Optical coupler having exposed subwavelength gratings for coupling electromagnetic field

M Qi, M Teng, K Han, S Kim, B Niu, YJ Lee - US Patent 10,126,500, 2018 - Google Patents
A semiconductor photonic device includes a substrate, facet (s), and optical coupler (s)
associated with the facet (s). Each optical coupler can couple an electromagnetic field …

Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two waveguides

Y Painchaud, MJ Picard, I Betty, C Latrasse… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A spot-size converter includes a first part of a waveguiding structure to couple to a first
waveguide to receive light from or transmit light to the first waveguide in a first propagation …

Optical coupler

M Teng, M Qi, B Niu, JC Wirth, S Kim, K Han… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A semiconductor photonic device includes a substrate, fa cet (s), and
optical coupler (s) associated with the facet (s). Each optical coupler can couple an …

Edge couplers for photonics applications

B Peng, Y Bian, AP Jacob, T Houghton… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Structures for an edge coupler and methods of fabricating a structure for an edge coupler. A
waveguide core and a coupler are formed over a layer stack that includes a first dielectric …

Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two waveguides

Y Painchaud, M Picard, I Betty, C Latrasse… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A spot-size converter having a waveguiding structure. The first part of the waveguiding
structure receives light from or transmits light to a first waveguide in a first propagation mode …

Multi-core silicon waveguide in a mode-converting silicon photonic edge coupler

B Daniel - US Patent 10,345,522, 2019 - Google Patents
A mode-converting optical coupler may include a secondary waveguide to guide light in one
or more secondary optical modes, and a primary waveguide to guide light in one or more …

Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two waveguides

Y Painchaud, M Picard, I Betty, C Latrasse… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
US10197734B2 - Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two
waveguides - Google Patents US10197734B2 - Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion …

Optical fiber coupler having hybrid tapered waveguide segments and metamaterial segments

B Peng, AP Jacob, Y Bian - US Patent 10,989,876, 2021 - Google Patents
Optical coupler structures include a waveguide having waveguide metamaterial segments
aligned along a first line. A second insulator is on the first insulator and the waveguide …

Non-hermetic semiconductor optical amplifier integration on silicon photonics

F Pelletier - US Patent 10,677,986, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods for non-hermetic Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA)
integration on a Silicon photonic (SiP) chip using Complementary Metal-Oxide …

Edge couplers with stacked layering

Y Bian, RA Augur, M Rakowski, KJ Giewont… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Structures including an edge coupler and methods of fabricating a structure including an
edge coupler. The edge coupler includes a waveguide core, and a shaped layer is …