-
91.
公开(公告)号:US10345525B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-09
申请号:US15639018
申请日:2017-06-30
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr , Li Chen , Long Chen
Abstract: Photonic integrated circuits including controllable cantilevers are described. Such photonic integrated circuits may be used in connection with other optical devices, in which light is transferred between the photonic integrated circuit and one of these optical device. The photonic integrated circuit may comprise an optical waveguide having an end disposed proximate to a facet of the cantilever. The orientation of the cantilever may be actively controlled in one or two dimensions, thus adjusting the orientation of the optical waveguide. Actuation of the cantilever may be performed, for example, thermally and/or electrostatically. Orientation of the cantilever may be performed in such a way to align the optical waveguide with an optical device.
-
公开(公告)号:US10088733B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-02
申请号:US15230582
申请日:2016-08-08
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr , Ricardo Aroca , Long Chen
IPC: H04B10/12 , G02F1/225 , H04B10/516 , H04B10/80 , G02F1/21
Abstract: A segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator is described. The segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator may comprise two or more radio frequency (RF) segments, and each RF segment may be configured to support a modulating RF signal. The modulating RF signals may be configured to modulate an optical signal propagating along an optical path of the segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator. The RF modulating signal in the second RF segment may be generated by amplifying the modulating RF signal of the first RF segment, using an RF amplifier. The RF amplifier may be configured to amplify a band-pass spectral portion of the modulating RF signal.
-
公开(公告)号:US10079472B2
公开(公告)日:2018-09-18
申请号:US15383555
申请日:2016-12-19
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr
IPC: H01S3/10 , H01S5/00 , H01S5/062 , H01S5/0683 , H01S5/10 , H01S5/50 , H01S5/323 , H01S5/0687
CPC classification number: H01S5/06246 , H01S3/10015 , H01S5/0261 , H01S5/0683 , H01S5/0687 , H01S5/101 , H01S5/1014 , H01S5/1025 , H01S5/1032 , H01S5/3224 , H01S5/3235 , H01S5/32391 , H01S5/4062 , H01S5/50
Abstract: A tunable laser that includes an array of parallel optical amplifiers is described. The laser may also include an intracavity N×M coupler that couples power between a cavity mirror and the array of parallel optical amplifiers. Phase adjusters in optical paths between the N×M coupler and the optical amplifiers can be used to adjust an amount of power output from M−1 ports of the N×M coupler. A tunable wavelength filter is incorporated in the laser cavity to select a lasing wavelength.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180039151A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-08
申请号:US15230582
申请日:2016-08-08
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr , Ricardo Aroca , Long Chen
IPC: G02F1/225 , H04B10/80 , H04B10/516
CPC classification number: G02F1/2255 , G02F1/2257 , G02F2001/212 , G02F2201/127 , H04B10/516 , H04B10/801
Abstract: A segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator is described. The segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator may comprise two or more radio frequency (RF) segments, and each RF segment may be configured to support a modulating RF signal. The modulating RF signals may be configured to modulate an optical signal propagating along an optical path of the segmented traveling wave Mach Zehnder optical modulator. The RF modulating signal in the second RF segment may be generated by amplifying the modulating RF signal of the first RF segment, using an RF amplifier. The RF amplifier may be configured to amplify a band-pass spectral portion of the modulating RF signal.
-
公开(公告)号:US09829659B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-28
申请号:US15295241
申请日:2016-10-17
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Long Chen , Christopher Doerr , Diedrik Vermeulen
CPC classification number: G02B6/4225 , G02B6/12004 , G02B6/122 , G02B6/1228 , G02B6/2852 , G02B6/30 , G02B6/34 , G02B6/4227 , G02B2006/12109 , G02B2006/12126
Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) may be optically aligned to a plurality of optical components (e.g., an optical fiber array). Optical alignment may be facilitated by the use of an optical impedance element coupled between a first input/output (I/O) optical waveguide and a second I/O optical waveguide of the PIC. The optical impedance element me be configured to be transmissive during optical alignment and to be non-transmissive during the regular operation of the PIC.
-
96.
公开(公告)号:US20170293073A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-12
申请号:US15482391
申请日:2017-04-07
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Long Chen , Christopher Doerr
CPC classification number: G02B6/122 , G02B6/12002 , G02B6/136 , G02B6/138 , G02B6/30 , G02B2006/12061 , G02B2006/12085 , G02B2006/12176
Abstract: Aspects of the present application provide an optical device comprising a suspended optical component over a cavity, such as an undercut region in a substrate. The cavity is filled with a filler material. In some embodiments, the optical device and a method may be provided to fill the cavity with the filler material using a reservoir and a channel in the substrate connecting the reservoir to the cavity to be filled.
-
公开(公告)号:US20170285437A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-05
申请号:US15472946
申请日:2017-03-29
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr , Long Chen , Ricardo Aroca
CPC classification number: G02F1/2257 , G02F1/025 , G02F1/2255 , G02F2001/212
Abstract: An optical Mach Zehnder modulator is described. The optical Mach Zehnder modulator may comprise a plurality of segments separated by curved waveguides. For example, an optical Mach Zehnder modulator may comprise a first waveguide arm having a first pn-junction formed therein, a second waveguide arm having a second pn-junction formed therein, a third waveguide arm coupled to the first waveguide arm via a first curved waveguide and a fourth waveguide arm coupled to the second waveguide arm via a second curved waveguide. The segments may have the same polarities. Alternatively, the segments may have opposite polarities. The different segments may be driven using different RF signals. The RF signals may be delayed from one another.
-
公开(公告)号:US09716552B2
公开(公告)日:2017-07-25
申请号:US13956189
申请日:2013-07-31
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr
CPC classification number: H04B10/40 , G02B6/2861 , H04B10/5053 , H04J14/08 , H04Q11/0066
Abstract: An OTDM coherent transceiver and related methods and apparatus that employ a pulsed source which advantageously allows higher symbol rates without requiring higher speed electronics.
-
公开(公告)号:US20170123154A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-04
申请号:US15359275
申请日:2016-11-22
Applicant: Acacia Communications, Inc.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr , Diedrik Vermeulen
CPC classification number: G02B6/124 , G02B6/126 , G02B6/30 , G02B6/34 , G02B2006/12038 , G02B2006/12061
Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques, methods, structures and apparatus for providing photonic structures and integrated circuits with optical gratings disposed within cladding layer(s) of those structures and circuits.
-
公开(公告)号:US09606377B2
公开(公告)日:2017-03-28
申请号:US13733111
申请日:2013-01-02
Applicant: ACACIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Inventor: Christopher Doerr
CPC classification number: G02F1/011 , G02B6/126 , G02B6/4208 , G02F1/025 , G02F2201/16
Abstract: An integrated broadband optical isolator that operates over a wide bandwidth, wherein the optical isolator comprises sinusoidally driven phase modulators inside an interferometer. In one exemplary embodiment the optical isolator comprises: a 1×N input optical coupler, where N>2; a N×1 output optical coupler; N optical waveguides optically connecting the 1×N input optical coupler to the N×1 output optical coupler, each one of the N optical waveguides including two phase modulators, wherein each of the phase modulators are driven at a frequency f and wherein the time it takes an optical signal to travel from the center of one phase modulator in a particular waveguide to the center of the other phase modulator in that particular waveguide is substantially equal to 1/4f.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-