OPTICAL COUPLER INCLUDING A FARADAY ROTATOR LAYER AND AT LEAST ONE GRATING COUPLER

    公开(公告)号:US20210373257A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17400705

    申请日:2021-08-12

    Abstract: An optical coupling device can couple incident light from a fiber into waveguides, but can reduce the coupling of return light from the waveguides into the fiber. A Faraday rotator layer can rotate by forty-five degrees, with a first handedness, respective planes of polarization of incident beams, and can rotate by forty-five degrees, with a second handedness opposite the first handedness, respective planes of polarization of return beams. A redirection layer can include at least one grating coupler that can redirect an incident beam of one polarization so that the redirected path extends within the redirection layer toward a first waveguide, and can redirect an incident beam of an opposite polarization so that the redirected path extends within the redirection layer toward a second waveguide. An optional birefringent layer can spatially separate incident beam having different polarizations, so that two single-polarization grating couplers can be used.

    EFFICIENT HEAT-SINKING IN PIN DIODE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200211923A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16791315

    申请日:2020-02-14

    Abstract: The thermal impedance of p-i-n diodes integrated on semiconductor-on-insulator substrates can be reduced with thermally conducting vias that shunt heat across thermal barriers such as, e.g., the thick top oxide cladding often encapsulating the p-i-n diode. In various embodiments, one or more thermally conducting vias extend from a top surface of the intrinsic diode layer to a metal structure connected to the doped top layer of the diode, and/or from that metal structure down to at least the semiconductor device layer of the substrate.

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