12209 results about "Waveguide" patented technology

A LIDAR system has a semiconductor chip configured to concurrently output multiple LIDAR output signals. The semiconductor chip includes alternate waveguides. Each of the alternate waveguides carries a different outgoing LIDAR signal. Each of the LIDAR output signals includes light from a different one of the LIDAR output signals. The semiconductor chip includes a reflecting surface that receives incoming LIDAR signals that each includes light from a different one of the LIDAR output signals. The semiconductor chip also includes comparative waveguides. Each of the comparative waveguides receives a comparative signal from the reflecting surface. Each of the comparative signals includes light from a different one of the incoming LIDAR signals.

The invention provides a high-temperature chemical pipeline defect detection system and method based on magnetostrictive ultrasonic guided waves, and relates to the technical field of high-temperature chemical pipeline defect detection.The method comprises the steps that magnetostrictive excitation signals are applied, the propagation process of the guided waves in a pipeline is calculated through numerical simulation, and the amplitude and phase information of guided wave signals is obtained; performing time-frequency domain analysis on the guided wave signal, extracting group velocities and phase velocities of guided waves in different modes, determining frequency dispersion characteristics of the guided waves, and evaluating the influence of a high-temperature environment on guided wave propagation; processing the received guided wave signal by adopting a modal decomposition and reconstruction algorithm to obtain a corrected guided wave signal; and carrying out feature extraction and parameter estimation on the corrected guided wave signal to obtain the position, size and type information of the pipeline defect. According to the invention, the problem of multilayer heterogeneous pipeline guided wave detection in a high-temperature environment is solved, the accuracy and reliability of defect detection are improved, and an effective method is provided for pipeline health monitoring and safety assessment.

A game controller for a mobile device, the game controller including a first handle, a bridge, and an acoustic waveguide. The first handle is configured to contact and support a mobile device and includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface on a main body portion of the first handle that is configured to accept touch inputs. The bridge extends from the main body portion of the first handle. The acoustic waveguide is at a juncture of the first handle and the bridge. The acoustic waveguide is configured to redirect sound emitted from the mobile device toward at least one of a front side of the game controller, a top side of the game controller, and a bottom side of the game controller.

The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor lasers, in particular to a laser based on a bimetallic Bragg grating and a top surface HR reflecting film, which comprises a gain chip, a first high-reflection HR film is plated on the left end surface of the gain chip, and a first anti-reflection AR film is plated on the right end surface of the gain chip. A metal Bragg grating waveguide is arranged on the right side of the gain chip, the right end face of the gain chip and the left end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide are aligned and attached to form an outer cavity structure, and the left end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide is plated with a second anti-reflection AR film. The right end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide is plated with a third anti-reflection AR film. Performance test is carried out on the laser provided by the invention, and test results show that the line width is 0.6 kHz, the SMSR is 63dB, and the threshold current is 22mA, thereby verifying the effectiveness of the laser provided by the invention.

Head-mounted displays with waveguides comprising superimposed diffractive gratings and methods for fabricating said waveguides are described herein. In an embodiment, a head-mounted display comprises an optical element and an image source that provides an image beam to an optical element. The optical element comprises two gratings superimposed over each other, at least one of which comprising a buried diffractive grating. The buried diffractive grating comprises a high-refractive index material interspersed with a low-refractive index material or non-solid pockets, such as gas, air or vacuum. Light diffracted by a first of the two gratings is further diffracted by a second of the two gratings without interacting with a surface of the optical element between diffractions.

The embodiment of the invention provides an electro-optical modulator and a light quantum computer. The electro-optical modulator comprises an electrode assembly and an optical waveguide assembly. The electrode assembly comprises a positive signal electrode, a negative signal electrode, a first grounding electrode and a second grounding electrode, and the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode are arranged between the first grounding electrode and the second grounding electrode. The optical waveguide assembly is configured to bear optical signals and comprises a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide, the first optical waveguide is located between the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode and used for bearing first optical signals, and the second optical waveguide is located between the first grounding electrode and the positive signal electrode or between the second grounding electrode and the negative signal electrode and used for bearing second optical signals. The carrier is used for bearing second optical signals. Constant-amplitude voltage signals with opposite phases are applied to the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode which are tightly coupled, so that the modulation efficiency can be improved, and the common-mode noise can be reduced.

An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an end effector including an ultrasonic blade, an ultrasonic waveguide, an ultrasonic transducer assembly, and a carrier. The acoustic waveguide includes at least a proximal portion thereof extending along a longitudinal axis. The ultrasonic transducer assembly includes a fixation member and is operatively connected to the acoustic waveguide such that the acoustic waveguide is in acoustic communication with an ultrasonic transducer. The carrier has at least a portion thereof engaged with the fixation member of the ultrasonic transducer assembly thereby inhibiting movement of the ultrasonic transducer assembly relative to the carrier. The carrier movably supports the ultrasonic transducer assembly along the longitudinal axis such that the ultrasonic transducer assembly is configured to move from a proximal position on the longitudinal axis to a distal position on the longitudinal axis for inserting the ultrasonic blade into a patient.

The invention discloses a bronze ware ornamentation and pattern digital restoration method based on an image enhancement technology, and relates to the technical field of image restoration, and the method comprises the steps: building a space mapping matrix; extracting multi-modal data features by using the surface state of the topological insulator, and registering a joint data volume; forming a super-resolution image through super-resolution reconstruction; obtaining a material degradation coefficient by using a wavelet finite element method and a graph neural network; generating an adversarial network by utilizing physical constraints, and generating an embarrassment repairing result; a material sensing three-dimensional model is constructed by adopting a wavelet packet decomposition and neural radiation field fusion technology, texture mapping is dynamically adjusted based on a graphene Moire effect, and virtual-real fusion is performed through holographic waveguide AR; by combining advanced technologies such as a metamaterial lens, micro-distance laser scanning, a topological insulator film, a graphene heterojunction and a nerve radiation field, high-precision three-dimensional digital restoration and repair of bronze cultural relics are realized, and immersive augmented reality display experience is provided.

Semiconductor devices and systems with optical and electrical interposers, and methods of forming the same, are disclosed herein. In one example, a semiconductor device includes a glass substrate and a bridge die embedded in the glass substrate, where the glass substrate includes one or more optical waveguides and the bridge die includes an interconnect to electrically couple multiple integrated circuit dies.

An eyepiece includes a planar waveguide having a front surface and a back surface. The eyepiece also includes a grating coupled to the back surface of the planar waveguide and configured to diffract a first portion of the light propagating in the planar waveguide out of a plane of the planar waveguide toward a first direction and to diffract a second portion of the light propagating in the planar waveguide out of the plane of the planar waveguide toward a second direction opposite to the first direction and a wavelength-selective reflector coupled to the front surface of the planar waveguide. The wavelength-selective reflector comprises a multilevel metasurface comprising a plurality of spaced apart protrusions having a pitch and formed of a first optically transmissive material and a second optically transmissive material disposed between the spaced apart protrusions.

The invention relates to the technical field of silicon waveguide and optical fiber coupling, and particularly provides an AI-based silicon waveguide-optical fiber mode field self-alignment coupling method and system, and the method comprises the steps: monitoring the strain distribution of a chip in real time through an integrated distributed fiber bragg grating array, and obtaining the light field intensity distribution of a coupling region through cooperation with a near-field optical probe array; constructing a deep space-time convolutional network, and generating a deformation compensation vector and a waveguide reconstruction parameter by an output layer; a nanofluid channel is integrated on the side wall of the waveguide, and the refractive index of liquid is adjusted through an electrowetting effect to realize dynamic broadening of a mode field; and the electrostatic driving micro-beam embedded below the waveguide adjusts the spatial pose of the waveguide according to an instruction of an output layer of the depth space-time convolutional network. The system comprises a light field intensity acquisition module, a convolutional network construction module and a spatial pose adjustment module. According to the method, real-time analysis and prediction are performed, so that system parameters are actively adjusted, and alignment precision and stability are improved.

An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an end effector having an ultrasonic blade, an ultrasonic transducer assembly, and a shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes a tube, and an waveguide. The waveguide is received within the tube and is acoustically connected between the ultrasonic blade and ultrasonic transducer assembly to communicate ultrasonic vibrations from the ultrasonic transducer assembly to the ultrasonic blade. The waveguide includes an acoustic body, a first isolation structure, a second isolation structure and a sheath. The acoustic body extends along a longitudinal axis. The first isolation structure radially extends about the acoustic body. The second isolation structure radially extends about the acoustic body and is longitudinally spaced from the first isolation structure. The sheath is radially positioned between the first isolation structure and the tube and is further radially positioned between the second isolation structure.

The invention provides a nanoimprint master mask, an optical waveguide and a manufacturing method of the nanoimprint master mask and the optical waveguide. The nanoimprint master mask and the optical waveguide can solve the problems that in the nanoimprint process, the edge of a grating structure area is poor, and residual glue is not uniform. The nanoimprint master mask comprises: a grating structure region; the non-grating structure region is positioned on the periphery of the grating structure region; and the sinking structure is arranged at a position, which is adjacent to the grating structure area, on the non-grating structure area, and the sinking structure extends along the peripheral direction of the grating structure area so as to surround the grating structure area.

Electro-absorption modulators (EAM) and monolithically integrated electro-absorption modulated lasers (EML) and methods of fabrication are disclosed. Vertically stacked waveguides for a distributed feedback (DFB) laser, an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) and a passive output waveguide are vertically integrated, and the DFB laser, EAM and output waveguide are optically coupled using laterally tapered vertical optical couplers. Laterally tapered vertical optical couplers provides an alternative to conventional butt-coupling of a laser and EAM, offering improved reliability for high power operation over extended lifetimes. Optionally, the EML comprises monolithically integrated electronic circuitry, e.g., driver and control electronics for the DFB laser and EAM. Beneficially, integrated EAM driver and control circuitry comprises a high-speed electro-optical control loop for very high-speed linearization and temperature compensation, e.g. to enable advanced modulation schemes, such as PAM-4 and DP-QPSK, for analog optical data center interconnect applications. Some embodiments are compatible with fabrication using a single epitaxial growth.

Described herein are a computing systems comprising a photonic interposer having an optical network comprising a plurality of waveguides and a plurality of controllable optical switches; an electronic die having a surface bonded to the photonic interposer, an inner interface comprising a first plurality of ports electrically coupling the electronic die to the photonic interposer through the surface; and an outer interface comprising a second plurality of ports electrically coupling the electronic die to the photonic interposer through the surface, wherein the outer interface at least partially encloses the inner interface.

The invention discloses a self-decoupling three-dimensional force multi-mode sensing device, system and method based on radial magnetization, the device comprises a flexible magnetic film with radial magnetization, a microstructure layer, an optical waveguide layer, a shell, a Hall element, a PCB, a common camera and an infrared camera, the flexible magnetic film, the microstructure layer, the optical waveguide layer and the shell are stacked in sequence from top to bottom, and the Hall element is arranged in the shell. The PCB, the common camera and the infrared camera are all located on the bottom face of the shell, and the Hall element is installed on the PCB. The system comprises a self-decoupling three-dimensional force multi-mode sensing device and a signal processing device, and the signal processing device can realize three-dimensional force decoupling, infrared distance sensing and force application position measurement according to data of a PCB, a common camera and an infrared camera. According to the invention, the resolution is high, three-dimensional force decoupling can be realized, and multi-modal sensing can be realized.

Disclosed herein is a waveguide-based display comprising: a waveguide, a source of image modulated light projected over a field of view; an input coupler for coupling said light into a total internal reflection (TIR) path within the waveguide; and a grating structure for providing beam expansion of the TIR light in at least one direction and extracting the TIR light from the waveguide. The grating structure may include a plurality of grating elements having at least two different grating prescriptions and at least one surface relief grating formed by a phase separation process.

Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of semiconductor lasers, and provide a semiconductor laser and a manufacturing method therefor, which are used to mitigate the problem of chirp in semiconductor lasers. The semiconductor laser comprises: a substrate; a ridge waveguide which is arranged on the substrate and extends in a first direction of the substrate; and a grating which is arranged at a top portion of the ridge waveguide. The grating comprises first regions and second regions periodically arranged in the first direction, each first region comprises a semiconductor material, each second region comprises an insulating dielectric material, and the refractive index of the insulating dielectric material is greater than the refractive index of the semiconductor material.

An apparatus includes a waveguide and one or more partially reflective surfaces embedded inside the waveguide, wherein each of the one or more partially reflective surfaces includes a multi-layer coating structure, wherein a first portion of the multi-layer coating structure induces an overall phase shift of light propagating through the first portion of the multi-layer coating structure and wherein a second portion of the multi-layer coating structure is selected to decrease the overall phase shift.

The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor lasers, in particular to a laser based on a bimetallic Bragg grating and a top SiO2 waveguide layer, which comprises a gain chip, the left end face of the gain chip is plated with a first high-reflection HR film, and the right end face of the gain chip is plated with a first anti-reflection AR film; a metal Bragg grating waveguide is arranged on the right side of the gain chip, the right end face of the gain chip and the left end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide are aligned and attached to form an outer cavity structure, and the left end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide is plated with a second anti-reflection AR film. The right end face of the metal Bragg grating waveguide is plated with a third anti-reflection AR film. According to the invention, a temperature change test is carried out, and the wavelength drift is controlled to be + / -0.002 nm in a range of-40 DEG C to 85 DEG C; performance test results show that the line width is 0.6 kHz, the SMSR is 65 dB, and the threshold current is 22 mA.

The photonic integrated device comprises a substrate, a plurality of mechanical resonator structures on a surface of the substrate, exposed to receive sound waves from outside the device; a plurality of sensing optical waveguides, each sensing optical waveguide at least partly mechanically coupled to at least one of the mechanical resonator structures, or a sensing optical waveguide that is at least partly mechanically coupled to all of the mechanical resonator structures; an input optical waveguide on the surface of the substrate, coupled to the plurality of sensing optical waveguides or the single sensing optical waveguide, for supplying light to the plurality of sensing optical waveguides or the single sensing optical waveguide; at least one output optical waveguide on the surface of the substrate, coupled to the plurality of sensing optical waveguides or the single sensing optical waveguide, for collecting light from the plurality of sensing optical waveguides or the single sensing optical waveguide that has been affected by vibration of plurality of mechanical resonator structures.

Examples described herein relate to an optical device that entails phase shifting an optical signal. The optical device includes an optical waveguide having a first semiconductor material region and a second semiconductor material region formed adjacent to each other and defining a junction therebetween. Further, the optical device includes an insulating layer formed on top of the optical waveguide. Moreover, the optical device includes a III-V semiconductor layer formed on top of the insulating layer causing an optical mode of an optical signal passing through the optical waveguide to overlap with the first semiconductor material region, the second semiconductor material region, the insulating layer, and the III-V semiconductor layer thereby resulting in a phase shift in the optical signal passing through the optical waveguide.

The invention relates to the technical field of nondestructive testing, and provides a concrete filled steel tube quality detection method based on ultrasonic guided waves, which comprises the following steps: collecting guided wave amplitudes of a quality detection position of a concrete filled steel tube member under different primary selection frequencies, and determining a guided wave sequence and a frequency spectrum sequence of the primary selection frequencies; defining a target primary selection frequency, determining the loss degree of the target primary selection frequency, determining the dominant frequency of the target primary selection frequency and the adjacent spectrum amplitude of the dominant frequency according to the guided wave sequence and the spectrum sequence, and further determining the frequency response matching degree of the target primary selection frequency; determining a matching degree threshold according to the numerical distribution of the frequency response matching degrees of all the primary frequencies, and screening out all the final detection frequencies according to the values of the frequency response matching degrees and the matching degree threshold; and obtaining a quality detection result of the quality detection position according to all the final detection frequencies screened out from the quality detection position and the frequency response matching degree of the final detection frequencies. The invention aims to improve the precision of concrete filled steel tube quality detection.

The embodiment of the invention provides a gap waveguide cavity filtering power divider, and belongs to the technical field of filtering power dividers, the gap waveguide cavity filtering power divider comprises a device body, a first slot, at least two second slots and a cover plate, the device body is provided with an input waveguide interface and at least two output waveguide interfaces; the first slot is arranged on the device body, and the first slot is connected with the input waveguide interface; the at least two second open slots are formed in the device body, the second open slots are connected with the output waveguide interfaces in a one-to-one correspondence mode, the first open slots are connected with the second open slots respectively, and the opening directions of the first open slots and the second open slots are located on the same side of the device body; the cover plate is arranged on the device body, and is configured to define a first waveguide resonant cavity with the first slot and define a second waveguide resonant cavity with the second slot. The gap waveguide cavity filtering power divider provided by the embodiment of the invention is simple in structure, can reduce the insertion loss, and has better stop-band performance.

The invention discloses a Ka-band waveguide three-way power divider, which belongs to the technical field of microwave and millimeter waves, and is characterized in that a combining port is formed in the front side wall of a shielding box, and three distribution ports are formed in the rear side wall of the shielding box; a coplanar magic T equal power divider, a coplanar magic T equal power combiner, a branch waveguide unequal power divider, an L-shaped waveguide, a Z-shaped waveguide and a half waveguide-full waveguide gradual change structure are arranged in the shielding box. Wherein the coplanar magic T equal power divider comprises an E-T junction waveguide cavity, two equal branch waveguide cavities, a microstrip probe and a power resistance load, and outputs two paths of signals with equal amplitude and opposite phases; the branch waveguide unequal power divider comprises a four-branch waveguide directional coupler and an inclined-wedge-shaped waveguide matching load, and the output power ratio of a straight-through output port to a coupling output port is 2: 1. The filter has the advantages of being symmetrical in structure, good in amplitude and phase consistency, small in insertion loss, good in port standing wave and high in isolation degree.

The invention discloses a distributed feedback laser and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the field of lasers. The preparation method of the distributed feedback laser comprises the following steps: forming a lower limiting layer, a lower waveguide layer, an active layer, an upper waveguide layer, an upper limiting layer, a grating layer, a grating buried layer, a corrosion stop layer, an InP cladding, a barrier gradient layer, a contact layer and a sacrificial layer on a substrate, wherein the sacrificial layer comprises an InP layer and an InGaAs layer which are stacked in sequence; etching to form a ridge waveguide structure; forming an insulating layer; removing the insulating layer in a preset area on the ridge waveguide structure to expose the sacrificial layer; wherein the side wall of the InGaAs layer is completely exposed, and the side wall of the InP layer is partially exposed; and etching to remove the InGaAs layer and the InP layer to form an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer. According to the invention, the reliability and the electro-optical conversion efficiency of the distributed feedback laser can be improved.

The invention discloses a coal mine underground navigation control system and device based on big data, and particularly relates to the technical field of underground navigation control. The underground roadway waveguide effect grade is judged by monitoring underground radio signals in real time and recognizing a signal reflection mode by combining wavelet transform with a convolutional neural network; meanwhile, three-dimensional point cloud data of the underground roadway are processed through multi-scale curvature analysis and a DBSCAN clustering algorithm, and division of a structure mutation region is achieved; determining a navigation error level according to the waveguide effect level and a structure mutation result, and when the navigation error level reaches a second level or a third level, analyzing historical navigation trajectory data by using a dynamic time warping algorithm, and evaluating a current navigation path deviation degree; comprehensive analysis is carried out through the deep belief network, the reliability of the navigation control system is evaluated, whether a path re-planning instruction is triggered or not is judged, and the underground navigation precision and safety are improved.

According to one embodiment, an antenna device includes a waveguide including a feed point and a first region. The first region is around the feed point on a first plane crossing a first axis direction passing through the feed point. The waveguide includes a plurality of radiating portions provided in the first region. Each of the radiating portions includes a first slot extending along a first slot direction and a second slot extending along a second slot direction crossing the first slot direction. The radiating portions include first and second radiating portions. A first radiating portion direction from the feed point to the first radiating portion crosses the first axis direction. A second radiating portion direction from the feed point to the second radiating portion crosses the first axis direction and crosses the first radiating portion direction.

The invention provides a surface grating surface emitting laser. The surface grating surface emitting laser comprises an N-face metal electrode layer; an N-face waveguide layer, an active layer, a P-face waveguide layer and a ridge waveguide layer are sequentially stacked on the N-face metal electrode layer, wherein the ridge waveguide layer comprises a gain region and a loss region; the P-surface metal electrode layer is arranged on the gain region of the ridge waveguide layer; and the P-surface silicon dioxide layer is arranged on the loss region of the ridge waveguide layer. According to the laser, through the characteristic that mode fields are distributed in a loss area and a gain area after PT symmetric breaking, a light field achieves surface light emitting through vertical diffraction coupling of surface gratings of the loss area, and the laser is different from a common laser structure in which gratings are completely etched in the longitudinal direction and electrodes are manufactured on the two sides. The mode gain difference is symmetrically manufactured through PT, double lobes are eliminated, a single mode is stabilized, lambda / 4 phase shift does not need to be introduced, and the process difficulty is reduced.

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor green laser. The semiconductor green laser, from bottom to top, comprising a substrate, a lower limiting layer, a lower waveguide layer, an active layer, an upper waveguide layer, and an upper limiting layer. The active layer is a quantum well composed of well layers and barrier layers. Each of the well layers includes any one of AlInGaN, AlInN, AlGaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, and GaN, or any combination thereof. Each of the barrier layers includes any one of AlInGaN, AlInN, AlGaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, and GaN, or any combination thereof. An electron effective mass of each of the well layers is less than an electron effective mass of each of the barrier layers. A spontaneous polarization coefficient of each of the well layers is less than a spontaneous polarization coefficient of each of the barrier layers.