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AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsDana Bookbinder, Joel Carberry, Steven Demartino, Gaylord Francis, Scott Glaeseman, Robert Morena, Brent Wedding
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An optical device, and a method of producing the device, are disclosed. The device comprises a substrate and an optical waveguide component affixed to the z, substrate with a glass frit fusion seal formed and locked within a recessed void in the substrate, the glass frit fusion seal being the fused product of a low melting glass frit. The recessed void in the substrate includes a region for receiving the optical waveguide component and an intersecting region that secures the placement of the glass frit fusion seal. The optical waveguide component is affixed to the substrate in order to control temperature varying optical properties of the component.
An optical waveguide fiber grating substrate for controlling optical properties of an optical waveguide fiber grating which vary with temperature, said optical waveguide fiber grating substrate having a negative coefficient of thermal expansion, said substrate defining a first longitudinal channel for longitudinally receiving an optical waveguide fiber gratings, said substrate defining a first crosscut recess which intersects said first longitudinal channel, said first crosscut recess provides a first force application location wherein the substrate applies a force to the optical waveguide fiber grating at the first force application location in order to control temperature varying optical properties of the optical waveguide fiber grating.
An optical device comprising an optical waveguide fiber grating, said optical waveguide fiber grating attached to a substrate so that the substrate applies a force to said fiber in order to control temperature variant properties of the optical waveguide fiber grating:
An optical device comprising an optical waveguide fiber grating having a positive thermal expansion, said optical waveguide fiber grating attached under tension to a substrate having a negative thermal expansion so that the substrate applies a force to said fiber, said force varying with temperature, in order to control temperature variant properties of the optical waveguide fiber grating wherein said optical waveguide fiber grating is attached to the substrate with a glass frit fusion seal.
An optical device comprised of an optical waveguide fiber grating affixed with a glass frit fusion seal to a negative thermal expansion substrate.
A method of making an optical device comprised of an optical waveguide fiber grating and a substrate, wherein said substrate controls temperature variant properties of said optical waveguide fiber grating, said method comprising:
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