Patents by Inventor Michael Renne Ty Tan

Michael Renne Ty Tan 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).

  • MIRRORS INCLUDING REFLECTIVE AND SECOND LAYERS DISPOSED ON PHOTODETECTORS
    Publication number: 20170018664
    Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a photodetector disposed on a substrate, and a mirror disposed on the photodetector. The mirror is to reflect light back into the photodetector. The mirror includes a reflective layer and a second layer. The second layer is disposed between the reflective layer and the photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese MATHAI, Michael Renne Ty TAN
  • OPTICAL MODULATION EMPLOYING HIGH CONTRAST GRATING LENS
    Publication number: 20170010482
    Abstract: A high contrast grating optical modulation includes an optical modulator at a front surface of a substrate to modulate received light. The high contrast grating optical modulation further includes a high contrast grating (HCG) lens adjacent to a back surface of the substrate opposite to the front surface to focus incident light onto the optical modulator. The substrate is transparent to operational wavelengths of the focused incident light and the modulated light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese Mathai, David A. Fattal, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Wayne Victor Sorin
  • MULTIMODE FIBER FOR MODULATABLE SOURCE
    Publication number: 20160344478
    Abstract: Examples include generating a signal using a modulatable source. The signal may be propagated using a multi-mode fiber to receive the signal from the modulatable source. The fiber has a diameter d and a far-field divergence angle associated with the propagated signal that corresponds to a product of the diameter (d) and the far-field divergence angle. The product may be substantially between 1 micron radian and 4 micron radian. In some examples, the propagated signal may be received at a receiver from the multi-mode fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Wayne V SORIN, Michael Renne Ty TAN, Shih-Yuan WANG
  • Optical architecture with riser cards a matrix and optic cables to carry outbound signals of the matrix to the riser cards
    Patent number: 9494740
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for optical architectures are disclosed. An optical architecture includes first and second riser cards and first and second components carried by the first and second riser cards respectively. The optical architecture also includes a first matrix to fan-out a multi-bit optical input signal into first and second outbound signals, and first and second fiber optic cables to carry the first and second outbound signals to the first and second riser cards, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Terrel L. Morris, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING EMPLOYING A HIGH CONTRAST GRATING
    Publication number: 20160327746
    Abstract: Bidirectional optical multiplexing employs a high contrast grating as one or both of a beam-forming lens and a relay mirror. A bidirectional optical multiplexer includes the beam-forming lens to focus light. The light is one or both of a light beam internal to and another light beam external to the bidirectional optical multiplexer. The bidirectional optical multiplexer further includes an optical filter and the relay mirror. The optical filter is to selectively pass a portion of the internal light beam at a first wavelength and to reflect portions of the internal light beam at other wavelengths. The relay mirror is to reflect the internal light beam along a zigzag propagation path between the optical filter and the relay mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese Mathai, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Georgios Panotopoulos, Wayne Victor Sorin, Paul Kessler Rosenberg
  • HIGH CONTRAST GRATING OPTOELECTRONICS
    Publication number: 20160301188
    Abstract: A high contrast grating optoelectronic apparatus includes an optoelectronic device at a front surface of a substrate. The optoelectronic device is to one or both of emit light and detect light through a back surface of the substrate opposite the front surface. A high contrast grating (HCG) lens is adjacent to and spaced apart from the back surface of the substrate by a spacer. The spacer includes one or both of a wafer-bonded substrate and a cavity. The HCG lens is to focus the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventors: Sagi V. Mathai, Michael Renne Ty Tan, David A. Fattal, Wayne V. Sorin
  • MULTIPLEXED OPTOELECTRONIC ENGINES
    Publication number: 20160246008
    Abstract: An example device includes a first semiconductor component comprising at least two lasers to emit light at a first wavelength; a second semiconductor component comprising at least two lasers to emit light at a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; and an optical multiplexer to receive light from two lasers at the first wavelength and light from two lasers at the second wavelength. The optical multiplexer component includes a first output interface to couple light from one laser at the first wavelength and light from one laser at the second wavelength to a first optical fiber, and a second output interface to couple light from one laser at the first wavelength and light from one laser at the second wavelength beams to a second optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, Sagi Varghese Mathai, Georgios Panotopoulos, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Wayne Victor Sorin
  • PLASMONIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE
    Publication number: 20160240729
    Abstract: A light emitting diode includes a diode structure containing a quantum well, an enhancement layer, and a barrier layer between the enhancement layer and the quantum well. The enhancement layer supports plasmon oscillations at a frequency that couples to photons produced by combination of electrons and holes in the quantum well. The barrier layer serves to block diffusion between the enhancement layer and the diode structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, David A. Fattal, Marco Fiorentino, Shih-Yuan Wang
  • LOSS COMPENSATED OPTICAL SWITCHING
    Publication number: 20160238795
    Abstract: Loss compensated optical switching includes an optical crossbar switch and a wafer bonded semiconductor amplifier (SOA). The optical crossbar switch has a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports and is on a substrate of a first semiconductor material. The wafer bonded SOA includes a layer of second semiconductor material that is wafer bonded to a surface of the substrate such that a portion of the wafer bonded SOA semiconductor material layer overlies a portion of a port of the plurality of input ports. The second semiconductor material of the wafer bonded SOA is different from the first semiconductor material of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, Sagi Varghese Mathai, Wayne Victor Sorin, Paul Kessler Rosenberg
  • Multimode fiber for modulatable source
    Patent number: 9417390
    Abstract: A modulatable source is to generate a signal. A multi-mode fiber is to propagate the signal. The fiber is associated with a fiber d*NA, corresponding to a product of a fiber diameter (d) and a fiber numerical aperture (NA), substantially between 1 micron radian and 4 micron radian. A receiver is to receive the propagated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Wayne V Sorin, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Shih-Yuan Wang
  • DEVICE INCLUDING MIRRORS AND FILTERS TO OPERATE AS A MULTIPLEXER OR DE-MULTIPLEXER
    Publication number: 20160195677
    Abstract: A device includes a first element and a second element. The first element includes a plurality of mirrors formed as concave features on the first element. The second element is to support a plurality of filters. The first element is coupleable to the second element to align the plurality of mirrors relative to the plurality of filters to operate as a multiplexer or de-multiplexer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Georgios Panotopoulos, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Wayne Victor Sorin, Sagi Varghese Mathai
  • SWITCH ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20160191425
    Abstract: A technique includes using circuit switches to selectively couple packet switches of a switch assembly to the port connectors of the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Schlansker, Jean TOURRIHES, Jose Renato G. SANTOS, Michael Renne Ty TAN, Moray MCLAREN
  • OPTICAL CONNECTOR ALIGNMENT
    Publication number: 20160161687
    Abstract: An example apparatus comprises an optical connector coupled to at least one optical fiber cable; an optical interface coupled to the optical connector and to the at least one optical fiber cable, the optical interface to receive or transmit an optical signal; and an alignment collar releasably coupled to the optical connector and coupled to a substrate, wherein the optical interface is in alignment with at least one optical device coupled to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Jason H. Culler, Sagi Varghese Mathai, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • Optical interconnect fabrics and optical switches
    Patent number: 9354412
    Abstract: Optical interconnect fabrics and optical switches are disclosed. In one aspect, an optical interconnect fabric comprises one or more bundles of optical broadcast buses. Each optical broadcast bus is optically coupled at one end to a node and configured to transmit optical signals generated by the node. The optical fabric also includes a number of optical tap arrays distributed along each bundle of optical broadcast buses. Each optical tap array is configured to divert a portion of the optical power associated with the optical signals carried by a bundle of optical broadcast buses to one of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Nathan Lorenzo Binkert, Moray McLaren, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Alan Lynn Davis
  • Composite wafer including a molded wafer and a second wafer
    Patent number: 9354388
    Abstract: A composite wafer includes a molded wafer and a second wafer. The molded wafer includes a plurality of first components, and the second wafer includes a plurality of second components. The second wafer is combined with the molded wafer to form the composite wafer. At least one of the first components is aligned with at least one of the second components to form a multi-component element. The multi-component element is singulatable from the composite wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, Georgios Panotopoulos, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Sagi Varhgese Mathai, Wayne Victor Sorin, Susant K. Patra
  • Monolithically integrated, self-aligning, optical-fiber ferrule
    Patent number: 9354410
    Abstract: A monolithically integrated, self-aligning, optical-fiber ferrule for a pigtailed opto-electronic module. The ferrule includes a body, a cavity defined within the body, a lateral alignment structure, and an optical-fiber stop. The cavity is to accept and align an optical fiber with an end of the cavity to face an optical aperture of an opto-electronic component. The lateral alignment structure is to self-align laterally the optical fiber with the optical aperture. The optical-fiber stop is coupled to the body, to self-align vertically the optical fiber. The body, the cavity, the lateral alignment structure and the optical-fiber stop are integrated together as a portion of a monolithically integrated chip. A system and a pigtailed opto-electronic engine that include the ferrule are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese Mathai, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Wayne Victor Sorin, Georgios Panotopoulos
  • OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING A HIGH CONTRAST GRATING LENS
    Publication number: 20160149646
    Abstract: Techniques related to optical devices including a high contrast grating (HCG) lens are described herein. In an example, an optical device includes a transparent substrate. A laser emitter or detector at a first side of the transparent substrate to emit or detect a laser light transmitted via the transparent substrate. A HCG lens is at a second side of the transparent substrate to transmit and refract the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Wayne Victor Sorin, Michael Renne Ty Tan, David A. Fattal, Sagi Varghese Mathai
  • Hybrid electro-optical package for an opto-electronic engine
    Patent number: 9335500
    Abstract: A hybrid electro-optical package for an opto-electronic engine. The package includes a carrier substrate, and a package base. Electrical vias and an optical via of the carrier substrate communicate between a back side and a front side of the carrier substrate. The package base is coupled to the carrier substrate by intra-package electrical interconnects. The carrier substrate is to interconnect electrically with an opto-electronic component mounted on its back side, and includes an optical aperture at its front side for communication of optical signals. Similarly, lands disposed at a front side of the package base provide for communication of electrical signals to an integrated circuit and the opto-electronic component. A system and an opto-electronic engine that include the hybrid electro-optical package are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Moray McLaren, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Terrel Morris
  • High density laser optics
    Patent number: 9337623
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for high density laser optics are provided. An example, of a laser optics apparatus includes a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) in a monolithically integrated array, a high contrast grating (HCG) integrated with an aperture of a vertical cavity of each of the plurality of the VCSELs to enable emission of a single lasing wavelength of a plurality of lasing wavelengths, and a plurality of single mode waveguides, each integrated with a grating coupler, that are connected to each of the plurality of the integrated VCSELs and the HCGs, where each of the grating couplers is aligned to an integrated VCSEL and HCG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Michael Renne Ty Tan, David A. Fattal, Wayne Victor Sorin, Sagi Mathai
  • Optical transmission system
    Patent number: 9331782
    Abstract: An optical transmission system includes a lens wafer to couple light into an optical transmission medium. The lens wafer includes a set of collimating lenses on a first side of the lens wafer, the collimating lenses to collimate beams of light from a plurality of light sources. The lens wafer also includes a focusing element on a second side of the wafer opposing the first side. The focusing element is to focus the collimated beams of light into an optical transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Wayne V. Sorin, Michael Renne Ty Tan