US Patent 10578806 Optical chip and method for coupling light

An optical chip comprises an input edge coupler having at least one input waveguide and configured to receive light on two orthogonal modes of same polarization, a demultiplexer configured to divide the two orthogonal modes into a mode carried on a first intermediate waveguide and a mode carried on a second intermediate waveguide independent from the first intermediate waveguide, a polarization multiplexer configured to recombine the modes carried on the intermediate waveguides into two polarization-orthogonal modes carried on one output waveguide.