Abstract:
An optical waveguide formed in an electro-optical substrate includes a curved waveguide (11) having a first end and a second end and a branch portion (12) that is coupled to the second end of the curved waveguide , wherein the curved waveguide (11) comprises a low refraction index portion (18) having an effective refraction index that is lower than that of the rest of the curved waveguide, the low refraction index portion (18) being provided between the first end and the second end of the curved waveguide (11).
Abstract:
Provided is a small optical waveguide device with little reflected light, the optical waveguide device including: an optical waveguide element of which a first output waveguide is inclined with respect to an output end face and a second output waveguide is inclined with respect to both the first output waveguide and the output end face; and a lens that allows beams respectively output from the first and second output waveguides to be parallel to each other.
Abstract:
A DSB-SC system in which the tertiary component is suppressed. IN a DSB-SC modulating system (1) of a first aspect, a third harmonic signal generating section (17) generates an electric signal (3fm) having a frequency which is three times the frequency of a fundamental signal (fm), a phase adjusting section (18) adjusts the difference between the phases of the fundamental signal (fm) and an electric signal (3fm) having a frequency which is three times the frequency of the fundamental signal, and a signal intensity adjusting section (19) adjusts the intensity of the electric signal (3fm). As a modulating signal, the signal having a frequency 3fm is adjusted so that the phase of the primary component (f0±3fm) may be opposite to that of the tertiary component (f0±3fm) generated when a signal of fm is applied as a modulating signal and that the intensity of the primary component (f0±3fm) may be approximately equal to that of the tertiary component (f0±3fm). Therefore, they suppress each other, and DSB-SC modulation having a high extinction ratio can be achieved.
Abstract:
[Problem] An optical device compensates temperature drift by compensating a refractive index deviation caused by generation of stress irrespective of the position of the waveguide on the substrate. The optical device includes a substrate (2) having an electrooptic effect; a plurality of optical waveguides (3b-1 and 3b-2) disposed over the substrate (2) in parallel to one another; and a polarization inversion region (6) which is disposed a part of the substrate (2) and which has a polarization characteristic that is an inverse to that of the substrate (2), wherein a profile of a boundary between the polarization inversion region (6) and a remaining region (7) in which the polarization is not inverted is configured such that accumulated amounts of distortion that affects the respective waveguides (3b-1 and 3b-2) over coordinates along a light propagation direction are substantially identical.
Abstract:
A monolithic optoelectronic device has a spot-size converter optically connected to a waveguide. The overclad (58) extending over the core (54) of the waveguide is thinner and more highly doped than the overclad of the spot-size converter. This structure can be made by applying a process of selective etching and enhanced regrowth to create selective regions of the overclad (58) of different thickness or doping.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method and device for the bias control of a laser modulator. The method comprises: during startup of a laser modulator, inputting a linearly changing bias control voltage to the bias electrode of the laser modulator and obtaining the output optical power of the laser modulator so as to determine a bias control voltage corresponding to a preset operating point; then enabling a communication electrical signal to be input to the radio frequency electrode of the laser modulator, carrying out an amplitude modulation on the communication electrical signal by a low-frequency sinusoidal pilot signal, and inputting the determined bias control voltage to the bias electrode simultaneously; and sampling the output optical signals of the laser modulator, comparing the sampled optical signal with the pilot signal, and adjusting the bias control voltage input to the bias electrode according to the result of the comparison.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an optical modulator, comprising an input suitable to receive an optical carrier, a high- frequency microwave input and an output suitable to transmit an optical signal, the optical modulator comprising two Mach-Zender (1,2) modulators in parallel between the input and output so as to constitute two different optical paths within a third Mach-Zender modulator (3), the optical modulator being characterised in that: - the first Mach-Zender modulator (1) is provided with an electrode suitable to apply two microwave signals (RFl, RF2) obtained by the sum of the two tones fR and fD of equal power, the signals being dephased by pi/2, the modulator (1) being further provided with an electrode (Bias 1) for realising a single side band modulation of the tones fR and fp; - the second Mach-Zender modulator (2) is provided with an electrode (Bias 2) to vary the phase and the amplitude of the optical carrier; the third Mach-Zender modulator (3) comprises an electrode • (Bias 3) suitable to realise the summation of the signals deriving from the first (1) and the second (2) Mach-Zender modulator before the output, so as to suppress the optical carrier and thus obtain only the tones fR and fo in the optical spectrum. The invention further concerns an optical generator of Doppler frequency, an optical link for the generation of a variable optical delay and a transponder, in particular for the calibration, the test and the performances test of a radar, in particular a phased-array radar, that uses the optical modulator according to the invention.
Abstract:
[Problem] An optical device compensates temperature drift by compensating a refractive index deviation caused by generation of stress irrespective of the position of the waveguide on the substrate. The optical device includes a substrate (2) having an electrooptic effect; a plurality of optical waveguides (3b-1 and 3b-2) disposed over the substrate (2) in parallel to one another; and a polarization inversion region (6) which is disposed a part of the substrate (2) and which has a polarization characteristic that is an inverse to that of the substrate (2), wherein a profile of a boundary between the polarization inversion region (6) and a remaining region (7) in which the polarization is not inverted is configured such that accumulated amounts of distortion that affects the respective waveguides (3b-1 and 3b-2) over coordinates along a light propagation direction are substantially identical.