Patents by Inventor Hélèn DEBREGEAS-SILLARD

Hélèn DEBREGEAS-SILLARD 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).

  • Tunable laser emission device
    Patent number: 9160143
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser emission device (1) comprises: a first waveguide (31) comprising an optical amplification means for producing a stimulated light emission, the first waveguide extending in a longitudinal direction of the emission device, a second waveguide (5) made of silicon on silicon dioxide and disposed parallel to the first waveguide spaced from the first waveguide in a vertical direction of the emission device so as to allow the existence of a hybrid optical mode coupled at one and the same time to the second waveguide and to the first waveguide, the second waveguide comprising a distributed reflector (9) along the second waveguide, the second waveguide comprising transverse zones (11, 12, 13, 14) doped differently so as to form a polar junction oriented in a transverse direction of the emission device. Electrodes (15, 16) coupled to the doped transverse zones modify an effective index seen by the hybrid optical mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Engerie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Helen Debregeas-Sillard, Badhise B. Bakir, Guang-Hua Duan, Nicolas Chimot
  • TUNABLE LASER EMISSION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140369700
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser emission device (1) comprises: a first waveguide (31) comprising an optical amplification means for producing a stimulated light emission, the first waveguide extending in a longitudinal direction of the emission device, a second waveguide (5) made of silicon on silicon dioxide and disposed parallel to the first waveguide spaced from the first waveguide in a vertical direction of the emission device so as to allow the existence of a hybrid optical mode coupled at one and the same time to the second waveguide and to the first waveguide, the second waveguide comprising a distributed reflector (9) along the second waveguide, the second waveguide comprising transverse zones (11, 12, 13, 14) doped differently so as to form a polar junction oriented in a transverse direction of the emission device. Electrodes (15, 16) coupled to the doped transverse zones modify an effective index seen by the hybrid optical mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Hélèn DEBREGEAS-SILLARD, Badhise Ben BAKIR, Guang-Hua DUAN, Nicolas CHIMOT