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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Darius Urbonas, Adliswil, CH;
Rainer F. Mahrt, Maennedorf, CH;
Thilo H. C. Stoeferle, Rueschlikon, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to configure an optical device. The method may rely on an optical device that includes two parallel mirrors extending, each, parallel to a reference plane, and an active material extending between the mirrors. An average plane of the active material is parallel to said reference plane, so as to form an optical resonator. The active material is energized so as to non-volatilely alter a refractive index and/or an optical absorption in one or more regions of said material. This results in forming one or more cavities, respectively, in which light can be laterally confined, in-plane with said average plane, in addition to being confined between the mirrors, along a direction perpendicular to said reference plane. Each of the one or more cavities has an altered mode profile compared to a non-altered region of the active material. Related methods and optical devices are also disclosed.