Free-space coupler devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a free-space coupler device comprises a waveguide structure including a waveguide grating, and an out-of-plane coupler separated from and in optical communication with the waveguide grating. The waveguide grating and the out-of-plane coupler are separated by a distance that will yield an optical resonance at a desired operating frequency or wavelength of an optical signal, thereby maximizing a diffraction power of the optical signal at the out-of-plane coupler while minimizing a reflection power of the optical signal at the out-of-plane coupler.

An interconnect system includes a first circuit board, first and second connectors connected to the first circuit board, and a transceiver including an optical engine and arranged to receive and transmit electrical and optical signals through a cable, to convert optical signals received from the cable into electrical signals, and to convert electrical signals received from the first connector into optical signals to be transmitted through the cable. The transceiver is arranged to mate with the first and second connectors so that at least some converted electrical signals are transmitted to the first connector and so that at least some electrical signals received from the cable are transmitted to the second connector.

An apparatus comprises a substrate; a laser emitter arranged on the substrate; a photodiode arranged on the substrate; resin encapsulating the laser emitter and the photodiode, wherein the resin includes a top surface above the laser emitter and photodiode; and a lens arranged on the top surface of the resin.

An apparatus comprises a substrate; a laser emitter arranged on the substrate, wherein laser energy emitted by the laser emitter includes a center frequency; a photodiode arranged on the substrate; and a laser bandpass filter arranged above the photodiode, wherein the bandpass filter has a passband that excludes the center frequency of the laser energy.

The disclosure provides a method for adjusting an optical link alignment of a first communication device with a remote device. The method includes transmitting or receiving an optical signal; receiving one or more measurements of at least one environmental factor at the first communication device or the remote device; and receiving or detecting an apparent amount of alignment of the optical signal. Then, by one or more processors of the first communication device, determining an estimated error attributable to optical cross coupling and an actual amount of alignment of the optical signal based on the apparent amount of alignment and the estimated error. Next, adjusting the first communication device based on the actual amount of alignment to correct for optical cross coupling.

Systems and methods for performing signed matrix operations using a linear photonic processor are provided. The linear photonic processor is formed as an array of first amplitude modulators and second amplitude modulators, the first amplitude modulators configured to encode elements of a vector into first optical signals and the second amplitude modulators configured to encode a product between the vector elements and matrix elements into second optical signals. An apparatus may be used to implement a signed value of an output of the linear processor. The linear photonic processor may be configured to perform matrix-vector and/or matrix-matrix operations.

A CMOS integrated circuit comprising digital-to-analogue converters (DACs), analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs), a digital signal processor (DSP), on-chip switching, an on-chip processor; and logic enabling to receive data from data sources in a 5G network, combine the data from the data sources into a single data stream, encode the single data stream using the DSP, and cause the encoded single data stream to be transmitted to another device in the 5G network.

An LED may have structures optimized for speed of operation of the LED. The LED may be a microLED. The LED may have a p-doped region with one or more quantum wells instead of an intrinsic region. The LED may have etched vias therethrough.

Coupling of light from large angular distribution microLEDs into smaller angular acceptance distribution of transmission channels is performed using optical elements.

A method for connecting nodes in a datacenter includes installing a first network node in a datacenter adjacent to at least a second network node. A wireless communication link is automatically established between the first network node and the second network node. A network is configured with the first network node, the second network node, and a third network node.