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 …
B Koch, M Davenport, A Liu - US Patent 11,131,806, 2021 - Google Patents
Integrated-optics systems are presented in which an optically active device is optically coupled with a silicon waveguide via a passive compound-semiconductor waveguide. In a …
MP Bendett, G Whaley - US Patent 6,813,405, 2004 - Google Patents
Substrate having a major Surface, a first waveguide Segment and a Second waveguide Segment, and a folded evanescent coupler connecting the first waveguide Segment to the …
A Bandyopadhyay - US Patent 6,950,581, 2005 - Google Patents
Optical coupler apparatus having reduced geometry sensitivity includes spaced apart first and second main waveguides having a coupling section. In one embodiment, first and …
HP Kuo, MRT Tan, SY Wang, RG Walmsley… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
Beam couplers and splitters are disclosed herein. An example of a beam coupler and splitter includes a first waveguide having a first waveguide bevel and a bend, the first waveguide …
CM Hill, M Jaso - US Patent 7,974,505, 2011 - Google Patents
A method for fabricating selectively coupled optical waveguides on a substrate is disclosed. Initially, a first layer of waveguide material is deposited on a substrate. The first layer of …
MW Puckett, KD Nelson - US Patent 11,105,977, 2021 - Google Patents
An optical coupler device comprises an optical waveguide having a first edge and an opposing second edge that extend in a direction substantially parallel to a propagation …
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 …
M Thompson - US Patent 11,275,210, 2022 - Google Patents
An optical coupler includes a first waveguide including a first multi-mode waveguide section having a cross-section characterized by a first height and a first width that is greater than the …