WO2005076706A2 - Multicolor structured waveguide - Google Patents
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- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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- the present invention relates generally to a transport for propagating radiation, and more specifically to a waveguide having a guiding channel that includes optically- active constituents that enhance a responsiveness of a radiation-influencing property of the waveguide to an outside influence.
- the Faraday Effect is a phenomenon wherein a plane of polarization of linearly polarized light rotates when the light is propagated through a transparent medium placed in a magnetic field and in parallel with the magnetic field.
- An effectiveness of the magnitude of polarization rotation varies with the strength of the magnetic field, the Verdet constant inherent to the medium and the light path length.
- V is called the Verdet constant (and has units of arc minutes cm-1 Gauss-1)
- B is the magnetic field
- d is the propagation distance subject to the field.
- Faraday rotation occurs because imposition of a magnetic field alters the energy levels.
- An optical isolator includes a Faraday rotator to rotate by 45° the plane of polarization, a magnet for application of magnetic field, a polarizer, and an analyzer.
- Conventional optical isolators have been of the bulk type wherein no waveguide (e.g., optical fiber) is used.
- magneto-optical modulators have been produced from discrete crystals containing paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials, particularly garnets (yttrium/iron garnet for example). Devices such as these require considerable magnetic control fields.
- the magneto-optical effects are also used in thin-layer technology, particularly for producing non-reciprocal devices, such as non-reciprocal junctions. Devices such as these are based on a conversion of modes by Faraday Effect or by Cotton-Moutton effect.
- a further drawback to using paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials in magneto- optic devices is that these materials may adversely affect properties of the radiation other than polarization angle, such as for example amplitude, phase, and/or frequency.
- FPDs flat panel displays
- CRTs cathode ray tubes
- a main challenge confronting existing FPD technology is cost, as compared with the dominant cathode ray tube (CRT) technology ("flat panel” means “flat” or “thin” compared to a CRT display, whose standard depth is nearly equal to the width of the display area).
- CRT cathode ray tube
- HDTV projection systems face the dual challenge of minimizing a depth of the display, while maintaining uniform image quality within the constraints of a relatively short throw- distance to the display surface. This balancing typically results in a less- than-satisfactory compromise at the price of relatively lower cost.
- a technically-demanding frontier for projection systems is in the domain of the movie theater.
- Motion-picture screen installations are an emerging application area for projection systems, and in this application, issues regarding console depth versus uniform image quality typically do not apply. Instead, the challenge is in equaling (at minimum) the quality of traditional 35 mm film projectors, at a competitive cost.
- Existing technologies including direct Drive Image Light Amplifier (“D-ILA”), digital light processing (“DLP”), and grating-light-valve (“GLV”)-based systems, while recently equaling the quality of traditional film projection equipment, have significant cost disparities as compared to traditional film projectors.
- D-ILA direct Drive Image Light Amplifier
- DLP digital light processing
- GLV grating-light-valve
- Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier is a reflective liquid crystal light valve device developed by JVC Projectors.
- a driving integrated circuit (“IC") writes an image directly onto a CMOS based light valve.
- Liquid crystals change the reflectivity in proportion to a signal level.
- These vertically aligned (homeoptropic) crystals achieve very fast response times with a rise plus fall time less than 16 milliseconds.
- Light from a xenon or ultra high performance (“UHP”) metal halide lamp travels through a polarized beam splitter, reflects off the D-ILA device, and is projected onto a screen.
- UHP ultra high performance
- DMD chip At the heart of a DLPTM projection system is an optical semiconductor known as a Digital Micromirror Device, or DMD chip, which was pioneered by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments in 1987.
- the DMD chip is a sophisticated light switch. It contains a rectangular array of up to 1.3 million hinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micromirrors measures less than one-fifth the width of a human hair, and corresponds to one pixel in a projected image.
- a DMD chip When a DMD chip is coordinated with a digital video or graphic signal, a light source, and a projection lens, its mirrors reflect an all-digital image onto a screen or other surface.
- the DMD and the sophisticated electronics that surround it are called Digital Light ProcessingTM technology.
- GLV Grating-Light- Valve
- a prototype device based on the technology achieved a contrast ratio of 3000: 1 (typical high-end projection displays today achieve only 1000:1).
- the device uses three lasers chosen at specific wavelengths to deliver color.
- the three lasers are: red (642 nm), green (532 nm), and blue (457nm).
- the process uses MEMS technology (MicroElectroMechanical) and consists of a microribbon array of 1,080 pixels on a line. Each pixel consists of six ribbons, three fixed and three which move up/down. When electrical energy is applied, the three mobile ribbons form a kind of diffraction grating which "filters" out light.
- Another conventional use for the Faraday Effect in the context of optical fibers is as a system to overlay a low-rate data transmission on top of conventional high-speed transmission of data through the fiber.
- the Faraday Effect is used to slowly modulate the high-speed data to provide out-of-band signaling or control. Again, this use is implemented with the telecommunications use as the predominate consideration.
- the fiber is designed for telecommunications usage and any modification of the fiber properties for participation in the Faraday Effect is not permitted to degrade the telecommunications properties that typically include attenuation and dispersion performance metrics for kilometer+-length fiber channels.
- optical fiber manufacturing techniques were developed and refined to permit efficient and cost-effective manufacturing of extremely long-lengths of optically pure and uniform fibers.
- a high-level overview of the basic manufacturing process for optical fibers includes manufacture of a perform glass cylinder, drawing fibers from the preform, and testing the fibers.
- a perform blank is made using a modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process that bubbles oxygen through silicon solutions having a requisite chemical composition necessary to produce the desired attributes (e.g., index of refraction, coefficient of expansion, melting point, etc.) of the final fiber.
- MCVD modified chemical vapor deposition
- the gas vapors are conducted to an inside of a synthetic silica or quartz tube (cladding) in a special lathe.
- the lathe is turned and a torch moves along an outside of the tube. Heat from the torch causes the chemicals in the gases to react with oxygen and form silicon dioxide and germanium dioxide and these dioxides deposit on the inside of the tube and fuse together to form glass. The conclusion of this process produces the blank preform.
- the blank preform is made, cooled, and tested, it is placed inside a fiber drawing tower having the preform at a top near a graphite furnace.
- the furnace melts a tip of the preform resulting in a molten "glob" that begins to fall due to gravity. As it falls, it cools and forms a strand of glass.
- This strand is threaded through a series of processing stations for applying desired coatings and curing the coatings and attached to a tractor that pulls the strand at a computer-monitored rate so that the strand has the desired thickness. Fibers are pulled at about a rate of thirty-three to sixty-six feet second with the drawn strand wound onto a spool. It is not uncommon for these spools to contain more than one point four (1.4) miles of optical fiber.
- This finished fiber is tested, including tests for the performance metrics.
- performance metrics for telecommunications grade fibers include: tensile strength (100,000 pounds per square inch or greater), refractive index profile (numerical aperture and screen for optical defects), fiber geometry (core diameter, cladding dimensions and coating diameters), attenuation (degradation of light of various wavelengths over distance), bandwidth, chromatic dispersion, operating temperature/ range, temperature dependence on attenuation, and ability to conduct light underwater.
- PCFs photonic crystal fibers
- a PCF is an optical fiber/ waveguiding structure that uses a microstructured arrangement of low-index material in a background material of higher refractive index.
- the background material is often undoped silica and the low index region is typically provided by air voids running along the length of the fiber.
- PCFs are divided into two general categories: (1) high index guiding fibers, and (2) low index guiding fibers.
- high index guiding fibers are guiding light in a solid core by the Modified Total Internal Reflection (MTIR) principle. Total internal reflection is caused by the lower effective index in the microstructured air-filled region.
- MTIR Modified Total Internal Reflection
- Low index guiding fibers guide light using a photonic bandgap (PBG) effect.
- PBG photonic bandgap
- inventions are used to include the wide range of waveguiding structures and methods, the range of these structures may be modified as described herein to implement embodiments of the present invention.
- the characteristics of different fiber types aides are adapted for the many different applications for which they are used. Operating a fiber optic system properly relies on knowing what type of fiber is being used and why.
- Multimode fibers include step- index and graded-index fibers
- single-mode fibers include step-index, matched clad, depressed clad and other exotic structures.
- Multimode fiber is best designed for shorter transmission distances, and is suited for use in LAN systems and video surveillance.
- Single-mode fiber are best designed for longer transmission distances, making it suitable for long-distance telephony and multichannel television broadcast systems.
- "Air-clad" or evanescently-coupled waveguides include optical wire and optical nano-wire.
- Stepped-index generally refers to provision of an abrupt change of an index of refraction for the waveguide - a core has an index of refraction greater than that of a cladding.
- Graded-index refers to structures providing a refractive index profile that gradually decreases farther from a center of the core (for example the core has a parabolic profile).
- Single-mode fibers have developed many different profiles tailored for particular applications (e.g., length and radiation frequency (ies) such as non dispersion-shifted fiber (NDSF), dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) and nonzero-dispersion-shifted fiber(NZ-DSF)).
- NDSF non dispersion-shifted fiber
- DSF dispersion-shifted fiber
- NZ-DSF nonzero-dispersion-shifted fiber
- PM fiber is designed to propagate only one polarization of the input light.
- PM fiber contains a feature not seen in other fiber types.
- stress rods there are additional (2) longitudinal regions called stress rods. As their name implies, these stress rods create stress in the core of the fiber such that the transmission of only one polarization plane of light is favored.
- YIG yttrium- iron-garnet
- FZ floating zone
- the sintered material of a prescribed formulation is placed in the central area between the mother stick and the seed crystal in order to create the fluid needed to promote the deposition of YIG single crystal.
- Light from halogen lamps is focused on the central area, while the two shafts are rotated.
- the central area when heated in an oxygenic atmosphere, forms a molten zone. Under this condition, the mother stick and the seed are moved at a constant speed and result in the movement of the molten zone along the mother stick, thus growing single crystals from the YIG sinter.
- the FZ method grows crystal from a mother stick that is suspended in the air, contamination is precluded and a high-purity crystal is cultivated.
- the FZ method produces ingots measuring 012 x 120 mm.
- Bi-substituted iron garnet thick films are grown by a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) method that includes an LPE furnace. Crystal materials and a PbO-B2O3 flux are heated and made molten in a platinum crucible. Single crystal wafers, such as (GdCa)2(GaMgZr)5O12, are soaked on the molten surface while rotated, which causes a Bi-substituted iron garnet thick film to be grown on the wafers. Thick films measuring as much as 3 inches in diameter can be grown.
- LPE liquid phase epitaxy
- Newer systems provide for the production and synthesis of Bismuth-substituted yttrium-iron-garnet (Bi-YIG) materials, thin-films and nanopowders.
- Bi-YIG Bismuth-substituted yttrium-iron-garnet
- nGimat Co. at 5313 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30341 uses a combustion chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) system for production of thin film coatings.
- CCVD combustion chemical vapor deposition
- precursors which are the metal-bearing chemicals used to coat an object, are dissolved in a solution that typically is a combustible fuel. This solution is atomized to form microscopic droplets by means of a special nozzle. An oxygen stream then carries these droplets to a flame where they are combusted.
- a substrate (a material being coated) is coated by simply drawing it in front of the flame. Heat from the flame provides energy that is required to vaporize the droplets and
- epitaxial liftoff has been used for achieving heterogeneous integration of many III-V and elemental semiconductor systems.
- it has been difficult using some processes to integrate devices of many other important material systems.
- a good example of this problem has been the integration of single-crystal transition metal oxides on semiconductor platforms, a system needed for on-chip thin film optical isolators.
- An implementation of epitaxial liftoff in magnetic garnets has been reported. Deep ion implantation is used to create a buried sacrificial layer in single-crystal yttrium iron garnet (YIG) and bismuth-substituted YIG (Bi-YIG) epitaxial layers grown on gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG).
- YIG single-crystal yttrium iron garnet
- Bi-YIG bismuth-substituted YIG
- the damage generated by the implantation induces a large etch selectivity between the sacrificial layer and the rest of the garnet.
- Ten-micron-thick films have been lifted off from the original GGG substrates by etching in phosphoric acid. Millimeter-size pieces have been transferred to the silicon and gallium arsenide substrates.
- a stack featured four heteroepitaxial layers of 81-nm-thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) atop 70-nm-thick bismuth iron garnet (BIG), a 279-nm-thick central layer of BIG, and four layers of BIG atop YIG.
- YIG yttrium iron garnet
- BIG bismuth iron garnet
- BIG a 279-nm-thick central layer of BIG
- a pulsed laser deposition using an LPX305i 248-nm KrF excimer laser was used.
- the prior art employs specialty magneto-optic materials in most magneto-optic systems, but it has also been known to employ the Faraday Effect with less traditional magneto-optic materials such as the non-PCF optical fibers by creating the necessary magnetic field strength - as long as the telecommunications metrics are not compromised.
- post-manufacturing methods are used in conjunction with pre-made optical fibers to provide certain specialty coatings for use in certain magneto-optical applications.
- post- manufacture processing of the premade material is sometimes necessary to achieve various desired results. Such extra processing increases the final cost of the special fiber and introduces additional situations in which the fiber may fail to meet specifications.
- magneto-applications typically include a small number (typically one or two) of magneto-optical components, the relatively high cost per unit is tolerable.
- the final costs in terms of dollars and time
- an apparatus and method for a multicolor picture element for a display including a number N of radiation sources for producing N number of input wave components, at least one input wave component for each primary color in a color model; a number M of modulators proximate one another, where M is greater than or equal to N, each the modulator including: a transport for receiving one of the input wave components, the transport including a waveguide having a guiding region and one or more bounding regions; and a plurality of constituents disposed in the waveguide for enhancing an influencer response in the waveguide; and a transport influencer, operatively coupled to the transport and responsive to a control signal, for affecting a radiation-amplitude-controlling property of the input wave component by inducing the influencer response in the waveguide as the input wave component travels through the transport; a controller, coupled to the modulators, for selectively asserting each the control signal to independently control the amplitude-controlling property of each the modulator; and an amplitude-modulating system, coupled
- a method of operating a multicolor picture element includes: a) producing an N number of input wave components, at least one input wave component for each primary color in a color model; and b) producing a plurality of output wave components from the input wave components, each the output wave component provided from a number M of modulators proximate one another, where M is greater than or equal to N, each the modulator including: a transport for receiving one of the input wave components, the transport including a waveguide having a guiding region and one or more bounding regions; and a plurality of constituents disposed in the waveguide for enhancing an influencer response in the waveguide; and a transport influencer, operatively coupled to the transport and responsive to a control signal, for affecting a radiation- amplitude-controlling property of the input wave component by inducing the influencer response in the waveguide as the input wave component travels through the transport.
- a multicolor picture element manufacturing method including: a) producing a plurality of modulators with each the modulator converting an input wave component into a con- trollably modulated output wave component, each the modulator including: a transport for receiving one of the input wave components, the transport including a waveguide having a guiding region and one or more bounding regions; and a plurality of constituents disposed in the waveguide for enhancing an influencer response in the waveguide; and a transport influencer, operatively coupled to the transport and responsive to a control signal, for affecting a radiation-amplitude-controlling property of the input wave component by inducing the influencer response in the waveguide as the input wave component travels through the transport; and b) assembling the plurality of modulators into an assembly with the modulators collectively producing a picture element from the output wave components wherein individual ones of the modulators produce individual primary colors from a color model.
- the apparatus, method, computer program product and propagated signal of the present invention provide an advantage of using modified and mature waveguide manufacturing processes.
- the waveguide is an optical transport, preferably an optical fiber or waveguide channel adapted to enhance short-length property influencing characteristics of the influencer by including optically-active constituents while preserving desired attributes of the radiation.
- the property of the radiation to be influenced includes a polarization state of the radiation and the influencer uses a Faraday Effect to control a polarization rotation angle using a controllable, variable magnetic field propagated parallel to a transmission axis of the optical transport.
- the optical transport is constructed to enable the polarization to be controlled quickly using low magnetic field strength over very short optical paths.
- Radiation is initially controlled to produce a wave component having one particular polarization; the polarization of that wave component is influenced so that a second polarizing filter modulates an amplitude of emitted radiation in response to the influencing effect.
- this modulation includes extinguishing the emitted radiation.
- Fig_l is a general schematic plan view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig_2 is a detailed schematic plan view of a specific implementation of the preferred embodiment shown in Fig_l;
- Fig_3 is an end view of the preferred embodiment shown in Fig_2;
- Fig_4 is a schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment for a display assembly
- Fig_5 is a view of one arrangement for output ports of the front panel shown in Fig_4;
- Fig_6 is a schematic representation of a preferred embodiment of the present invention for a portion of the structured waveguide shown in Fig_2;
- Fig_7 is a schematic block diagram of a representative waveguide manufacturing system for making a preferred embodiment of a waveguide preform of the present invention
- Fig_8 is a schematic diagram of a representative fiber drawing system for making a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig_9 is a schematic diagram of an alternate preferred embodiment for a modulator having multiple channels
- Fig_10 is a schematic diagram of an alternate preferred embodiment of the present invention illustrating a multifrequency (e.g., a multicolor) system
- Fig_l 1 is an alternate preferred embodiment for a multifrequency system similar to the system shown in Fig_10;
- Fig_12 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention for a modulator having integrated color production
- Fig_13 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of an alternate system for structuring and propagating multiple channels of controllable radiation to produce a pixel/sub-pixel;
- Fig_14 is an end view schematic of the system shown in Fig_13 further illustrating the presence of an optional center core.
- the present invention relates to an alternative waveguide technology that offers advantages over the prior art to enhance a responsiveness of a radiation-influencing property of the waveguide to an outside influence while reducing unit cost and increasing manufacturability, reproducibility, uniformity, and reliability.
- the following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a patent application and its requirements. Various modifications to the preferred embodiment and the generic principles and features described herein will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiment shown but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features described herein.
- an optical transport is a waveguide particularly adapted to enhance the property influencing characteristics of the influencer while preserving desired attributes of the radiation.
- the property of the radiation to be influenced includes its polarization rotation state and the influencer uses a Faraday Effect to control the polarization angle using a controllable, variable magnetic field propagated parallel to a transmission axis of the optical transport.
- the optical transport is constructed to enable the polarization to be controlled quickly using low magnetic field strength over very short optical paths.
- the optical transport includes optical fibers exhibiting high Verdet constants for the wavelengths of the transmitted radiation while concurrently preserving the waveguiding attributes of the fiber and otherwise providing for efficient construction of, and cooperative affectation of the radiation property(ies), by the property influencer.
- the property influencer is a structure for implementing the property control of the radiation transmitted by the optical transport.
- the property influencer is operatively coupled to the optical transport, which in one implementation for an optical transport formed by an optical fiber having a core and one or more cladding layers, preferably the influencer is integrated into or on one or more of the cladding layers without significantly adversely altering the waveguiding attributes of the optical transport.
- the preferred implementation of the property influencer is a polarization influencing structure, such as a coil, coilform, or other structure capable of integration that supports/produces a Faraday Effect manifesting field in the optical transport (and thus affects the transmitted radiation) using one or more magnetic fields (one or more of which are controllable).
- a polarization influencing structure such as a coil, coilform, or other structure capable of integration that supports/produces a Faraday Effect manifesting field in the optical transport (and thus affects the transmitted radiation) using one or more magnetic fields (one or more of which are controllable).
- the structured waveguide of the present invention may serve in some embodiments as a transport in a modulator that controls an amplitude of propagated radiation.
- the radiation emitted by the modulator will have a maximum radiation amplitude and a minimum radiation amplitude, controlled by the interaction of the property influencer on the optical transport. Extinguishing simply refers to the minimum radiation amplitude being at a sufficiently low level (as appropriate for the particular embodiment) to be characterized as "off" or “dark” or other classification indicating an absence of radiation. In other words, in some applications a sufficiently low but detectable/discernable radiation amplitude may properly be identified as "extinguished" when that level meets the parameters for the implementation or embodiment.
- the present invention improves the response of the waveguide to the influencer by use of optically active constituents disposed in the guiding region during waveguide manufacture.
- Fig_l is a general schematic plan view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention for a Faraday structured waveguide modulator 100.
- Modulator 100 includes an optical transport 105, a property influencer 110 operatively coupled to transport 105, a first property element 120, and a second property element 125.
- Transport 105 may be implemented based upon many well-known optical waveguide structures of the art.
- transport 105 may be a specially adapted optical fiber (conventional or PCF) having a guiding channel including a guiding region and one or more bounding regions (e.g., a core and one or more cladding layers for the core), or transport 105 may be a waveguide channel of a bulk device or substrate having one or more such guiding channels.
- a conventional waveguide structure is modified based upon the type of radiation property to be influenced and the nature of influencer 110.
- Influencer 110 is a structure for manifesting property influence (directly or indirectly such as through the disclosed effects) on the radiation transmitted through transport 105 and/or on transport 105.
- Many different types of radiation properties may be influenced, and in many cases a particular structure used for influencing any given property may vary from implementation to implementation.
- properties that may be used in turn to control an output amplitude of the radiation are desirable properties for influence.
- radiation polarization angle is one property that may be influenced and is a property that may be used to control a transmitted amplitude of the radiation.
- Use of another element, such as a fixed polarizer will control radiation amplitude based upon the polarization angle of the radiation compared to the transmission axis of the polarizer. Controlling the polarization angle varies the transmitted radiation in this example.
- a Faraday Effect is but one example of one way of achieving polarization control within transport 105.
- a preferred embodiment of influencer 110 for Faraday polarization rotation influence uses a combination of variable and fixed magnetic fields proximate to or integrated within/on transport 105. These magnetic fields are desirably generated so that a controlling magnetic field is oriented parallel to a propagation direction of radiation transmitted through transport 105. Properly controlling the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field relative to the transport achieves a desired degree of influence on the radiation polarization angle.
- transport 105 be constructed to improve/maximize the "influencibility" of the selected property by influencer 110.
- transport 105 is doped, formed, processed, and/or treated to increase/maximize the Verdet constant.
- the greater the Verdet constant the easier influencer 110 is able to influence the polarization rotation angle at a given field strength and transport length.
- attention to the Verdet constant is the primary task with other features/attributes/characteristics of the waveguide aspect of transport 105 secondary.
- influencer 110 is integrated or otherwise "strongly associated" with transport 105 through the waveguide manufacturing process (e.g., the preform fabrication and/or drawing process), though some implementations may provide otherwise.
- Element 120 and element 125 are property elements for selecting/filtering/operating on the desired radiation property to be influenced by influencer 110.
- Element 120 may be a filter to be used as a "gating" element to pass wave components of the input radiation having a desired state for the appropriate property, or it may be a "processing" element to conform one or more wave components of the input radiation to a desired state for the appropriate property.
- the gated/processed wave components from element 120 are provided to optical transport 105 and property influencer 110 controllably influences the transported wave components as described above.
- Element 125 is a cooperative structure to element 120 and operates on the influenced wave components.
- Element 125 is a structure that passes WAVE_OUT and controls an amplitude of WAVE_OUT based upon a state of the property of the wave component. The nature and particulars of that control relate to the influenced property and the state of the property from element 120 and the specifics of how that initial state has been influenced by influencer 110.
- element 120 and element 125 may be polarization filters.
- Element 120 selects one specific type of polarization for the wave component, for example right hand circular polarization.
- Influencer 110 controls a polarization rotation angle of radiation as it passes through transport 105.
- Element 125 filters the influenced wave component based upon the final polarization rotation angle as compared to a transmission angle of element 125. In other words, when the polarization rotation angle of the influenced wave component matches the transmission axis of element 125, WAVE_OUT has a high amplitude.
- WAVE_OUT When the polarization rotation angle of the influenced wave component is "crossed" with the transmission axis of element 125, WAVE_OUT has a low amplitude.
- a cross in this context refers to a rotation angle about ninety degrees misaligned with the transmission axis for conventional polarization filters.
- a default condition refers to a magnitude of the output amplitude without influence from influencer 110. For example, by setting the transmission axis of element 125 at a ninety degree relationship to a transmission axis of element 120, the default condition would be a minimum amplitude for the preferred embodiment.
- Element 120 and element 125 may be discrete components or one or both structures may be integrated onto or into transport 105.
- the elements may be localized at an "input” and an "output" of transport 105 as in the preferred embodiment, while in other embodiments these elements may be distributed in particular regions of transport 105 or throughout transport 105.
- WAVE_IN radiation
- RCP right hand circular polarization
- Transport 105 transmits the RCP wave component until it is interacted with by element 125 and the wave component (shown as WAVE_OUT) is passed.
- WAVE_IN typically has multiple orthogonal states to the polarization property (e.g., right hand circular polarization (RCP) and left hand circular polarization (LCP)).
- Element 120 produces a particular state for the polarization rotation property (e.g., passes one of the orthogonal states and blocks/shifts the other so only one state is passed).
- Influencer 110 in response to a control signal, influences that particular polarization rotation of the passed wave component and may change it as specified by the control signal. Influencer 110 of the preferred embodiment is able to influence the polarization rotation property over a range of about ninety degrees. Element 125 then interacts with the wave component as it has been influenced permitting the radiation amplitude of WAVE_IN to be modulated from a maximum value when the wave component polarization rotation matches the transmission axis of element 125 and a minimum value when the wave component polarization is "crossed" with the transmission axis. By use of element 120, the amplitude of WAVE_OUT of the preferred embodiment is variable from a maximum level to an extinguished level.
- Fig_2 is a detailed schematic plan view of a specific implementation of the preferred embodiment shown in Fig_l. This implementation is described specifically to simplify the discussion, though the invention is not limited to this particular example.
- Faraday structured waveguide modulator 100 shown in Fig_l is a Faraday optical modulator 200 shown in Fig_2.
- Modulator 200 includes a core 205, a first cladding layer 210, a second cladding layer 215, a coil or coilform 220 (coil 220 having a first control node 225 and a second control node 230), an input element 235, and an output element 240.
- Fig_3 is a sectional view of the preferred embodiment shown in Fig_2 taken between element 235 and element 240 with like numerals showing the same or corresponding structures.
- Core 205 may contain one or more of the following dopants added by standard fiber manufacturing techniques, e.g., variants on the vacuum deposition method: (a) color dye dopant (makes modulator 200 effectively a color filter alight from a source illumination system), and (b) an optically-active dopant, such as YIG/Bi-YIG or Tb or TGG or other dopant for increasing the Verdet constant of core 205 to achieve efficient Faraday rotation in the presence of an activating magnetic field. Heating or applying stress to the fiber during manufacturing adds holes or irregularities in core 205 to further increase the Verdet constant and/or implement non-linear effects.
- dopants added by standard fiber manufacturing techniques, e.g., variants on the vacuum deposition method: (a) color dye dopant (makes modulator 200 effectively a color filter alight from a source illumination system), and (b) an optically-active dopant, such as YIG/Bi-YIG or Tb or TGG or other do
- silica optical fiber is manufactured with high levels of dopants relative to the silica percentage (this level may be as high as fifty percent dopants).
- Current dopant concentrations in silica structures of other kinds of fiber achieve about ninety-degree rotation in a distance of tens of microns.
- Conventional fiber manufacturers continue to achieve improvements in increasing dopant concentration (e.g., fibers commercially available from JDS Uniphase) and in controlling dopant profile (e.g., fibers commercially available from Corning Incorporated).
- Core 205 achieves sufficiently high and controlled concentrations of optically active dopants to provide requisite quick rotation with low power in micron-scale distances, with these power/distance values continuing to decrease as further improvements are made.
- First cladding layer 210 (optional in the preferred embodiment) is doped with ferromagnetic single-molecule magnets, which become permanently magnetized when exposed to a strong magnetic field. Magnetization of first cladding layer 210 may take place prior to the addition to core 205 or pre-form, or after modulator 200 (complete with core, cladding, coating(s) and/or elements) is drawn. During this process, either the preform or the drawn fiber passes through a strong permanent magnet field ninety degrees offset from a transmission axis of core 20>5. In the preferred embodiment, this magnetization is achieved by an electro-magnetic disposed as an element of a fiber pulling apparatus.
- First cladding layer 210 (with permanent magnetic properties) is provided to saturate the magnetic domains of the optically-active core 205, but does not change the angle of rotation of the radiation passing through fiber 200, since the direction of the magnetic field from layer 210 is at right-angles to the direction of propagation.
- the incorporated provisional application describes a method to optimize an orientation of a doped ferromagnetic cladding by pulverization of non-optimal nuclei in a crystalline structure.
- SMMs single-molecule magnets
- Second cladding layer 215 is doped with a ferrimagnetic or ferromagnetic material and is characterized by an appropriate hysteresis curve. The preferred embodiment uses a “short" curve that is also “wide” and “flat,” when generating the requisite field.
- second cladding layer 215 is saturated by a magnetic field generated by an adjacent field-generating element (e.g., coil 220), itself driven by a signal (e.g., a control pulse) from a controller such as a switching matrix drive circuit (not shown), second cladding layer 215 quickly reaches a degree of magnetization appropriate to the degree of rotation desired for modulator 200.
- second cladding layer 215 remains magnetized at or sufficiently near that level until a subsequent pulse either increases (current in the same direction), refreshes (no current or a +/- maintenance current), or reduces (current in the opposite direction) the magnetization level.
- This remanent flux of doped second cladding layer 215 maintains an appropriate degree of rotation over time without constant application of a field by influencer 110 (e.g., coil 220).
- Alteration of crystalline structure is a method known to the art, and may be employed on a doped silica cladding, either in a fabricated fiber or on a doped preform material.
- the '010 patent is hereby expressly incorporated by reference for all purposes.
- SMMs single-molecule magnets
- Coil 220 of the preferred embodiment is fabricated integrally on or in fiber 200 to generate an initial magnetic field.
- This magnetic field from coil 220 rotates the angle of polarization of radiation transmitted through core 205 and magnetizes the ferri/ ferromagnetic dopant in second cladding layer 215.
- a combination of these magnetic fields maintains the desired angle of rotation for a desired period (such a time of a video frame when a matrix of fibers 200 collectively form a display as described in one of the related patent applications incorporated herein).
- a "coilform" is defined as a structure similar to a coil in that a plurality of conductive segments are disposed parallel to each other and at right-angles to the axis of the fiber.
- coil 220 uses a conductive material that is a conductive polymer that is less efficient than a metal wire. In other implementations, coil 220 uses wider but fewer windings than otherwise would be used with a more efficient material. In still other instances, such as when coil 220 is fabricated by a convenient process but produces coil 220 having a less efficient operation, other parameters compensate as necessary to achieve suitable overall operation.
- Node 225 and node 230 receive a signal for inducing generation of the requisite magnetic fields in core 205, cladding layer 215, and coil 220.
- This signal in a simple embodiment is a DC (direct current) signal of the appropriate magnitude and duration to create the desired magnetic fields and rotate the polarization angle of the WAVE_IN radiation propagating through modulator 20O.
- a controller (not shown) may provide this control signal when modulator 200 is used.
- Input element 235 and output element 240 are polarization filters in the preferred embodiment, provided as discrete components or integrated into/onto core 205.
- Input element 235 as a polarizer, may be implemented in many different ways.
- Various polarization mechanisms may be employed that permit passage of light of a single polarization type (specific circular or linear) into core 205; the preferred embodiment uses a thin-film deposited epitaxially on an "input" end of core 205.
- a preferred illumination system may include a cavity to allow repeated reflection of light of the "wrong" initial polarization; thereby all light ultimately resolves into the admitted or "right” polarization.
- polarization- maintaining waveguides fibers, semiconductor
- Output element 240 of the preferred embodiment is a "polarization filter” element that is ninety degrees offset from the orientation of input element 235 for a default "off" modulator 200. (In some embodiments, the default may be made “on” by aligning the axes of the input and output elements. Similarly, other defaults such as fifty percent amplitude may be implemented by appropriate relationship of the input and output elements and suitable control from the influencer.)
- Element 240 is preferably a thin- film deposited epitaxially on an output end of core 205. Input element 235 and output element 240 may be configured differently from the configurations described here using other polarization filter/control systems.
- the radiation property to be influenced includes a property other than a radiation polarization angle (e.g., phase or frequency)
- other input and output functions are used to properly gate/process/filter the desired property as described above to modulate the amplitude of WAVE_OUT responsive to the influencer.
- Fig_4 is a schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment for a display assembly 400.
- Assembly 400 includes an aggregation of a plurality of picture elements (pixels) each generated by a waveguide modulator 200 such as shown in Fig_2.
- Control signals for control of each influencer of modulators 200 are provided by a controller 405.
- a radiation source 410 provides source radiation for input/control by modulators 200 and a front panel may be used to arrange modulators 200 into a desired pattern and or optionally provide post-output processing of one or more pixels.
- Radiation source 410 may be unitary balanced- white or separate RGB/CM Y tuned source or sources or other appropriate radiation frequency. Source(s) 410 may be remote from input ends of modulator 200 , adjacent these input ends, or integrated onto/into modulator 200 . In some implementations, a single source is used, while other implementations may use several or more (and in some cases, one source per modulator 200 ).
- the preferred embodiment for the optical transport of modulator 200 includes light channels in the form of special optical fibers. But semi- conductor waveguide, waveguiding holes, or other optical waveguiding channels, including channels or regions formed through material "in depth,” are also encompassed within the scope of the present invention. These waveguiding elements are fundamental imaging structures of the display and incorporate, integrally, amplitude modulation mechanisms and color selection mechanisms. In the preferred embodiment for an FPD implementation, a length of each of the light channels is preferably on the order of about tens of microns (though the length may be different as described herein).
- a length of the optical transport is short (on the order of about 20mm and shorter), and able to be continually shortened as the effective Verdet value increases and/or the magnetic field strength increases.
- the actual depth of a display will be a function of the channel length but because optical transport is a waveguide, the path need not be linear from the source to the output (the path length). In other words, the actual path may be bent to provide an even shallower effective depth in some implementations.
- the path length is a function of the Verdet constant and the magnetic field strength and while the preferred embodiment provides for very short path lengths of a few millimeters and shorter, longer lengths may be used in some implementations as well.
- the necessary length is determined by the influencer to achieve the desired degree of influence/control over the input radiation.
- this control is able to achieve about a ninety degree rotation.
- an extinguishing level is higher (e.g., brighter) then less rotation may be used which shortens the necessary path length.
- the path length is also influenced by the degree of desired influence on the wave component.
- Controller 405 includes a number of alternatives for construction and assembly of a suitable switching system.
- the preferred implementation includes not only a point- to-point controller, it also encompasses a "matrix" that structurally combines and holds modulators 200 , and electronically addresses each pixel.
- matrix structurally combines and holds modulators 200 , and electronically addresses each pixel.
- optical fibers inherent in the nature of a fiber component is the potential for an all-fiber, textile construction and appropriate addressing of the fiber elements.
- Flexible meshes or solid matrixes are alternative structures, with attendant assembly methods.
- an output end of one or more modulators 200 may be processed to improve its application.
- the output ends of the waveguide structures particularly when implemented as optical fibers, may be heat-treated and pulled to form tapered ends or otherwise abraded, twisted, or shaped for enhanced light scattering at the output ends, thereby improving viewing angle at the display surface.
- Some and/or all of the modulator output ends may be processed in similar or dissimilar ways to collectively produce a desired output structure achieving the desired result. For example, various focus, attenuation, color or other attribute(s) of the WAVE_OUT from one or more pixels may be controlled or affected by the processing of one or more output ends/corresponding panel location(s).
- Front panel 415 may be simply a sheet of optical glass or other transparent optical material facing the polarization component oir it may include additional functional and structural features.
- panel 415 may include guides or other structures to arrange output ends of modulators 200 into the desired relative orientation with neighboring modulators 200 .
- Fig_5 is a view of one arrangement for output ports 500x,y of front panel 415 shown in Fig_4. Other arrangements are possible are also possible depending upon the desired display C e -g- > circular, elliptical or other regular/ irregular geometric shape) When an application requires it, the active display area does not have to be contiguous pixels such that rin_gs or "doughnut" displays are possible when appropriate.
- output ports may focus, disperse, filter, or perform other type of post-output processing on one or more pixels.
- An optical geometry of a display or projector surface may itself vary in which waveguide ends terminate to a desired three-ciimensional surface (e.g., a curved surface) which allows additional focusing capacity in sequence with additional optical elements and lenses (some of which may be izncluded as part of panel 415).
- a desired three-ciimensional surface e.g., a curved surface
- Some applications may require multiple areas of concave, flat, and/or convex surface regions, each with different curvatures and orientations with the present invention providing the appropriate output shape.
- the specific geometry need not be fixed but may be dynamically alterable to change sliapes/orientations/dimensions as desired. Implementations of the present invention may produce various types of haptic display systems as well.
- radiation source 410 a "switching assembly" with controller 405 coupled to modulators 20 , and front panel 415 may benefit from being housed in distinct modules or units, at some distance from each other.
- radiation source 410 in some embodiments it is advantageous to separate the illumination source(s) from the switching assembly due to heat produced by the types of high-amplitude light that is typically required, to illuminate a large theatrical screen. Even when multiple illumination sources are used, distributing the heat output otherwise concentrated in, for instance, a sing;le Xenon lamp, the heat output may still be large enough that the separation from the switching and display elements may be desirable.
- the illumination source(s) thus woxild be housed in an insulated case with heat sink and cooling elements. Fibers would then convey the light from the separate or unitary source to the switching assembly, and then projected onto the screen.
- the screen may include some features of front panel 415 or panel 415 may be used prior to illuminating an appropriate surface.
- the separation of the switching assembly from the projection/display surface may have its own advantages. Placing the illumination and switching assembly in a projection system base (the same would hold true for an FPD) is able to reduce the depth of a projection TV cabinet. Or, the proj ection surface may be contained in a compact ball at the top of a thin lamp-like pole or hanging from the ceiling from a cable, in front projection systems employing a reflective fabric screen.
- a monolithic construction of waveguide strips may accomplish hi-definition imaging.
- "bulk” fiber optic component construction may also accomplish the requisite small projection surface area in the preferred embodiment.
- Single-mode fibers (especially without the durability performance requirements of external telecommunications cable) have a small enough diameter that the cross-sectional area of a fiber is quite small and suitable as a display pixel or sub-pixel.
- integrated optics manufacturing techniques are expected to permit attenuator arrays of the present invention to be accomplished in the fabrication of a single semiconductor substrate or chip, massively monolithic or superficial.
- the fused-fiber surface may be then ground to achieve a curvature for the purpose of focusing an image into an optical array; alternatively, fiber-ends that are joined with adhesive or otherwise bound may have shaped tips and may be arranged at their terminus in a shaped matrix to achieve a curved surface, if necessary.
- Fig_6 is a schematic representation of a preferred embodiment of the present invention for a portion 600 of the structured waveguide 205 shown in Fig_2.
- Portion 600 is a radiation propagating channel of waveguide 205, typically a guiding channel (e.g., a core for a fiber waveguide) but may include one or more bounding regions (e.g., claddings for the fiber waveguide).
- Other waveguiding structures have different specific mechanisms for enhancing the waveguiding of radiation propagated along a transmission axis of a channel region of the waveguide. Waveguides include photonic crystal fibers, special thin-film stacks of structured materials and other materials. The specific mechanisms of waveguiding may vary from waveguide to waveguide, but the present invention may be adapted for use with the different structures.
- the terms guiding region or guiding channel and bounding regions refer to cooperative structures for enhancing radiation propagation along the transmission axis of the channel. These structures are different from buffers or coatings or post-manufacture treatments of the waveguide. A principle difference is that the bounding regions are typically capable of propagating the wave component propagated through the guiding region while the other components of a waveguide do not. For example, in a multimode fiber optic waveguide, significant energy of higher-order modes is propagated through the bounding regions.
- the guiding region/bounding region(s) are substantially transparent to propagating radiation while the other supporting structures are generally substantially opaque.
- influencer 110 works in cooperation with waveguide 205 to influence a property of a propagating wave component as it is transmitted along the transmission axis.
- Portion 600 is therefore said to have an influencer response attribute, and in the preferced embodiment this attribute is particularly structured to enhance the response of the property of the propagating wave to influencer 110.
- Portion 600 includes a plurality of constituents (e.g., rare-earth dopants 605, holes, 610, structural irregularities 615, microbubbles 620, and/or other elements 625) disposed in the guiding region and/or one or more bounding regions as desirable for any specific implementation.
- portion 600 has a very short length, in many cases less than about 25 millimeters, and as described above, sometimes significantly shorter than that.
- the influencer response attribute enhanced by these constituents is optimized for short length waveguides (for example as contrasted to telecommunications fibers optimized for very long lengths on the order of kilometers and greater, including attenuation and wavelength dispersion).
- the constituents of portion 600 being optimized for a different application, could seriously degrade telecommunications use of the waveguide. While the presence of the constituents is not intended to degrade telecommunications use, the focus of the preferred embodiment on enhancement of the influencer response attribute over telecommunications attribute(s) makes it possible for such degradation to occur and is not a drawback of the preferred embodiment.
- the present invention contemplates that there are many different wave properties that may be influenced by different constructions of influencer 110; the preferred embodiment targets a Faraday-effect-related property of portion 600.
- the Faraday Effect induces a polarization rotation change responsive to a magnetic field parallel to a propagation direction.
- influencer 110 when influencer 110 generates a magnetic field parallel to the transmission axis, in portion 600 the amount of rotation is dependent upon the strength of the magnetic field, the length of portion 600, and the Verdet constant for portion 600.
- the constituents increase the responsiveness of portion 600 to this magnetic field, such as by increasing the effective Verdet constant of portion 600.
- One significance of the paradigm shift in waveguide manufacture and characteristics by the present invention is that modification of manufacturing techniques used to make kilometer-lengths of optically-pure telecommunications grade waveguides enables manufacture of inexpensive kilometer-lengths of potentially optically-impure (but optically-active) influencer-responsive waveguides.
- some implementations of the preferred embodiment may use a myriad of very short lengths of waveguides modified as disclosed herein. Cost savings and other efficiencies/merits are realized by forming these collections from short length waveguides created from (e.g., cleaving) the longer manufactured waveguide as described herein.
- an optical fiber is a filament of transparent (at the wavelength of interest) dielectric material (typically glass or plastic) and usually circular in cross section that guides light.
- a cylindrical core was surrounded by, and in intimate contact with, a cladding of similar geometry. These optical fibers guided light by providing the core with slightly greater refractive index than that of the cladding layer.
- Other fiber types provide different guiding mechanisms - one of interest in the context of the present invention includes photonic crystal fibers (PCF) as described above.
- PCF photonic crystal fibers
- Silica silicon dioxide (SiO )
- Silica is the basic material of which the most common communication-grade optical fibers are made. Silica may occur in crystalline or amorphous form, and occurs naturally in impure forms such as quartz and sand.
- the Verdet constant is an optical constant that describes the strength of the Faraday Effect for a particular material.
- the Verdet constant for most materials, including silica is extremely small and is wavelength dependent. It is very strong in substances containing paramagnetic ions such as terbium (Tb).
- Tb terbium
- High Verdet constants are found in terbium doped dense flint glasses or in crystals of terbium gallium garnet (TGG). This material generally has excellent transparency properties and is very resistant to laser damage.
- the Verdet constant is quite strongly a function of wavelength. At 632.8nm, the Verdet constant for TGG is reported to be -134 radT-1 whereas at 1064nm, it has fallen to -40radT-l. This behavior means that the devices manufactured with a certain degree of rotation at one wavelength, will produce much less rotation at longer wavelengths.
- the constituents may, in some implements, include an optically-active dopant, such as YIG/Bi-YIG or Tb or TGG or other best-performing dopant, which increases the Verdet constant of the waveguide to achieve efficient Faraday rotation in the presence of an activating magnetic field. Heating or stressing during the fiber manufacturing process as described below may further increase the Verdet constant by adding additional constituents (e.g., holes or ⁇ regularities) in portion 600.
- Rare-earths as used in conventional waveguides are employed as passive enhancements of transmission attributes elements, and are not used in optically-active applications.
- silica optical fiber is manufactured with high levels of dopants relative to the silica percentage itself, as high as at least 50% dopants, and since requisite dopant concentrations have been demonstrated in silica structures of other kinds to achieve 90 degree rotation in tens of microns or less; and given improvements in increasing dopant concentrations (e.g., fibers commercially available from JDS Uniphase) and improvements in controlling dopant profiles (e.g., fibers, commercially available from Corning Incorporated), it is possible to achieve sufficiently high and controlled concentrations of optically-active dopant to induce rotation with low power in micron- scale distances.
- dopant concentrations e.g., fibers commercially available from JDS Uniphase
- improvements in controlling dopant profiles e.g., fibers, commercially available from Corning Incorporated
- Fig_7 is a schematic block diagram of a representative waveguide manufacturing system 700 for making a preferred embodiment of a waveguide preform of the present invention.
- System 700 represents a modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process to produce a glass rod referred to as the preform.
- the preform from a conventional process is a solid rod of ultra-pure glass, duplicating the optical properties of a desired fiber exactly, but with linear dimensions scaled-up two orders of magnitude or more.
- system 700 produces a preform that does not emphasize optical purity but optimizes for short-length optimization of influencer response.
- Preforms are typically made using one of the following chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods: 1. Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition (MCVD), 2.
- PMCVD Plasma Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition
- PCVD Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition
- OPD Outside Vapor Deposition
- Axial Deposition All these methods are based on thermal chemical vapor reaction that forms oxides, which are deposited as layers of glass particles called soot, on the outside of a rotating rod or inside a glass tube. The same chemical reactions occur in these methods.
- Various liquids e.g., starting materials are solutions of SiCl , GeCl 4 , POC13 , and gaseous BC1 ) that provide the source for Si and dopants are heated in the presence in oxygen gas, each liquid in a heated bubbler 705 and gas from a source 710. These liquids are evaporated within an oxygen stream controlled by a mass-flow meter 715 and, with the gasses, form silica and other oxides from combustion of the glass- producing halides in a silica-lathe 720.
- starting materials are solutions of SiCl , GeCl 4 , POC13 , and gaseous BC1 .
- Germanium dioxide and phosphorus pentoxide increase the refractive index of glass, a boron oxide - decreases it. These oxides are known as dopants.
- Other bubblers 705 including suitable constituents for enhancing the influencer response attribute of the preform may be used in addition to those shown.
- composition of the mixture during the process influences a refractive index profile and constituent profile of the preform.
- the flow of oxygen is controlled by mixing valves 715, and reactant vapors 725 are blown into silica pipe 730 that includes a heated tube 735 where oxidizing takes places.
- Chlorine gas 740 is blown out of tube 735, but the oxide compounds are deposited in the tube in the form of soot 745. Concentrations of iron and copper impurity are reduced from about lOppb in the raw liquids to less than lppb in soot 745.
- Tube 735 is heated using a traversing H2O2 burner 750 and is continually rotated to vitrify soot 745 into a glass 755.
- a traversing H2O2 burner 750 By adjusting the relative flow of the various vapors 725, several layers with different indices of refraction are obtained, for example core versus cladding or variable core index profile for GI fibers.
- tube 735 is heated and collapsed into a rod with a round, solid cross- section, called the preform rod. In this step it is essential that center of the rod be completely filled with material and not hollow.
- the preform rod is then put into a furnace for drawing, as will be described in cooperation with Fig. 8.
- the main advantage of MCVD is that the reactions and deposition occur in a closed space, so it is harder for undesired impurities to enter.
- the index profile of the fiber is easy to control, and the precision necessary for SM fibers can be achieved relatively easily.
- the equipment is simple to construct and control.
- a potentially significant limitation of the method is that the dimensions of the tube essentially limit the rod size. Thus, this technique forms fibers typically of 3 5km in length, or 20-40km at most.
- impurities in the silica tube primarily H2 and OH-, tend to diffuse into the fiber.
- the process of melting the deposit to eliminate the hollow center of the preform rod sometimes causes a depression of the index of refraction in the core, which typically renders the fiber unsuitable for telecommunications use but is not generally of concern in the context of the present invention.
- the main disadvantage of the method is that the deposition rate is relatively slow because it employs indirect heating, that is tube 735 is heated, not the vapors directly, to initiate the oxidizing reactions and to vitrify the soot.
- the deposition rate is typically 0.5 to 2g/min.
- a variation of the above-described process makes rare-earth doped fibers.
- the process starts with a rare-earth doped preform - typically fabricated using a solution doping process. Initially, an optical cladding, consisting primarily of fused silica, is deposited on an inside of the substrate tube. Core material, which may also contain germanium, is then deposited at a reduced temperature to form a diffuse and permeable layer known as a 'frit'.
- this partially-completed preform is sealed at one end, removed from the lathe and a solution of suitable salts of the desired rare-earth dopant (e.g., neodymium, erbium, ytterbium etc.) is introduced. Over a fixed period of time, this solution is left to permeate the frit. After discarding any excess solution, the preform is returned to the lathe to be dried and consolidated. During consolidation, the interstices within the frit collapse and encapsulate the rare-earth. Finally, the preform is subjected to a controlled collapse, at high temperature to form a solid rod of glass - with a rare-earth incorporated into the core.
- suitable salts of the desired rare-earth dopant e.g., neodymium, erbium, ytterbium etc.
- rare-earths in fiber cables are not optically-active, that is, respond to electric or magnetic or other perturbation or field to affect a characteristic of light propagating through the doped medium.
- Conventional systems are the results of ongoing quests to increase the percentage of rare-earth dopants driven by a goal to improve "passive" transmission characteristics of waveguides (including telecommunications attributes). But the increased percentages of dopants in waveguide core/boundaries is advantageous for affecting optical-activity of the compound medium/structure for the preferred embodiment.
- the percentage of dopants vs. silica is at least fifty percent.
- Fig_8 is a schematic diagram of a representative fiber drawing system 800 for making a preferred embodiment of the present invention from a preform 805, such as one produced from system 700 shown in Fig_7.
- System 800 converts preform 805 into a hair-thin filament, typically performed by drawing.
- Preform 805 is mounted into a feed mechanism 810 attached near a top of a tower 815.
- Mechanism 810 lowers preform 805 until a tip enters into a high-purity graphite furnace 820. Pure gasses are injected into the furnace to provide a clean and conductive atmosphere.
- furnace 820 tightly controlled temperatures approaching 1900°C soften the tip of preform 805. Once the softening point of the preform tip is reached, gravity takes over and allows a molten gob to "free fall” until it has been stretched into a thin strand.
- An operator threads this strand of fiber through a laser micrometer 825 and a series of processing stations 830x (e.g., for coatings and buffers) for producing a transport 835 that is wound onto a spool by a tractor 840, and the drawing process begins.
- the fiber is pulled by tractor 840 situated at the bottom of draw tower 815 and then wound on winding drums.
- preform 805 is heated at the optimum temperature to achieve an ideal drawing tension.
- Draw speeds of 10 - 20 meters per second are not uncommon in the industry.
- the diameter of the drawn fiber is controlled to 125 microns within a tolerance of only 1 micron.
- Laser-based diameter gauge 825 monitors the diameter of the fiber. Gauge 825 samples the diameter of the fiber at rates in excess of 750 times per second. The actual value of the diameter is compared to the 125 micron target. Slight deviations from the target are converted to changes in draw speeds and fed to tractor 840 for correction.
- Processing stations 830x typically include dies for applying a two layer protective coating to the fiber — a soft inner coating and a hard outer coating. This two-part protective jacket provides mechanical protection for handling while also protecting a pristine surface of the fiber from harsh environments. These coatings are cured by ultraviolet lamps, as part of the same or other processing stations 830x. Other stations 830x may provide apparatus/systems for increasing the influencer response attribute of transport 835 as it passes through the station(s). For example, various mechanical stressors, ion bombardment or other mechanism for introducing the influencer response attribute enhancing constituents at the drawing stage.
- the drawn fiber is tested for suitable optical and geometrical parameters.
- a tensile strength is usually tested first to ensure that a minimal tensile strength for the fiber has been achieved.
- many different tests are performed, which for transmission fibers includes tests for transmission attributes, including: attenuation (decrease in signal strength over distance), bandwidth (information-carrying capacity; an important measurement for multimode fiber), numerical aperture (the measurement of the light acceptance angle of a fiber), cut-off wavelength (in single-mode fiber the wavelength above which only a single mode propagates), mode field diameter (in single-mode fiber the radial width of the light pulse in the fiber; important for interconnecting), and chromatic dispersion (the spreading of pulses of light due to rays of different wavelengths traveling at different speeds through the core; in single-mode fiber this is the limiting factor for information carrying capacity).
- Fig_9 is a schematic diagram of an alternate preferred embodiment for a modulator 900 having multiple channels.
- Modulator 900 is shown in a generic configuration without specification of the nature of the radiation propagated through the individual and collective channels. To simplify the following discussion modulator 900 is illustrated as including two channels, however in other embodiments and implementations modulator 900 may include more than two channels as necessary or desirable for the embodiment.
- Modulator 900 includes a pair of transports 905 N (each supporting an independent waveguiding channel), a pair of property influencers 910 operatively coupled to transports 905, a controller 915 coupled to a corresponding influencer 910 , a first property element 920, and a second property element 925.
- modulator 900 may include different combinations of transports, influencers, and/or controllers.
- modulator 900 may include a single controller 915 coupled to all influencers 910, or it may include a single influencer coupled to one or more transports 905 and/or one or more controllers 915.
- some transports 900 may include a single physical structure but support multiple independent waveguiding channels.
- Transport 905 like transport 105, may be implemented based upon many well- known optical waveguide structures of the art.
- transport 905 may be a specially adapted optical fiber (conventional or PCF) having a guiding channel including a guiding region and one or more bounding regions (e.g., a core and one or more cladding layers for the core), or transport 905 may be a waveguide channel of a bulk device or substrate having one or more such guiding channels.
- a conventional waveguide structure is modified based upon the type of radiation property to be influenced and the nature of influencer 910.
- Influencer 910 is a structure for manifesting property influence (directly or indirectly such as through the disclosed effects) on the radiation transmitted through transport 905 and/or on transport 905.
- Many different types of radiation properties may be influenced, and in many cases a particular structure used for influencing any given property may vary from implementation to implementation.
- properties that may be used in turn to control an output amplitude of the radiation are desirable properties for influence.
- radiation polarization angle is one property that may be influenced and is a property that may be used to control an amplitude of the transmitted radiation.
- Use of another element such as a fixed polarizer/analyzer controls radiation amplitude based upon the polarization angle of the radiation compared to the transmission axis of the polarizer/analyzer. Controlling the polarization angle varies the transmitted radiation in this example.
- Modulator 900 schematically illustrates first property element 920 and second property element 925 as shared between transports 905 .
- each transport 905 may include independent first elements 920 and second elements 925.
- Fig_9 shows first property element 920 and second property element 925 as shared elements to schematically illustrate a second attribute for modulator 900.
- modulator 900 splits WAVE_IN into a plurality of wave_components appropriate for the implementation and construction of modulator 900 (i.e., the number and nature of the waveguiding channels, the influencer, controlling mechanism and desired performance characteristics of the individual channels and modulator) and directs each wave_component into an appropriate channel/transport.
- WAVE_IN includes radiation of a single wavelength but multiple orthogonal polarization components (e.g., a left handed polarization component and a right-handed polarization component).
- WAVE_IN includes multiple frequencies having a single polarization orientation component.
- WAVEJQST has a single polarization orientation type and a single frequency so element 920 apportions WAVE_IN into individual wave_components that may have equal or unequal amplitudes.
- Some alternative cases will include combinations of these cases or other division of WAVE_IN.
- first property element preprocesses WAVE_IN to separate it into the appropriate independent wave_components (e.g., orthogonal polarization components or discrete frequency components) and direct each independent wave_component into an appropriate channel.
- second property element 925 has a second attribute corresponding the second attribute described above for first property element 920.
- the second property element 925 second attribute combines/merges output radiation wave_components from the individual waveguiding channels (that may have been influenced and operated upon during propagation through transport) to integrate the wave_components (and in the preferred embodiment to also pass an appropriate amplitude for each wave_component) into WAVE_OUT.
- the prefened embodiment of the present invention uses an optic fiber as transport 905x and primarily implements amplitude control by use of the "linear" Faraday Effect. While the Faraday Effect is a linear effect in which a polarization rotational angular change of propagating radiation is directly related to a magnitude of a magnetic field applied in the direction of propagation based upon the length over which the field is applied and the Verdet constant of the material through which the radiation is propagated. Materials used in a transport may not, however, have a linear response to an inducing magnetic field, e.g., such as from an influencer, in establishing a desired magnetic field strength.
- an inducing magnetic field e.g., such as from an influencer
- an actual output amplitude of the propagated radiation may be non-linear in response to an applied signal from controller and/or influencer magnetic field and/or polarization and/or other attribute or characteristic of modulator 900 or of WAVE_IN.
- characterization of modulator 900 (or element thereof) in terms of one or more system variables is referred to as an attenuation profile of modulator 900 (or element thereof).
- Any given attenuation profile may be tailored to a particular embodiment, such as for example by controlling a composition, orientation, and/or ordering of modulator 900 or element thereof. For example, changing materials making up transport may change the "influencibility" of the transport or alter the degree to which the influencer "influences” any particular propagating wave_component. This is but one example of a composition attenuation profile.
- Modulator 900 of the preferred embodiment enables attenuation smoothing in which different waveguiding channels have different attenuation profiles.
- modulator 900 may provide transport 905 for left handed polarized wave_components with a different attenuation profile than the attenuation profile used for the complementary waveguiding channel of second transport 905 for right handed polarized wave_components.
- wave_component generation/modification may not be strictly "commutative" in response to an order of modulator 900 elements that the propagating radiation traverses from WAVE_IN to WAVE_OUT. In these instances, it is possible to alter an attenuation profile by providing a different ordering of the non- commutative elements. This is but one example of a configuration attenuation profile. In other embodiments, establishing differing "rotational bias" for each waveguiding channel creates different attenuation profiles.
- some transports are configured with a predefined orientation between an input polarizer and an output polarizer/analyzer.
- this angle may be zero degrees (typically defining a "normally ON” channel) or it may be ninety degrees (typically defining a "normally OFF” channel).
- Any given channel may have a different response in various angular displacement regions (that is, from zero to thirty degrees, from thirty to sixty degrees, and from sixty to ninety degrees).
- Different channels may be biased (for example with default "DC" influencer signals) into different displacement regions with the influencer influencing the propagating wave_component about this biased rotation. This is but one example of an operational attenuation profile.
- Reasons for having multiple waveguiding channels and tailoring/matching/complementing attenuation profiles for the channels include power saving, efficiency, and uniformity in WAVE_OUT.
- Fig_10 is a schematic diagram of an alternate preferred embodiment of the present invention illustrating a multifrequency (e.g., a multicolor) system 1000.
- System 100 is a special modification to the more general modulator 900 shown in Fig_9.
- System 1000 includes a plurality of transports 1005, each defining a waveguide having a waveguiding channel 1010 and a plurality of bounding regions including an associated first bounding region 1015 and an associated second bounding region 1020.
- Disposed in or on an input end of each transport 1005 is an input wave property processor 1025 and disposed in or on an output end of each transport 1005 is an output wave property processor 1030.
- an element 1035 of an influencer for enabling generation of a wave property modification mechanism for example a coilform structure for generating a longitudinally-oriented magnetic field in channel 1010.
- Each transport 1010 receives radiation for WAVE_IN from a radiation source 1040 and outputs a modulated wave_component (e.g., MOD_x).
- a controller 1045 is schematically shown for system 1000 and is coupled to each element 1035 via a pair of couplers 1050 for independently controlling radiation propagating through each transport 1005. In some implementations, controller 1045 may have discrete components for controlling each transport 1005 of system 1000.
- each radiation source 1040 in system 1000 produces radiation at a wavelength different from the other sources 1040.
- sources 1040 collectively generate radiation using a color model that represents a wide range of colors by compositing various permutations of amplitude-varied discrete color components from the radiation sources.
- color models both additive and subtractive, that may be appropriate for various implementations of system 1000, such as for example RGB, CMYK, HSV or other primary color set derived from a CIE chromaticity diagram.
- Fig_10 illustrates use of the RGB color model to produce a single picture element (pixel) made up of three color components (red-green-blue or RGB) each inde pendently controlled from controller 1045.
- RGB red-green-blue
- the discussion above sets forth different mechanisms for the influence systems that may be used for controllably and reproducibly vary an amplitude of propagating radiation
- the following discussion recites operation using the Faraday Effect for controllably rotating polarization angles of propagating rotation and applying that modified radiation to a polarizer analyzer having a known relationship between a transmission axis angle and an unrotated angle of the propagating radiation.
- system 1000 generates independent color components from each source 1040 providing a RED WAVE N, a GREEN WAVE_IN, and a BLUE WAVE_IN to different ones of transports 1005 (identified respectively by 1005R, 1005G, and 1005B).
- Each input wave property processor 1025 produces a wave_component having the desired property for influence by the influencer system.
- processor 1025 produces a particular polarization at a particular angular orientation (e.g., left handed polarized radiation at "zero" degrees).
- the particularly polarized and oriented wave_com ⁇ onent of each individual color propagates through its transport 1005 where controller 1045 asserts independent control over each wave_component magnitude by virtue of the magnetic field generated by the influencer elements 1035.
- the magnitude of the magnetic field influences a polarization rotational change of the propagating radiation through channel 1010.
- the final polarization angle of the radiation is then applied to output processor 1030 (e.g., a polarizer analyzer having a transmission axis oriented with a ninety degree offset relative to the input processor transmission axis) so that each primary color is modulated anywhere from full intensity to "off" in response to controller 1045.
- the combination of the magnitudes of the output wave_components (MOD_R, MOD_G, and MOD_B) produces the output color for system 1000, which in this case is a single pixel. Arranging a plurality of pixels into a matrix produces a multicolor display.
- System 1000 may use attenuation smoothing at the macro-pixel level (combination of channels) or for each sub-pixel channel. Depending upon relative geometries of a display system and a size of individual channels, in some cases a single pixel is composed of multiples of system 1000 particularly as dimensions of a display increase.
- Fig_l 1 is an alternate preferred embodiment for a multifrequency system 1100 similar to system 1000 shown in Fig_10.
- a unifonn radiation source 1105 e.g., white light
- System 1100 provides color control through color filters incorporated into processors 1025 or through a color-managed waveguiding channel 1110. (such as by dye-doping waveguiding channel 1010 shown in Fig_10).
- individual and collective attenuation profiles of the components of system 1100 may be different from system 1000, the operation of system 1100 is very much like system 1000 described above.
- the present invention offers an additional method of controlling and adjusting output characteristics.
- the present invention may vary not only the magnitude of the radiation sources, but the output frequency of each radiation source (e.g., its color) as well.
- different color models or sets of different primary colors may be available for a single pixel. That is, a single pixel may be composed of six sub-pixels, three sub-pixels using one model (e.g., RGB) and three sub-pixels using another model (HSV).
- Fig_12 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention for a modulator 1200 having integrated color production.
- Modulator 1200 may be used in lieu of a transport/ radiation source combination such as those shown in Fig_10 and Fig_ll.
- modulator 1200 includes a color-integrated transport 1205 having an integrated radiation generating channel 1210.
- Channel 1210 functions as a radiation source for WAVE_IN to produce a desired frequency (e.g., color) for modulator 1200.
- processor 1025 and/or waveguiding channel 1010 may produce the appropriate frequency for the propagating wave_component.
- Modulator 1200 of the preferred embodiment provides both the radiation generation and radiation modulation.
- a waveguiding structure may be modified to produce a desired frequency or range of frequencies.
- microbubbles and voids are created within channel 1210 and within these spaces are special gases that emit radiation when stimulated or excited, such as by an electric current or radiofrequency transmission or optical/radiation pumping.
- the gases are prepared to directly emit a desired radiation frequency or the frequency is chosen so that it may be easily converted to the desired frequency or frequencies by processor 1025 and or channel 1010, or in some cases by an additional integrated converting element (not shown).
- the voids/microbubbles or other gas-containing structure may be formed during manufacture by suitable doping followed by appropriate heat treatment, or by injection of desired gases into specific portions of modulator 1200.
- active light- emitting devices LED or semiconductor laser
- Other methods of producing radiation may also be employed.
- the propagating channel is a waveguide the overall physical implementation of modulator 1200 may vary somewhat from that shown in Fig_12.
- modulator 1200 may include a sufficient length of channel 1210 to produce sufficient radiation intensity from the particular density of gases and the stimulation strength. When necessary or desirable, the physical path may be "folded" within a stimulating region to achieve desired stimulation within a small physical expanse.
- the radiation emitting region may be distanced from the radiation controlling region without appreciable loss of signal strength.
- Fig_12 does not necessarily accurately depict the relative dimensions of channel 1210 to channel 1010 and one channel may be much longer than the other.
- the waveguiding aspect of modulator 1200, particularly with fiber transports permits great flexibility in arranging and disposing the various segments.
- Electrodes may be embedded in channel 1210 or suitable radiofrequency/radiation generators proximated to channel 1210.
- the nature of the signals applied to the electrodes, or the frequencies applied to or the frequency propagated through channel 1210 determine a magnitude and frequency of the radiation generated from channel 1210.
- Attenuation profiles for modulator 1200 are characterized and adapted for the desired performance and may include aspects of the radiation generation (e.g., frequency, intensity, and "native" polarization characteristics).
- Fig_13 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of an alternate system 1300 for structuring and propagating multiple channels of controllable radiation to produce a pixel/sub-pixel.
- System 1300 includes a center support 1305 and a plurality of helicoidal grooves 1310 traversing a length of support 1305.
- System 1300 may implement an embodiment of modulator 900 using two or more grooves 1310 or an embodiment of system 1000 or system 1100 using three or more grooves.
- system 1300 is shown implementing a three-element model, for example system 1000 in which each groove supports one of the primary colors of an applicable color model (e.g., RGB).
- an applicable color model e.g., RGB
- System 1300 permits a single physical structure to support a plurality of sub-structures such as all the sub-pixels of a pixel.
- Fig_14 is an end view schematic of system 1300 shown in Fig_13 further illustrating the presence of an optional center core 1400.
- US Patent 3,976,356 illustrates cutting three helical structures on an outside of a fiber in order to propagate radiation as described therein. Adapting that invention in light of the present invention includes the following modifications. It is disclosed in the reference that multiple helical tracks may be cut in a fiber preform and filled with optically differentiated "track material" from a “track perform,” then typically twisted and drawn. Three tracks are specifically cited as accomplished, and such was practical in the 1970's when this prior art was established.
- each separate RGB track material is dye-doped following the pattern disclosed elsewhere herein;
- optional permanently magnetized component core 1400 may be provided in addition to the helical-superficial tracks;
- Ferri/ferromagnetic dopant dopant added to a thin cladding or coating surrounding the fiber and its three helical-superficial waveguide tracks;
- Coilform as the three superficial helical waveguides are themselves a spiral form around the axis of the fiber, implementation of a coilform by twisting methods is not as practical for the fiber as a whole;
- Twisting of Channel Preform However, twisting methods
- Core 1400 may optionally be doped as previously disclosed for standard fiber.
- the addition of a core also provides a locus for implementing other functionality and integrated components, including fiber-laser functionality for stimulation of track material and implementation of non-linear Faraday-related effects.
- An alternative on the helical-superficial multi-channel fiber structure is a variant of the core-and-cladding fiber that allows for R, G, and B channels in the same fiber structure.
- this variant there is a core and two optically active cladding structures, each with their own attendant Faraday attenuator structures, each dye-doped; for instance, the core is dye-doped red, a cladding of sufficiently different index of refraction is dye-doped green, and a second cladding is dye-doped blue.
- Such a compound fiber structure includes three Faraday attenuator structures in sequence, fabricated with coilforms or field-generating structures as disclosed elsewhere herein, but also fabricated in successive layers of the fiber, with magnetically-impermeable buffer disposed between potentially interfering cladding/coating layers.
- a fluorescent material is added as a dopant. This may be in addition to or instead of the dye doping otherwise preferable.
- the fluorescent material and gas are chosen for each RGB color sub-pixel element such that the excited noble gas in the micro-bubble emits a UV frequency at a proper frequency to then excite the fluorescent material in the solid-state core to emit either R, G, or B light at the proper frequency.
- Dye doping of the entire fiber helps ensure that the color is properly balanced.
- Sub-pixel diameter (including field generation elements adjacent to optically active material): preferably ⁇ 100 microns more preferably ⁇ 50 microns.
- Length of sub-pixel element is preferably ⁇ 100 microns and more preferably ⁇ 50 microns.
- Response time Extremely high for Faraday rotators in general (i.e., 1 ns has been demonstrated).
- RGB sub-pixel Since only pure white requires an equally intense combination of RGB sub-pixels in a cluster, it should be noted that for either color or gray-scale images, it is a some fraction of the display's sub-pixels that will be addressed at any one time. Colors formed additively by RGB combination implies the following: some color pixels will require only one (either R, G, or B) sub-pixel (at varying intensity) to be “on”, some pixels will require two sub-pixels (at varying intensities) to be "on”, and some pixels will require three sub-pixels, (at varying intensities) to be "on”.
- Pure white pixels will require all three sub-pixels to be "on,” with their Faraday attenuators rotated to achieve equal intensity. (Color and white pixels can be juxtaposed to desaturate color; in one alternative embodiment of the present invention, an additional sub-pixel in a "cluster" may be balanced white-light, to achieve more efficient control over saturation).
- 0-50 m.amps for 0-90° Rotation is considered a Minimum Spec It is also important to note that an example current range for 0-90° rotation has been given (0-50 m.amps) from performance specs of existing Faraday attenuator devices, but this performance spec is provided as a minimum, already clearly being superseded and surpassed by the state- of-the-art of reference devices for optical communications. It most importantly does not reflect the novel embodiments specified in the present invention, including the benefits from improved methods and materials technology. Performance improvements have been ongoing since the achievement of the specs cited, and if anything have been and will continue to be accelerating, further reducing this range.
- the system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal described in this application may, of course, be embodied in hardware; e.g., within or coupled to a Central Processing Unit (“CPU”), microprocessor, microcontroller, System on Chip (“SOC”), or any other programmable device.
- the system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal may be embodied in software (e.g., computer readable code, program code, instructions and/or data disposed in any form, such as source, object or machine language) disposed, for example, in a computer usable (e.g., readable) medium configured to store the software.
- software e.g., computer readable code, program code, instructions and/or data disposed in any form, such as source, object or machine language
- a computer usable (e.g., readable) medium configured to store the software.
- Such software enables the function, fabrication, modeling, simulation, description and/or testing of the apparatus and processes described herein.
- this can be accomplished through the use of general programming languages (e.g., C, C++), GDSII databases, hardware description languages (HDL) including Verilog HDL, VHDL, AHDL (Altera HDL) and so on, or other available programs, databases, nanoprocessing, and/or circuit (i.e., schematic) capture tools.
- Such software can be disposed in any known computer usable medium including semiconductor, magnetic disk, optical disc (e.g., CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc.) and as a computer data signal embodied in a computer usable (e.g., readable) transmission medium (e.g., carrier wave or any other medium including digital, optical, or analog-based medium).
- the software can be transmitted over communication networks including the Internet and intranets.
- a system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal embodied in software may be included in a semiconductor intellectual property core (e.g., embodied in HDL) and transformed to hardware in the production of integrated circuits.
- a system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal as described herein may be embodied as a combination of hardware and software.
- One of the preferred implementations of the present invention is as a routine in an operating system made up of programming steps or instructions resident in a memory of a computing system during computer operations.
- the program instructions may be stored in another readable medium, e.g. in a disk drive, or in a removable memory, such as an optical disk for use in a CD ROM computer input or in a floppy disk for use in a floppy disk drive computer input.
- the program instructions may be stored in the memory of another computer prior to use in the system of the present invention and transmitted over a LAN or a WAN, such as the Internet, when required by the user of the present invention.
- LAN or a WAN such as the Internet
- routines of the present invention Any suitable programming language can be used to implement the routines of the present invention including C, C++, Java, assembly language, etc. Different programming techniques can be employed such as procedural or object oriented.
- the routines can execute on a single processing device or multiple processors. Although the steps, operations or computations may be presented in a specific order, this order may be changed in different embodiments. In some embodiments, multiple steps shown as sequential in this specification can be performed at the same time.
- the sequence of operations described herein can be interrupted, suspended, or otherwise controlled by another process, such as an operating system, kernel, etc.
- the routines can operate in an operating system environment or as stand-alone routines occupying all, or a substantial part, of the system processing.
- a "computer-readable medium” for purposes of embodiments of the present invention may be any medium that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, system or device.
- the computer readable medium can be, by way of example only but not by limitation, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, system, device, propagation medium, or computer memory.
- a "processor” or “process” includes any human, hardware and/or software system, mechanism or component that processes data, signals or other information.
- a processor can include a system with a general-purpose central processing unit, multiple processing units, dedicated circuitry for achieving functionality, or other systems. Processing need not be limited to a geographic location, or have temporal limitations. For example, a processor can perform its functions in "real time,” “offline,” in a “batch mode,” etc. Portions of processing can be performed at different times and at different locations, by different (or the same) processing systems.
- Embodiments of the invention may be implemented by using a programmed general purpose digital computer, by using application specific integrated circuits, programmable logic devices, field programmable gate arrays, optical, chemical, biological, quantum or nanoengineered systems, components and mechanisms may be used.
- the functions of the present invention can be achieved by any means as is known in the art.
- Distributed, or networked systems, components and circuits can be used.
- Communication, or transfer, of data may be wired, wireless, or by any other means.
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