Planar optical waveguides for optical panel having gradient refractive index core

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:874081

Veligdan, James T ^[1]

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1. 6 Stephanie La., Manorville, NY 11949

An optical panel is disclosed. A plurality of stacked planar optical waveguides are used to guide light from an inlet face to an outlet face of an optical panel. Each of the optical waveguides comprises a planar sheet of core material having a central plane. The core material has an index of refraction which decreases as the distance from the central plane increases. The decrease in the index of refraction occurs gradually and continuously.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• Assignee: Veligdan; James T. (6 Stephanie La., Manorville, NY 11949)
• Patent Number(s): US 6307995
• OSTI ID: 874081
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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outlet
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refraction
decreases
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