Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a plurality of alignment couplers, wherein the alignment couplers are equally spaced a first length apart from each other along a first surface, a plurality of photodetectors optically coupled to the plurality of alignment couplers, a memory, and a processor coupled to the photodetectors and the memory, wherein the memory comprises computer executable instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive an electrical signal in response to at least one of the photodetectors detecting a first light, and determine an edge coupling alignment based on the electrical signal, wherein the edge coupling alignment is aligned when the electrical signal indicates two photodetectors of the plurality of photodetectors detect the first light, and wherein the edge coupling alignment is misaligned when the electrical signal indicates only one photodetector of the plurality of photodetectors detects the first light.
Abstract:
There is provided an optical power distribution system including an input optical fiber receiving light having an optical power. The optical power distribution system further includes an optical power distribution splitter optically coupled to the input optical fiber, the optical power distribution splitter including an all-dielectric optical waveguide, the optical power distribution splitter configured to divide the optical power into two or more portions. The optical power distribution system further includes an optical device optically coupled to optical power distribution splitter, the optical device including an optical waveguide having a semiconductor layer, the optical device receiving a first portion of the optical power.
Abstract:
An optical device comprises a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a switch comprising a first port coupled to the transmitter module, a second port coupled to the receiver module, a third port configured to couple to a transmitter fiber, and a fourth port configured to couple to a receiver fiber. A method implemented in a switch, the method comprising operating in a monitor mode that provides for monitoring of a transmitter fiber or a receiver fiber, receiving a command to transition from the monitor mode to a data mode, connecting a transmitter module to the transmitter fiber, and connecting a receiver module to the receiver fiber.
Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for a waveguide polarizer comprising a series of bends. The waveguide polarizer is suitable for used in optical waveguide devices or circuits, where a polarized light is required, such as for single polarization output. The polarizer design is independent of the function of the optical devices. In an embodiment, an optical polarizer comprises an optical waveguide configured to propagate light at a designated polarization mode, and comprising a bend in a same plane of the propagated light. The bend has a geometry configured to contain in the optical waveguide the designated polarization mode of the propagated light and radiate outside the optical waveguide a second polarization mode of the propagated light.
Abstract:
An optical device comprises a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a switch comprising a first port coupled to the transmitter module, a second port coupled to the receiver module, a third port configured to couple to a transmitter fiber, and a fourth port configured to couple to a receiver fiber. A method implemented in a switch, the method comprising operating in a monitor mode that provides for monitoring of a transmitter fiber or a receiver fiber, receiving a command to transition from the monitor mode to a data mode, connecting a transmitter module to the transmitter fiber, and connecting a receiver module to the receiver fiber.
Abstract:
A digital-to-analog optical modulator including a first waveguide arm configured to receive a light at a first end and to output a modulated light at a second end, and a first plurality of phase shifter segments, two segments from the first plurality of phase shifter segments having the same length and optically coupled to the first waveguide arm configured to generate the modulated light in response to a digital electrical drive signal. A digital-to-analog optical modulator including a first waveguide arm comprising a first end and a second end, a first plurality of phase shifter segments optically coupled to the first waveguide arm, at least two of the first plurality of phase shifter segments are the same length, and a second waveguide arm optically coupled to the first waveguide arm at the first end and the second end.
Abstract:
A digital optical modulator including a waveguide comprising a plurality of light paths, and a plurality of phase shifter segments, each optically coupled to a light path from the plurality of light paths, configured to modulate light carried in the plurality of light paths to generate a modulated light in response to an electrical drive signal, at least two of the plurality of phase shifter segments having the same length. A digital optical modulator comprising a first waveguide arm comprising a first end and a second end, a first plurality of phase shifter segments with at least two of the first plurality of phase shifter segments that are the same length optically coupled to the waveguide arm, and a second waveguide arm optically coupled to the first waveguide arm at the first end and the second end.
Abstract:
An optical connection includes a first array of holes on a first side of a registration plate and an array of grooves on a second side of the registration plate. The optical connection also includes a first plurality of GRIN lenses inserted into the first array of holes, where the first plurality of GRIN lenses includes a first GRIN lens in a first hole of the first array of holes and a second plurality of GRIN lenses inserted in grooves of the array of grooves, where the first side of the registration plate is opposite the second side of the registration plate, where the second plurality of GRIN lenses includes a second GRIN lens in a first groove of the array of grooves opposite the first GRIN lens, and where the first GRIN lens is optically coupled to the second GRIN lens by an air gap in the first.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprising a first photonic device comprising a waveguide loop configured to guide a first light from a first location of a surface to a second location of the surface, and a second photonic device comprising a light source configured to provide the first light, and a first alignment coupler optically coupled to the light source and configured to optically couple to the waveguide loop at the first location, a second alignment coupler configured to optically couple to the waveguide loop at the second location, and a photodetector optically coupled to the second alignment coupler and configured to detect the first light when the waveguide loop is aligned with the first alignment coupler and the second alignment coupler, and generate, based on the detection and on the received light, an electrical signal.
Abstract:
A low loss optical crossing and a method of making an optical crossing in a photonic integrated circuit. An optical crossing embodiment includes a crossing region having a crossing length, wherein a light path through the crossing region is laterally unbound; an input waveguide having an input crossing end and an input distal end, and coupled to the crossing region at the input crossing end, thereby partially forming the light path; and an output waveguide having an output crossing end and an output distal end, and coupled to the crossing region at the output crossing end, thereby partially forming the light path, wherein a crossing width of the output waveguide at the output crossing end is larger than a crossing width of the input waveguide at the input crossing end according to the crossing length, and wherein a lateral center of the output waveguide at the output crossing end is laterally displaced by an offset from a lateral center of the input waveguide at the input crossing end according to the crossing length.