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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990

Filed:

Jun. 13, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

David R Haas, New York, NY (US);

Hyun-Nam Yoon, New Providence, NJ (US);

Chia C Teng, Edison, NJ (US);

Hong-Tai Man, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

James B Stamatoff, Westfield, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Hoechst Celanese Corp., Somerville, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9614 ; 350 9612 ; 350 9613 ;
Abstract

In one embodiment this invention provides a polarization-insensitive interferometric waveguide electrooptic modulator device. In a Mach-Zehnder type of waveguide geometry, one of the divergent optical paths has two sets of electrodes, which apply a horizontal electric field and a vertical electric field, respectively, to a nonlinear optically responsive polymeric medium in the optical path. The polymer medium section between each set of electrodes has a noncentrosymmetric molecular orientation parallel to the respective electric fields.


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