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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Sean M. Spillane, Mountain View, CA (US);
Raymond G. Beausoleil, Redmond, WA (US);
Sean M. Spillane, Mountain View, CA (US);
Raymond G. Beausoleil, Redmond, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In an integrated circuit device comprising a vertical arrangement of integrated circuit layers, coupling of an optical signal between a first integrated circuit layer thereof and a second integrated circuit layer thereof is described. The optical signal is evanescently coupled between a photonic crystal defect waveguide and a photonic crystal defect cavity in the first integrated circuit layer and projectably coupled between the photonic crystal defect cavity and an optical aperture on the second integrated circuit layer.