Abstract: A parallel position manipulator includes a top plate, a baseplate and a plurality of prismatic joint actuators. Each actuator includes an actuator joint having five Degrees of Freedom (DOF) at either the base plate or the top plate. When one or more of the actuators extends or contracts, the pivot points, or five DOF actuator joint, of the remaining actuators are allowed to shift in any axis other than that actuator's primary axis of motion.

Abstract: An optical device including a waveguide and an electrode is described. The waveguide includes at least one optical material having an electro-optic effect. The electrode includes a channel region and extensions protruding from the channel region. The extensions are closer to a portion of the waveguide than the channel region is. Each extension includes a connecting portion coupled to the channel region and a retrograde portion. The connecting portion is between the retrograde portion and the channel region. The retrograde portion and/or the channel region has a width of not more than one micrometer.

Abstract: A resin composition for primary coating of an optical fiber includes a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The photopolymerizable compound includes a urethane oligomer and an N-vinyl compound represented by the formula (I) below: (where R represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms).

Abstract: Various embodiments provide alignment devices and methods of manufacturing and methods of using alignment devices. In an example embodiment, an alignment device includes a first substrate comprising inputs at respective input positions, outputs at respective output positions, and waveguides configured to provide optical paths from respective inputs to respective outputs. The respective input positions are fabricated in accordance with an input position array determined based on measured positions of optical fiber cores of optical fibers secured to a coupling element array. The coupling element array comprises a plurality of coupling elements having a respective one of the optical fibers secured therein. Each optical fiber is associated with a respective input and the input position array indicates the position of each respective input. The respective output positions are configured to provide respective optical signals to the respective target locations of the receiving device.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes a first optical device formed on a silicon substrate having a first surface, and a second optical device including a compound semiconductor, mounted on the first optical device, and having a second surface facing the first surface. The first optical device includes a first protrusion that protrudes toward the second surface, and a portion of the second surface makes contact with the first protrusion. In a plan view, the first protrusion is located on an inner side of an outer edge of the second optical device.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an optical module comprising an optical modulator device (OMD) for pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) in which the OMD comprises multiple modulator segments. A first modulator segment and a second modulator segment are spaced from each other along a ring-shaped waveguide. Further, a length of the second modulator segment is twice a length of the first modulator segment. As such, a power factor of the second modulator segment is twice a power factor of the first modulator segment. During use of the OMD, the first and second modulator segments are driven by separate non-return-to-zero (NRZ) electrical signals. The NRZ electrical signals are generated by a driver, which generates the NRZ electrical signals so as to coordinate operation of the first and second modulator segments to generate a PAM optical signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure has a substrate and a thermally-tunable photonics device in or over the substrate. A tantalum nitride (TaN) resistive heater is over the substrate and proximate to the thermally-tunable photonics device. The TaN resistive heater is configured to tune the thermally-tunable photonics device.

Abstract: An apparatus having a plurality of multifiber connector interfaces, where some of these multifiber connector interfaces can connect to network equipment in a network using multifiber cables, has an internal mesh implemented in two tiers. The first is configured to rearrange and the second is configured to recombine individual fiber of the different fiber groups. The light path of each transmitter and receiver is matched in order to provide proper optical connections from transmitting to receiving fibers and complex arbitrary network topologies can be implemented with at least 1/N less point to point interconnections, where N=number of channels per multifiber connector interface.

Abstract: A resin composition for secondary coating of an optical fiber includes a photopolymerizable compound including a urethane (meth)acrylamide, and a photopolymerization initiator. The urethane (meth)acrylamide has a (meth)acrylamide group at at least one end of a urethane bond.

Abstract: An all-optical-fiber device (optionally produced with the use of laser machining) containing constituent optical fiber components in which the corresponding ends are segmented (and—in one specific case—quartered) and optionally tapered (while portions of the original cores and claddings are maintained) and operationally joined back to form an aggregate end of the device with the round aperture and the corresponding round facet. The end of the device may be cooperated with a quadrant detector for automatic guidance that is based on steering the output light, that was launched into the round facet and propagated through the device, toward the quadrant with the strongest signal in iterations until the signal in each quadrant of the detector is substantially balanced. Constituent optical fiber component(s) and overall detection system and method for manufacture and/or use of same.

Abstract: The technology of this application relates to the field of communication technologies, and an optical fiber raw material composition, an optical fiber, and an optical fiber product. The optical fiber raw material composition includes components of the following molar percentages: AlF3 10%-50%, BaF2 3%-20%, CaF2 3%-20%, YF3 1%-15%, SrF2 3%-20%, MgF2 3%-20%, and TeO2 1%-35%. The optical fiber prepared by using the optical fiber raw material composition provided in this disclosure can be used in aspects such as a mid-infrared band transmission optical fiber, an optical fiber amplifier, a fiber laser, and an optical fiber sensor.

Abstract: A modified side-emitting optical fiber includes a core comprising an optical fiber and a UV-C transparent polymer coating over the core. An average surface roughness of the UV-C transparent polymer coating is in a range of about 0.3 ?m to about 0.7 ?m as measured by root mean square of distance difference measurements of the surface of the UV-C transparent polymer coating. Fabricating a modified side-emitting optical fiber includes contacting a coated optical fiber with a solvent, wherein the coated optical fiber comprises a UV-C transparent polymer coating, and dissolving at least a portion of the UV-C transparent polymer coating in the solvent to yield the modified side-emitting optical fiber, wherein an average surface roughness of the UV-C transparent polymer coating is in a range of about 0.3 ?m to about 0.7 ?m.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic devices and methods of forming electronic devices. In an embodiment, an electronic device comprises a die. In an embodiment, the die comprises a semiconductor substrate, a bump field over the semiconductor substrate, and a V-groove into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the V-groove extends to an edge of the semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment, the V-groove is free from conductive material. In an embodiment, the electronic device further comprises an optical fiber inserted into the V-groove.

Abstract: A light source for a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR device is formed by a photonic integrated circuit and comprises a substrate and a multilayer structure. Formed in the multilayer structure is a semiconductor laser that is received in a recess etched into the multilayer structure. An optical path between the semiconductor laser and a reflector forms an external cavity for the semiconductor laser. The external cavity includes a variable attenuator causing an attenuation of light guided in the cavity optical waveguide. The external cavity may also or alternatively include an optical phase modulator.

Abstract: An optical device is described. The optical device includes a waveguide, a first engineered electrode, and a second engineered electrode. The waveguide includes at optical material(s) having an electro-optic effect. The optical material(s) include lithium. A portion of the waveguide has a waveguide width. The first engineered electrode includes a first channel region and first extensions protruding from the first channel region. The first extensions are closer to the portion of the waveguide than the first channel region is. The second engineered electrode includes a second channel region and second extensions protruding from the second channel region. The second extensions are closer to the portion of the waveguide than the second channel region is. A first extension of the first extensions is a distance from a second extension of the second \extensions. The distance is less than the waveguide width.

Abstract: Structures for a thermo-optic phase shifter and methods of forming a thermo-optic phase shifter. The structure comprises an interconnect structure including a dielectric layer, a waveguide core on the dielectric layer, and a heater on the dielectric layer. The heater includes a resistive heating element positioned adjacent to the waveguide core.

Abstract: A device has a dual-geometry waveguide structure with an input, an output and two coupler structures optically coupled using arms of different optical path lengths. Each arm has a first passive waveguide having a first length and a dual-core waveguide geometry, coupled by a transition structure to a second passive waveguide having a second length and a single-core waveguide geometry. Optical mode confinement is larger in the first passive waveguide than in the second passive waveguide.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and architecture for sending and receiving collimated beams directly from a photonic chip via on-chip mirror beamforming device to reduce manufacturing difficulties and optical aberrations. More specifically, an elliptical or parabolic mirror may be used in the photonic chip to collimate beams emitted from a waveguide port and to further enable techniques, such as wavefront error correction and beam steering, without moving parts.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a substrate, an optical waveguide disposed on the substrate, a dielectric layer disposed over the optical waveguide on the substrate, and a membrane comprising an electro-optical material disposed over the dielectric layer and overlying at least a part of the optical waveguide. Electrodes are configured to apply an electric field to the electro-optical material in a vicinity of the optical waveguide, thereby modulating a phase of a guided optical wave propagating in the waveguide.

Abstract: An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes a photonic integrated circuit and an in situ formed waveguide. In selected examples, the electronic device includes a photonic integrated circuit coupled to an electronic integrated circuit, in a glass layer, where a waveguide is formed in the glass layer.