Owner ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Inventors Chyba, Thomas H.; McKechnie, Thomas Stewart

Agent McCarthy Port Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys

Pub. Number AU-A-2010214787

Priority 61/242,933 16.09.09 US; 12/638,231 15.12.09 US

Filing date 3 September 2010

Wipo publication date 31 March 2011

G02F 1/29 (2006.01) Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating - for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection

G02B 6/26 (2006.01) Light guides - Optical coupling means

G02B 26/08 (2006.01) Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating - for controlling the direction of light

G02B 27/00 (2006.01) Other optical systems

H01L 29/765 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier