摘要:
The invention is an optical device having a plurality of optical waveguides and comprising at least one waveguide, which is defined by a core region having first and second sections that are series connected and are capable of transmitting light energy, the core region being surrounded by a cladding that essentially confines the light energy within the core region, the first section of the core region comprising a first length of material whose refractive index increases as temperature increases; The at least one waveguide is temperature-compensating in that and the second section of the core region comprises a second length of material whose refractive index has a sufficient enough difference of the rate of the variation of the index with the temperature, wherein the second section has a plurality of grooves, filled with the material whose refractive index has a sufficient enough difference of the rate of the variation of the index with the temperature, that are designed in a way the effective width of the second section changes between adjacent wave guides.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a polymeric phased array comprising an input coupler with N inputs and an output coupler with M outputs, N and M being natural numbers greater than or equal to 1, wherein the couplers are optically connected by means of an optical array comprising a series of optical waveguides, each of which differs from its nearest neighbour in optical path length by a predetermined fixed amount, wherein the physical length of all the waveguides is substantially equal. The said phased arrays are less sensitive to changes in temperature and physical ageing.
摘要:
An athermalized, polymer overclad integrated optical device such as multiplexer/demultiplexer (20) or a Mach-Zender interferometer in which thermally-induced shifts in channel wavelengths are minimized. The device includes a doped silica waveguide core (24) on a planar substrate (22) and a polymer overclad (30) having a negative variation in refractive index versus temperature dn/dT to inhibit shifts in the channel wavelengths.
摘要:
An AWG is provided which realizes high wavelength isolation at low cost. To achieve this, Bragg gratings which produce refractive index modulation of a waveguide are formed at even spacing for each of the respective waveguides of an input/output waveguide (22), being a multi-core port, which demultiplexes wavelength multiplexed light which is input from an input/output waveguide (21), being a single core port, for each of respective wavelength components. The central wavelength of the Bragg grating is adjusted so as to be on the short wavelength side of the side lobe of the wavelength component branched to the respective waveguides.
摘要:
Zur Frequenzstabilisierung eines WDM-Multiplexers/-Demultiplexers mit einem Optical Phased Array wird durch Subtraktion der beiden optoelektrisch gewandelten Ausgangs-Referenzsignale zweier einzelkanalseitiger Referenz-Signalkanäle des Optical Phased Arrays, deren Filterkurven sich bei einer der Frequenz eines multiplexseitig eingespeisten Eingangs-Referenzsignals entsprechenden Frequenz schneiden, ein Regelsignal gewonnen, nach Maßgabe dessen der WDM-Multiplexer/-Demultiplexer in seiner Temperatur eingestellt wird.
摘要:
In accordance with the invention glass waveguide devices are provided with enhanced temperature stability by incorporating within appropriate lengths of the waveguides a transparent compensating material having a refractive index variation with temperature that differs substantially from that of the waveguide. The compensating material can be a non-glass material, such as a liquid, driven into the glass by heat and pressure. In a preferred embodiment, D 2 O is incorporated into waveguides for optical communications. The D 2 O is transparent to the preferred communications wavelengths centered at about 1.55 µm and has a dn/dT opposite in polarity to the dn/dT of glass. The resulting structure exhibits enhanced temperature stability with reduced magnitude of dn/dT. The technique is particularly useful in devices based on interference between multiple waveguides, as it is not necessary to reduce dn/dT to zero in the respective waveguides. It suffices to compensate the differences. Such compensation can be achieved by compensating materials having dn/dT of either the same polarity as the dn/dT of the waveguides or the opposite polarity. Preferred embodiments include routers, Fourier filters and Bragg filters. In single waveguide devices such as gratings, compensating materials of opposite polarity can substantially enhance the temperature stability.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a polymeric phased array comprising an input coupler with N inputs and an output coupler with M outputs, N and M being natural numbers greater than or equal to 1, wherein the couplers are optically connected by means of an optical array comprising a series of optical waveguides, each of which differs from its nearest neighbour in optical path length by a predetermined fixed amount, wherein the physical length of all the waveguides is substantially equal. The said phased arrays are less sensitive to changes in temperature and physical ageing.
摘要:
2.1 Es soll eine aus zwei oder mehreren streifenförmigen optischen Wellenleitern bestehende abstimmbare optische Anordnung (Phased array) bereitgestellt werden. 2.2 Dazu weist zumindest ein Wellenleiter (102, 103, ... 111) eine steuerbare Phasenschiebereinrichtung (202, 203, ...211) zur gesteuerten Erzeugung einer Phasenverschiebung einer in diesem Wellenleiter (102, 103, ... 111) geführten optischen Welle auf. 2.3 WDM-Übertragung, Wellenlängenvermittlung, Wellenlängenkonversion
摘要:
A photonic integrated circuits (PICs), also referred to as opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs), and more particularly to a PIC in the form of an optical receiver PIC or RxPIC for use in an optical transport networks. Also, an optical transmitter PIC (TxPIC) is also disclosed in conjunction with an RxPIC in an optical transport network. The chip is cast from an InP wafer and is made from Group III-V elemental materials in the InGaAsP/InP regime with fabrication accomplished through selective metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) or also known as metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Integrated on the chip, starting at the input end which is coupled to receive multiplexed optical data signals from an optical transport network is an optical amplifier, an optical demultiplexer, and a plurality of on-chip photodiodes (PDs) each to receive a demultiplexed data signal from the AWG DEMUX for optical-to-electrical signal conversion. The optical input amplifier may be an onchip gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GC-SOA) or an off-chip fiber amplifier. The optical input amplifier may be optional if the channel signal demultiplexer provides for minimal insertion loss which is optimum with a properly designed arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) demultiplexer. A method of in-wafer testing of RxPIC chips is also described.
摘要:
An optical wavelength multiplexing/de-multiplexing circuit having a low loss and a flat transmission spectrum is provided. The optical wavelength multiplexing/de-multiplexing circuit compensates a temperature dependence of a center transmission wavelength which remains in an athermal AWG, and has an excellent accuracy of the center transmission wavelength in a whole operating temperature range or has a comparatively wide operable temperature range. Focusing on the fact that a center transmission wavelength of an MZI-synchronized AWG is approximately an average of a transmission wavelength of the MZI and the center transmission wavelength of the AWG, the temperature dependence of the transmission wavelength in the athermal MZI is modulated and set so as to cancel the temperature dependence of the center wavelength which remains in the athermal AWG. The present invention focuses particularly on an optical coupler in the MZI and modulates the temperature dependence of the transmission wavelength in the MZI by providing the optical coupler itself with a mechanism which changes a phase difference between two outputs by temperature.