Tapered photonic waveguide to optical fiber proximity coupler

RA Budd - US Patent 9,563,018, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present invention generally relates to photonic wave guide structures,
and more particularly, to photonic wave guide structures coupling to optical fibers. Single …

Through-substrate optical coupling to photonics chips

F Doany, BG Lee, CL Schow - US Patent 9,285,554, 2016 - Google Patents
This invention generally relates to optoelectronic inte grated circuits, or photonics chips, and
more specifically, to 15 optical coupling between a waveguide and a photonics chip …

Waveguide coupler having continuous three-dimensional tapering

SJ Spector, RB Swint, M Popovic - US Patent 8,472,766, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND This invention relates generally to silicon photonics, and more particularly
relates to silicon waveguides. Interest in the field of silicon photonics is rapidly growing as …

Dual “cheese wedge” silicon taper waveguide

A Liu - US Patent 7,088,890, 2006 - Google Patents
An optical device may include a fiber or waveguide that is intended to be coupled to another
waveguide having a significantly larger/smaller cross-sectional size. As such, two wedge …

Multimode optical coupler interfaces

YC Na, T Yin - US Patent 8,488,923, 2013 - Google Patents
Optical interfaces that may be employed between large-core optical fibers and chip-scale
optoelectronic devices. Described herein are couplers that improve the tolerance of …

Edge coupling using adiabatically tapered waveguides

H Pan, H Chen, X Zheng - US Patent 9,563,014, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND In optical transceivers, it is desirable to integrate as many photonic
components in one chip as possible. As integration density increases and the sizes of …

Photonic chips based on multimode fiber-to-waveguide coupling

B Stern, M Lipson, A Mohanty, F Barbosa… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Optical coupling designs are disclosed to provide a photonic device, for example, that
includes a substrate; an optical waveguide formed on the substrate and configured as a …

Apparatus and Method for an Optical Waveguide Edge Coupler for Photonic Integrated Chips

J Jiang, DJ Goodwill, E Bernier - US Patent App. 14/228,703, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002 Silicon nanophotonic chips, such as in silicon on insulator (SOI)
platforms, typically include waveguide cross sections in the Sub-micron scale, are highly …

Buried dual taper waveguide for passive alignment and photonic integration

A Liu - US Patent 8,000,565, 2011 - Google Patents
A buried dual taper waveguide has a flat surface after taper processing thus facilitating
further processing with more complex photonic integrated circuits. This allows for light …

Photonic chip optical transceivers

L Verslegers, R Urata, H Liu - US Patent App. 15/354,655, 2017 - Google Patents
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for a photonic chip. The photonic
chip includes one or more electronic components in addition to one or more optical …