G02B 6/3536
Involving evanescent coupling variation
Official title: {involving evanescent coupling variation, e.g. by a moving element such as a membrane which changes the effective refractive index (mode converters G02B6/14; adjustable lateral coupling between waveguides G02B6/283; electro- optical refractive index variations G02F1/0118)}
G02B6/3536 (Involving evanescent coupling variation) appears on 151 US grants and 133 published applications in this corpus.
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