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Structure and method for aligning an optical fiber and a submicronic waveguide

US8447150B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives Batiment le Ponant D · FR

Inventor

Christophe Kopp · Fontanil-Cornillon, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 24, 2010
Grant date	May 21, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 8, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B2006/12107
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An integrated optical circuit including an operational submicronic waveguide associated with an operational grating intended for the coupling with an optical fiber, further including an alignment grating, identical to the operational grating, associated with a blind waveguide and arranged at a known distance from the operational grating.

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