Nvidia patents chip design to handle high-power light signals
Nvidia describes a semiconductor component that guides light through a central core sandwiched between two electrical regions. Wiring connects these outer regions to the core, creating a specific structure designed to manage high optical power levels.
In the filing’s own words
An optical device includes a semiconductor waveguide. The semiconductor waveguide includes waveguide core, a first semiconductor region at a first side of the waveguide core, a second semiconductor region at a second side of the waveguide core opposite the first side. The optical device also includes wiring that electrically connects the first semiconductor region to the second semiconductor region.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An optical device, comprising: a semiconductor waveguide comprising: a waveguide core: a first semiconductor region at a first side of the waveguide core; a second semiconductor region at a second side of the waveguide core opposite the first side; and wiring that electrically connects the first semiconductor region to the second semiconductor region.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- PIN JUNCTION WAVEGUIDES FOR HANDLING HIGH OPTICAL POWER
- Publication number
- US20260277035A1
- Application number
- 19357717
- Filed
- Oct 14, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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