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Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Lakshminarayanan Ravi Narasimhan

C Kumar N Patel

Mark William Knight

Stephanie Roxane Sandor-Leahy

A method of making a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is provided. The method comprises depositing a functional resist material layer over a substrate, disposing and pressing a stamp with a plurality of nanopatterns into the functional resist material for a period of time, and removing the stamp from the functional resist material to provide nanofeatures that are inverted versions of the nanopatterns, wherein the nanofeatures form one or more optical elements.

Nanoimprinted photonic integrated circuits

An all optical fiber bit stream reader system for examining the data contents of an optical fiber involving the conversion of a temporal timing signal into a spatially located signal is provided. The invention generally comprises generating and detecting a signal indicating the presence of data, in a manner which is minimally destructive to the data. One embodiment comprises providing a piece of optical fiber that exhibits a nonlinear response through a two photon absorption process and subsequent emission of a photon corresponding to the two photon absorption process. Such a fiber could comprise a conventional doped silica fiber into which an additional dopant has been introduced. Another embodiment involves modifying the index of refraction of the cladding of the optical fiber line. This causes a fraction of the electric field or light pulse guided through the fiber (if present) to be coupled out of the fiber. Thereafter, the pulse can be detected. The optical bit steam reader can be used for important problems in optical communications such as switching, test-and-measurement, system housekeeping, data sampling, and fiber tapping for optical communications.

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Redondo Beach, CA, United States of America

Lakshminarayanan Ravi Narasimhan