Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Keisuke Kojima

Toshiaki Koike-Akino

Kieran Parsons

David Millar

Satoshi Nishikawa

Bingnan Wang

Eiji Yagyu

Mitsunobu Gotoda

Toshiaki Koike Akino

Yingheng Tang

Jonathan Klamkin

Tobias Fehenberger

Tsuyoshi Yoshida

Koichi Akiyama

Milutin Pajovic

Ye Wang

Shusaku Hayashi

Yosuke Suzuki

Min Teng

Mohammad Tahersima

Wangqing Yuan

Chunjie Duan

Pu Wang

Chungwei Lin

Kosuke Shinohara

Yuichiro Horiguchi

Okan Atalar

Muhammad Tahersima

Mohammad Hossein Taher Sima

Milen Paskov

Manuela Felicetti

Toshiaki Akino

Selman Ozbayat

Millar David

Sima Mohammad Hossein Taher

David S Millar

A photonic device for splitting optical beams includes an input port configured to receive an input beam having an input power, a power splitter including perturbation segments arranged in a first region and a second region of a guide material having a first refractive index, each segment having a second refractive index, wherein the first region is configured to split the input beam into a first beam and a second beam, wherein and the second region is configured to separately guide the first and second beams, wherein the first refractive index is greater than the second refractive index, and output ports including first and second output ports connected the power splitter to respectively receive and transmit the first and second beams.

Generative model for inverse design of materials, devices, and structures

A method for a target image reconstruction is provided. The method includes emitting stepped frequency waveforms having different constant frequencies at different periods of time, modulating the stepped frequency waveforms into frequency ranges each having a first frequency and a second frequency, wherein each of the stepped frequency waveforms are increased from the first frequency to the second frequency based on a range function, wherein the modulated stepped frequency waveforms are arranged with some sparsity factor. The method further includes transmitting the modulated stepped frequency waveforms to a target and accepting reflection of the modulated stepped frequency waveforms reflected from the target interfering the modulated stepped frequency waveforms and the reflection of the modulated stepped frequency waveforms to produce beat signals of interferences between the modulated stepped frequency waveforms and the reflection of the modulated stepped frequency waveforms, and reconstructing an image of the target from the beat signals.

Coherent optical sensor with sparse illumination

A grating coupler having first and second ends for coupling a light beam to a waveguide of a chip includes a substrate configured to receive the light beam from the first end and transmit the light beam through the second end, the substrate having a first refractive index n1, a grating structure having curved grating lines arranged on the substrate, the grating structure having a second refractive index n1, wherein the curved grating lines have line width w and height d and are arranged by a pitch &#x39b;, wherein the second refractive index n2 is less than first refractive index n1, and a cladding layer configured to cover the grating structure, wherein the cladding layer has a third refractive index n3. The curves of the grating lines are constructed such that the emitting beam is shaped for efficient coupling to another optical component. The curves can also be tilted to reduce coupling back into the waveguide.

Grating coupler and integrated grating coupler system

A system is provided for training a device design network. The system includes an interface configured to input data of a device, a memory to store the device design network including an encoder, a decoder, and an adversarial block, and a processor. The processor is, in connection with the memory, configured to update the encoder and the decoder based on a first loss function to reduce the difference between the input data and output data of the decoder, wherein the encoder is constructed by at least one convolutional layer followed by at least one parallel fully connected layer to extract features of a layout of the device, and update the adversarial block to construct by maximizing a second loss function.

A grating coupler having first and second ends for coupling a light beam to a waveguide of a chip includes a substrate configured to receive the light beam from the first end and transmit the light beam through the second end, the substrate having a first refractive index n1, a grating structure having curved grating lines arranged on the substrate, the grating structure having a second refractive index n1, wherein the curved grating lines have line width w and height d and are arranged by a pitch &#x39b;, wherein the second refractive index n2 is less than first refractive index n1, and a cladding layer configured to cover the grating structure, wherein the cladding layer has a third refractive index n3.

Integrated grating coupler

An integrated grating coupler system includes a first chip having a first substrate, a first grating structure formed by first grating curves arranged on the first substrate and a cladding layer formed to cover the first grating structure, wherein the first chip include a first waveguide configured to receive a light beam from a first end via the first waveguide and transmit the light beam through a second end, a second chip having a second substrate and a second grating structure formed by second grating curves arranged on the second substrate, wherein the second chip is configured to receive the light beam from the second end of the first chip and transmit the light beam from an end of the second chip, and a common block configured to mount the first chip and second chip via a first submount and a second submount respectively, wherein the first and second submounts are arranged such that the light beam from the second end of the first chip is received at a top of the second chip.

Integrated grating coupler system

An optical waveguide interferometer that includes a first optical section, a second optical section, and a set of optical waveguides configured to connect the first and second optical sections, such that light propagating between the first optical section and the second optical section passes through each optical waveguide in the set, wherein the set of optical waveguides includes a first optical waveguide having a first length and a first width and a second optical waveguide having a second length and a second width, wherein the second length is greater than the first length, and the second width is greater than the first width.

Optical waveguide interferometer

A grating coupler having first and second ends for coupling a light beam to a waveguide of a chip includes a substrate configured to receive the light beam from the first end and transmit the light beam through the second end, the substrate having a first refractive index n, a grating structure having curved grating lines arranged on the substrate, the grating structure having a second refractive index n, wherein the curved grating lines have line width w and height d and are arranged by a pitch &#x39b;, wherein the second refractive index nis less than first refractive index n, and a cladding layer configured to cover the grating structure, wherein the cladding layer has a third refractive index n

Compact photonic devices

An optical ring circuit for modulating light from a light source into an optical signal includes a ring modulator located near a waveguide to couple a light propagating the waveguide, the ring modulator including a pair of electrodes, a signal generator to transmit an electrical signal corresponding to the optical signal, a filter circuit to generate an output signal, wherein the filter circuit includes an adder unit and at least one tap unit having a delay unit and a coefficient unit, wherein the adder unit adds the electrical signal from the signal generator and a signal passed from the tap unit for pre-compensating signal components of the electrical signal by at least twice delay time of the delay unit, and a driver circuit to apply a voltage to the electrodes based on the output signal.

Optical ring circuit with electrical filter

A communication system transmits an input block of bits over a communication channel using a prefix tree that maps a dyadic distribution of compositions of output symbols to prefixes of variable lengths. A path to each leaf of the prefix tree is defined by a prefix formed by a unique sequence of binary values of a length equal to a depth of the leaf. Each leaf is associated with a composition that has at least a number of unique permutations equals to two in a power of a length of a suffix of the block of input bits. The system selects a composition identified in the prefix tree by a prefix, permutes the selected composition according to a suffix, and transmits the permuted composition over a communication channel. The compositions are selected to reduce one or combination of energy and kurtosis of transmission.

System and method for short block length distribution matching

A method decodes an optical signal transmitted over an optical channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The method produces, from the transmitted optical signal, a digital signal including received data symbols and received pilot symbols and determines phase noise on the pilot symbols using a statistical probability distribution of phase noise on the optical channel and errors between phases of the received pilot symbols and the transmitted pilot signals. The method estimates phase noise on the data symbols using an interpolation of the phase noise on the pilot symbols and compensates the digital signal with the phase noise on the data symbols to produce a filtered signal with an equalized phase. The method demodulates and decodes the filtered signal to produce an estimate of the transmitted optical signal.

Pilot-aided carrier phase estimation for optical communications

A communication system transmits an input block of bits over a communication channel using a prefix tree that maps a dyadic distribution of compositions of output symbols to prefixes of variable lengths. A path to each leaf of the prefix tree is defined by a prefix formed by a unique sequence of binary values of a length equal to a depth of the leaf. Each leaf is associated with a composition that has at least a number of unique permutations equals to two in a power of a length of a suffix of the block of input bits. The system selects a composition identified in the prefix tree by a prefix in the input block of bits, permutes the selected composition according to a suffix in the input block of bits, and transmits the permuted composition over a communication channel.

Short block length distribution matching algorithm

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