Invention Application
- Patent Title: ELECTRO-OPTIC PHASE MODULATOR
- Patent Title (中): 电光相位调制器
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Application No.: US14882933Application Date: 2015-10-14
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Publication No.: US20160109733A1Publication Date: 2016-04-21
- Inventor: Henri PORTE , Nicolas GROSSARD
- Applicant: IXBLUE
- Priority: FR1459893 20141015
- Main IPC: G02F1/03
- IPC: G02F1/03 ; G02F1/035

Abstract:
The electro-optic phase modulator, intended to modulate the optical phase of an incident lightwave, includes an electro-optic substrate with an entrance face and an exit face; an optical waveguide extending between a guide entrance end located on the entrance face and a guide exit end located on the exit face, the incident lightwave being partially coupled in the waveguide into a guided lightwave propagating in an optically guided manner along the optical path of the waveguide between the entrance end and the exit end; at least two electrodes arranged at least partially along the waveguide, parallel to and on either side of the latter, defining between each other an inter-electrode gap, which allow to introduce, when a modulation voltage is applied between them, a modulation phase-shift, function of the modulation voltage, on the guided lightwave. The waveguide has one first curved guide portion between the entrance end and the electrodes.
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