Abstract:
A dual band detector includes a substrate, a composite barrier, a first absorber on the substrate and on a light incident side of the composite barrier, the first absorber for detecting first infrared light wavelengths, a second absorber on the composite barrier on a side opposite the light incident side, the second absorber for detecting second infrared light wavelengths, wherein a bandgap of the first absorber is larger than that of the second absorber, wherein the composite barrier includes a first secondary barrier, a primary barrier, and a second secondary barrier, wherein the first and second secondary barriers may have a lower bandgap energy than the primary barrier, wherein the first or the second secondary barrier may have a doping level and type different from that of the primary barrier, and wherein at least the primary barrier blocks majority carriers and allows minority carrier flow.
Abstract:
An RF photonic link having at least one light source, at least one photodetector, multiple optoelectronic modulators, and an RF waveguide common to each one of said multiple optoelectronic modulators. The multiple optoelectronic modulators are optically arranged in parallel to receive light from said at least one light source and are disposed in said RF waveguide. The RF waveguide, in use, guides an RF electromagnetic field applied to each of the multiple optoelectronic modulators disposed therein, the RF electromagnetic field propagating through the RF waveguide in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which an optical field propagates through each of said optoelectronic modulators.
Abstract:
This invention provides a versatile unit cell as well as programmable and reconfigurable optical signal processors (such as optical-domain RF filters) that are constructed from arrays of those unit cells interconnected by optical waveguides. Each unit cell comprises an optical microdisk, an optical phase shifter, and at least one input/output optical waveguide, wherein the microdisk and the phase shifter are both optically connected to a common waveguide.
Abstract:
A thermoelectric generator element includes a first material configured to generate hole and electron carriers and a second material configured to produce a thermoelectric effect and thermally and physically connected to the first material, wherein an interface between the first material and the second material forms a heterojunction that acts to selectively permit injection of one of either the hole carrier or the electron carrier from the first material to the second material.
Abstract:
A spread spectrum waveform generator has a photonic oscillator and an optical heterodyne synthesizer. The photonic oscillator is a multi-tone optical comb generator for generating a series of RF comb lines on an optical carrier. The optical heterodyne synthesizer includes first and second phase-locked lasers, where the first laser feeds the multi-tone optical comb generator and the second laser is a single tone laser whose output light provides a frequency translation reference. At least one photodetector is provided for heterodyning the frequency translation reference with the optical output of the photonic oscillator to generate a spread spectrum waveform. A receiver pre-processor may be provided to operate on the spread spectrum waveform.
Abstract:
A limiter for limiting selected frequency components by generating Stokes waves in a stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The generated Stokes waves create a seed that is provided to another stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The seed selecting the undesired frequency components to be attenuated.
Abstract:
A frequency synthesizer for generating a multiple tone lightwave signal that can be converted into an RF carrier or local oscillator signal. The frequency synthesizer comprises a multiple mode master laser, two slave lasers injection-locked to the master laser, an optical coupler coupling the optical outputs of the two slave lasers, which produces an optical heterodyne output. The frequency synthesizer further comprises a homodyne phase-lock loop providing feedback control over one of the slave lasers and a heterodyne phase-lock loop providing feedback control over the other slave laser. A local oscillator selector is used to select the optical mode to which one of the slave lasers is locked, thus providing selection of the frequencies of the heterodyne output.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a laser transmitter capable of being configured to transmit one of a plurality of wavelengths. Specifically, the laser transmitter may be reconfigured using the resonance passbands of a tunable microresonator coupled with a fixed grating.
Abstract:
A multi-tone photonic oscillator comprises a laser; an optical modulator coupled to the laser; and a delay line and a photodetector coupled to the optical modulator for generating a delayed electrical signal representation of the output of the optical modulator; wherein the optical modulator being responsible for the delayed electrical signal for generating multiple tones where the frequency intervals of the tones is a function of the amount of delay imposed by the delay line.
Abstract:
A solder bump structure for use on a substrate. The solder bump structure includes a multilayer underbump metallization having a major upper surface with a solder wetable caplayer for contacting a solder bump, the mutilayer underbump metallization projecting from the substrate with an exposed sidewall; a thin layer of a metal selected from a group consisting of titanium, chrome, a titanium-nickel-titanium composite, a titanium-nickel-chrome composite, a titanium-platinum-titanium alloy, and a titanium-nickel-oxidized silicon composite deposited over or under the multilayer underbump metallization and covering the exposed sidewall of the multilayer underbump metallization.