US Patent Issued to OpenLight Photonics on Sept. 1 for "Thin silicon photonics with integrated III-V waveguide" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,197, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OpenLight Photonics Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Thin silicon photonics with integrated III-V waveguide" was invented by Han Yun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Erik Johan Norberg (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and John Parker (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for thin-film silicon photonics with an integrated III-V waveguide structure includes a substrate containing a silicon layer and a III-V waveguide structure bonded to the substrate. The device also includes a waveguide transition structure, enabling light to be coupled between the silicon layer and the III-V waveguide structure. The wave...