Patent ID: 11937030
Assignee: LUMINOUS COMPUTING, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An optical link system, comprising:
a photonics substrate;
a plurality of optical links, each optical link of the plurality of optical links comprising:
an optical waveguide defined on the photonics substrate;
a first optoelectronic transducer optically coupled to the optical waveguide; and
a second optoelectronic transducer optically coupled to the optical waveguide; and

a plurality of processing modules, each processing module of the plurality of processing modules comprising:
a respective electronics substrate mounted on the photonics substrate; and
a respective processor integrated circuit (IC) defined on the respective electronics substrate, each respective processor IC communicatively connected to other processing modules of the plurality of processing modules via respective optical links of the plurality of optical links, wherein each first optoelectronic transducer of the respective optical links is connected to the respective processor IC;

wherein the plurality of optical links communicatively couple each processing module of the plurality of processing modules directly to a plurality of other processing modules of the plurality of processing modules; and, wherein:
the plurality of processing modules comprises a first processing module and a second processing module;
a first optical link of the plurality communicatively connects the first processing module to the second processing module;
the first optoelectronic transducer of the first optical link is defined on a first the electronics substrate of the first processing module; and
the second optoelectronic transducer of the first optical link is defined on a second electronics substrate of the second processing module;, wherein the first optical link further comprises:
a first grating coupler configured to couple light between the first optoelectronic transducer and the optical waveguide; and
a second grating coupler configured to couple light between the second optoelectronic transducer and the optical waveguide.