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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:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 14 ; 385129 ; 385132 ; 385147 ; 385901 ;
Abstract
An environmentally protected integrated optical component and its production process is disclosed. The component has at least one cavity (26a) isolated from the environment formed in at least one light guide layer (16, 18), with the cavity being filled with a fluid or a polymer (27) having a refractive index which is different or which can be made different from the refractive index of the layer. In particular, the cavity is filled with air. The component can be a splitting plate, a mirror, a grating, a microguide or a lens.