US 12,147,043 B2
Apparatus, system, and method for disposing photonic integrated circuits on surfaces
Poer Sung, Woodinville, WA (US); Guohua Wei, Redmond, WA (US); Tingling Rao, Bellevue, WA (US); Lafe Joseph Purvis, II, Redmond, WA (US); Kimberly Kay Childress, Duvall, WA (US); Arman Boromand, Issaquah, WA (US); Andrew John Ouderkirk, Kirkland, WA (US); and Matthew E Colburn, Woodinville, CA (US)
Assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/672,444.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/179,953, filed on Apr. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0342219 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/122 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G02B 6/12004 (2013.01); G02B 6/122 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
at least one optical element; and
at least one photonic integrated circuit that is grown on a nonplanar surface of the optical element, the photonic integrated circuit comprising:
an optical core that contains at least one optically anisotropic organic crystal that:
includes closely packed molecules;
exhibits a tunable refractive index; and
exhibits a tunable birefringence; and
a cladding disposed over the optical core.