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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2006
Applicants:
Poh-boon Phua, Singapore, SG;
Chee Wei Wong, New York, NY (US);
Erich P. Ippen, Belmont, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A polarization controller includes a phase retarder having a rotation about an {1,0,0} axis that receives an optical signal from a waveguide structure. At least one nanoelectromechanical dielectric perturber produces ±45° birefringent axes by placing the at least one nanoelectromechanical dielectric perturber at selective positions around the phase retarder to produce dynamic change in the effective index in one of the modes existent in an extraordinary axial direction.