Patents by Inventor Annette Grot

Annette Grot has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Two-dimensional photonic crystal slab waveguide
    Publication number: 20020159126
    Abstract: Two-dimensional photonic crystal slab apparatus and a method for fabricating two-dimensional photonic crystal slab apparatus. A two-dimensional photonic crystal slab apparatus has a photonic crystal slab containing a two-dimensional periodic lattice, and upper and lower cladding layers for the photonic crystal slab, the upper and lower cladding layers each having a metallic cladding layer. The metallic cladding layers permit achieving substantially perfect light transmission through a waveguide in the slab, even when the waveguide is strongly bent. The fabrication method includes forming a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab from a dielectric slab supported on a substrate by, for example, an etch process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Mihail M. Sigalas, Annette Grot, Laura W. Mirkarimi, Curt Flory