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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ian Edward Day, Old Headington, GB;
Assignee:
Bookham Technology PLC, , GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/714 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/714 ;
Abstract
A thermo-optic semiconductor device has one semiconductor region providing an optical waveguide and an adjacent semiconductor region providing a resistive heater between two doped regions, current may be passed through the resistive heater within the adjacent semiconductor region to heat it and thereby vary the optical characteristics of the waveguide.