Patents by Inventor Alexander JANTA-POLCZYNSKI
Alexander JANTA-POLCZYNSKI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11300734Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an interlacing boot and methods of using the same to automatically interleave optical fibers in a two-row array, such from a two rows ferrule. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, the optical fibers are inserted into a first end of an interlacing boot in a first direction. The interlacing boot can include a guiding structure having one or more channels. Each channel can be adapted to receive a single optical fiber. Each channel can include a first end and a second end, and the second end can be offset with respect to the first end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The interlacing boot can be pushed towards the ferrule to feed the optical fibers through the guiding structure. The first row of fibers can be physically offset from and interlaced with the second row of fibers by the guiding structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski
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Patent number: 11280968Abstract: A structural feature of an optical connector assembly in which an optical chip is connectable with a fixed ferrule via a waveguide and is joined onto a section of a substrate. The structural feature includes a structural section disposed on one of the optical chip and the substrate and a ferrule support section that extends from the structural section and comprises a surface for adhesion to the fixed ferrule.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Elaine Cyr, Richard D. Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 11209598Abstract: A photonic package is provided. The photonic package includes a base substrate defining an aperture, a top die and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die. The top die includes a body with first and second top die sections. The first top die section is connectable with the base substrate. The PIC die includes body with first and second PIC die sections. The PIC die is disposable in the aperture such that the second PIC die section is connectable with the second top die section and the first PIC die section extends beyond the second top die section and is exposed for connection to a waveguide assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Isabel De Sousa, Jean Audet, Maryse Cournoyer, Sylvain Pharand, Roxan Lemire, Louis-Marie Achard, Paul Francis Fortier
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Publication number: 20210263236Abstract: A structural feature of an optical connector assembly in which an optical chip is connectable with a fixed ferrule via a waveguide and is joined onto a section of a substrate. The structural feature includes a structural section disposed on one of the optical chip and the substrate and a ferrule support section that extends from the structural section and comprises a surface for adhesion to the fixed ferrule.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: BARNIM ALEXANDER JANTA-POLCZYNSKI, Elaine Cyr, Richard D. Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 11092826Abstract: A magneto-optical waveguide device includes a waveguide coupled with a magneto-optical crystal material. The magneto-optical waveguide device includes a patterned nanostructure within the magneto-optical crystal material that includes an internal optical waveguide through the magneto-optical crystal material. The patterned nanostructure modifies the refractive index of the magneto-optical crystal material below diffraction limit. The patterned nanostructure creates metamaterial effective properties that optimize core-cladding inside the magneto-optical crystal material to create the optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Francois Menard
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Publication number: 20210116646Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an interlacing boot and methods of using the same to automatically interleave optical fibers in a two-row array, such from a two rows ferrule. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, the optical fibers are inserted into a first end of an interlacing boot in a first direction. The interlacing boot can include a guiding structure having one or more channels. Each channel can be adapted to receive a single optical fiber. Each channel can include a first end and a second end, and the second end can be offset with respect to the first end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The interlacing boot can be pushed towards the ferrule to feed the optical fibers through the guiding structure. The first row of fibers can be physically offset from and interlaced with the second row of fibers by the guiding structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventor: BARNIM ALEXANDER JANTA-POLCZYNSKI
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Patent number: 10969222Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining measurements of an integrated circuit chip and a connected carrier to obtain the measurements of the interconnect heights. More specifically, a method is provided that includes defining a top best fit reference plane and a bottom best fit reference plane, and adjusting the top best fit reference and the bottom best fit reference to be superposed to one another. The method further includes calculating first distances between each height measurement for a first set of points and the adjusted top best fit reference plane, and calculating second distances between each height measurement for a second set of points and the adjusted bottom best fit reference plane. The method further includes calculating height values of a gap or interconnect between the first substrate and the second substrate by subtracting the thickness of the first substrate and the second distances from the first distances.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Elaine Cyr, Dominique L. Demers, Paul F. Fortier, Alexander Janta-Polczynski
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Publication number: 20210063779Abstract: A magneto-optical waveguide device includes a waveguide coupled with a magneto-optical crystal material. The magneto-optical waveguide device includes a patterned nanostructure within the magneto-optical crystal material that includes an internal optical waveguide through the magneto-optical crystal material. The patterned nanostructure modifies the refractive index of the magneto-optical crystal material below diffraction limit. The patterned nanostructure creates metamaterial effective properties that optimize core-cladding inside the magneto-optical crystal material to create the optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Barnim Alexander JANTA-POLCZYNSKI, Francois Menard
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Patent number: 10908362Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an interlacing boot and methods of using the same to automatically interleave optical fibers in a two-row array, such from a two rows ferrule. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, the optical fibers are inserted into a first end of an interlacing boot in a first direction. The interlacing boot can include a guiding structure having one or more channels. Each channel can be adapted to receive a single optical fiber. Each channel can include a first end and a second end, and the second end can be offset with respect to the first end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The interlacing boot can be pushed towards the ferrule to feed the optical fibers through the guiding structure. The first row of fibers can be physically offset from and interlaced with the second row of fibers by the guiding structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski
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Publication number: 20200279840Abstract: A photonic package is provided. The photonic package includes a base substrate defining an aperture, a top die and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die. The top die includes a body with first and second top die sections. The first top die section is connectable with the base substrate. The PIC die includes body with first and second PIC die sections. The PIC die is disposable in the aperture such that the second PIC die section is connectable with the second top die section and the first PIC die section extends beyond the second top die section and is exposed for connection to a waveguide assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: BARNIM ALEXANDER JANTA-POLCZYNSKI, Isabel De Sousa, Jean Audet, Maryse Cournoyer, Sylvain Pharand, Roxan Lemire, Louis-Marie Achard, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 10754070Abstract: An optical device includes: a substrate including plural waveguide cores; and an optical component provided on the substrate, the optical component including plural lenses, each of the plural lenses transmitting light passing through one of the corresponding plural waveguide cores on the substrate. The substrate and the optical component are each provided with a positioning structure. The positioning structure includes plural protrusions and plural recesses provided on the substrate and the optical component. Each of the plural recesses accommodates a corresponding one of the plural protrusions, and an outer surface of each of the plural protrusions contacts a positioning surface of a corresponding one of the plural recesses. The positioning surface is a part of an inner surface of each of the plural recesses having accommodated the corresponding one of the plural protrusions to position the plural lenses relative to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Koji Masuda, Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Patrick Jacques, Vincent Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Publication number: 20200183059Abstract: An optical device includes: a substrate including plural waveguide cores; and an optical component provided on the substrate, the optical component including plural lenses, each of the plural lenses transmitting light passing through one of the corresponding plural waveguide cores on the substrate. The substrate and the optical component are each provided with a positioning structure. The positioning structure includes plural protrusions and plural recesses provided on the substrate and the optical component. Each of the plural recesses accommodates a corresponding one of the plural protrusions, and an outer surface of each of the plural protrusions contacts a positioning surface of a corresponding one of the plural recesses. The positioning surface is a part of an inner surface of each of the plural recesses having accommodated the corresponding one of the plural protrusions to position the plural lenses relative to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Koji Masuda, Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Patrick Jacques, Vincent Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 10539743Abstract: An approach compatible with high volume manufacturing for assembling a photonic chip with integrated optical fibers involving placing a die on an assembly station, providing one or more optical fibers, placing the one or more optical fibers into corresponding one or more grooves of the die, bonding the one or more optical fibers to the die and performing an optical test of the die using the one or more optical fibers, and severing the one or more optical fibers. The die can be removed from the assembly station while retaining a predetermined length of each severed optical fiber and the one or more optical fibers can be prepared for assembly to a next die.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul F. Fortier, Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Stephan L. Martel, Dany Minier
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Patent number: 10338325Abstract: Systems and methods for nanofiller in an optical interface are provided. One system includes a fiber-optic interface for one or more optical fibers that includes a body including one or more grooves defined therein. At least one groove in the one or more grooves is configured to receive a corresponding optical fiber of the one or more optical fibers. The at least one groove of the one or more grooves is further configured to receive an adhesive to attach the body to a portion of the corresponding optical fiber. Further, fiber-optic interface includes a suspended structure associated with the at least one groove configured to couple light between the suspended structure and the corresponding optical fiber. Also, the adhesive comprises nanofiller configured to support an alignment of the suspended structure with the corresponding optical fiber within the at least one groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Tymon Barwicz, Elaine Cyr, Nicolas Boyer, Marie-Claude Paquet, Richard D. Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 10302869Abstract: A photonic assembly includes an optical die including a suspended membrane structure arranged thereon. A cavity is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure. An optical interconnect structure is arranged on the optical die. The photonic assembly also includes an optical adhesive arranged on the optical die in contact with the optical interconnect structure. The optical adhesive is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure to at least partially fill the cavity beneath the suspended membrane structure. The photonic assembly also includes a structural adhesive arranged on the optical die adjacent to the optical adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Elaine Cyr, Tymon Barwicz, Nicolas Boyer, Richard D. Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 10295749Abstract: A photonic assembly includes an optical die including a suspended membrane structure arranged thereon. A cavity is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure. An optical interconnect structure is arranged on the optical die. The photonic assembly also includes an optical adhesive arranged on the optical die in contact with the optical interconnect structure. The optical adhesive is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure to at least partially fill the cavity beneath the suspended membrane structure. The photonic assembly also includes a structural adhesive arranged on the optical die adjacent to the optical adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barnim Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Elaine Cyr, Tymon Barwicz, Nicolas Boyer, Richard D. Langlois, Paul Francis Fortier
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Patent number: 10073223Abstract: A clip connects two ferrules together, without a housing, to form a fiber optic connection. The clip has proximal and distal ends which define, and the clip has arms extending along the longitudinal axis to hold a cable-side ferrule in connection with fixed ferrule connected to a photonic module or die. The arms form an opening through which the cable-side ferrule is passed for connecting to the fixed ferrule. The arms have resilient bends forming a spring that can be resiliently extended along the longitudinal axis. The arms have a contact area at their ends which grasp the end of the cable-sided ferrule. The arms resiliently retract to compress the cable-sided ferrule towards the fixed ferrule with a predetermined force. The clip is positioned with respect to the circuit board using a pick and place system. The clip is not taller than either ferrule portion, enabling a limited vertical clearance.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tymon Barwicz, Jerome Bougie, Darrell Childers, Paul Francis Fortier, Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Stephan L. Martel
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Publication number: 20180080765Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining measurements of an integrated circuit chip and a connected carrier to obtain the measurements of the interconnect heights. More specifically, a method is provided that includes defining a top best fit reference plane and a bottom best fit reference plane, and adjusting the top best fit reference and the bottom best fit reference to be superposed to one another. The method further includes calculating first distances between each height measurement for a first set of points and the adjusted top best fit reference plane, and calculating second distances between each height measurement for a second set of points and the adjusted bottom best fit reference plane. The method further includes calculating height values of a gap or interconnect between the first substrate and the second substrate by subtracting the thickness of the first substrate and the second distances from the first distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Elaine CYR, Dominique L. DEMERS, Paul F. FORTIER, Alexander JANTA-POLCZYNSKI
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Publication number: 20180052285Abstract: A clip connects two ferrules together, without a housing, to form a fiber optic connection. The clip has proximal and distal ends which define, and the clip has arms extending along the longitudinal axis to hold a cable-side ferrule in connection with fixed ferrule connected to a photonic module or die. The arms form an opening through which the cable-side ferrule is passed for connecting to the fixed ferrule. The arms have resilient bends forming a spring that can be resiliently extended along the longitudinal axis. The arms have a contact area at their ends which grasp the end of the cable-sided ferrule. The arms resiliently retract to compress the cable-sided ferrule towards the fixed ferrule with a predetermined force. The clip is positioned with respect to the circuit board using a pick and place system. The clip is not taller than either ferrule portion, enabling a limited vertical clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tymon BARWICZ, Jerome BOUGIE, Darrell CHILDERS, Paul Francis FORTIER, Alexander JANTA-POLCZYNSKI, Stephan L. MARTEL
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Patent number: 9897444Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining measurements of an integrated circuit chip and a connected carrier to obtain the measurements of the interconnect heights. More specifically, a method is provided that includes defining a top best fit reference plane and a bottom best fit reference plane, and adjusting the top best fit reference and the bottom best fit reference to be superposed to one another. The method further includes calculating first distances between each height measurement for a first set of points and the adjusted top best fit reference plane, and calculating second distances between each height measurement for a second set of points and the adjusted bottom best fit reference plane. The method further includes calculating height values of a gap or interconnect between the first substrate and the second substrate by subtracting the thickness of the first substrate and the second distances from the first distances.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Elaine Cyr, Dominique L. Demers, Paul F. Fortier, Alexander Janta-Polczynski