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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Chad E. Ogden, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Guy Chriqui, San Mateo, CA (US);
Lockheed Martin Coporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a monolithic array of lenslets that inject light into waveguides without the need for alignment of a separate lenslet array and waveguide array is provided. The waveguide array may be incorporated as a monolithic or fused piece with the substrate on which the lenslet array is to be written. A method of producing a flat, thin monolithic collimator array having a form corresponding to that of a PIC, with the input/output lenslet array located on the top surface of the collimator array is provided. A method for bonding a two-dimensional (2-D) array of lenslets on top of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) substrate with a small gap for thermal expansion between lenslet blocks is provided.