Fiber to chip optical coupler
AssigneeTeramount Ltd.
InventorsAbraham Israel, Hesham Taha
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Abstract
An optical connector for optical coupling a plurality of optical fibers to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprises a plurality of fiber trenches; a plurality of tiled flat mirrors; and a plurality of optical focusing elements; wherein each of the plurality of fiber trenches adjoins a corresponding titled flat mirror of the plurality of titled flat mirrors; and wherein each of the plurality of titled flat mirrors is placed in proximity to a corresponding optical focusing element of the plurality of optical focusing elements.
Claims11
An optical connector for optical coupling a plurality of optical fibers to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), comprising:
- a plurality of linear fiber trenches;
- a plurality of tilted flat mirrors;
- a plurality of optical focusing elements;
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- a spacer between the optical fibers and PIC;
- wherein each of the plurality of linear fiber trenches adjoins a corresponding tilted flat mirror of the plurality of tilted flat mirrors;
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- wherein each of the plurality of tilted flat mirrors is placed in proximity to a corresponding optical focusing element of the plurality of optical focusing elements;
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- wherein the plurality of linear fiber trenches, the plurality of tilted flat mirrors, and the plurality of optical focusing elements are fabricated on different substrates for achieving high signal efficiency and relaxed alignment tolerances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.