2x2 OPTICAL UNITARY MATRIX MULTIPLIER

    公开(公告)号:US20210063645A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US16950822

    申请日:2020-11-17

    Inventor: Wenhua Lin

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations for optical couplers comprising a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide coupled to form a 2×2 optical unitary matrix to receive a respective first input optical signal and a second input optical signal. In embodiments the first optical waveguide and second optical waveguide form arms that converge alongside each other to direct the first input optical signal and the second input optical signal along a path that integrates a plurality of tunable phase shifters to transform the first input optical signal or the second input optical signal into a first output optical signal and second output optical signal to be output from the 2×2 optical unitary matrix. Additional embodiments may be described and claimed.

    Low back-reflection taper coupler

    公开(公告)号:US10591671B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US16235833

    申请日:2018-12-28

    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure describe an apparatus for III/V-Si taper coupling, including a III/V-Si taper coupler with one end to receive a laser beam where the one end has at least one surface at a non-perpendicular angle with respect to a direction of the laser beam, and where the at least one surface forms one or more tips at the one end of the III/V-Si taper coupler. The one end is positioned so that the one or more tips are outside the laser beam to reduce reflection of laser beam away from the one end of the III/V-Si taper coupler.

    OPTICAL ANALOG MATRIX MULTIPLIER FOR OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20210135764A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-06

    申请号:US16950819

    申请日:2020-11-17

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and apparatus comprising at least one layer of an ONN that includes an optical matrix multiplier provided in a semiconductor substrate to receive a plurality of optical signal inputs and to linearly transform the plurality of optical signal inputs into a plurality of optical signal outputs. The optical matrix multiplier comprises one or more 2×2 unitary optical matrices optically interconnected to implement a singular value decomposition (SVD) of a matrix, and a nonlinear optical device coupled with the optical matrix multiplier in the semiconductor substrate, to receive the optical signal outputs and to provide an optical output that is generated in a nonlinear manner in response to the optical signal outputs of the optical matrix multiplier reaching saturation or attenuation. Additional embodiments may be described and claimed.

    HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210064958A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US16950824

    申请日:2020-11-17

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations for an optical accelerator including a photonics integrated circuit (PIC) for an optical neural network (ONN). In embodiments, an optical accelerator package includes the PIC and an electronics integrated circuit (EIC) that is heterogeneously integrated into the optical accelerator package to proximally provide pre- and post-processing of optical signal inputs and optical signal outputs provided to and received from an optical matrix multiplier of the PIC. In some embodiments, the EIC is a single EIC or discrete EICs to provide pre- and post-processing of the optical signal inputs and optical signal outputs including optical to electrical and electrical to optical transduction. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

    OPTICAL SIGNAL SKEW COMPENSATION
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200174514A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-04

    申请号:US16780703

    申请日:2020-02-03

    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described herein to compensate for a skew effect that occurs in an optical signal generated in response to an electrical to optical (E/O) conversion of an electrical signal carrying data received from a driver. A skew control device coupled with a driver or a modulator provides a skew to the electric signal prior to E/O conversion to compensate for the skew effect. The skew may be provided by a reverse-biased p-n junction diode. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

    Low back reflection echelle grating

    公开(公告)号:US10197737B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15719013

    申请日:2017-09-28

    Inventor: Wenhua Lin

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward an optical apparatus that includes a semiconductor layer to propagate light from at least one light source. The optical apparatus may further include a curved echelle grating with a plurality of grating teeth, the echelle grating at an outer side of the semiconductor layer. The curved echelle grating may include a plurality of grating teeth, and a grating tooth of the plurality of grating teeth may have a grating facet and a shadow facet. A shadow facet may have an angle of grating greater than 0 degrees with respect to a normal of a curve of the curved echelle grating. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

    TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVE WAVEGUIDES AND ARRAY WAVEGUIDE GRATING MUX/DEMUX DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20220276437A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17747929

    申请日:2022-05-18

    Abstract: Thermally compensated waveguides are disclosed herein. According to one aspect, the present disclosure proposes new ways to combine negative TOC (NTOC) material layers within the waveguides. NTOC materials can be implemented in one or more of a cladding layer, a core rib/channel waveguide, a horizontally segmented waveguide, a vertically segmented waveguide, a sub-wavelength grating structure, and/or in various other waveguide structure implementations including arbitrary core or cladding shapes. The integration of NTOC materials improves the temperature dependence of the waveguide spectrum. The need for fast and efficient optical-based technologies is increasing as Internet data traffic growth rate is overtaking voice traffic, pushing the need for optical communications. The new waveguide structures can be integrated into waveguides, individual devices, integrated devices like arrayed waveguide grating devices, and photonic integration circuits (PICs), decreasing temperature dependence of such devices and circuits.

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