ELECTRICAL CONTACTS ON TOP OF WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES FOR EFFICIENT OPTICAL MODULATION IN SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES
    21.
    发明申请
    ELECTRICAL CONTACTS ON TOP OF WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES FOR EFFICIENT OPTICAL MODULATION IN SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES 有权
    用于在硅光电器件中进行有效光学调制的波形结构顶部的电气接触

    公开(公告)号:US20100215309A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-26

    申请号:US12389608

    申请日:2009-02-20

    IPC分类号: G02F1/035 H01L29/06

    摘要: A phase modulation waveguide structure includes one of a semiconductor and a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, a doped semiconductor layer formed over the one of a semiconductor and a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, the doped semiconductor portion including a waveguide rib protruding from a surface thereof not in contact with the one of a semiconductor and a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, and an electrical contact on top of the waveguide rib. The electrical contact is formed of a material with an optical refractive index close to that of a surrounding oxide layer that surrounds the waveguide rib and the electrical contact and lower than the optical refractive index of the doped semiconductor layer. During propagation of an optical mode within the waveguide structure, the electrical contact isolates the optical mode between the doped semiconductor layer and a metal electrode contact on top of the electrical contact.

    摘要翻译: 相位调制波导结构包括半导体和绝缘体上半导体衬底之一,在半导体和绝缘体上半导体衬底之上形成的掺杂半导体层,掺杂半导体部分包括从 其表面不与半导体和绝缘体上半导体衬底之一接触,并且在波导肋的顶部上的电接触。 电接触由光学折射率接近包围波导肋和电接触并且低于掺杂半导体层的光折射率的周围氧化物层的材料形成。 在波导结构内的光学模式的传播期间,电接触将掺杂半导体层和电接触顶部上的金属电极接触之间的光学模式隔离开。

    Linear N×N robotic fiber optic switch

    公开(公告)号:US12130474B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17189969

    申请日:2021-03-02

    申请人: Xuezhe Zheng

    发明人: Xuezhe Zheng

    IPC分类号: H04Q1/14 G02B6/35 H04Q11/00

    摘要: A linear N×N robotic fiber optic switch is described. Notably, fiber adapters for connecting the input and output fibers are arranged linearly. Moreover, each fiber adaptor is driven by a push-pull mechanism such that it can be positioned to a front, center, or back position, with which the private plane of a fiber port can be separated from the other fiber ports and fiber connection can be configured using a simple linear translation robotic pickup free of interference in a compact space. Furthermore, a large scale fabric switch comprises 3 stages of N linear N×N robotic switches connected using fiber shuffles. Each stage or all three stages can share one robot to reduce cost. Scalability to large port counts may be accomplished proportional to N, the number of ports, rather than N2.

    Single- layer full-mesh, point-to-point network
    24.
    发明授权
    Single- layer full-mesh, point-to-point network 有权
    单层全网格,点对点网络

    公开(公告)号:US09316784B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-04-19

    申请号:US13479109

    申请日:2012-05-23

    摘要: An MCM may include a single optical routing layer that provides point-to-point connectivity among N chips in the MCM, such as all-to-all connectivity or full-mesh point-to-point connectivity. Moreover, the optical routing layer may include: N optical waveguides optically coupled to the N chips and a cyclic de-multiplexer, optically coupled to the N optical waveguides, that routes optical signals among the N optical waveguides without optical-waveguide crossing in the optical routing layer. For example, the cyclic de-multiplexer may include: an array-waveguide-grating (AWG) wavelength router and/or an echelle-grating wavelength router.

    摘要翻译: MCM可以包括在MCM中的N个芯片之间提供点对点连接的单个光路由层,诸如全对连接或全网点对点连接。 此外,光路由层可以包括:光学耦合到N个芯片的N个光波导和光学耦合到N个光波导的循环去多路复用器,其在N个光波导中路由光信号,而在光学器件中没有光波导交叉 路由层。 例如,循环去多路复用器可以包括:阵列波导光栅(AWG)波长路由器和/或梯形光栅波长路由器。

    POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE SILICON-PHOTOTONIC OPTICAL RECEIVER
    25.
    发明申请
    POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE SILICON-PHOTOTONIC OPTICAL RECEIVER 有权
    极化无机硅光电接收器

    公开(公告)号:US20150260914A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-17

    申请号:US13588261

    申请日:2012-08-17

    IPC分类号: G02B6/126 G02B6/124 G02B6/12

    摘要: Using silicon photonic components that support a single polarization, the output of an optical receiver is independent of the polarization of an optical signal. In particular, using a polarization-diversity technique, the two orthogonal polarizations in a single-mode optical fiber are split in two and processed independently. For example, the two optical signals are provided by a polarizing splitting grating coupler. Subsequently, a wavelength channel in the two optical signals is selected using a wavelength-selective filter (for example, using a ring resonator or an echelle grating) and combined at an optical detector (such as a photo-detector) to achieve polarization-independent operation.

    摘要翻译: 使用支持单一极化的硅光子分量,光接收机的输出与光信号的偏振无关。 特别地,使用偏振分集技术,将单模光纤中的两个正交偏振分成两部分并独立处理。 例如,两个光信号由偏振分光光栅耦合器提供。 随后,使用波长选择滤波器(例如,使用环形谐振器或梯形光栅)选择两个光信号中的波长信道,并在光学检测器(例如光电检测器)处组合以实现偏振无关 操作。

    REFLECTION-ENHANCED PHOTO-DETECTOR
    26.
    发明申请
    REFLECTION-ENHANCED PHOTO-DETECTOR 审中-公开
    反射增强型光电探测器

    公开(公告)号:US20140246571A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-09-04

    申请号:US13588248

    申请日:2012-08-17

    IPC分类号: G01J1/04 G01J1/42

    摘要: An integrated optical device includes a photo-detector (such as germanium) optically coupled to an optical waveguide. This photo-detector is deposited on the optical waveguide, and an optical signal propagating in the optical waveguide may be evanescently coupled to the photo-detector. In order to increase the absorption length of the photo-detector, a mirror (such as a distributed Bragg reflection grating) is included in the optical waveguide near the end of the photo-detector. This mirror reflects the optical signal back toward the photo-detector, thereby increasing the absorption of the optical signal by the photo-detector. In addition, absorption may be reduced by using electrical contacts that are electrically coupled to the photo-detector at locations where the optical mode of the optical signal is largely in the underlying optical waveguide, and by using a fingered metal layer to couple to the electrical contacts.

    摘要翻译: 集成光学器件包括光耦合到光波导的光检测器(例如锗)。 该光检测器沉积在光波导上,并且在光波导中传播的光信号可以ev逝地耦合到光检测器。 为了增加光检测器的吸收长度,在光检测器端部附近的光波导中包括反射镜(例如分布式布拉格反射光栅)。 该反射镜将光信号反射回光检测器,由此增加光信号由光检测器的吸收。 此外,通过使用在光信号的光学模式主要位于下面的光波导中的位置处电耦合到光检测器的电接触,并且通过使用指状金属层耦合到电 联系人

    Edge-coupled optical proximity communication
    27.
    发明授权
    Edge-coupled optical proximity communication 有权
    边缘耦合光学邻近通信

    公开(公告)号:US08755655B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-17

    申请号:US12564701

    申请日:2009-09-22

    摘要: An optical module is described. This optical module includes at least two optical devices that communicate with each other using edge-to-edge optical coupling of an optical signal between optical components in the two optical devices. Note that the edge-to-edge optical coupling may occur without mode converters at edges of either of the optical devices. Furthermore, the edge-to-edge optical coupling may be facilitated by an alignment substrate, which is mechanically coupled to the two optical devices. This alignment substrate aligns the edges of the two optical devices so that they are approximately parallel to each other, and aligns the optical components in the two optical devices.

    摘要翻译: 描述光学模块。 该光学模块包括使用两个光学装置中的光学部件之间的光信号的边缘到边缘光耦合来彼此通信的至少两个光学装置。 注意,边缘到边缘光耦合可能在任何光学器件的边缘处没有模式转换器。 此外,边缘到边缘光耦合可以通过机械耦合到两个光学器件的对准衬底来促进。 该对准衬底对准两个光学器件的边缘,使得它们彼此近似平行,并对准两个光学器件中的光学部件。

    OPTICAL DEVICE WITH REDUCED THERMAL TUNING ENERGY
    29.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL DEVICE WITH REDUCED THERMAL TUNING ENERGY 有权
    具有减少热调节能的光学装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120207479A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-16

    申请号:US13156144

    申请日:2011-06-08

    IPC分类号: H04J14/02

    摘要: An optical device that includes multiple optical modulators having target operating wavelengths that are distributed over a band of wavelengths and actual operating wavelengths is described. For example, the target operating wavelengths of adjacent optical modulators may be separated by a wavelength increment. Moreover, because of differences between the actual operating wavelengths and the target operating wavelengths of the optical modulators, tuning elements may be used to tune the optical modulators so that the actual operating wavelengths match corresponding carrier wavelengths in a set of optical signals. Furthermore, control logic in the optical device may assign the optical modulators to the corresponding carrier wavelengths based at least on differences between the carrier wavelengths and the actual operating wavelengths, thereby reducing an average tuning energy associated with the tuning elements.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种光学装置,其包括具有分布在波长带和实际工作波长上的目标工作波长的多个光调制器。 例如,相邻光调制器的目标工作波长可以被波长增量分开。 此外,由于实际工作波长与光调制器的目标工作波长之间的差异,调谐元件可用于调谐光调制器,使得实际工作波长匹配一组光信号中的对应载波波长。 此外,光学装置中的控制逻辑可以至少基于载波波长和实际工作波长之间的差异将光调制器分配给相应的载波波长,从而减少与调谐元件相关联的平均调谐能量。

    OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL WAVEGUIDE TAPERS
    30.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL WAVEGUIDE TAPERS 有权
    具有三维波导光栅的光学调制器

    公开(公告)号:US20120207424A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-16

    申请号:US12816935

    申请日:2010-06-16

    IPC分类号: G02F1/035

    摘要: An integrated circuit that includes an optical waveguide defined in a semiconductor layer is described. In this integrated circuit, light is coupled between the optical waveguide and an optical modulator, which is disposed on the optical waveguide, using 3-dimensional (3-D) taper structures that are proximate to the ends of the optical modulator. The cross-sectional areas of these 3-D taper structures transition, over a distance, from that of the optical waveguide (distal from the optical modulator) to that of optical modulator (proximate to the ends of the optical modulator). In this way, a spatial extent of an optical mode in the optical waveguide and a spatial extent of the optical mode in the optical modulator may be approximately matched to reduce the optical loss when the light is coupled to or from the optical modulator.

    摘要翻译: 描述了包括在半导体层中限定的光波导的集成电路。 在该集成电路中,使用靠近光调制器的端部的3维(3-D)锥形结构将光耦合在光波导和设置在光波导上的光调制器之间。 这些3-D锥形结构的横截面积在一段距离上与光波导(远离光调制器)的横截面面积转换到光调制器(近于光调制器的端部)的截面面积。 以这种方式,光学波导中的光学模式的空间范围和光学调制器中的光学模式的空间范围可以近似匹配,以减少当光耦合到光学调制器时的光学损耗。