Structures for integrated silicon photonics optical gyroscopes with structural modifications at waveguide crossing

    公开(公告)号:US11635569B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US17473699

    申请日:2021-09-13

    IPC分类号: G02B6/136 G02B6/12 G01C19/04

    摘要: Disclosed herein are configurations and methods to produce very low loss waveguide structures, which can be single-layer or multi-layer. These waveguide structures can be used as a sensing component of a small-footprint integrated optical gyroscope. By using pure fused silica substrates as both top and bottom cladding around a SiN waveguide core, the propagation loss can be well below 0.1 db/meter. Low-loss waveguide-based gyro coils may be patterned in the shape of a spiral (circular or rectangular or any other shape), that may be distributed among one or more of vertical planes to increase the length of the optical path while avoiding the increased loss caused by intersecting waveguides in the state-of-the-art designs. Low-loss adiabatic tapers may be used for a coil formed in a single layer where an output waveguide crosses the turns of the spiraling coil.

    Photonic IC chip
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11609378B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-21

    申请号:US17649520

    申请日:2022-01-31

    摘要: A photonic integrated circuit chip includes vertical grating couplers defined in a first layer. Second insulating layers overlie the vertical grating coupler and an interconnection structure with metal levels is embedded in the second insulating layers. A cavity extends in depth through the second insulating layers all the way to an intermediate level between the couplers and the metal level closest to the couplers. The cavity has lateral dimensions such that the cavity is capable of receiving a block for holding an array of optical fibers intended to be optically coupled to the couplers.

    OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE, OPTICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WAFER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230084190A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-16

    申请号:US17884895

    申请日:2022-08-10

    IPC分类号: G02B6/122 G02B6/136 G02B6/30

    摘要: An optical integrated device includes a substrate and a waveguide that has a hollow structure. The waveguide includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide that is optically coupled to the first waveguide and that has a smaller relative refractive index difference than that of the first waveguide and converts a mode diameter to a mode diameter of an optical fiber in accordance with travelling of light. The optical integrated device includes a dent portion that is formed in the vicinity of the dicing line on the substrate such that the width of the output end surface is smaller than the core width of the optical fiber that is optically coupled to the output end surface in the state in which the dicing end surface of the substrate protrudes farther than the output end surface of the second waveguide in the axial direction of the optical waveguide.

    Cavity substrate having directional optoelectronic transmission channel and manufacturing method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11579362B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17463815

    申请日:2021-09-01

    摘要: A cavity substrate may have a directional optoelectronic transmission channel. The cavity substrate includes a support frame, a first dielectric layer on a first surface of the support frame, and a second dielectric layer on a second surface of the support frame. The support frame, the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer constitute a closed cavity having an opening on one side in the length direction of the substrate, a first circuit layer is arranged on the inner surface of the first dielectric layer facing the cavity, an electrode connected with an optical communication device is arranged on the first circuit layer, the electrode is electrically conducted with the first circuit layer, a second circuit layer is arranged on the outer surfaces of the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer are communicated through a via column.