Rockley Photonics Limited

Chamartin Laboratories LLC

University of Southampton

Politecnico Di Milano

Guomin Yu

Aaron John Zilkie

Hooman Abediasl

Haydn Frederick Jones

Damiana Lerose

Amit Singh Nagra

Pradeep Srinivasan

Andrew George Rickman

Frank Peters

Yi Zhang

Hua Yang

Mohamad Dernaika

Andrea Trita

Thomas Pierre Schrans

Ludovic Caro

Adam Scofield

Cristiano Dalvi

Sean Merritt

Philip Perea

David John Thomson

Jacob Levy

Abu Thomas

Richard Grote

Alexander Gondarenko

Albert Benzoni

Roozbeh Parsa

Jeffrey Driscoll

Kate LeeAnn Bechtel

Kyle R Rick

Renata Melamud Berger

Evan Einbender Aamodt

David Arlo Nelson

Jeffrey B Driscoll

Kevin Kinichi Masuda

Joyce Kai See Poon

Adam C Scofield

Breanna Stachowski

Dong Yoon Oh

Zheng Yong

Benjamin Ver Steeg

Henri Nykänen

Lok Man Chu

Aaron L Birkbeck

Weiwei Zhang

Alexander Fast

Vafa Jamali

Andrea Ballabio

Jacopo Frigerio

Giovanni Isella

Todd Andrew Newhouse

Patrick John Castagna

Suresh Chengalva

Craig Gadd

Christopher Alan Harris

Vishwas Kulkarni

Charles Su-Chang Tsai

Adrian Williamson Bahani

Jennifer Lynn Corso

Ferdyan Lesmana

An optical sensing module suitable for wearable devices, the optical sensing module comprising: a silicon or silicon nitride transmitter photonic integrated circuit (PIC), the transmitter PIC comprising: a plurality of lasers, each laser of the plurality of lasers operating at a wavelength that is different from the wavelength of the others; an optical manipulation region, the optical manipulation region comprising one or more of: an optical modulator, optical multiplexer (MUX); and additional optical manipulation elements; and one or more optical outputs for light originating from the plurality of lasers.

Optical sensing module

A method of transfer printing. The method comprising: providing a precursor photonic device, comprising a substrate and a bonding region, wherein the precursor photonic device includes one or more alignment marks located in or adjacent to the bonding region; providing a transfer die, said transfer die including one or more alignment marks; aligning the one or more alignment marks of the precursor photonic device with the one or more alignment marks of the transfer die; and bonding at least a part of the transfer die to the bonding region.

Method for III-V/silicon hybrid integration

A phase shift keying modulator. The modulator comprises: a plurality of silicon waveguides provided in a device layer of a silicon-on-insulator platform, the silicon-on-insulator platform including one or more cavities; one or more III-V semiconductor based devices located within the one or more cavities of the silicon-on-insulator platform, each III-V semiconductor-based device including a III-V semiconductor based waveguide which is coupled at an input end to one of the plurality of silicon waveguides and coupled at an output end to another of the plurality of silicon waveguides, each III-V semiconductor based waveguide comprising an active phase modulating portion; and one or more contacts in electrical contact with each active phase modulating portion, such that the phase shift keying modulator is operable to modulate the phase of an optical wave passing through each active phase modulating portion.

Phase shift keying modulator

A wearable device. In some embodiments, the wearable device includes: a sensing module; and a strap attached to the sensing module, the wearable device being configured to be worn by a user, with a lower surface of the sensing module in contact with the user, the strap extending over an upper surface of the sensing module.

Wearable device

A source wafer for use in a micro-transfer printing process. The source wafer comprises: a substrate; a device coupon (), including an optoelectronic device; and a breakable tether securing the device coupon to the substrate. The breakable tether includes one or more breaking regions which connect the breakable tether to the substrate.

Source wafer and method of preparation thereof

A stamp suitable for use in a micro-transfer printing process. The stamp comprises: a carrier layer; a plurality of stamp base sections, wherein: each stamp base section is attached on a first surface to the carrier layer, and separated from each adjacent stamp base section by a gap; and each stamp base section includes one or more stamping posts, for adhering to a source coupon, each stamping post extending from a second surface of its respective stamp base section.

Stamp for micro-transfer printing

An optical modulator. The optical modulator comprising: a micro-ring resonator; and a bus waveguide, including an input waveguide region, an output waveguide region, and a coupling waveguide region optically coupled to the micro-ring resonator and located between the input waveguide region and the output waveguide region. The micro-ring resonator includes a modulation region, the modulation region being formed of a silicon portion and a III-V semiconductor portion separated by a crystalline rare earth oxide dielectric layer.

Optical modulator

A sensor. In some embodiments, the sensor includes a first waveguide, a flexible support element, and a second waveguide. A first portion of the first waveguide may be supported by the flexible support element and separated by a first gap from a second portion of the first waveguide. The flexible support element may be capable of bending so as to cause an effective index of refraction of the first waveguide to change. The first waveguide may be coupled to the second waveguide through a second gap, the second gap being at an end of the first waveguide and an end of the second waveguide.

Photonic pressure sensor

An optoelectronic device. The device comprises: a silicon-on-insulator platform, including a silicon waveguide, formed in a silicon device layer, a silicon substrate, and a cavity; a III-V semiconductor based device, located within the cavity of the silicon-on-insulator platform and containing a III-V semiconductor based waveguide which is coupled to the silicon waveguide. A region of a bed of the cavity, located between the III-V semiconductor based device and the substrate, includes a patterned surface, which is configured to interact with an optical signal within the III-V semiconductor based waveguide of the III-V semiconductor based device.

Optoelectronic device and method of manufacture thereof

An optoelectronic device comprising an optical waveguide formed in a silicon device layer of a silicon-on-insulator wafer. The optical waveguide including a semiconductor junction comprising a first doped region of semiconductor material and a second doped region of semiconductor material. The second doped region containing dopants of a different species to the first doped region. A first portion of the first doped region extends horizontally on top of the second doped region, a second portion of the first doped region extends vertically along a lateral side of the second doped region and a third portion of the first doped region protrudes as a salient from the first or second portion of the first doped region into the second doped region.

Optoelectronic device and method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device

A source wafer for use in a micro-transfer printing process. The source wafer comprising: a wafer substrate; a photonic component, provided in a device coupon, the device coupon being attached to the wafer substrate via a release layer; and one or more etch stop layers, located between the photonic component and the wafer substrate.

Source wafer, method, and optoelectronic devices

An optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device comprising: a silicon-on-insulator platform, including: a silicon waveguide located within a silicon device layer of the platform, a substrate, and an insulator layer between the substrate and the silicon device layer; and a III-V semiconductor based device, located within a cavity of the silicon-on-insulator platform and including a III-V semiconductor based waveguide, coupled to the silicon waveguide; wherein the III-V semiconductor based device includes a heater and one or more electrical traces, connected to the heater, wherein the one or more electrical traces extend from the III-V semiconductor based device to respective contact pads on the silicon-on-insulator platform.

Integrated III-V / silicon optoelectronic device and method of manufacture thereof

An optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device including: a silicon platform, including a silicon waveguide and a cavity, wherein a bed of the cavity is provided at least in part by a buried oxide layer; a III-V semiconductor-based optoelectronic component, bonded to a bed of the cavity of the silicon platform; and a bridge-waveguide, located between the silicon waveguide and the III-V semiconductor-based optoelectronic component.

Optoelectronic device

A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device. The manufactured device includes a photonic component coupled to a waveguide. The method comprising: providing a device coupon, the device coupon including the photonic component; providing a silicon platform, the silicon platform comprising a cavity within which is a bonding surface for the device coupon; transfer printing the device coupon onto the cavity, such that a surface of the device coupon directly abuts the bonding surface and at least one channel is present between the device coupon and a sidewall of the cavity; and filling the at least one channel with a filling material via a spin-coating process, to form a bridge coupling the III-V semiconductor based photonic component to the silicon waveguide.

A waveguide platform and method of fabricating a waveguide platform on a silicon wafer; the method comprising: providing a wafer having a layer of crystalline silicon; lithographically defining a first region of the top layer; electrochemically etching the waveguide platform to create porous silicon at the lithographically defined first region; epitaxially growing crystalline silicon on top of the porous silicon to create a first upper crystalline layer with a first buried porous silicon region underneath; wherein the first buried porous silicon region defines a taper between a first waveguide region of crystalline silicon having a first depth and a second waveguide region of crystalline silicon having a second depth which is smaller than the first depth.

Waveguide platform

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