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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2006
Charles H. Joyner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fred A. Kish, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Frank H. Peters, Cork, IE;
Atul Mathur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David F. Welch, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew G. Dentai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Damien Lambert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard P. Schneider, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark J. Missey, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles H. Joyner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fred A. Kish, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Frank H. Peters, Cork, IE;
Atul Mathur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David F. Welch, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew G. Dentai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Damien Lambert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard P. Schneider, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark J. Missey, San Jose, CA (US);
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A monolithic photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip where the active waveguide cores of the modulated sources of the PIC are multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and the passive waveguide cores of an optical combiner are a bulk layer or material. The cores of the waveguide cores may be a quaternary such as InGaAsP or InAlGaAs.