Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optoelectronic integrated circuitry for transmitting and/or receiving wavelength-division multiplexed optical signals
-
Application No.: US14444629Application Date: 2014-07-28
-
Publication No.: US09698457B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Geoff W. Taylor
- Applicant: The University of Connecticut , Opel Solar, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington US CT Storrs Manfield
- Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT,Opel Solar, Inc.
- Current Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT,Opel Solar, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington US CT Storrs Manfield
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Main IPC: G02B6/12
- IPC: G02B6/12 ; H01P3/02 ; H01S5/026 ; H01S5/10 ; H01S5/125 ; H01S5/40 ; G02B6/293

Abstract:
A WDM transmitter and/or receiver optoelectronic integrated circuit includes a plurality of microresonators and corresponding waveguides and couplers that are integrally formed on a substrate. For the WDM transmitter, the microresonators and waveguides are configured to generate a plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths. Each coupler includes a resonant cavity waveguide that is configured to transmit one optical signal from one waveguide to the output waveguide such that the plurality of optical signals are multiplexed on the output waveguide. For the WDM receiver, an input waveguide is configured to provide for propagation of a plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths. Each coupler includes a resonant cavity waveguide that is configured to transmit at least one optical signal from the input waveguide to one waveguide. The waveguides and microresonators are configured to perform optical-to-electrical conversion of the plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths that propagate in the waveguides.
Public/Granted literature
Information query