An electro-optical chip includes an optical input port, an optical output port, and an optical waveguide having a first end optically connected to the optical input port and a second end optically connected to the optical output port. The optical waveguide includes one or more segments. Different segments of the optical waveguide extends in either a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, a direction between horizontal and vertical, or a curved direction. The electro-optical chip also includes a plurality of optical microring resonators is positioned along at least one segment of the optical waveguide. Each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators is optically coupled to a different location along the optical waveguide. The electro-optical chip also includes electronic circuitry for controlling a resonant wavelength of each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators.

An integrated waveguide polarizer comprising: a plurality of silicon layers and a plurality of silicon-nitride layers; each of the plurality of silicon layers and each of the plurality of silicon-nitride layers having a first end and an opposite second end, the first end having a wide width and the second end having a narrow width, such that each silicon layer and each silicon-nitride layer have tapered shapes; wherein the pluralities of silicon and silicon-nitride layers are overlapped, such that at least a portion of each silicon-nitride layer overlaps at least a portion of each silicon layer; and a plurality of oxide layers disposed between the pluralities of silicon-nitride and silicon layers, each oxide layer creating a separation spacing between each silicon-nitride and each silicon layers; wherein, when an optical signal is launched through the integrated waveguide polarizer, the optical signal is transitioned between each silicon-nitride layer and each silicon layer.

The invention described herein pertains to the structure and formation of dual core waveguide structures and to the formation of optical devices including spot size converters from these dual core waveguide structure for the receiving and routing of optical signals on substrates, interposers, and sub-mount assemblies.

An integrated photonic device for wavelength division multiplexing comprises: a wavelength-splitting/combining component configured to be re-used for both splitting a single signal to be split, wherein the signal to be split comprises plural wavelengths, to plural split signals, wherein each of the plural split signals is related to a unique wavelength band, and combining plural signals to be combined, wherein each of the plural signals to be combined is related to a unique wavelength band, to a single combined signal, wherein the wavelength-splitting/combining component comprises at least one output channel for providing an output signal and at least one response channel for receiving a response input signal from a light interaction induced by the output signal, wherein the output channel and the response channel are connected to different ports of the wavelength-splitting/combining component.

Provided is an optical isolator including a semiconductor substrate, an optical attenuator and an optical amplifier aligned with each other on the semiconductor substrate, an input optical waveguide connected to the optical attenuator, and an output optical waveguide connected to the optical amplifier, wherein a gain of the optical amplifier decreases based on an intensity of light incident on the optical amplifier increasing, wherein a first input light incident on the optical attenuator through the input optical waveguide is output as a first output light through the output optical waveguide, and a second input light incident on the optical amplifier through the output optical waveguide is output as a second output light through the input optical waveguide, and wherein when an intensity of the first input light and an intensity of the second input light are equal, an intensity of the first output light is greater than an intensity of the second output light.

An optical circuit includes one or more input waveguides, a plurality of output waveguides, and a reflector structure. At least a portion of the reflector structure forms an interface with the one or more input waveguides. The portion of the reflector structure has a smaller refractive index than the one or more input waveguides. An electrical circuit is electrically coupled to the optical circuit. The electrical circuit generates and sends different electrical signals to the reflector structure. In response to the reflector structure receiving the different electrical signals, a carrier concentration level at or near the interface or a temperature at or near the interface changes, such that incident radiation received from the one or more input waveguides is tunably reflected by the reflector structure into a targeted output waveguide of the plurality of output waveguides.

A wavelength checker includes an optical waveguide chip. A known arrayed-waveguide diffraction grating is formed on the optical waveguide chip. The wavelength checker includes a light conversion unit made of a conversion material that converts infrared light into visible light. The light conversion unit is arranged on an output side of a plurality of first output waveguides of the optical waveguide chip to be capable of receiving light emitted from the plurality of first output waveguides. The light conversion unit is formed on a side surface of a support facing an output end surface of the optical waveguide chip. The support is fixed to a main board.

An optical multiplexer that extends a transmission bandwidth of light is achieved. The present invention provides an optical multiplexer constructed of a multimode waveguide to which two single mode input waveguides are connected at a distance and two single mode output waveguides connected at a distance to a surface opposite a surface to which the input waveguides of the multimode waveguide are connected, in which a width of the multimode waveguide is smaller than widths of the two input waveguides plus a distance between the input waveguides, and the input waveguides are connected to the multimode waveguide and the multimode waveguide is connected to the output waveguides via tapered waveguides, respectively.

A light conversion portion includes a conversion material that converts infrared light to visible light. A reflection portion is fixed to a position on a main substrate at which the reflection portion faces an output end of an optical waveguide chip on the side from which light is output to an external space. The reflection portion includes a reflection surface that faces the output end and is inclined with respect to a plane of the main substrate such that a reflection direction is toward the upper side of the main substrate. The reflection surface reflects near infrared light.

An optical multiplexer. The optical multiplexer comprising: a plurality of input waveguides, each comprising an input slab portion and an input rib portion; an output waveguide, comprising an output slab portion and output rib portion; and a wavelength multiplexer element, coupled to each input waveguide and the output waveguide, the wavelength multiplexer element comprising a slab waveguide which includes a grating configured to multiplex signals of differing wavelengths, received from the input waveguides, into a multiplexed signal, and provide the multiplexed signal to the output waveguide. The input rib portion(s) of one or more of the input waveguides are tapered so as to decrease in width in a direction towards the slab waveguide of the wavelength multiplexer element which is an echelle grating or an arrayed waveguide grating.