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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2020
Photonic bandgap phase modulator, optical filter bank, photonic computing system, and methods of use
Applicant:
Luminous Computing, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mitchell A. Nahmias, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael Gao, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Luminous Computing, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/03 (2006.01); G02B 6/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/035 (2006.01); G02F 1/025 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/0327 (2013.01); G02F 1/025 (2013.01); G02F 1/035 (2013.01); G02F 2202/32 (2013.01); G02F 2203/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photonic computing system, preferably including an input module, a computation module, and/or control module. The photonic computing system can include one or more optical filter banks, such as in the computation module and/or any other suitable modules. Each optical filter bank preferably includes a plurality of photonic bandgap phase modulators. Each photonic bandgap phase modulator preferably includes a set of photonic crystal segments. The photonic crystal segments can preferably be controlled to transition light propagation between two or more photonic bands.