Integrated optical system and components utilizing tunable optical sources and coherent detection and phased array for imaging, ranging, sensing, communications …

E Swanson - US Patent 9,683,928, 2017 - Google Patents
An integrated optical system includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) having a frequency
tunable optical source, a coherent optical receiver, and an optical phased array for coupling …

Light detection and ranging system with photonic integrated circuit

E Swanson - US Patent 10,627,485, 2020 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods
directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical …

Integrated optical coherence tomography systems and methods

E Swanson, C Doerr - US Patent 9,464,883, 2016 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods
directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical …

Optics collection and detection system and method

A Fehr, NJ McCaffrey, S Turner - US Patent 9,410,891, 2016 - Google Patents
US9410891B2 - Optics collection and detection system and method - Google Patents
US9410891B2 - Optics collection and detection system and method - Google Patents Optics …

Transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) chip

DF Welch, VG Dominic, FA Kish Jr, MJ Missey… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated
Sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from …

Beam generation and steering with integrated optical circuits for light detection and ranging

MJ Hochberg, T Baehr-Jones - US Patent 8,311,374, 2012 - Google Patents
According to one aspect, the invention relates to an inte grated photonic beam steering
device. The integrated photo nic beam steering device comprises a planar photonic Sub …

Photonic channelized RF receiver employing dense wavelength division multiplexing

FA Volkening - US Patent 7,245,833, 2007 - Google Patents
A photonic channelized receiver includes: an optical source, an optical combiner, an electro-
optical modulator, an etalon, a wavelength splitter, and a set of detectors. The optical source …

Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) having tunable modulated sources with feedback system for source power level or wavelength tuning

DF Welch, VG Dominic, FA Kish Jr, RB Taylor… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
(62) Division of application No. 10/267,331, filed on Oct. of modulated Sources, each
providing a modulated signal 8, 2002, now Pat No. 7,283,694. output at a channel …

Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) with a traversely disposed output

DF Welch, VG Dominic, FA Kish Jr, MJ Missey… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each
providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel …

Spectrally tunable detector

BE Cole, RE Higashi, A Subramanian… - US Patent …, 2006 - Google Patents
A spectrally tunable optical detector and methods of manufacture therefore are provided. In
one illustrative embodiment, the tunable optical detector includes a tunable bandpass filter …