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Leland Stanford Junior University

Alpenio, Inc.

Marc Epitaux

Peter E Kirkpatrick

Jean-Marc Verdiell

Robert Kohler

Jan P Peeters Weem

Jonas Webjorn

Wilfried Noell

Eric J Zbinden

Nicolaas-F De Rooij

Eric Jean Zbinden

Marc A Finot

Rickie Charles Lake

Sylvain M Colin

Yves Pétremand

Mark E McDonald

Joshua T Oen

John Lawrence Nightingale

Jeffrey A Bennett

Craig Schulz

Jayakumar Gurusamy

Ramin Shahidi

Sang Yup Kim

Joshua R Cornelius

Xiaowei Yao

Yves Petremand

Dana Rose

Jan Peeters Weem

Pete Kirkpatrick

John Coronati

Colm Hunt

Assaf Shacham

Tea H Nim

Ken Fukui

Charles E Askew

Waveguides of optically transparent interposers are adiabatically coupled to respective waveguides of photonic integrated circuits that are mounted to the optically transparent interposers. In particular, photonic integrated circuits can be mounted to an interposer that has both optical connections and electrical connections. The optical connections of the interposer can be adiabatically coupled to the photonic integrated circuit. The electrical connections can be connected to the photonic integrated circuit and to a host board that also supports an ASIC.

Optical interposer

An optical module includes a Silicon Photonics chip that transports a light signal and a coupler chip that includes a waveguide and that is attached to the Silicon Photonics chip so that the light signal is transported along a light path between the Silicon Photonics chip and the coupler chip. The light path in the coupler chip includes a guided section that includes the waveguide that guides the light signal and an unguided section that does not guide the light signal in any other waveguide structure. The cross-sectional size of the beam defined by the light signal is largest at the interface between the Silicon Photonics chip and the coupler chip.

Optical module including silicon photonics chip and coupler chip

An optical engine is provided for an active optical cable. The optical engine comprises a substrate having electro-optical (EO) components coupled or connected to a same side of the substrate. The optical engine further comprises a molded optical structure (MOS) that couples or connects to the substrate and to optical fibers of the optical cable. The MOS interfaces with the substrate at a position adjacent the EO components. Optical paths through the MOS include a lens system comprising two optical power surfaces or lenses and one reflecting surface. The MOS lens system enables alignment of the optical fibers in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis established by the EO components.

Optical engine for active optical cable

A device comprising a molded optical structure (MOS) connected to optical fibers. The device includes optical paths through the MOS. Each optical path comprises a first section and a second section. The first section is adjacent the optical fibers. The device comprises a first lens positioned at a first end of the first section, and a second lens positioned at a second end of the second section. The device comprises a reflector positioned in the optical path. The reflector reflects light in a direction approximately orthogonal to a direction from which the light is received.

Molded optical structure for optical transceiver

A system is disclosed. The system includes a first optical transceiver having a first set of transmitters and a first set of receivers and a second optical transceiver having a second set of transmitters coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of receivers of the first optical transceiver and a second set of receivers coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of transmitters of the first optical transceiver.

Bi-directional parallel optical link

Leaf switches and spine switches in a Clos network are interconnected by optical fibers. The network enables large numbers of servers or other apparatus to communicate with each other with minimal delay and minimal power consumption.

Optical network for cluster computing

A system is provided for implementing PCI Express protocol signals over an optical link. A transmission circuit is used to provide an electrical-to-optical conversion, a receiving circuit provides an optical-to-electrical conversion, and a sideband circuit is used to provide and receive control information.

Method and apparatus for transporting computer bus protocols over an optical link

An optical communications device has light transmitters of a first wavelength that are coupled to a number of first waveguides of an optical data link, respectively. A second set of light transmitters of a second, different wavelength are coupled to another set of waveguides of the link, respectively. The light transmitters are to transmit data from the same data processing element that is to use the link to communicate with another data processing element. The device also has a set of light detectors of the first wavelength that are coupled to the second set of waveguides, respectively. Another set of light detectors of the second wavelength are coupled to the set of first waveguides, respectively. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

A compact optical transceiver is provided in which a substrate provides for an alignment surface for optical fibers and a lens assembly provides the necessary optical paths for coupling to photodiode and photodetector structures. Appropriate electrical connections on the substrate enable the substrate to be directly connected to a printed circuit board, grid array socket, and the like.

Optical transmitter for computing applications

Fiber orientation for optical transceiver

Optical receiver for computing applications

A system is disclosed. The system includes an optical waveguide; and an optical transmitter coupled to the optical waveguide. The transmitter includes a optical relay to condition a launch of an optical beam into the optical waveguide to minimize a number of optical modes launched into the optical waveguide.

Mechanism for conditioning launched beams from an optical transmitter

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Marc Epitaux