Patent ID: 8462822

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an injection-locked photonic device, comprising: growing at least one first section and at least one second section, a material of the at least one first section being different from a material of the at least one second section such that said first and second sections present different optical birefringent index values, and such that in response to an injected optical signal the at least one first section and the at least one second section are configured to cause a first set of polarization modes associated with the at least one first section to move in a spectral space with a different velocity than a second set of polarization modes associated with the at least one second section, the injection-locked photonic device being configured such that in response to a biasing of the at least one first section and the at least one second section, the first set of polarization modes and the second set of polarization modes coincide in their respective spectral position.