Photonic Integrated Circuits/Si Photonics

Advanced optical components for next generation computing, communication, and sensing

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To support next generation computing, communication, and sensing needs, Sandia researchers have successfully developed a silicon photonics platform that leverages the semiconductor and nanotechnology capabilities of Sandia’s Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA) complex to create optical components for multiple applications.

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We are actively seeking collaborators on photonics projects ranging from fundamental research to commercialization of technologies in areas related to low energy optical communication and computing, as well as other areas of importance for national security such as RF signal processing, quantum information system, secure communication, sensing, and imaging.

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Title Patent Number Grant Date
Method of producing a direct band gap in indirect band gap materials and light emitting or detecting devices fabricated therefrom US12635299B1 05/19/2026
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Integrated photonic encoding systems and methods for high speed and low power image processing US12631554B1 05/19/2026
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Heterogeneous solid state transformers with hierarchical control US12627294B1 05/12/2026
Integrated photonics with active polarization control US12429716B1 09/30/2025
Systems and methods for resolving a number of incident RF-range photons US12029141B1 07/02/2024
Monolithic integration of optical waveguides with metal routing layers US11906351B1 02/20/2024
MEMS-tunable optical ring resonator US11722120B1 08/08/2023
Heterogeneous integration of an electro-optical platform US11675126B1 06/13/2023
Integrated silicon optical amplifier with reduced residual pump US11652330B1 05/16/2023
Piezoelectric deformable photonic devices US11569431B1 01/31/2023
Phase-wrapping method for beam steering in optical phased arrays US11409183B1 08/09/2022
Optical coupler for heterogeneous integration US11163115B1 11/02/2021
Heterogeneously integrated electro-optic modulator US10788689B1 09/29/2020
Vertically integrated optoelectronics package for MEMS devices US10139564B1 11/27/2018
Electroabsorption optical modulator US9823497B1 11/21/2017
Plasmon-assisted optical vias for photonic ASICS US9599781B1 03/21/2017
Optical XOR gate US8582931B1 11/12/2013
Optical NOR gate US8014639B1 09/06/2011
Tunable surface plasmon devices US8009356B1 08/30/2011
Optical NAND gate US7995877B1 08/09/2011