Cisco Technology, Inc.

Jock T Bovington

Matthew Joseph Traverso

Norbert Schlepple

Mark C Nowell

Weizhuo Li

Donald J Adams

Embodiments herein describe an electro-optic waveguide having a multi-mode multi-pass phase shifter (MMPS) tuner, one or more two-mode Bragg gratings, and one or more selective evanescent couplers. An input signal having a fundamental mode is reflected by the one or more Bragg gratings and tuned by the MMPS tuner. In this manner, the electro-optic waveguide isolates the higher order modes of the input signal. The one or more selective evanescent couplers capture an output signal having the highest order mode and reduces the mode of the output signal to the fundamental mode.

Non-resonant grating based multi-mode multi-pass tunable waveguide

The optical devices described herein include a lens arrangement for coupling light between light sources and optical fibers with a reduced size compared to the use of optical waveguides, while also allowing for the use of power sensitive optical components, such as components with lower power density configurations. The lens arrangements include a collimating lens, a focusing lens, and at least one optical component positioned between the collimating lens and the focusing lens.

Dual lens optical coupling to multicore fiber

A pluggable device and method are presented. The pluggable device includes a substrate, a first pin positioned on the substrate, an optical source positioned on the substrate, and an integrated circuit positioned on the substrate. The optical source produces a source optical signal and transmits the source optical signal through the first pin. The integrated circuit transmits a received optical data signal and transmits a data signal based on a portion of the optical data signal.

Optical data converter

Aspects include a pluggable optical device and related optical system. The pluggable optical device comprises a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) within the housing, and one or more blind mate optical connectors attached to the PCB along a first end of the PCB. The pluggable optical device further comprises one or more electrical contacts of the PCB near the first end, one or more external optical connectors arranged near a second end of the PCB opposite the first end, and one or more optical components attached to the PCB and included in optical paths extending between the one or more external optical connectors and the one or more blind mate optical connectors.

Pluggable optical modules with blind mate optical connectors

Aspects described herein include a method of fabricating an optical component, the optical component, and a method of operating the optical component. A method includes electrically coupling a first laser channel and a second laser channel of a laser die to different electrical leads and testing (i) a first optical coupling of the first laser channel and a second optical coupling of the second laser channel or (ii) a first spectral performance of the first laser channel and a second spectral performance of the second laser channel. The method also includes optically aligning an optical fiber with the first laser channel and designating the second laser channel as a heater element for the first laser channel based at least in part on (i) the first optical coupling being greater than the second optical coupling or (ii) the first spectral performance relative to the second spectral performance.

Package self-heating using multi-channel laser

Thermal isolation elements are provided in wafer-bonded silicon photonics that include a photonic platform, including a heating element and an optical waveguide that are disposed between a first surface and a second surface (opposite to the first surface) of the photonic platform; a substrate, including a third surface and a fourth surface (opposite to the third surface); wherein the first surface of the photonic platform is bonded to the third surface of the substrate; and wherein a cavity is defined by a trench in one or more of: the first surface and extending towards, but not reaching, the second surface, and the third surface and extending towards, but not reaching, the fourth surface; wherein the cavity is filled with a gas of a known composition at a predefined pressure; and wherein the cavity is aligned with the optical waveguide and the heating element.

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Koenigstein Im Taunus, Germany

Jock T Bovington