Patents by Inventor Jason Pelc
Jason Pelc 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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Publication number: 20210263216Abstract: An integrated photonics device that emits light out towards a measured sample value is disclosed. The device can include a discrete optical unit that attaches to a supporting layer. The discrete optical unit can include mirror(s), optics, detector array(s), and traces. The supporting layer can include one or more cavities having facet walls. Light emitter(s) can emit light that propagate through waveguide(s). The emitted light can exit the waveguide(s) (via termination point(s)), enter the one or more cavities at the facet walls, and be received by receiving facets of the discrete optical unit. The mirror(s) of the discrete optical unit can redirect the received light towards collimating optics, which can direct the light out of the device through the system interface. The discrete optical unit can be formed separately from the supporting layer or bonded to the supporting layer after the mirror, optics, detector arrays, and traces are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Michael J. Bishop, Vijay M. Iyer, Lexie Nicole Schachne, Jason Pelc
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Patent number: 11086966Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus includes a plurality of nodes, a pump coupled to the plurality of nodes and a connection network. In one example, each one of the plurality of nodes may store a value. The pump provides energy to the each one of the plurality of nodes. The connection network may include a two dimensional array of elements, wherein each group of the two dimensional array of elements is in communication with a respective one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the connection network may be tuned with parameters associated with encoding of an Ising problem. The connection network may process the value stored in each one of the plurality of nodes. The Ising problem may be solved by the value stored in each one of the plurality of nodes at a minimum energy level.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Jason Pelc, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Raymond G Beausoleil
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Publication number: 20210199576Abstract: Described here are optical sampling architectures and methods for operation thereof. An optical sampling architecture can be capable of emitting a launch sheet light beam towards a launch region and receiving a detection sheet light beam from a detection region. The launch region can have one dimension that is elongated relative to another dimension. The detection region can also have one dimension elongated relative to another dimension such that the system can selectively accept light having one or more properties (e.g., angle of incidence, beam size, beam shape, etc.). In some examples, the elongated dimension of the detection region can be greater than the elongated dimension of the launch region. In some examples, the system can include an outcoupler array and associated components for creating a launch sheet light beam having light rays with different in-plane launch positions and/or in-plane launch angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Mark Alan Arbore, Matthiew A. Terrel, Jason Pelc
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Patent number: 10823912Abstract: Described herein is a top-side vertical outcoupler for use in an integrated photonics device. The integrated photonics device can include a photonics circuit, where light can propagate through waveguide(s) to outcoupler(s). The outcoupler(s) can redirect the light to optics, which can then collimate, focus, and/or direct the light to a launch region located on an external surface of the device. The integrated photonics device can include a plurality of layers deposited on a supporting layer. The plurality of layers can be used to form the waveguide(s) and the outcoupler(s). By forming the outcoupler(s) of the same material as the waveguide(s), the amount of light that is lost can be reduced or minimized. Additionally, the reduced number of interfaces that the light has to pass through to reach the outcoupler(s) can allow for better control of the divergence angles of the emitted light.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jason Pelc, Pat Wright, Peter L. D. Chang
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Patent number: 10788368Abstract: Disclosed here is a system including a multi-wavelength integrated light source having one or more heaters. The system can comprise a substrate including a light source section, the heater(s), and a plurality of sections. The sections can include multiple materials, where the material for a given section can be based on one or more targeted criteria. For example, one section can have a targeted criteria of being optically transparent. Another section can have a targeted criteria of providing mechanical support, and another section can have a targeted criteria of being a thermal insulator. In some instances, openings in the substrate can be formed and filled with one or more materials to form a window (e.g., a section having a targeted criteria of being optically transparent) and a thermal isolator (e.g., a section having a targeted criteria of being thermally insulating).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jason Pelc, Mark Alan Arbore
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Patent number: 10725242Abstract: One example includes an apparatus that includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a body portion. The plurality of I/O ports can be arranged at a plurality of peripheral surfaces of the body portion. The body portion includes a solid dielectric material having a substantially constant index of refraction. The body portion also includes parallel planar surfaces spaced apart by and bounded by the plurality of peripheral surfaces. The solid dielectric material in the body portion can be writable via a laser-writing process to form an optical waveguide extending between a set of the plurality of I/O ports.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Raymond G. Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Jason Pelc, Charles M. Santori, Terrel L. Morris
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Patent number: 10677995Abstract: One example includes an optical fiber interface. The interface includes a first substrate comprising a pair of opposing surfaces. The substrate includes an opening extending therethrough that defines an inner periphery. One surface of the opposing surfaces of the first substrate can be configured to be bonded to a given surface of a second substrate. The interface also includes a plurality of optical fibers secured to the other opposing surface of the first substrate and extending inwardly from a plurality of surfaces of the inner periphery at fixed locations to align the set of optical fibers to optical inputs/outputs (I/O) of an optical system chip that is coupled to the given surface of the second substrate and received through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Terrel L Morris, Raymond G Beausoleil, Jason Pelc, Marco Fiorentino, Charles M Santori, Michael W Cumbie
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Patent number: 10650110Abstract: A photonic circuit design system includes a photonic circuit design tool to facilitate user inputs to generate a photonic circuit netlist comprising a photonic design component of a photonic circuit design. The system includes a memory system to store the photonic circuit netlist and a component library comprising a plurality of predetermined photonic design components from which the photonic design component is selected. The component library further includes physical data associated with physical characteristics of the plurality of predetermined photonic design components.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Jason Pelc
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Patent number: 10613415Abstract: In the examples provided herein, an optical logic gate includes multiple couplers, where no more than two types of couplers are used in the optical logic gate, and further wherein the two types of couplers consist of: a 3-dB coupler and a weak coupler with a given transmission-to-reflection ratio. The optical logic gate also includes a first resonator, wherein the first resonator comprises a photonic crystal resonator or a nonlinear ring resonator, wherein in operation, the first resonator has a dedicated continuous wave input to bias a complex amplitude of a total field input to the first resonator such that the total field input is either above or below a nonlinear switching threshold of the first resonator, where the optical logic gate is an integrated photonic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Charles M. Santori, Jason Pelc, Ranojoy Bose, Cheng Li, Raymond G. Beausoleil
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Patent number: 10574361Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes e first beam splitter having a first output and a second output. A first optical waveguide is coupled to the first output, and a second optical waveguide is coupled to the second output. A first tunable phase delay is further coupled to the second optical waveguide and has a third output. A first set of phase modulators is coupled to the first optical waveguide, and a second set of phase modulators is coupled to the third output of the first tunable phase delay. At least one of the first set of phase modulators and the second set of phase modulators includes a phase modulator that is driven to three or more distinct phase states. A second beam splitter has a first input coupled to the first optical waveguide and a second input coupled to the second optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Jason Pelc, Ashkan Seyedi, Marco Fiorentino
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Publication number: 20190353981Abstract: In the examples provided herein, an optical logic gate includes multiple couplers, where no more than two types of couplers are used in the optical logic gate, and further wherein the two types of couplers consist of: a 3-dB coupler and a weak coupler with a given transmission-to-reflection ratio. The optical logic gate also includes a first resonator, wherein the first resonator comprises a photonic crystal resonator or a nonlinear ring resonator, wherein in operation, the first resonator has a dedicated continuous wave input to bias a complex amplitude of a total field input to the first resonator such that the total field input is either above or below a nonlinear switching threshold of the first resonator, where the optical logic gate is an integrated photonic circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Charles M. Santori, Jason Pelc, Ranojoy Bose, Cheng Li, Raymond G. Beausoleil
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Patent number: 10461853Abstract: In example implementations, an optical gate is provided. The optical gate receives at least one optical signal via a waveguide of an optical memory gate. The optical gate compares a wavelength of the at least one optical signal to a resonant wavelength associated with a resonator. When the wavelength of the at least one optical signal matches the resonant wavelength, a value that is stored in the resonator is read out via the at least one optical signal. Then, the at least one optical signal with the value that is read out is transmitted out of the optical gate.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Nikolas A. Tezak, David Kielpinski, Jason Pelc, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Ranojoy Bose, Raymond G. Beausoleil
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Patent number: 10386698Abstract: In the examples provided herein, an optical logic gate includes multiple couplers, where no more than two types of couplers are used in the optical logic gate, and further wherein the two types of couplers consist of: a 3-dB coupler and a weak coupler with a given transmission-to-reflection ratio. The optical logic gate also includes a first resonator, wherein the first resonator comprises a photonic crystal resonator or a nonlinear ring resonator, wherein in operation, the first resonator has a dedicated continuous wave input to bias a complex amplitude of a total field input to the first resonator such that the total field input is either above or below a nonlinear switching threshold of the first resonator, where the optical logic gate is an integrated photonic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Charles M. Santori, Jason Pelc, Ranojoy Bose, Cheng Li, Raymond G Beausoleil
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Patent number: 10367590Abstract: Examples described herein relate to concurrently performing operations on optical signals. In an example, a method includes providing, to an optical circuit, a first plurality of signals having a first optical property and encoding a first vector. A second plurality of signals is provided to the circuit that encodes a second vector and has a second optical property that is different from the first optical property. A first attribute-dependent operation is performed on the first plurality of signals via the circuit to perform a first matrix multiplication operation on the first vector, and concurrently, a second attribute-dependent operation is performed on the second plurality of signals to perform a second matrix multiplication operation on the second vector. The first matrix multiplication operation and the second matrix multiplication operation are different based on the first optical property being different from the second optical property.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: David Kielpinski, Jason Pelc, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Nikolas Tezak, Gabriel Joe Mendoza, Raymond G. Beausoleil
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Publication number: 20190204507Abstract: One example includes an apparatus that includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a body portion. The plurality of I/O ports can be arranged at a plurality of peripheral surfaces of the body portion. The body portion includes a solid dielectric material having a substantially constant index of refraction. The body portion also includes parallel planar surfaces spaced apart by and bounded by the plurality of peripheral surfaces. The solid dielectric material in the body portion can be writable via a laser-writing process to form an optical waveguide extending between a set of the plurality of I/O ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Raymond G. Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Jason Pelc, Charles M. Santori, Terrel L. Morris
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Publication number: 20190170943Abstract: Examples described herein relate to an optical switching device wherein a racetrack resonant structure is positioned to determine a frequency passband by coupling. In some examples, a first waveguide receives an input light signal. A second waveguide is positioned to enable the input light signal to couple between the first waveguide and the second waveguide through a first coupling gap. The racetrack resonant structure is positioned adjacent to the first coupling gap to enable the input light signal to couple between one of the first waveguide and the second waveguide and the racetrack resonant structure through a second coupling gap. Thus, the racetrack resonant structure is to determine the frequency passband such that a first portion of the input light signal that coincides with the frequency passband is output by the first waveguide, and a second portion of the input light signal that does not coincide with the frequency passband is output by the second waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: David Kielpinski, Shuren Hu, Mir Ashkan Seyedi, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Gabriel Joel Mendoza, Jason Pelc
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Patent number: 10288811Abstract: Examples described herein relate to an optical switching device wherein a racetrack resonant structure is positioned to determine a frequency passband by coupling. In some examples, a first waveguide receives an input light signal. A second waveguide is positioned to enable the input light signal to couple between the first waveguide and the second waveguide through a first coupling gap. The racetrack resonant structure is positioned adjacent to the first coupling gap to enable the input light signal to couple between one of the first waveguide and the second waveguide and the racetrack resonant structure through a second coupling gap. Thus, the racetrack resonant structure is to determine the frequency passband such that a first portion of the input light signal that coincides with the frequency passband is output by the first waveguide, and a second portion of the input light signal that does not coincide with the frequency passband is output by the second waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: David Kielpinski, Shuren Hu, Mir Ashkan Seyedi, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Gabriel Joel Mendoza, Jason Pelc
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Patent number: 10261256Abstract: One example includes an apparatus that includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a body portion. The plurality of I/O ports can be arranged at a plurality of peripheral surfaces of the body portion. The body portion includes a solid dielectric material having a substantially constant index of refraction. The body portion also includes parallel planar surfaces spaced apart by and bounded by the plurality of peripheral surfaces. The solid dielectric material in the body portion can be writable via a laser-writing process to form an optical waveguide extending between a set of the plurality of I/O ports.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Raymond G Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Jason Pelc, Charles M Santori, Terrel L Morris
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Patent number: 10256902Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus includes a bus waveguide, a plurality of optical gates coupled to the bus waveguide and an injection coupler. The bus waveguide receives a plurality of constraint signals. Each optical gate outputs an internal state via a local phase shift when at least one of the plurality of constraint signals has a wavelength that matches a respective resonant wavelength. The injection coupler combines the at least one of the plurality of constraint signals with additional constraint signals that are injected. An error is detected in a bit of a message when an overall phase shift has occurred to the at least one of the plurality of constraint signals causing a power level to exceed a power level threshold of an optical gate when the at least one of the plurality of constraint signals constructively interferes with the additional constraint signals that are injected.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Nikolas Anton Tezak, David Kielpinski, Jason Pelc, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Ranojoy Bose, Raymond G. Beausoleil
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Publication number: 20190020419Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes e first beam splitter having a final output and a second output. A first optical waveguide is coupled to the first output, and a second optical waveguide is coupled to the second output. A first tunable phase delay is further coupled to the second optical waveguide and has a third output. A first set of phase modulators is coupled to the first optical waveguide, and a second set of phase modulators is coupled to the third output of the first tunable phase delay. At least one of the first set of phase modulators and the second set of phase modulators includes a phase modulator that is driven to three or more distinct phase states. A second beam splitter has a first input coupled to the first optical waveguide and a second input coupled to the second optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2015Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Jason PELC, Ashkan SEYEDI, Marco FIORENTINO