US Patent Issued to University of Rochester on Oct. 21 for "System and method for attaching optical fibers to chips" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,604, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"System and method for attaching optical fibers to chips" was invented by Jaime Cardenas Gonzalez (Rochester, N.Y.) and Juniyali Nauriyal (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for attaching at least one optical fiber to a chip includes at least one nanowaveguide disposed on a substrate of a chip to be attached to an at least one off-chip fiber respectively. At least one oxide taper mode converter is disposed around a nanowaveguide end and in optical communication with and modally coupled to each of the at least one nanowaveguide resp...