US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Feb. 3 for "Array-based edge coupler for optical input/output" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,065, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Array-based edge coupler for optical input/output" was invented by Samira Karimelahi (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Masaki Kato (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) includes photonic components fabricated on the PIC. One of the photonic components includes an optical coupler configured to optically couple to an optical component. The optical coupler includes waveguide elements arranged in a 2-dimensional array that is configured to provide a first mode having a first shape chosen to match a second shape of a second mode ...