Integrated transceiver with lightpipe coupler

US9712243B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Luxtera, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Peter DeDobbelaere · San Diego, US
• Thierry Pinguet · Cardiff-by-the-Sea, US
• Mark Peterson · San Diego, US
• Mark Harrison · Escondido, US
• Alexander G. Dickinson · Laguna Beach, US
• Lawrence C. Gunn, III · Encinitas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2017
• Expiry date: Sep 15, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B2006/12121
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A transceiver comprising a chip, a semiconductor laser, and one or more photodetectors, the chip comprising optical and optoelectronic devices and electronics circuitry, where the transceiver is operable to: communicate, utilizing the semiconductor laser, an optical source signal into the chip via a light pipe with a sloped reflective surface, generate first optical signals in the chip based on the optical source signal, transmit the first optical signals from the chip via the light pipe, and receive second optical signals from the light pipe and converting the second optical signals to electrical signals via the photodetectors. The optical signals may be communicated out of and in to a top surface of the chip. The one or more photodetectors may be integrated in the chip. The optoelectronic devices may include the one or more photodetectors integrated in the chip. The light pipe may be a planar lightwave circuit (PLC).