Etaphase, Inc.

Empire Technology Development LLC

Hughes Electronics Corporation

Ruth Ann Mullen

Marian Florescu

Milan M Milosevic

William W Milroy

Ronald I Wolfson

Timothy Amoah

An optical structure and a system includes a Hyperuniform Disordered Solid ('HUDS') structure and a waveguide. The HUDS structure is formed by walled cells organized in a lattice.

Optical structures and hyperuniform disordered material

An optical structure includes a Hyperuniform Disordered Solid ('HUDS') structure, a waveguide, and a resonant cavity. The HUDS structure is formed by walled cells organized in a lattice. The waveguide is configured to guide an optical signal. The resonant cavity is formed along a boundary of the waveguide. The resonant cavity is configured to be resonant at a frequency band that is a subset of a bandwidth of the optical signal.

Hyperuniform disordered material with resonant structures

An optical structure includes a Hyperuniform Disordered Solid ('HUDS') structure, a photonic crystal waveguide, and a perforated resonant structure. The HUDS structure is formed by walled cells organized in a lattice. The photonic crystal waveguide is configured to guide an optical signal and includes an unperforated central strip extended lengthwise and three rows of circular perforations disposed on each side of the unperforated central strip. The perforated resonant structure is formed along a boundary of the photonic crystal waveguide. The perforated resonant structure is configured to be resonant at a frequency band that is a subset of a bandwidth of the optical signal. The perforated resonant structure includes an outer segment, a middle segment, and an inner segment of the circular perforations that are offset away from the unperforated central strip at a first, second, and third offset distance.

Hyperuniform disordered material with perforated resonant structure

In various embodiments, energy is harvested from a plurality of photons of received light, each photon having energy below an activation energy threshold of a photon activated process. The harvested energy from one or more of the photons is aggregated until the aggregated energy exceeds the activation energy level. The aggregated energy is then outputted, to e.g. a photolytic power source, a photovoltaic power source or a laser gain media.

Harvesting and aggregating low photonic energy

An optical fiber having a conductive layer disposed therearound has sections removed therefrom that form gaps that expose the underlying optical fiber. Light manifolds are formed at each gap, such as are provided by Bragg gratings photoinduced in the core at each gap, and photoconductive material is disposed at each of the gaps. An opaque coating may optionally be disposed over the outside of the photoconductive material to ensure that it is activated by light propagating within the optical fiber. Light transmitted down the fiber may be controllably coupled output of the fiber at each of the gaps. The optical fiber thus provides multiple functions including electrical conductor, light manifold, and substrate on which the photoconductive material is deposited.

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