Rockley Photonics Limited

Kaiam Corp.

University of Southampton

Emcore Corporation

Thomas Pierre Schrans

Aaron John Zilkie

Andrew George Rickman

Andrea Trita

Amit Singh Nagra

Nathan Farrington

Gerald Cois Byrd

Guomin Yu

Pradeep Srinivasan

Chia-Te Chou

Albert Benzoni

Omar James Bchir

Hooman Abediasl

Bardia Pezeshki

David Arlo Nelson

Jacob Levy

Adam C Scofield

Cyriel Johan Agnes Minkenberg

Abu Thomas

Guy Regev

Gideon Yoffe

Daniel Brunina

Arin Abed

Javid Messian

David John Thomson

Karlheinz Muth

Chiang Yeh

Dong Yoon Oh

Nicholas Kucharewski

Xiaoming Lou

Weiwei Zhang

Adam Scofield

Erman Timurdogan

Frank Berardi

Henok Tafase

Hermie De Guzman

An optoelectronic module. In some embodiments, the optoelectronic module includes a substrate; a digital integrated circuit, on an upper surface of the substrate; a photonic integrated circuit, secured in a pocket of the substrate, the pocket being in the upper surface of the substrate; and an analog integrated circuit, on the photonic integrated circuit.

Optoelectronic module package

An imaging component for receiving light, the imaging component comprising a photonic integrated circuit, PIC, receiver, a slab, a wedge, and a lens the wedge having a front surface and an opposing back surface, the imaging component arranged to define a receiving optical path through the front surface of the wedge, the receiving optical path continuing through the wedge and through the slab to the PIC receiver, the lens being configured to focus light of the receiving optical path onto the PIC receiver.

Optical components for imaging

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

An optoelectronic device. The device comprising: an input waveguide, which receives an optical signal; a multistage photodiode detector, comprising a plurality of photodiode elements connected in series, one of the photodiode elements of the plurality of photodiode elements being connected to the input waveguide and configured to receive the optical signal therefrom; and a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is connected to a first contact of each of the plurality of photodiode elements, and the second electrode is connected to a second contact of each of the plurality of photodiode elements.

Optoelectronic device

A demultiplexer for use in a wavelength division multiplexed system. The demultiplexer comprises: an input waveguide, configured to receive a wavelength division multiplexed signal; a demultiplexing element, configured to demultiplex the multiplexed signal received from the input waveguide into a plurality of multi-mode demultiplexed signal components; a multi-mode output waveguide, the multi-mode output waveguide being coupled to the demultiplexing element and configured to receive one of the multi-mode demultiplexed signal components; and a splitter, coupled to the multi-mode output waveguide, and configured to split the received multi-mode demultiplexed signal component into two single-mode outputs.

Demultiplexer

A photonic chip. In some embodiments, the photonic chip includes a waveguide; and an optically active device comprising a portion of the waveguide. The waveguide may have a first end at a first edge of the photonic chip; and a second end, and the waveguide may have, everywhere between the first end and the second end, a rate of change of curvature having a magnitude not exceeding 2,000/mm.

Optoelectronic device and array thereof

An electro-optical modulator. The electro-optical modulator comprising: an input waveguide, configured to guide light into a modulation region of the electro-optical modulator; a plurality of sub-modulators, within the modulation region, each sub-modulator having a transfer function between an applied voltage and an optical phase shift; and an output waveguide, configured to guide light out of the modulation region. The combination of the transfer functions of each sub-modulator is such that a total transfer function between an applied voltage and an optical phase shift of the modulation region is substantially linear over a range of operating voltages.

Linearized modulator

An optoelectronic module. In some embodiments, the optoelectronic module includes: a substrate; a digital integrated circuit, on an upper surface of the substrate; and a frame, secured in a pocket of the substrate. The pocket is in a lower surface of the substrate, and the substrate includes an insulating layer, and a plurality of conductive traces.

A photonic integrated circuit, an optoelectronic modulator, and a method of modulating light in a photonic integrated circuit are provided. The photonic integrated circuit comprises: an input waveguide which, in use, receives light in a superposition of two polarisation modes of the waveguide; a polarisation splitter, connected to the input waveguide, and configured to provide, at a first output, light in a first polarisation mode of the two polarisation modes of the waveguide and, at a second output, light in a second polarisation mode of the two polarisation modes of the waveguide; a first polarisation rotator, connected to the first output of the polarisation splitter, and configured to rotate light received therefrom from the first polarisation mode to the second polarisation mode; an optoelectronic modulator, having a first modulation waveguide connected to the first polarisation rotator and a second modulation waveguide connected to the second output of the polarisation splitter.

Optoelectronic modulator, photonic integrated circuit, and method

An optical device. In some embodiments, the optical device includes a first interface; a second interface; a first plurality of waveguides, at the first interface; a second plurality of waveguides, at the second interface; and a free propagation region. A first waveguide of the first plurality of waveguides has a width at least 20% greater than a second waveguide of the first plurality of waveguides.

Broadband star coupler

A reconfigurable spectroscopy system comprises tunable lasers and wavelength lockers to lock to accurate reference wavelengths. Band combiners with differently optimized wavelength ranges multiplex the optical signal over the time domain, to emit a plurality of reference wavelengths for spectroscopy applications. The power requirements are greatly reduced by multiplexing over the time domain in time slots which do not affect sampling and receiving of the spectroscopy data.

Reconfigurable spectroscopy system

A system and method for packing optical and electronic components. A module includes an electronic integrated circuit and a plurality of photonic integrated circuits, connected to the electronic integrated circuit by wire bonds or by wire bonds and other conductors. A metal cover of the module is in thermal contact with the electronic integrated circuit and facilitates extraction of heat from the electronic integrated circuit. Arrays of optical fibers are connected to the photonic integrated circuits.

Copackaging of asic and silicon photonics

An L-dimensional optoelectronic switch for transferring an optical signal from an input device to an output device, the optoelectronic switch includes: a plurality of leaf switches, each having a radix R, and arranged in an L-dimensional array, in which each dimension i has a respective size R(i=1, 2, . . . , L), each leaf switch having an associated L-tuple of co-ordinates (x, . . . , x) giving its location with respect to each of the L dimensions; wherein each leaf switch is a member of L sub-arrays, each of the L sub-arrays associated with a different one of the L dimensions, and including: a plurality of Rleaf switches, whose co-ordinates differ only in respect of the idimension, each leaf switch having C client ports for connecting to an input device or an output device, and F fabric ports for connecting to spine switches; a plurality of Sspine switches, each having R fabric ports for connecting to the fabric ports of the leaf switches, and wherein, in a given sub-array each leaf switch in the sub-array is connected to each spine switch via an optical active switch.

Optoelectronic switch

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Thomas Pierre Schrans