OPTICAL FIBER ALIGNMENT DEVICE
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200057216A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-20

    申请号:US16664985

    申请日:2019-10-28

    Abstract: A fiber alignment or “fiberposer” device enables the passive alignment of one or more optical fibers to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) device using mating hard-stop features etched into the two devices. Accordingly, fiber grooves can be provide separate from the electrical and optical elements, and attached to the PIC with sub-micron accuracy. Fiberposers may also include a hermetic seal for a laser or other device on the PIC. All of these features significantly reduce the typical cost of an actively aligned optical device sealed in an hermetic package.

    TEST SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHIPS IN WAFER SCALE PHOTONIC SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190293866A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US16439196

    申请日:2019-06-12

    Abstract: A qualification apparatus for a photonic chip on a wafer that leaves undisturbed an edge coupler that provides an operating port for the photonic devices or circuits on the chip during normal operation in order to not introduce extra loss in the optical path of the final circuit. The qualification apparatus provides an optical path that is angled with regard to the surface of the chip, for example by using a grating coupler. The qualification apparatus can be removed after the chip is qualified. Optionally, the qualification apparatus can be left in communication with the chip and optionally employed as an input port for the chip after the chip has been separated from other chips on a common substrate.

    Lateral avalanche photodetector
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10411149B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US16168249

    申请日:2018-10-23

    Abstract: A lateral Ge/Si APD constructed on a silicon-on-insulator wafer includes a silicon device layer having regions that are doped to provide a lateral electric field and an avalanche region. A region having a modest doping level is in contact with a germanium body. There are no metal contacts made to the germanium body. The electrical contacts to the germanium body are made by way of the doped regions in the silicon device layer.

    CHIP IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180342411A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-29

    申请号:US16037871

    申请日:2018-07-17

    Abstract: Otherwise-unused metal pads are utilized for mechanically marking an identification number on each chip in each reticle of each semiconductor wafer. A chip-specific marking pattern is scribed into selected metal pads using a standard commercial wafer probe controlled by a custom-built controller to direct the probe or probe stage to implement the pattern. Visual inspection (manual and automated) may then be used for die identification based on the probe-marked pattern, including incorporating the visual inspection of these pads into the product building process.

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