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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip A Congdon, Richardson, TX (US);
Lily Y Pang, McKinney, TX (US);
Gary A Evans, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 50 ; 372102 ; 372 45 ; 372 96 ; 385 37 ; 385 50 ;
Abstract
A grating (461) coupling the output of a semiconductor laser (410) in a semiconductor waveguide to a dielectric waveguide (451) having a core (458) which may be efficiently butt-coupled to the core of an optical fiber (470); the laser and semiconductor waveguide, coupling grating, and dielectric waveguide are integrated on a single substrate. Further, multiple lasers (410, 420, 430, 440) with differing lasing frequencies may be integrated and their outputs grating coupled into a single dielectric waveguide (450) for wavelength division multiplexing.