The Boeing Company
Multidimensional optical waveguide in planar dielectric structures

Abstract:

Aspects of the present disclosure disclose apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing an electromagnetic wave from one layer of a photonic circuit structure to another layer of the photonic circuit structure in at least one of the x-direction, the y-direction, and the z-direction. In so doing, aspects of the present disclosure enable the fabrication and use of multi-dimensional photonic circuit structures, and thus improve the capacity, power, weight, size, and/or cost of the circuits implemented by such multi-dimensional photonic circuit structures.