Germanium silicon heterostructure photodetectors

G Masini, LC Gunn III, G Capellini - US Patent 7,397,101, 2008 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A horizontal germanium silicon heterostructure photodetec tor comprising a
horizontal germaniump-in diode disposed over a horizontal parasitic silicon pin diode uses …

Optoelectronic device with germanium photodetector

S Assefa, SW Bedell, YA Vlasov, F Xia - US Patent 7,790,495, 2010 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the present invention address the above identified need by providing
structures and process integra tion schemes that allow horizontal Ge waveguide photode …

Fabricating photonics devices fully integrated into a CMOS manufacturing process

S Assefa, WMJ Green, YA Vlasov, M Yang - US Patent 8,633,067, 2014 - Google Patents
Disclosed are process enhancements to fully integrate the processing of a photonics device
into a CMOS manufacturing process flow. A CMOS wafer may be divided into different …

Co-integration of photonic devices on a silicon photonics platform

W Bogaerts, J Van Campenhout, P Verheyen… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The realization of a complete silicon based photonics plat form requires the
co-integration of advanced passive photo nic devices, eg, using poly-on-SOI (Such as, for …

Waveguide photodetector

G Dehlinger, SJ Mcnab, YA Vlasov, F Xia - US Patent 7,515,793, 2009 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The invention relates generally to optical waveguides, and relates more
particularly to waveguide photodetectors for converting optical signals into electrical signals …

Optical coupling structure

T Keyser, G Hughes - US Patent 7,454,102, 2008 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Optoelectronic integrated circuits (ICs) include both elec tronic and optical
elements Within a single chip. Typical elec tronic elements include? eld effect transistors …

Vertically-integrated waveguide photodetector apparatus and related coupling methods

D Ahn, J Liu, J Michel, LC Kimerling - US Patent 7,305,157, 2007 - Google Patents
174 aSE2 detector are fabricated utilizing methods generally compat ible with CMOS
processing techniques. In various imple mentations, the waveguide consists essentially of …

Integrated waveguide photodetector apparatus with matching propagation constants and related coupling methods

D Ahn, J Liu, J Michel, LC Kimerling - US Patent 7,266,263, 2007 - Google Patents
6,856,733 B2* 2/2005 Zheng......................... 385/39 densely integrated With and efficiently
coupled to a photo detector are fabricated utilizing methods generally compat ible With …

Waveguide photodetector device and manufacturing method thereof

MR Reshotko, BA Block - US Patent 8,290,325, 2012 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the present invention describe a waveguide based photodetector device
and its methods of fabrication. The waveguide photodetector device comprises a substrate …

Design of CMOS integrated germanium photodiodes

J Witzens, G Masini, G Capellini, LC Gunn III - US Patent 7,613,369, 2009 - Google Patents
The rapid expansion in the use of the Internet has resulted in a demand for high speed
communications links and devices, including optical links and devices. Optical links using …