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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Acacia Communications, Inc., Maynard, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Acacia Communications, Inc., Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 5/14 (2006.01); H01S 5/062 (2006.01); H01S 5/10 (2006.01); H01S 5/024 (2006.01); H01S 5/30 (2006.01); H01S 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 5/06246 (2013.01); H01S 5/02453 (2013.01); H01S 5/0612 (2013.01); H01S 5/101 (2013.01); H01S 5/1071 (2013.01); H01S 5/146 (2013.01); H01S 5/3013 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a first embodiment, an external cavity tunable laser, comprising a silicon photonics circuit comprising one or more resonators having one or more p-i-n junctions; wherein a voltage is applied to one or more of the p-i-n junctions. In a second embodiment, a method of operating an external cavity tunable laser, comprising sweeping out free-carriers from a resonator of the tunable laser by applying a voltage to a p-i-n junction of a waveguide of the resonator.