US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Shallow-profile optical elements for photonics receivers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,723, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shallow-profile optical elements for photonics receivers" was invented by Alexander Krichevsky (Cupertino, Calif.) and John M. Heck (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system can include a optical receiver comprising an optical waveguide, an optical lid adjacent the waveguide, and a reflective surface proximate an output of the optical waveguide to direct light from the waveguide towards an output of the optical lid. The optical system can also include a photodetector (PD) die comprising a substrate, a concave mirror, and a photodete...