No. 15, pp. 2634-2636.
Masahiro Goto, et al., “Teflon Photonic Crystal Fiber as Terahertz Waveguide”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2004, vol. 43, No. 2B, pp. L317-L319.
Gilbert Diwa, et al., “Photonic-crystal-fiber pigtail device integrated with lens-duct optics for terahertz radiation coupling”, Applied Physics Letters 87, 151114, 2005, 3 Pages.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Optical waveguide does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Optical waveguide, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Optical waveguide will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4015405