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AssigneesUniversita della Calabria, Universita' Degli Studi Di Roma “La Sapienza”, Cnr - Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
InventorsAntonio D'Alessandro, Romeo Beccherelli, Cesare Umeton, Rita Asquini, Domenico Donisi, Luciano De Sio, Roberto Caputo
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An electro-optical filter made of a support in which an optical guide with a diffused channel waveguide and of a cover, that are created in borosilicate glass, and which includes a gap obtained by the use of suitable spacers, filled with a grating constituted of alternating strips of polymer and liquid crystal called POLICRYPS (Polymer Liquid CRYstal Polymer Slices), and with first electrodes that are coplanar to the support and next to the optical guide with a channel, that electrically control the grating making the filter tunable, and a manufacturing process.
Electro-optical tunable filter made of a support in which a diffused channel optical waveguide has been created in a glass support, preferably of the borosilicate type, and by a cover in glass, also preferably of the borosilicate type, characterised by the fact that said support and said cover have a gap between them obtained by using suitable spacers, that said gap is filled with a grating constituted of alternating strips of polymer and liquid crystal (POlymer LIquid CRYstal Polymer Slices) POLICRYPS, and that at least one pair of first electrodes, next to the channel optical waveguide, control the grating electrically.
Manufacturing process for a electro-optical tunable filter according to any of the previous claims characterised by the fact that the optical waveguide on a support of borosilicate glass is obtained through the technique of double ion-exchange, that a first ion-exchange K+/Na+, with a glass support immersed in a first saline bath of potassium nitrate, is carried out at a temperature of between 380° C. and 450° C. for a time of between 60 and 90 minutes, that a mask of metal, preferably aluminium, is deposited by vacuum evaporation on the glass support and defined photolithographically for the determination of the optical waveguide with a channel, that a second exchange Ag+/Na+with the immersion of the glass support in a second saline bath constituted of a mixture of sodium nitrate and silver nitrate is carried out at a temperature of between 320° C. and 350° C. for a time of between 4.5 and 6 hours, that a second photolithographic process is carried out and then a subsequent etching of the metal that is partially removed in such a way as to leave coplanar electrodes for the application of the voltage, that a covering glass is glued to the support containing the optical waveguide, that suitable spacers are used in such a way as to obtain a gap of a few microns, that the gap is filled with a mixture of liquid crystal and pre-polymer for the creation of the grating, that the mixture of liquid crystal and pre-polymer is exposed to a figure of interference, for a suitable period, between two laser strips of a wavelength suitable to bring about the polymerisation of the pre-polymer.
Manufacturing process for a electro-optical tunable filter according to claims either 7 or 8 characterised by the fact that the two laser beams have a wavelength of between 320 and 380 nm, and preferably between 350 and 380 nm.
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