Patents by Inventor Francois Polack

Francois Polack 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).

  • Publication number: 20050270647
    Abstract: The invention concerns a two-dimensional diffraction gratting for the dispersion of polychromatic or quasi-monochromatic luminous flux including a substrate (2) having a surface (3), a first (5) and a second (6) stacks of thin biperiodic layers of period d in the thickness direction, including at least ten periods, each period d being formed of layers of at least two different materials (7, 8), said stacks (5, 6) forming contiguous lines (11) of width p/2, parallel to one another, and repeated periodically along a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate (2) with a period p, the second stack (6) being alternate with the first stack (5) and offset in width by d/2, so that the stacks (5 and 6) form a thick gratting (9) carried by the substrate (2). According to the invention, said thick grafting (9) consists of the doubly periodical repetition of a same unit cell, topped with a thin surface gratting (10) having an amplitude at the most equal to d/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Francois Polack, Mourad Idir, Erick Jourdain, Audrey Liard-Cloup