Patent ID: 11881678
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method of operating a photonics system, comprising:
emitting a first light having a first wavelength range from a first set of photonics dies;
emitting a second light having a second wavelength range from a second set of photonics dies;
receiving, by a first optical element, the first light and the second light;
receiving, by a second optical element, the first light and the second light; and
receiving, by a mirror, the first light and the second light from the second optical element; wherein:
the second optical element is configured to redirect the first and second wavelength ranges of light; and
the first set of photonics dies and the second set of photonics dies are arranged in an offset stack such that each of the first set of photonics dies and the second set of photonics dies is laterally offset from every adjacent one of the first set of photonics dies and the second set of photonics dies, a light emitter positioned between an overlapping region of two adjacent photonics dies of the first set of photonic dies.