公开(公告)号：US20230170670A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17540440

申请日：2021-12-02

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. ,  BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Elad Mentovich ,  Anna Sandomirsky ,  Boaz Atias ,  Doron Naveh ,  Eilam Zigi Ben Smolinsky ,  Adi Levi ,  Rana Darweesh

IPC: H01S5/10 ,  H01S5/026 ,  H01S5/068

CPC classification number: H01S5/1014 ,  H01S5/026 ,  H01S5/068

Abstract: A light emitting device, a transmitter, and a silicon photonics chip, among other things, are disclosed. An illustrative light emitting device is disclosed to include a silicon substrate, a waveguide disposed on or integrated in the silicon substrate, where the waveguide includes a wide waveguide section at a first end and a narrow waveguide section at a second end, a first metal pad disposed over the wide waveguide section and at least partially across the first end of the waveguide, and a second metal pad disposed over the wide waveguide section, distanced away from the first metal pad. Electrical current passing between the first metal pad and the second metal pad may cause light to be produced in the wide waveguide section and the light produced in the wide waveguide section is at least partially reflected by the first metal pad and directed to the narrow waveguide section for transmission.

公开(公告)号：US11630266B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US17421389

申请日：2019-01-17

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. ,  YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY LTD.

Inventor： Eran Aharon ,  Dan Mark Marom ,  Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: G02B6/35

Abstract: An optical switching device (20) includes a substrate (39) and first and second optical waveguides (23, 25) having respective first and second tapered ends (62, 64), which are fixed on the substrate in mutual proximity one to another. A pair of electrodes (36, 38) is disposed on the substrate with a gap therebetween. A cantilever beam (32) is disposed on the substrate within the gap and configured to deflect transversely between first and second positions within the gap in response to a potential applied between the electrodes. A third optical waveguide (21) is mounted on the cantilever beam and has a third tapered end (60) disposed between the first and second tapered ends of the first and second waveguides, so that the third tapered end is in proximity with the first tapered end when the cantilever beam is in the first position and is in proximity with the second tapered end when the cantilever beam is in the second position.

公开(公告)号：US11561352B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-24

申请号：US16928037

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.

Inventor： Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Donald Becker ,  Boaz Atias ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: G02B6/42 ,  H04B10/25 ,  G02B6/38 ,  G02B6/02

Abstract: A network device includes an enclosure, a multi-chip module (MCM), an optical-to-optical connector, and a multi-core fiber (MCF) interconnect. The enclosure has a panel. The MCM is inside the enclosure. The optical-to-optical connector, which is mounted on the panel of the enclosure, is configured to transfer a plurality of optical communication signals. The MCF interconnect has a first end coupled to the MCM and a second end connected to the optical-to-optical connector on the panel, for routing the plurality of optical communication signals between the MCM and the panel.

公开(公告)号：US20230006981A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17369305

申请日：2021-07-07

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.

Inventor： Dimitrios Syrivelis ,  Dotan David Levi ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L9/08 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L9/32

Abstract: A network interface controller includes processing circuitry configured to pair with a local root of trust of a host device connected to the network interface controller and provide a key to an encryption device of the host device that enables the encryption device to encrypt data of one or more host device applications using the key. The encrypted data are stored in host device memory. The processing circuitry is configured to share the key with a remote endpoint and forward the encrypted data from the host device memory to the remote endpoint.

公开(公告)号：US20220407822A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17779157

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.

Inventor： Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Eitan Zahavi ,  Eran Aharon ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: H04L49/253

Abstract: A routing controller (30) includes an interface (68) and multiple processors (60) The interface is configured to receive a permutation (76) defining requested interconnections between N input ports and N output ports of a Benes network (24). The Benes network includes multiple 2-by-2 switches (42), and is reducible in a plurality of nested subnetworks associated with respective nesting levels, down to irreducible subnetworks including a single 2-by-2 switch. The multiple processors are configured to collectively determine a setting of the 2-by-2 switches that implements the received permutation, including determining sub-settings for two or more subnetworks of a given nesting level in parallel, and to configure the multiple 2-by-2 switches of the Benes network in accordance with the determined setting.

公开(公告)号：US20220091341A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17421389

申请日：2019-01-17

Applicant: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. ,  YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY LTD.

Inventor： Eran Aharon ,  Dan Mark Marom ,  Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: G02B6/35

Abstract: An optical switching device (20) includes a substrate (39) and first and second optical waveguides (23, 25) having respective first and second tapered ends (62, 64), which are fixed on the substrate in mutual proximity one to another. A pair of electrodes (36, 38) is disposed on the substrate with a gap therebetween. A cantilever beam (32) is disposed on the substrate within the gap and configured to deflect transversely between first and second positions within the gap in response to a potential applied between the electrodes. A third optical waveguide (21) is mounted on the cantilever beam and has a third tapered end (60) disposed between the first and second tapered ends of the first and second waveguides, so that the third tapered end is in proximity with the first tapered end when the cantilever beam is in the first position and is in proximity with the second tapered end when the cantilever beam is in the second position.

公开(公告)号：US20220029933A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-27

申请号：US16985634

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Inventor： Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas ,  Elad Mentovich

IPC: H04L12/933 ,  H04Q11/00

Abstract: A fast optical switch and networks comprising fast optical switches are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a fast optical switch includes two or more fabric switches; a first selector switch; and a second selector switch. The first selector switch may selectively pass a signal to one of the two or more fabric switches. The one of the two or more fabric switches may act on the received signal to provide a switched signal and the second selector switch may selectively receive the switched signal provided by the one of the two or more fabric switches. A slot of the fast optical switch comprises a transmission window of one of the two or more fabric switches that occurs in parallel with at least a portion of a reconfiguration window of the other of the two or more fabric switches.

公开(公告)号：US12289402B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US18400647

申请日：2023-12-29

Applicant: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Inventor： Elad Mentovich ,  Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Ahmad Atamlh

IPC: H04L9/08 ,  H04B10/85 ,  H04Q11/00

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a quantum key distribution (QKD) enabled intra-datacenter network. An example system includes a first QKD device and a second QKD device. The first QKD device includes a first quantum-enabled port and a first network port. The second QKD device includes a second quantum-enabled port and a second network port. The first quantum-enabled port of the first QKD device is communicatively coupled to the second quantum-enabled port of the second QKD device via a QKD link associated with quantum communication. Furthermore, the first network port of the first QKD device is communicatively coupled to a first network switch via a first classical link associated with classical network communication. The second network port of the second QKD device is communicatively coupled to a second network switch via a second classical link associated with classical network communication.

公开(公告)号：US12278662B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US17896877

申请日：2022-08-26

Applicant: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Inventor： Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Konstantinos Tokas ,  Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas ,  Nikolaos Argyris ,  Dimitrios Syrivelis ,  Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Elad Mentovich ,  Eitan Zahavi ,  Louis Bennie Capps, Jr. ,  Prethvi Ramesh Kashinkunti ,  Julie Irene Marcelle Bernauer

IPC: H04B10/071 ,  H04B10/073 ,  H04B10/077 ,  H04B10/079

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for network discovery, port identification, and/or identifying fiber link failures in an optical network, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. The present invention may be configured to sequentially connect each port of an optical switch to a network port of a server and generate, based on information associated with network devices connected to the ports, a network map. The network map may identify which network devices are connected to which ports of the optical switch and may permit dynamic port mapping for network installation, upgrades, repairs, and/or the like. The present invention may also be configured to determine a fiber link in which a failure occurred and reconfigure the optical switch to allow communication between an optical time-domain reflectometer and the fiber link to test the fiber link.

公开(公告)号：US12189262B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US17617603

申请日：2019-06-10

Applicant: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. ,  ETH ZURICH ,  ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI

Inventor： Claudia Hoessbacher ,  Juerg Leuthold ,  Elad Mentovich ,  Paraskevas Bakopoulos ,  Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis ,  Dimitrios Tsiokos

IPC: G02F1/225 ,  G02F1/21 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: An optoelectronic device (20) includes thin film structures (56) disposed on a semiconductor substrate (54) and patterned to define components of an integrated drive circuit, which is configured to generate a drive signal. A back end of line (BEOL) stack (42) of alternating metal layers (44, 46) and dielectric layers (50) is disposed over the thin film structures. The metal layers include a modulator layer (48), which contains a plasmonic waveguide (36, 99, 105) and a plurality of electrodes (30, 32, 34, 96, 98, 106), which apply a modulation to surface plasmons polaritons (SPPs) propagating in the plasmonic waveguide in response to the drive signal. A plurality of interconnect layers are patterned to connect the thin film structures to the electrodes. An optical input coupler (38, 82) is configured to couple light into the modulator layer, whereby the light is modulated by the modulation of the SPPs, and an optical output coupler (38, 82) is configured to couple the modulated light out of the modulator layer.