Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-spectral optical coupler with low receive losses
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Application No.: US16321147Application Date: 2017-07-31
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Publication No.: US10656332B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Simon Plantier , Marco Casale , Daivid Fowler , Christophe Kopp
- Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@5e5e540d
- International Application: PCT/FR2017/052149 WO 20170731
- International Announcement: WO2018/024975 WO 20180208
- Main IPC: G02B6/12
- IPC: G02B6/12 ; G02B6/30 ; G02B6/34 ; G02B6/43

Abstract:
An optical coupling device for producing an optical coupling between an optical fiber and photonic circuits. The device includes a substrate and at least two coupling stages integrated on the substrate, and: each coupling stage includes a grating coupler configured to implement an optical coupling centered on a respective central wavelength; the multiple grating couplers are superimposed on top of each other, along an axis orthogonal to the substrate plane; at least one of the grating couplers is insensitive to polarization. The device can form, for example, a wide band coupler, wherein each portion of the spectrum is coupled by a coupling stage. As an alternative, such a device can form an emitting and receiving coupler, where emission and reception spectra are each coupled by a respective coupling stage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190170938A1 MULTI-SPECTRAL OPTICAL COUPLER WITH LOW RECEIVE LOSSES Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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