Patent ID: 9743161
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04Q

Claim:
1. A device comprising: a substrate member; a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member and configured for a predefined data rate and protocol; an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface; a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block; a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block; a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device comprising a plurality of redundant laser devices in optical communication with an optical channel, the driver interface being configured to transmit output data in either an amplitude modulation format or a combination of phase/amplitude modulation format or a phase modulation format; a receiver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the silicon photonics device using an optical loop back signal received from an optical tap coupler, and configured to the signal processing block to communicate information to the input/output block for transmission through the data input/output interface; a communication block provided on the substrate member and operably coupled to the input/output block, the signal processing block, the driver module, and the receiver module; a communication interface coupled to the communication block; a control block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the communication block; and a variable bias block configured with the control block, the variable bias block being configured to selectively tune each of a plurality of redundant laser devices provided on the silicon photonics device.