Patents by Inventor Francois Lelarge

Francois Lelarge 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).

  • Patent number: 9929535
    Abstract: An emitting device is intended for delivering photons with a chosen wavelength. This emitting device includes an InP substrate with a directly modulated laser arranged for generating photons modulated by a non-return-to-zero modulation to produce data to be transmitted, a passive ring resonator monolithically integrated with the directly modulated laser and having a resonance amongst several ones that is used for filtering a zero level induced by the data modulation, and a tuning means arranged along the directly modulated laser and/or around the ring resonator to tune the photon wavelength and/or the ring resonator resonance used for filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Nicolas Chimot, Francois Lelarge, Siddharth Joshi
  • Patent number: 9395596
    Abstract: An optical filtering device (1) comprising: a ring resonator (2); and a multimode interference coupler (3) comprising two inputs (4, 7), two outputs (5, 8) and a multimode waveguide (9) connecting the two inputs to the two outputs, the coupler having a first input (4) serving as an input for the filtering device and able to receive an input optical signal (10), and a first output (5) corresponding to the output of the filtering device and able to produce an output optical signal (12), the ring resonator (2) being arranged so as to connect a second output (8) of the coupler to a second input (7) of the coupler, wherein the filtering device comprises a tuning element (6) able to modify locally the refractive index in the coupling zone (11) of said multimode waveguide (9) in order to vary a coupling coefficient between the coupler (3) and the ring resonator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas Chimot, Francois Lelarge
  • Publication number: 20160161824
    Abstract: An optical filtering device (1) comprising: a ring resonator (2); and a multimode interference coupler (3) comprising two inputs (4, 7), two outputs (5, 8) and a multimode waveguide (9) connecting the two inputs to the two outputs, the coupler having a first input (4) serving as an input for the filtering device and able to receive an input optical signal (10), and a first output (5) corresponding to the output of the filtering device and able to produce an output optical signal (12), the ring resonator (2) being arranged so as to connect a second output (8) of the coupler to a second input (7) of the coupler, wherein the filtering device comprises a tuning element (6) able to modify locally the refractive index in the coupling zone (11) of said multimode waveguide (9) in order to vary a coupling coefficient between the coupler (3) and the ring resonator (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Commissariat a I'Engerie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas CHIMOT, Francois LELARGE
  • Publication number: 20100158063
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of tunable semiconductor devices with distributed Bragg grating, and more particularly that of tunable lasers with distributed Bragg grating termed DBRs. The device according to the invention comprises a passive Bragg section comprising a material whose optical index variations are controlled by an injection current, said material of the Bragg section is a strained bulk material, the strain applied to the bulk material being equal to at least 0.1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Hélène Debregeas-Sillard, Jean Decobert, Francois Lelarge
  • Publication number: 20090315019
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing an optical device, and an optical device, the optical device having one or more layers (13) of quantum-dots located in-between barrier layers (12). A spacer layer (15) is grown on a barrier layer (12), such that the spacer layer (15) is adapted for substantially blocking strain fields induced by quantum-dot layers, thereby producing a smooth growth front for a subsequent barrier layer (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Francois Lelarge, Benjamin Rousseau, Alain Accard, Frederic Pommereau, Francis Poingt, Romain Brenot