Patents by Inventor Yannick De Koninck

Yannick De Koninck 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: 20240004260
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Attila MEKIS, Subal SAHNI, Yannick DE KONINCK, Gianlorenzo MASINI, Faezeh GHOLAMI
  • Patent number: 11796888
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Publication number: 20220019121
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Patent number: 11073738
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Luxtera LLC
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Patent number: 10866482
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section, and a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or fully p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical contact may be made to the doped material via contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical contact may be made to the rib section via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide. A cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be mostly n-doped with an undoped portion or mostly p-doped with an undoped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Luxtera LLC
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Publication number: 20200203929
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to the development of a monolithic active electro-optical device. The electro-optical device may be fabricated using the so-called nanoridge aspect ratio trapping (ART) approach. In one aspect, the disclosed technology is directed to a monolithic integrated electro-optical device, which comprises a III-V-semiconductor-material ridge structure arranged on a Si-based support region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yannick De Koninck, Joris Van Campenhout
  • Publication number: 20200203930
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to the development of a monolithic active electro-optical device. In some embodiments, the electro-optical device may be fabricated using the so-called nanoridge aspect ratio trapping (ART) approach. In one aspect, the electro-optical device is a monolithic integrated electro-optical device comprising a first-conductivity-type Si-based support region and a III-V-semiconductor-material ridge structure extending from the Si-based support region, wherein the ridge structure contains a recombination region. Furthermore, the device comprises a III-V-semiconductor capping layer having a higher band-gap than that of the III-V semiconductor material of the ridge structure and being formed on an outer surface of the ridge structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yannick De Koninck, Bernardette Kunert, Joris Van Campenhout, Maria Ioanna Pantouvaki, Nadezda Kuznetsova
  • Patent number: 10686526
    Abstract: Methods and systems for silicon photonics wavelength division multiplexing transceivers are disclosed and may include, in a transceiver integrated in a silicon photonics chip: generating a first modulated output optical signal at a first wavelength utilizing a first electrical signal, generating a second modulated output optical signal at a second wavelength utilizing a second electrical signal, communicating the first and second modulated output optical signals into an optical fiber coupled to the chip utilizing a multiplexing grating coupler in the chip. A received input optical signal may be split into a modulated input optical signal at the first wavelength and a modulated input optical signal at the second wavelength utilizing a demultiplexing grating coupler in the chip. The first and second modulated input optical signals may be converted to first and second electrical input signals utilizing first and second photodetectors in the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Lieven Verslegers, Peng Sun, Yannick De Koninck
  • Patent number: 10444593
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Patent number: 10365447
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate assembly are disclosed and may include in an optical communication system comprising an electronics die and a substrate. The electronics die is bonded to a first surface of a photonic interposer and the substrate is coupled to a second surface of the photonic interposer opposite to the first surface. An optical fiber and a light source assembly are coupled to the second surface of the interposer in one or more cavities formed in the substrate. A continuous wave (CW) optical signal may be received in the photonic interposer from the light source assembly, and a modulated optical signal may be communicated between the optical fiber and photonic interposer. The received CW optical signal may be coupled to an optical waveguide in the photonic interposer using a grating coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Gianlorenzo Masini, Yannick De Koninck, Thierry Pinguet
  • Publication number: 20190215075
    Abstract: Methods and systems for silicon photonics wavelength division multiplexing transceivers are disclosed and may include, in a transceiver integrated in a silicon photonics chip: generating a first modulated output optical signal at a first wavelength utilizing a first electrical signal, generating a second modulated output optical signal at a second wavelength utilizing a second electrical signal, communicating the first and second modulated output optical signals into an optical fiber coupled to the chip utilizing a multiplexing grating coupler in the chip. A received input optical signal may be split into a modulated input optical signal at the first wavelength and a modulated input optical signal at the second wavelength utilizing a demultiplexing grating coupler in the chip. The first and second modulated input optical signals may be converted to first and second electrical input signals utilizing first and second photodetectors in the chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Lieven Verslegers, Peng Sun, Yannick De Koninck
  • Publication number: 20190113822
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Publication number: 20190113823
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section, and a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or fully p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical contact may be made to the doped material via contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical contact may be made to the rib section via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide. A cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be mostly n-doped with an undoped portion or mostly p-doped with an undoped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Patent number: 10236985
    Abstract: Methods and systems for silicon photonics wavelength division multiplexing transceivers are disclosed and may include, in a transceiver integrated in a silicon photonics chip: generating a first modulated output optical signal at a first wavelength utilizing a first electrical signal, generating a second modulated output optical signal at a second wavelength utilizing a second electrical signal, communicating the first and second modulated output optical signals into an optical fiber coupled to the chip utilizing a multiplexing grating coupler in the chip. A received input optical signal may be split into a modulated input optical signal at the first wavelength and a modulated input optical signal at the second wavelength utilizing a demultiplexing grating coupler in the chip. The first and second modulated input optical signals may be converted to first and second electrical input signals utilizing first and second photodetectors in the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Lieven Verslegers, Peng Sun, Yannick De Koninck
  • Publication number: 20180188459
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate assembly are disclosed and may include in an optical communication system comprising an electronics die and a substrate. The electronics die is bonded to a first surface of a photonic interposer and the substrate is coupled to a second surface of the photonic interposer opposite to the first surface. An optical fiber and a light source assembly are coupled to the second surface of the interposer in one or more cavities formed in the substrate. A continuous wave (CW) optical signal may be received in the photonic interposer from the light source assembly, and a modulated optical signal may be communicated between the optical fiber and photonic interposer. The received CW optical signal may be coupled to an optical waveguide in the photonic interposer using a grating coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Gianlorenzo Masini, Yannick De Koninck, Thierry Pinguet
  • Publication number: 20180191442
    Abstract: Methods and systems for silicon photonics wavelength division multiplexing transceivers are disclosed and may include, in a transceiver integrated in a silicon photonics chip: generating a first modulated output optical signal at a first wavelength utilizing a first electrical signal, generating a second modulated output optical signal at a second wavelength utilizing a second electrical signal, communicating the first and second modulated output optical signals into an optical fiber coupled to the chip utilizing a multiplexing grating coupler in the chip. A received input optical signal may be split into a modulated input optical signal at the first wavelength and a modulated input optical signal at the second wavelength utilizing a demultiplexing grating coupler in the chip. The first and second modulated input optical signals may be converted to first and second electrical input signals utilizing first and second photodetectors in the chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Lieven Verslegers, Peng Sun, Yannick De Koninck
  • Patent number: 9912408
    Abstract: Methods and systems for silicon photonics wavelength division multiplexing transceivers are disclosed and may include, in a transceiver integrated in a silicon photonics chip: generating a first modulated output optical signal at a first wavelength utilizing a first electrical signal, generating a second modulated output optical signal at a second wavelength utilizing a second electrical signal, communicating the first and second modulated output optical signals into an optical fiber coupled to the chip utilizing a multiplexing grating coupler in the chip. A received input optical signal may be split into a modulated input optical signal at the first wavelength and a modulated input optical signal at the second wavelength utilizing a demultiplexing grating coupler in the chip. The first and second modulated input optical signals may be converted to first and second electrical input signals utilizing first and second photodetectors in the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Lieven Verslegers, Peng Sun, Yannick De Koninck
  • Patent number: 9910232
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate assembly are disclosed and may include in an integrated optical communication system comprising an electronics die and a substrate. The electronics die is bonded to a first surface of a photonic interposer and the substrate is coupled to a second surface of the photonic interposer opposite to the first surface. An optical fiber and a light source assembly are coupled to the second surface of the interposer in one or more cavities formed in the substrate. The integrated optical communication system is operable to receive a continuous wave (CW) optical signal in the photonic interposer from the light source assembly; and communicate a modulated optical signal to the optical fiber from said photonic interposer. A mold compound may be on the first surface of the interposer and in contact with the electronics die. The received CW optical signal may be coupled to an optical waveguide in the photonic interposer using a grating coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Gianlorenzo Masini, Yannick De Koninck, Thierry Pinguet
  • Publication number: 20180059504
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending above the slab section on both sides of the rib section. The semiconductor device has a vertical pn junction with p-doped material and n-doped material arranged vertically with respect to each other in the rib and slab sections. The rib section may be either fully n-doped or p-doped in each cross-section along the semiconductor waveguide. Electrical connection to the p-doped and n-doped material may be enabled by forming contacts on the raised ridges, and electrical connection may be provided to the rib section from one of the contacts via periodically arranged sections of the semiconductor waveguide, where a cross-section of both the rib section and the slab section in the periodically arranged sections may be fully n-doped or fully p-doped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Subal Sahni, Yannick De Koninck, Gianlorenzo Masini, Faezeh Gholami
  • Publication number: 20170115458
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate assembly are disclosed and may include in an integrated optical communication system comprising an electronics die and a substrate. The electronics die is bonded to a first surface of a photonic interposer and the substrate is coupled to a second surface of the photonic interposer opposite to the first surface. An optical fiber and a light source assembly are coupled to the second surface of the interposer in one or more cavities formed in the substrate. The integrated optical communication system is operable to receive a continuous wave (CW) optical signal in the photonic interposer from the light source assembly; and communicate a modulated optical signal to the optical fiber from said photonic interposer. A mold compound may be on the first surface of the interposer and in contact with the electronics die. The received CW optical signal may be coupled to an optical waveguide in the photonic interposer using a grating coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Attila Mekis, Peter De Dobbelaere, Gianlorenzo Masini, Yannick De Koninck, Thierry Pinguet