University of Washington

The Boeing Company

Larry Dalton

Kwan-Yue Jen

Jingdong Luo

William Brenden Carlson

Sen Liu

Hong Ma

Gregory Phelan

Timothy Martin Londergan

Diyun Huang

Baoquan Chen

Nicholas D Buker

Jae-Wook Kang

Daniel Casmier

Todd Ewy

Marnie A Haller

Axel Scherer

Eric Y Chan

Michael J Hochberg

Philip A Sullivan

Xuezhong Jiang

Yen-Ju Cheng

William P Krug

Sei-Hum Jang

Tae-Dong Kim

Jocelyn Y Takayesu

Thomas W Baehr-Jones

Andrew Akelaitis

Kwan-Yue (Alex) Jen

A system and method are disclosed for a rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator. An embodiment of a voltage-tunable wavelength selective ring resonator includes a ring-shaped waveguide formed on a semiconductor substrate, an electro-optic cladding layer formed over the ring-shaped waveguide, and voltage applying means for applying a voltage across the electro-optic cladding layer. The ring-shaped waveguide is configured to propagate optical signals having predetermined resonant wavelengths, the electro-optic cladding layer has a voltage-controlled variable refractive index, and the means for applying is configured to apply a wavelength-specific control voltage to the electro-optic cladding layer. The wavelength-specific control voltage will shift or tune the predetermined resonant wavelengths for the ring-shaped waveguide.

Rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator

A composite having electro-optic activity including a chromophore compound dispersed in a host material comprising a dendronized chromophore compound, methods for making the composite, and electro-optic devices including the composite.

Electro-optic dendrimer-based glass composites

Nonlinear optically active compounds, macrostructures that include nonlinear optically active components, and devices including the macrostructures. The nonlinear optically active compounds include dendrimers having two or more nonlinear optically active components. In certain embodiments, the compounds and dendrimers are crosslinkable.

Nonlinear optical compounds and related macrostructures

Acceptor compounds useful for making hyperpolarizable organic chromophores having a &#x3c0;-donor conjugated to a &#x3c0;-acceptor through a &#x3c0;-bridge.

Acceptor compounds useful for making hyperpolarizable organic chromophores

Electron acceptor compounds, nonlinear optical chromophores made from the electron acceptor compounds, methods for making the electron acceptor compounds and nonlinear optical chromophores, lattices that include the nonlinear optical chromophores, and devices that include the nonlinear optical chromophores.

Electron acceptors for nonlinear optical chromophores

Osmium complexes having the formula [Os(II) (N&#x2014;N)L&#x2014;L]2A(or A), or [Os(II) N&#x2014;N(L&#x2014;L)]2A(or A), where N&#x2014;N is a bipyridine or phenanthroline ligand, L&#x2014;L is a &#x3c0;-acid bidentate ligand, and A is counter ion.

Osmium complexes and related organic light-emitting devices

A crosslinkable second-order nonlinear optical polymer having one or more polarizable chromophore moieties, one or more diene moieties, and one or more dienophile or dienophile precursor moieties, wherein the diene and dienophile moieties are reactive to form 4+2 cycloaddition products; a crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer having aligned, polarizable chromophore moieties and one or more 4+2 cycloaddition moieties, wherein the 4+2 cycloaddition moieties are reversibly, thermally reactive to provide diene moieties and dienophile moieties; lattices and devices that include the crosslinkable second-order nonlinear optical polymer; lattices and devices that include the crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer; and methods for making the crosslinked second-order nonlinear optical polymer.

Reversible crosslinking method for making an electro-optic polymer

Nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making nonlinear optically active compounds, compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, methods for making compounds useful for making nonlinear optically active compounds, macrostructures that include nonlinear optically active components, and devices including the nonlinear optically active compounds and the macrostructures.

Nonlinear optical compounds and methods for their preparation

A dihydrofuran-containing nonlinear optical chromophore having a &#x3c0;-electron donor group conjugated to the dihydrofuran group through a &#x3c0;-electron conjugated bridge group. The nonlinear optical chromophore is a hyperpolarizable chromophore that can be used as an electro-optic modulator in electro-optic devices.

Hyperpolarizable organic chromophores

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Silverdale, WA, United States of America

Larry Dalton