PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DISTANCE MEASURING INTERFEROMETER

    公开(公告)号:US20240272353A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18638044

    申请日:2024-04-17

    Abstract: A digital measuring device implemented on a photonic integrated circuit, the digital measuring device including a laser source implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to provide light, a first waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to direct a first portion of light from the laser source at a moving object and receive light reflected from the moving object, a second waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to combine a second portion of light from the laser source with the light reflected from the moving object to produce a measurement beam, a first multiplexer implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to split the measurement beam into a plurality of channels, and a plurality of detectors implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to detect an intensity value of each channel to measure a distance between the digital measuring device and the moving object.

    Photonic integrated circuit distance measuring interferometer

    公开(公告)号:US12050341B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-30

    申请号:US16929907

    申请日:2020-07-15

    Abstract: A digital measuring device implemented on a photonic integrated circuit, the digital measuring device including a laser source implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to provide light, a first waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to direct a first portion of light from the laser source at a moving object and receive light reflected from the moving object, a second waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to combine a second portion of light from the laser source with the light reflected from the moving object to produce a measurement beam, a first multiplexer implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to split the measurement beam into a plurality of channels, and a plurality of detectors implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to detect an intensity value of each channel to measure a distance between the digital measuring device and the moving object.

    Arrayed Waveguide Multiplexing/Demultiplexing Device with Phase Correction

    公开(公告)号:US20240210618A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18392389

    申请日:2023-12-21

    Applicant: IMEC VZW

    Inventor: Bruno Figeys

    Abstract: An integrated photonics arrayed waveguide multiplexing/demultiplexing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of waveguides having an incident light waveguide section including a phase correcting region, a transmitted light waveguide section, a tunable reflector, wherein each pair of consecutive waveguides in the array includes a coupler. The coupler configured to combine light from the transmitted light waveguide sections, determine therefrom an optical phase difference between the two consecutive waveguides, and wherein the couplers are further configured to determine therefrom a change in optical path length required for each of two consecutive waveguides to reach a predetermined optical phase difference, and wherein each phase correcting region is configured to apply the change to correct the optical path length of the respective waveguide.

    Photonic chip and preparation method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11874497B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17627544

    申请日:2019-07-17

    Abstract: A photonic chip and a preparation method thereof are provided. The chip includes a lithium niobate film modulator array, a first optical coupling array, and a silica waveguide wavelength-division multiplexer, and the lithium niobate film modulator array includes one or more lithium niobate film modulators and is used to modulate an optical signal; the first optical coupling array includes one or more first optical coupling structures, and the first optical coupling structure has one end connected to a corresponding lithium niobate thin film modulator and the other end connected to the silica waveguide wavelength-division multiplexer so as to transmit the modulated optical signal to the silica waveguide wavelength-division multiplexer; and the silica waveguide wavelength-division multiplexer is used to perform wavelength-division multiplexing on the modulated optical signal.

    SUPER-COMPACT ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG) WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXER BASED ON SUB-WAVELENGTH GRATING

    公开(公告)号:US20230288636A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-14

    申请号:US17980607

    申请日:2022-11-04

    CPC classification number: G02B6/12011 G02B2006/12164

    Abstract: A super-compact arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) wavelength division multiplexer based on a sub-wavelength grating is provided and includes an input waveguide, a first planar waveguide, an arrayed waveguide, a second planar waveguide, and the output waveguide that are sequentially connected. The input waveguide has 1 port, and the output waveguide has 8 ports. The arrayed waveguide includes 50 equivalent uniform strip waveguides with the same length difference, and each of the equivalent uniform strip waveguides is configured as a sub-wavelength grating structure, thereby forming the effect of increasing group refractive index or transmission delay based on a slow light effect. The 8 channels with a channel spacing of 200 GHz have the minimum adjacent channel crosstalk of less than -27 dB, and the overall size is within 300×230 µm2. In the multiplexer, the overall integration size of the device is reduced by an order of magnitude.

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