Abstract: One example includes an optical device system. The system includes a waveguide that includes a fixed waveguide portion to propagate an optical signal, a semiconductor membrane layer, and a tunable air gap that separates the fixed waveguide portion and the semiconductor membrane layer. The system also includes an optical tuning system to move the semiconductor membrane layer with respect to the fixed waveguide portion in response to a control signal to control a separation distance of the tunable air gap to tune a characteristic of the optical signal.

Abstract: A hybrid MOS optical modulator. The optical modulator includes an optical waveguide, a cathode comprising a first material and formed in the optical waveguide, and an anode comprising a second material dissimilar from the first material and formed in the optical waveguide, the anode adjoining the cathode, a capacitor being defined between the anode and the cathode.

Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a diamond waveguide disposed on a substrate. The substrate includes a dielectric material. A tuner is to extend from the substrate, and is disposed at least in part over the waveguide. The tuner includes a tuner electrode to control a variable distance between the tuner and the waveguide to vary an effective refractive index of the waveguide.

Abstract: Controlling temperatures in optical circuits includes using a device with a waveguide located between a base cladding and an over cladding. The base cladding is deposited over a substrate and the over cladding is made of a thermally conductive dielectric material.

Abstract: A polymer-clad optical modulator includes a substrate comprising an insulating material; a silicon microring on the substrate; silicon waveguides on the substrate adjacent the silicon microring; an electro-optic polymer covering the silicon microring and the silicon waveguide; and an electrical contact on top of the electro-optic polymer. The silicon microring or a portion of an adjacent silicon layer is lightly doped. A polymer-clad depletion type optical modulator and a polymer-clad carrier injection type optical modulator, each employing the lightly doped silicon microring or an adjacent lightly doped silicon layer, are also described.

Abstract: In example implementations, a plurality of material layers and a plurality of etch stop layers are grown on a first substrate. Ions are implanted through at least one material layer of the plurality of material layers into an etch stop layer of the plurality of etch stop layers to create defects in the etch stop layer. A first material layer of the substrate is bonded to a second substrate. The etch stop layer is split to remove the first substrate from the second substrate. The first substrate is reused to bond another material layer of the plurality of material layers to a third substrate.

Abstract: In example implementations, a plurality of material layers and a plurality of etch stop layers are grown on a first substrate. Ions are implanted through at least one material layer of the plurality of material layers into an etch stop layer of the plurality of etch stop layers to create defects in the etch stop layer. A first material layer of the substrate is bonded to a second substrate. The etch stop layer is split to remove the first substrate from the second substrate. The first substrate is reused to bond another material layer of the plurality of material layers to a third substrate.

Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a ring waveguide and bus waveguide. The ring waveguide has a first coupled portion associated with a first modal index, and the bus waveguide includes a second coupled portion associated with a second modal index. The second coupled portion is evanescently coupleable to the first coupled portion. A laser outcoupling and associated lasing output of the device is variable based on varying a difference between the first modal index and the second modal index to vary coupling between the first coupled portion and the second coupled portion, without varying modal indices of non-coupled portions of the ring waveguide and bus waveguide.

Abstract: One example includes a photodetector system. The system includes a waveguide photodetector into which an input optical signal comprising a frequency band of interest is provided and from which the input optical signal is absorbed to generate an output signal that is indicative of an intensity of the input optical signal. The system also includes a reflector coupled to the waveguide photodetector and which is to reject frequencies outside of the frequency band of interest and to reflect the frequency band of interest back into the waveguide photodetector.

Abstract: A device includes a first region, a multiplication region, a second region, and an absorption region. The first region is associated with a first terminal, and the second region is associated with a second terminal. The first region is separated from the second region by the multiplication region. The absorption region is disposed on the multiplication region and associated with a third terminal. A multiplication region electric field is independently controllable with respect to an absorption region electric field, based on the first terminal, the second terminal, and the third terminal.

Abstract: An optical system includes an output waveguide to propagate an optical output signal and a plurality of ring laser systems. Each of the plurality of ring laser systems includes a ring laser to generate a ring laser optical signal and a local waveguide. The ring laser can be optically coupled to the output waveguide to provide a first portion of the ring laser optical signal on the output waveguide as part of the optical output signal, and can be optically coupled to the local waveguide to provide a second portion of the ring laser optical signal on the local waveguide. Each of the plurality of ring laser systems can be to control a phase of the second portion of the ring laser optical signal to provide constructive interference with the ring laser optical signal at an optical coupling of the ring laser and the local waveguide.

Abstract: Coupling modulation of an optical resonator employs a variable modal index to provide modulation of optical signal coupling. A coupling-modulated optical resonator includes an optical resonator having a coupled portion and a bus waveguide having a modulation section adjacent to and coextensive with and separated by a gap from the coupled portion. The modulation section is to modulate coupling of an optical signal between the optical resonator and the bus waveguide according to a variable difference between a modal index of the bus waveguide modulation section and a modal index of the optical resonator coupled portion.

Abstract: A laser includes an active ring, a passive waveguide, and a reflector. The active ring is to generate light. The passive waveguide is associated with the active ring to capture generated light. The reflector is associated with the passive waveguide to cause captured light from the waveguide to be coupled into the active ring to trigger domination of unidirectional lasing in the active ring to generate light.

Abstract: InP epitaxial material is directly bonded onto a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafer having Vertical Outgassing Channels (VOCs) between the bonding surface and the insulator (buried oxide, or BOX) layer. H2O and other molecules near the bonding surface migrate to the closest VOC and are quenched in the buried oxide (BOX) layer quickly by combining with bridging oxygen ions and forming pairs of stable nonbridging hydroxyl groups (Si—OH). Various sizes and spacings of channels are envisioned for various devices.

Abstract: An example system includes a first ring resonator element for imparting optical gain to a light signal. The example system farther includes a second ring resonator element optically coupled to the first ring resonator element for modulating the light signal. A waveguide can be optically coupled to one of the first ring resonator element or the second ring resonator element for receiving the light signal output from the one of the first ring resonator element or the second ring resonator element, and transmitting the received light signal.

Abstract: A laser includes an active ring, a passive waveguide, and a reflector. The active ring is to generate light. The passive waveguide is associated with the active ring to capture generated light. The reflector is associated with the passive waveguide to cause captured light from the waveguide to be coupled into the active ring to trigger domination of unidirectional lasing in the active ring to generate light.

Abstract: One example includes a laser system. The system can include a first electrode to transmit first electrical carriers into an active region via a first waveguide region in response to a current signal. The system also includes a second electrode to transmit second electrical carriers into the active region via a second waveguide region in response to the current signal. The first and second electrical carriers can be combined in the active region to emit photons to generate an optical signal. The system further includes a third electrode responsive to a signal to affect a concentration of third electrical carriers in a device layer located proximal to the second waveguide region to modulate an optical characteristic of the optical signal.

Abstract: A thermal shunt is to transfer heat from a sidewall of a device to a silicon substrate. The device is associated with a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) including a buried oxide layer. The thermal shunt extends through the buried oxide layer to the silicon substrate.

Abstract: Apparatuses and systems for analyzing light by mode interference are provided. An example of an apparatus for analyzing light by mode interference includes a number of waveguides to support in a multimode region two modes of the light of a particular polarization and a plurality of scattering objects offset from a center of at least one of the number of waveguides.

Abstract: Controlling temperatures in optical circuits includes using a device with a waveguide located between a base cladding and an over cladding. The base cladding is deposited over a substrate and the over cladding is made of a thermally conductive dielectric material.