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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2002
Philip Charles Danby Hobbs, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Maurice Mcglashan-powell, Mt. Vernon, NY (US);
Philip Charles Danby Hobbs, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Maurice McGlashan-Powell, Mt. Vernon, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus (and method) for launching a modulated optical signal, includes a waveguide, an antenna structure for communicating with the waveguide and with an externally-applied optical field and having an output port, and an electrically-variable-impedance device connected at the antenna's output port, capable of responding at a frequency of an externally-applied optical field and having its impedance at the optical frequency changed by an applied electrical signal.
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