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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:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2010
Applicants:
Onur Kilic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gordon S. Kino, Stanford, CA (US);
Olav Solgaard, Stanford, CA (US);
Inventors:
Onur Kilic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gordon S. Kino, Stanford, CA (US);
Olav Solgaard, Stanford, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method utilizes an optical resonator that includes a reflective element and a spatial mode filter positioned relative to the reflective element such that light emitted from the spatial mode filter is reflected by the reflective element. The optical resonator has an optical resonance with a resonance lineshape that is asymmetric as a function of wavelength.