Patents by Inventor Douglas Coolbaugh

Douglas Coolbaugh 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).

  • Publication number: 20250377497
    Abstract: There is set forth herein according to one embodiment an optoelectrical system comprising a first photonics structure having a first photonics dielectric stack; and a second photonics structure having a second photonics dielectric stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: William CHARLES, Douglas COOLBAUGH, Douglas LA TULIPE, Gerald L. LEAKE, JR.
  • Patent number: 12449593
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including fabricating a photonics structure having one or more photonics device. The method can include forming one or more conductive material formation for communicating electrical signals to and/or from the one or more photonics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Gerald Leake
  • Patent number: 12366705
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including building a first photonics structure using, wherein the building the first photonics structure includes fabricating one or more photonics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERISTY OF NEWYORK
    Inventors: William Charles, Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald L. Leake, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11841531
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an optoelectrical device, comprising: a substrate; an interposer dielectric stack formed on the substrate, the interposer dielectric stack including a base interposer dielectric stack, a photonics device dielectric stack, and a bond layer that integrally bonds the photonics device dielectric stack to the base interposer dielectric stack. There is set forth herein a method comprising building an interposer base structure on a first wafer having a first substrate, including fabricating a plurality of through vias in the first substrate and fabricating within an interposer base dielectric stack formed on the first substrate one or more metallization layers; and building a photonics structure on a second wafer having a second substrate, including fabricating one or more photonics devices within a photonics device dielectric stack formed on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald Leake
  • Publication number: 20230244029
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including building a first photonics structure using, wherein the building the first photonics structure includes fabricating one or more photonics device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: William CHARLES, Douglas COOLBAUGH, Douglas LA TULIPE, Gerald L. LEAKE, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11703643
    Abstract: A photonic structure can include in one aspect one or more waveguides formed by patterning of waveguiding material adapted to propagate light energy. Such waveguiding material may include one or more of silicon (single-, poly-, or non-crystalline) and silicon nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Thomas Adam, Gerald L. Leake
  • Patent number: 11635568
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a photonics device. The photonics device can comprise a substrate, a conductive material formation, a dielectric stack, and a barrier layer. The photonics device can transmit a light signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Gerald L. Leake, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11550099
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including building a first photonics structure using a first wafer having a first substrate, wherein the building the first photonics structure includes integrally fabricating within a first photonics dielectric stack one or more photonics device, the one or more photonics device formed on the first substrate; building a second photonics structure using a second wafer having a second substrate, wherein the building the second photonics structure includes integrally fabricating within a second photonics dielectric stack a laser stack structure active region and one or more photonics device, the second photonics dielectric stack formed on the second substrate; and bonding the first photonics structure and the second photonics structure to define an optoelectrical system having the first photonics structure bonded the second photonics structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: William Charles, Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald L. Leake, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11550173
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an integrated photonics structure having a waveguide disposed within a dielectric stack of the integrated photonics structure, wherein the integrated photonics structure further includes a field generating electrically conductive structure disposed within the dielectric stack; and a heterogenous structure attached to the integrated photonics structure, the heterogenous structure having field sensitive material that is sensitive to a field generated by the field generating electrically conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, MORTON PHOTONICS INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Paul A. Morton, Nicholas G. Usechak
  • Publication number: 20220381974
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an optoelectrical device, comprising: a substrate; an interposer dielectric stack formed on the substrate, the interposer dielectric stack including a base interposer dielectric stack, a photonics device dielectric stack, and a bond layer that integrally bonds the photonics device dielectric stack to the base interposer dielectric stack. There is set forth herein a method comprising building an interposer base structure on a first wafer having a first substrate, including fabricating a plurality of through vias in the first substrate and fabricating within an interposer base dielectric stack formed on the first substrate one or more metallization layers; and building a photonics structure on a second wafer having a second substrate, including fabricating one or more photonics devices within a photonics device dielectric stack formed on the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Douglas COOLBAUGH, Douglas LA TULIPE, Gerald LEAKE
  • Publication number: 20220350076
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a photonics device. The photonics device can comprise a substrate, a conductive material formation, a dielectric stack, and a barrier layer. The photonics device can transmit a light signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Douglas COOLBAUGH, Gerald L. LEAKE, JR.
  • Patent number: 11435523
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an optoelectrical system comprising: a conductive path for supplying an input voltage to a photonics device, wherein the conductive path comprises a base structure through via extending through a substrate and a photonics structure through via, the photonics structure through via extending through a photonics device dielectric stack. There is set forth herein an optoelectrical system comprising: a second structure fusion bonded to an interposer base dielectric stack of a first structure. There is set forth herein a method comprising: fabricating a second wafer built structure using a second wafer, the second wafer built structure defining a photonics structure and having a photonics device integrated into a photonics device dielectric stack of the second wafer based structure; and wafer scale bonding the second wafer built structure to a first wafer built structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald Leake
  • Publication number: 20220229228
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including fabricating a photonics structure having one or more photonics device. The method can include forming one or more conductive material formation for communicating electrical signals to and/or from the one or more photonics device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Douglas COOLBAUGH, Gerald LEAKE
  • Patent number: 11378739
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including depositing a layer formed of barrier material over a conductive material formation of a photonics structure; and removing material of the layer in a light signal transmitting region of the photonics structure. In one embodiment the barrier material can include silicon carbon nitride. In one embodiment the barrier material can include silicon nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Gerald L. Leake, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11029466
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including a substrate; a dielectric stack disposed on the substrate; one or more photonics device integrated in the dielectric stack; and a laser light source having a laser stack including a plurality of structures arranged in a stack, wherein structures of the plurality of structures are integrated in the dielectric stack, wherein the laser stack includes an active region configured to emit light in response to the application of electrical energy to the laser stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William Charles, John Bowers, Douglas Coolbaugh, Daehwan Jung, Jonathan Klamkin, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald L. Leake, Jr., Songtao Liu, Justin Norman
  • Patent number: 10976491
    Abstract: In one embodiment an optoelectronic system can include a photonics interposer having a substrate and a functional interposer structure formed on the substrate, a plurality of through vias carrying electrical signals extending through the substrate and the functional interposer structure, and a plurality of wires carrying signals to different areas of the functional interposer structure. The system can further include one or more photonics device integrally formed in the functional interposer structure, and one or more prefabricated component attached to the functional interposer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, ANALOG PHOTONICS, LLC, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Michael Watts, Michal Lipson, Keren Bergman, Thomas Koch, Jeremiah Hebding, Daniel Pascual, Douglas La Tulipe
  • Publication number: 20210072568
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an integrated photonics structure having a waveguide disposed within a dielectric stack of the integrated photonics structure, wherein the integrated photonics structure further includes a field generating electrically conductive structure disposed within the dielectric stack; and a heterogenous structure attached to the integrated photonics structure, the heterogenous structure having field sensitive material that is sensitive to a field generated by the field generating electrically conductive structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Douglas COOLBAUGH, Douglas LA TULIPE, Paul A. MORTON, Nicholas G. USECHAK
  • Patent number: 10877300
    Abstract: There is set forth herein an integrated photonics structure having a waveguide disposed within a dielectric stack of the integrated photonics structure, wherein the integrated photonics structure further includes a field generating electrically conductive structure disposed within the dielectric stack; and a heterogenous structure attached to the integrated photonics structure, the heterogenous structure having field sensitive material that is sensitive to a field generated by the field generating electrically conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, MORTON PHOTONICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Douglas La Tulipe, Paul A. Morton, Nicholas G. Usechak
  • Publication number: 20200379173
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including depositing a layer formed of barrier material over a conductive material formation of a photonics structure; and removing material of the layer in a light signal transmitting region of the photonics structure. In one embodiment the barrier material can include silicon carbon nitride. In one embodiment the barrier material can include silicon nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Douglas COOLBAUGH, Gerald L. Leake, JR.
  • Patent number: 10830952
    Abstract: A photonic structure can include in one aspect one or more waveguides formed by patterning of waveguiding material adapted to propagate light energy. Such waveguiding material may include one or more of silicon (single-, poly-, or non-crystalline) and silicon nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Douglas Coolbaugh, Thomas Adam, Gerald L. Leake