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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eli Yablonovitch, Leonardo, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359515 ; 359896 ; 359838 ; 359900 ;
Abstract
An omnidirectional optical reflector structure (41, 52, 61) is made by forming a plurality of holes in a solid body (11) so as to result in a face-centered cubic lattice. Conventiently, the desired structure can be made by three successive steps of microfabrication, e.g., in the presence of a mask layer (12). Preferred reflector structures can be used, e.g., as external mirrors as filters, and as cavity materials of communications lasers with improved signal-to-noise ratio.