Electro-optic beam deflector device

    公开(公告)号:US09885892B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-06

    申请号:US15360752

    申请日:2016-11-23

    Abstract: A substantially planar waveguide for dynamically controlling the out-of-plane angle at which a light beam exits the waveguide. Generally, liquid crystal materials may be disposed within a waveguide in a cladding proximate or adjacent to a core layer of the waveguide. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more taper regions such that the light beam exits the waveguide and propagates out-of-the-plane of the waveguide into an out-coupling medium at a propagation angle. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more electrodes onto which one or more voltages may be applied. The magnitude of the propagation angle may be electronically controlled by altered by controlling or altering the magnitude of the one or more applied voltages.

    OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20170371226A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-28

    申请号:US15544442

    申请日:2016-01-11

    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, an optical device is provided. The optical device includes a waveguide structure including a floating gate, and an optical waveguide arranged spaced apart from the floating gate, wherein the optical waveguide overlaps with the floating gate, a carrier injection portion arranged spaced apart from the floating gate, and an electrode arrangement, wherein, in response to a first voltage difference applied to the electrode arrangement, the optical device is configured to inject charge carriers from the carrier injection portion to the floating gate to cause a change in refractive index of the waveguide structure, and wherein, in response to a second voltage difference applied to the electrode arrangement, the optical device is configured to drive the charge carriers from the floating gate to the optical waveguide to deplete the charge carriers.

    CMOS Compatible Optical Modulators
    84.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170315421A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-02

    申请号:US15209488

    申请日:2016-07-13

    CPC classification number: G02F1/29 G02F2201/06 G02F2202/10

    Abstract: Ring modulators based on interdigitated junctions may be driven in full or partial standing wave mode and, active regions (providing the modulation) and light-absorptive regions (e.g. providing electrical conduction) are placed in a pattern inside a resonant cavity in order to match the maxima and minima of the optical field, respectively. The pattern may be periodic to match the periodicity of a typical electromagnetic field which is periodic with the wavelength. It may also be aperiodic in the case that the cross-section or materials are engineered along the direction of propagation such that the propagation constant (and thus wavelength, i.e. optical wave “local periodicity”) change along the propagation direction.

    Compact optical switch having only two waveguides and a resonant cavity to provide 60 degree folding

    公开(公告)号:US09778540B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-03

    申请号:US15313123

    申请日:2015-05-22

    Abstract: The present invention is based on a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which are inserted, in a controlled manner, defects that originate the waveguides and the resonant cavity that integrate the device. Its main function is to provide the control of the passage of an electromagnetic signal over a communications channel, blocking (state off) or allowing (state on) the passage of the signal. It also has the function of changing the propagation direction of an electromagnetic signal by an angle of 60 degrees, offering greater flexibility in the design of integrated optical systems. The operating principle of the device is associated with the excitation of dipole modes in the resonant cavity, which is based on a magneto-optical material. When the switch is under the influence of an external DC magnetic field H0, a rotating dipole mode excited in the cavity allows the passage of the input signal to the output (state on), whereas without the application of H0, a stationary dipole mode excited in the cavity, with the nodes aligned to the output waveguide, prevents the passage of the input signal to the output (state off).

    Electro-optical silicon-based phase modulator with null residual amplitude modulation
    88.
    发明授权
    Electro-optical silicon-based phase modulator with null residual amplitude modulation 有权
    具有零残余幅度调制的电光硅基相位调制器

    公开(公告)号:US09310185B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-04-12

    申请号:US14299725

    申请日:2014-06-09

    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for modulating a beam of radiation, such that the modulated beam exhibits substantially null residual amplitude modulation (RAM). An electro-optical modulator is presented that includes a waveguide, a first region associated with the waveguide and a second region associated with the waveguide. The waveguide is designed to guide a beam of radiation. A first electric potential applied to the first region causes a first modulation to the beam of radiation while a second electric potential applied to the second region causes a second modulation to the beam of radiation. The first modulation combined with the second modulation provides substantially null residual amplitude modulation of the beam of radiation.

    Abstract translation: 呈现用于调制辐射束的系统和方法,使得调制的光束呈现基本上为零的残余幅度调制(RAM)。 提出了一种电光调制器,其包括波导,与波导相关联的第一区域和与波导相关联的第二区域。 波导被设计成引导辐射束。 施加到第一区域的第一电位对辐射束进行第一调制,而施加到第二区的第二电位对辐射束施加第二调制。 与第二调制组合的第一调制提供辐射束的基本上零的剩余幅度调制。

    OPTICAL DEVICE
    89.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL DEVICE 审中-公开
    光学装置

    公开(公告)号:US20160011377A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-14

    申请号:US14768888

    申请日:2014-02-19

    Abstract: An optical device, comprising: a waveguide substrate in which two waveguides are formed along a waveguide plane, and a first emission light beam and a second emission light beam which are emitted from the two waveguides in parallel with each other; and a condensing member including a first condensing element which emits the first emission light beam after collimation, and a second condensing element which emits the second emission light beam after collimation, the first condensing element and the second condensing element being formed in an element installation surface with a constant interval, wherein when an angle made by an emission end surface of the waveguide substrate in the waveguide plane and a waveguide direction that is an extension direction of the waveguide is set as θ, a relationship of 0°

    Abstract translation: 一种光学装置,包括:波导基板,其中沿着波导平面形成两个波导,以及从所述两个波导彼此平行地发射的第一发射光束和第二发射光束; 以及聚光构件,包括在准直之后发射第一发射光束的第一聚光元件和在准直之后发射第二发射光束的第二聚光元件,第一聚光元件和第二聚光元件形成在元件安装表面中 其中当波导衬底在波导平面中的发射端面和作为波导的延伸方向的波导方向的角度被设置为“θ”时,0°<| |θs的关系; | <90°。

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A LOW PARASITIC SILICON HIGH-SPEED PHASE MODULATOR
    90.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A LOW PARASITIC SILICON HIGH-SPEED PHASE MODULATOR 有权
    低对比硅高速相位调制器的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20150316793A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-11-05

    申请号:US14105527

    申请日:2013-12-13

    Applicant: Luxtera Inc.

    Abstract: Methods and systems for a low-parasitic silicon high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include fabricating an optical phase modulator that comprises a PN junction waveguide formed in a silicon layer, wherein the silicon layer may be on an oxide layer and the oxide layer may be on a silicon substrate. The PN junction waveguide may have p-doped and n-doped regions on opposite sides along a length of the PN junction waveguide, and portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed. Contacts may be formed on remaining portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions. Portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed symmetrically about the PN junction waveguide. Portions of the p-doped and n-doped regions may be removed in a staggered fashion along the length of the PN junction waveguide. Etch transition features may be removed along the p-doped and n-doped regions.

    Abstract translation: 公开了一种用于低寄生硅高速相位调制器的方法和系统,并且可以包括制造包括形成在硅层中的PN结波导的光相位调制器,其中硅层可以在氧化物层上,氧化物层 可以在硅衬底上。 PN结波导可以在PN结波导的长度的相对侧上具有p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域,并且p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域的部分可以被去除。 可以在p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域的剩余部分上形成接触。 可以围绕PN结波导对称地去除部分p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域。 可以沿着PN结波导的长度以交错的方式去除部分p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域。 蚀刻跃迁特征可以沿着p掺杂区域和n掺杂区域去除。

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