Patent ID: 8300996

Claim:
An optical bus for broadcasting optical signals, comprising: a substrate; a plurality of input optical waveguides formed on the substrate; a first set of output optical waveguides formed on the substrate; a second set of output optical waveguides formed on the substrate; a plurality of optical power splitters on the substrate having an input and a plurality of outputs, individual of the optical power splitters being optically coupled to at least one of the plurality of input optical waveguides and configured to split an input optical beam into a plurality of output optical beams; and a waveguide shuffle network formed on the substrate comprising intersecting optical waveguides, wherein the waveguide shuffle network optically couples at least one of the plurality of outputs from individual of the optical power splitters to the first set of output optical waveguides, and wherein the waveguide shuffle network optically couples a different one of the plurality of outputs from individual of the plurality of optical power splitters to the second set of output optical waveguides.