Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP
Self-tuned silicon-photonic WDM transmitter
An optical transmitter includes: a set of reflective silicon optical amplifiers (RSOAs), a set of ring modulators, a shared broadband reflector, a set of intermediate waveguides, and a shared waveguide. Each intermediate waveguide channels light from an RSOA in proximity to an associated ring modulator to cause optically coupled light to circulate in the associated ring modulator. The shared waveguide is coupled to the shared broadband reflector, and passes in proximity to the set of ring modulators, so that light circulating in each ring modulator causes optically coupled light to flow in the shared optical waveguide. During operation, each RSOA forms a lasing cavity with the shared broadband reflector, wherein each lasing cavity has a different wavelength, which is determined by a resonance of the associated ring modulator. The different wavelengths are combined in the shared waveguide to produce a combined output.
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Xuezhe Ashok V. Ying
Zheng Krishnamoorthy Luo