Institut National D'optique

Fran&ccedil;ois Tr&eacute;panier

Jocelyn Lauzon

Chiara Meneghini

Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Couillard

A tunable phase mask assembly for use in photoinducing an optical wavelength filter in an optical waveguide. The phase mask assembly includes a phase mask having a length extending between two opposite longitudinal ends. The phase mask has grating corrugations projecting from its surface and distributed with a periodicity along its length. The periodicity of the phase mask is tuned by reversibly changing its length between the two longitudinal ends, such as by compressing or stretching the mask. In this manner, the interference pattern of a light beam passing through the phase mask is also tuned, which allows to control the characteristics of a wavelength filter photoinduced using this phase mask assembly.

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St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada

François Trépanier

Growing community of inventors

St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada

Fran&ccedil;ois Tr&eacute;panier

François Trépanier