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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2015
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Anthony L. Lentine, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Rohan Deodatta Kekatpure, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William A. Zortman, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Daniel J. Savignon, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A photonic resonator system is designed to use thermal tuning to adjust the resonant wavelength of each resonator in the system, with a separate tuning circuit associated with each resonator so that individual adjustments may be made. The common electrical ground connection between the tuning circuits is particularly formed to provide thermal isolation between adjacent resonators by including a capacitor along each return path to ground, where the presence of the capacitor's dielectric material provides the thermal isolation. The use of capacitively coupling necessarily requires the use of an AC current as an input to the heater element (conductor/resistor) of each resonator, where the RMS value of the AC signal is indicative of the amount of heat that is generated along the element and the degree of wavelength tuning that is obtained.
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