100 patents
Page 5 of 5
Utility
Side Channel Communication for an Optical Coherent Transceiver
24 Jun 20
A method, system and apparatus for optimizing parameters between two optical coherent transceivers connected via an optical link, including determining performance of a second optical receiver; wherein the second optical transceiver uses a set of parameters; and inputting information into a side channel communication between a first optical transceiver and the second optical transceiver to update the set of parameters for the second transceiver.
Jonas Geyer, Timo Pfau
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Flexible Baud Rate
24 Jun 20
A method, system, and apparatus enabled to selectively choose a baud rate for communication of optical data using a modem enabled to operate with an optical signal modulated at plurality of finely tuned baud rates.
Jonas Geyer
Filed: 18 Aug 19
Utility
Conductive connector
1 Jun 20
David Mullert
Filed: 18 Mar 19
Utility
Encoding a first modulation type with a first spectral efficiency into a second modulation type capable of having a second spectral efficiency
27 Apr 20
In a first embodiment, method and apparatus for encoding a first spectral efficiency into a second spectral efficiency; wherein the second spectral efficiency has a higher order than the first spectral efficiency.
Mehmet Aydinlik, Jonas Geyer, Christian Rasmussen
Filed: 12 Aug 18
Utility
Silicon photonics multicarrier optical transceiver
13 Apr 20
Disclosed herein are techniques, methods, structures and apparatus that provide a silicon photonics multicarrier optical transceiver wherein both the transmitter and receiver are integrated on a single silicon chip and which generates a plurality of carriers through the effect of an on-chip modulator, amplifies the optical power of the carriers through the effect of an off-chip amplifier, and generates M orthogonal sets of carriers through the effect of an on-chip basis former.
Christopher Doerr
Filed: 11 Jul 19
Utility
Co-packaging photonic integrated circuits and application specific integrated circuits
2 Mar 20
Disclosed herein are designs, structures and techniques for advanced packaging of multi-function photonic integrated circuits that allow such high-performance multi-function photonic integrated circuits to be co-packaged with a high-performance multi-function ASIC thereby significantly reducing strenuous interconnect challenges and lowering costs, power and size of the overall devices.
Christopher Doerr, Eric Swanson, Diedrik Vermeulen, Saeid Azemati, Jon Stahl
Filed: 11 Jan 18
Utility
Suspended cantilever waveguide
24 Feb 20
Cantilevered waveguides suspended above an air cavity in an underlying substrate are described.
Long Chen, Christopher Doerr, Li Chen
Filed: 21 Dec 17
Utility
Geometrically shaping QAM modulation
17 Feb 20
A method, system, and apparatus for encoding a data for transmission across a communication link, the comprising encoding the data into a constellation; wherein the constellation is of a power 2n; wherein n is an odd number; wherein encoding the constellation creates outer constellation points forming a square at an edge of the constellation.
Mehmet Aydinlik, Timo Pfau, Christian Rasmussen
Filed: 17 Dec 18
Utility
Deinterleaver
12 Feb 20
A method, apparatus, and system for a deinterleaver.
Pierre Humblet
Filed: 19 Jun 19
Utility
System, Method, and Apparatus for Interleaving Data
12 Feb 20
A method, system, and apparatus for interleaving data including creating a buffer, writing input data, and reading output data out of the buffer.
Pierre Humblet
Filed: 18 Sep 19
Utility
Shorted p-n junction
3 Feb 20
A method and apparatus for removing free carriers from a waveguide using a p type semiconductor and an n type semiconductor connected by a short.
Christopher Doerr, Li Chen, Long Chen
Filed: 28 Dec 17
Utility
Monolithic silicon coherent transceiver with integrated laser and gain elements
13 Jan 20
Disclosed are structures and methods for a monolithic silicon (Si) coherent transceiver with integrated laser and gain elements wherein an InP chip is bonded to the Si chip in a recess formed in that Si chip.
Christopher Doerr, Long Chen
Filed: 7 Mar 19
Utility
Wafer-scale testing of photonic integrated circuits using horizontal spot-size converters
13 Jan 20
Disclosed herein are methods, structures, and devices for wafer scale testing of photonic integrated circuits.
Diedrik Vermeulen, Long Chen, Christopher Doerr
Filed: 22 Feb 18
Utility
System, method, and apparatus for interleaving data
9 Dec 19
A method, system, and apparatus for interleaving data including creating a buffer, writing input data, and reading output data out of the buffer.
Pierre Humblet
Filed: 12 Aug 18
Utility
Modulation Systems and Methods In Optical Transceivers
27 Nov 19
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) techniques for use in optical systems are described.
Hongbin Zhang, Mehmet Aydinlik
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Utility
Distributed CMOS driver with enhanced drive voltage for silicon optical push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulators
25 Nov 19
Disclosed are structures and methods for CMOS drivers that drive silicon optical push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) with twice the drive voltage per interferometer arm as with prior art designs.
Christopher Doerr
Filed: 1 Sep 14
Utility
Traveling wave modulator
25 Nov 19
In an embodiment, an optical modulator comprising an optical path having at least one optical waveguide, and an impedance formed along the optical path, wherein the impedance comprises a capacitance that increases along the optical path.
Christopher Doerr
Filed: 5 Mar 18
Utility
Integrated high-power tunable laser with adjustable outputs
4 Nov 19
A tunable laser that includes an array of parallel optical amplifiers is described.
Christopher Doerr
Filed: 16 Sep 18
Utility
Coherent Receiver Array
9 Oct 19
Optical coherent receiver arrays are described.
Christopher Doerr
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Forward error correction systems and methods
7 Oct 19
Techniques for performing forward error correction of data to be transmitted over an optical communications channel.
Pierre Humblet
Filed: 20 Dec 18