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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003

Filed:

Apr. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tetsuzo Yoshimura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yashuhito Takahashi, San Jose, CA (US);

Masaaki Inao, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael G. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

William Chou, Cupertino, CA (US);

Solomon I. Beilin, San Carlos, CA (US);

Wen-chou Vincent Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);

James J. Roman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Thomas J. Massingill, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/12 ;
Abstract

Disclosed is device and/or material integration into thin opto-electronic layers, which increase room for chip-mounting, and reduce the total system cost by eliminating the difficulty of optical alignment between opto-electronic devices and optical waveguides. Opto-electronic devices are integrated with optical waveguides in ultra thin polymer layers on the order of 1 &mgr;m to 250 &mgr;m in thickness.


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