US 12,360,319 B2
Electro-optic frequency transducer using coupled microdisk resonators
Ramesh Kudalippalliyalil, Los Angeles, CA (US); Sujith Chandran, Los Angeles, CA (US); Akhilesh Jaiswal, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Ajey P. Jacob, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,321.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/285,413, filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0314717 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/293 (2006.01); G02F 3/00 (2006.01); G06N 10/40 (2022.01)
CPC G02B 6/29341 (2013.01) [G02B 6/12004 (2013.01); G02F 3/00 (2013.01); G06N 10/40 (2022.01); G02F 2203/15 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-optic transducer comprising:
a first optical disk resonator and a second optical disk resonator, wherein the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator are optically coupled;
a waveguide, the waveguide being optically coupled to at least one of the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator; and
a resonator, the resonator being functionally coupled to at least a portion of the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator,
wherein the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator have radii between 10 and 50 μm, thicknesses between 300 and 1000 nm, and are separated by between 100 and 500 nm;
wherein the waveguide is separated from the first optical disk resonator by between 100 and 500 nm, and has a width between 1 and 2 μm; and
wherein an electrode of the resonator is separated from the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator by between 1 and 3 μm.