Article: Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Optical Waveguide Circuit

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Shrenik Delwala of Orefield, Pa., has developed an optical waveguide device that includes an active optical waveguide device and a passive optical waveguide device.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The active optical waveguide device is formed at least in part on a semiconductor layer and includes an electrode portion. A region of altered effective mode index is created by the active optical waveguide device and controlled by application of an electric voltage to the electrode portion in a manner that alters a free carrier density of the region of altered effective mode index. Changing the electric voltage to the electrode portion changes the ...

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