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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. 05, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2002
Applicant:
Douglas Charles John Reid, Rugby, GB;
Inventor:
Douglas Charles John Reid, Rugby, GB;
Assignee:
Bookham Technology, PLC, Towcester, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A tuneable laser includes a gain section () bounded by two mirrors (and) at least one mirror being a chirp grating. At least one of the mirrors includes a plurality of selectable electrodes (to) to enable the grating to be selectively activated to produce a selective reflection at a predetermined wavelength.