A photonic neural component including optical transmitters, optical receivers, inter-node waveguides formed on a board, multiplexers configured to multiplex input optical signals onto the inter-node waveguides, transmitting waveguides configured to receive optical signals emitted from the optical transmitters and transmit the received optical signals to the inter-node waveguides via the multiplexers, mirrors to partially reflect optical signals propagating on the inter-node waveguides, receiving waveguides configured to receive reflected optical signals produced by the mirrors and transmit the reflected optical signals to the optical receivers, and filters configured to apply weights to the reflected optical signals. The transmitting waveguides and receiving waveguides are formed on the board such that one of the transmitting waveguides and one of the receiving waveguides crosses one of the inter-node waveguides with a core of one of the crossing waveguides passing through a core or clad of the other.

An optical signal transmission apparatus includes: a first fiber collimator, configured to input a first combined optical signal; a first beam splitter, configured to split the first combined optical signal to obtain an optical signal of a first wavelength and an optical signal of a second wavelength, transmit the optical signal of the first wavelength to a first filter unit, and transmit the optical signal of the second wavelength to a third fiber collimator; the first filter unit, configured to transmit the optical signal of the first wavelength to the third fiber collimator; a second fiber collimator, configured to input an optical signal of a third wavelength; a second filter unit, configured to transmit the optical signal of the third wavelength to the third fiber collimator; and the third fiber collimator, configured to output a second combined optical signal.

A method of assembling a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) cassette for a fiber optic network is disclosed and includes attaching a first plurality of wavelength filters to a first cassette workpiece, attaching a second plurality of wavelength filters to a second cassette workpiece, organizing the optical fibers extending from the wavelength filters, adjusting a length of the optical fibers extending from wavelength filters, and forming an optical connection between the optical fibers from the wavelength filters via a mass fusion splice. The first cassette workpiece and the second cassette workpiece are separate from each during at least one of the attaching, organizing, adjusting, and forming steps. The optical fibers may have predetermined lengths for being arranged in a helix configuration and folded to produce an organized fiber stack that fits within the confines of the cassette. A WDM cassette having an organized arrangement of optical fibers is also disclosed.

Optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) devices include an optical chip having a number of waveguides therein, with a common optical fiber and single wavelength channel optical fibers optically coupled to the waveguides. Wavelength sensitive filters are disposed between the chip and the fibers, or across waveguides within the chip to reflect light at certain wavelengths and to transmit light at other wavelengths. In some embodiments, all of the fibers are located at the same end of the chip, in others the common fiber is located at one side of the chip and the single channel fibers located at another side, while in others the common fiber is located at a first side of the chip and the single channel fibers are located either at the first side of the chip or at a second side of the chip.

A wavelength division multiplexing filter and methods of forming the same include an optical dielectric filter having multiple dielectric layers. The optical dielectric filter has a high reflectivity at a first wavelength and a high transmissivity at one or more additional wavelengths. The dielectric layers include a structure of layers following the pattern L-[M/2-H-M/2]N-L, where L layers include a first dielectric material, H layers include a second dielectric material, M/2 layers have a mixture of the first and second dielectric material and have a thickness half that needed to provide reflectivity at the first wavelength, and N is a number of repetitions for the structure in brackets.

A wavelength division multiplexing filter and methods of forming the same include an optical dielectric filter formed on a substrate and having a plurality of dielectric layers. The optical dielectric filter has a high reflectivity at a first wavelength and a high transmissivity at one or more additional wavelengths. The substrate has a high thermal tolerance, such that the substrate is not damaged by temperatures at which the plurality of dielectric layers are formed.

The present invention relates to a Small Form-Factor Pluggable Double Density Multiple Passive Optical Network Module, projected to provide a connection for 25GS-PON, XGS-PON, and GPON, and to be incorporated in any state-of-the-art SFP-DD transceiver host to allow double multi-PON OLT channels. The module comprises a case housing a specific set of technical elements such as a Hexa-bidirectional optical subassembly, a high-speed electrical interface, a control unit, a printed circuit board and a flex-printed circuit board to ensure proper assembly and electronic performance of all elements.

A wavelength division multiplexing filter and methods of forming the same include an optical dielectric filter formed on a substrate and having a plurality of dielectric layers. The optical dielectric filter has a high reflectivity at a first wavelength and a high transmissivity at one or more additional wavelengths. The substrate has a high thermal tolerance, such that the substrate is not damaged by temperatures at which the plurality of dielectric layers are formed.

Described is a light emitting diode (LED) high radiance illumination system that includes at least one LED die and a tapered collection optic. An aperture in a reflective surface at the output end of the tapered collection optic recovers light is configured to emit light to an adjacent optical fiber bundle. The reflective surface surrounding the aperture reflects light back through the tapered collection optic, resulting in increased radiance. The system provides uniform high intensity in near and far fields and is suitable for applications including surgical and microscopy illumination with high color rendering index, and stable and adjustable intensity and correlated color rendering. Illumination can include one or more colors, including white light. The system has improved thermal and optical performance and is generally more compact and lower in cost relative to conventional systems.

The provided is an adjustable single-channel time-domain sampling filter, a spectrometer, and a detection method. The filter includes N stages of cascaded asymmetric interference units, where each asymmetric interference unit includes: a first waveguide splitting element, arranged at the input end, for splitting input light into two output paths; two interference arms, which respectively receive the light output from the two paths of the first waveguide splitting element and have different arm lengths; and a second waveguide splitting element, for combining the output light of the two interference arms to generate optical interference. Among the N cascaded asymmetric interference units, at least three are provided with phase modulators on their interference arms. When in use, the adjustable single-channel time-domain sampling filter tunes the phase modulators located in different cascaded asymmetric interference units to form optical channels with different spectral responses in the time sequence.