摘要:
The present invention discloses an on-chip optical network system and an optical power control method, where the on-chip optical network system includes a light source, an optical waveguide, a controller, an optical power divider, and a modulator; a lightwave emitted from the light source is transmitted to the optical power divider by using the optical waveguide; the optical power divider is configured to obtain a lightwave from the optical waveguide, and transmit the obtained lightwave to the modulator; the controller is configured to calculate first optical power, and control the optical power divider to obtain a lightwave whose optical power is the first optical power from the optical waveguide; and the first optical power is a sum of optical power required by the modulator and a first optical power loss generated during lightwave transmission between the optical power divider and the modulator. The system implements allocation of optical power on demand; therefore, cases of excessive optical power obtained by the modulator are reduced, and power consumption of the system is decreased.
摘要:
A multimode waveguide illuminator and imager relies on a wave front shaping system that acts to compensate for modal scrambling and light dispersion by the multimode waveguide. A first step consists of calibrating the multimode waveguide and a second step consists in projecting a specific pattern on the wave guide proximal end in order to produce the desire light pattern at its distal end. The illumination pattern can be scanned or changed dynamically only by changing the phase pattern projected at the proximal end of the waveguide. The third and last step consists in collecting the optical information, generated by the sample, through the same waveguide in order to form an image. Known free space microscopy technique can be adapted to endoscopy with multimode waveguide, such as, but not limited to, fluorescence imaging or Raman spectros copy or imaging, 3D linear scattering imaging or two-photon imaging. Super-resolution, i.e., resolution below the diffraction limit, is achieved for example but not limited to, using the STimulated Emission Depletion microscopy (STED) technique or the Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) technique or a stochastic illumination based method (PALM, STORM) in combination with the multimode waveguide imaging method.
摘要:
This invention generally relates to an optical beam steering apparatus and a method of manufacturing an optical beam steering apparatus, and more particularly to an optical add drop multiplexer (OADM) such as a reconfigurable OADM (ROADM) comprising the optical beam steering apparatus. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a slab and a plurality of optical elements in or on a first surface of said slab, the plurality of optical elements including at least one liquid crystal on silicon element, the apparatus being arranged such that at least one optical beam can propagate freely in the slab from one of said plurality of optical elements to another one of said plurality of optical elements via a reflection from a second surface of the optical beam steering apparatus.
摘要:
A light-emitting device for emitting light having a desired color point, comprising at least one solid-state light source (1), at least one light-converting element (5), a light guiding arrangement (2) and a switch control unit (4), wherein the solid-state light source (1) is provided for emitting primary radiation (20), the light guiding arrangement (2) arranged between the solid-state light source (1) and the light-converting element (5) has at least one electro-optical switch (31) for controllably splitting the primary radiation (20) into a first portion (21) and a second portion (22), the switch control unit (4) is provided for controlling the electro-optical switch or switches (31) for variably adjusting the ratio between the first (21) and the second portion (22) of the primary radiation (20), and the light- converting element (5) is provided for the partial or complete absorption of at least a first portion (21) of the primary radiation (20) and for the re-emission of secondary radiation.
摘要:
A capacitive load driving device (fig 4 or fig 7) for an optical matrix switch or router (fig 3). The optical switch is based on ferroelectric lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT) thin film layers having prism shaped electrodes, which act as deflector switches. Light from an incoming optical fibre array (11) is collimated by a first waveguide lens array (12) before entering a first deflector switch array (13). The deflected beams are then passed through a slab waveguide (15) to a second deflector switch array (16) after which they pass through a second waveguide lens array (17) before being focused into an output fibre array (18). The deflector switches form the capacitive load (28) to be driven and are subjected to a multilevel voltage signal in order to control the routing between the input and output fibre arrays. The capacitive load driving device consists of a voltage control signal generator unit (21) and a voltage amplifier unit (23) which amplifies the voltage control signal. The amplified signal is then fed into the base of a current amplifier (24) which then charges the capacitive load. In order to facilitate high speed switching and in particular a rapid discharge of the deflector switches when the voltage control signal is decreased to a lower level, a switching circuit (26) is provided parallel to the load (28). The switching circuit is triggered by a pulse having a predetermined duration from a falling control signal generator unit. The latter provides a pulse whenever the drop in the control voltage signal exceed a predetermined non-zero threshold value or the rate of decrease in the voltage control signal exceeds a certain amount. The switching circuit exhibits a "pull-down" arrangement to rapidly discharge the capacitive load on receiving the triggering pulse.
摘要:
A light deflector (A) is composed of an electro-optic photonic crystal in which refraction angle of light (L) incident from outside can be controlled by controlling an electric field applied to the electro-optic photonic crystal so as to change the refractive index of the material constituting the photonic crystal and in which the change in the refraction angle in response to the change in the unit refractive index of the material is 10 3 degrees or more. An optical switch includes the light deflector and a photonic crystal waveguide (B), the photonic crystal waveguide having a photonic bandgap for light of a predetermined wavelength and also having at least one waveguide which passes the light of the predetermined wavelength.
摘要:
The invention provides a waveguide type liquid crystal optical switch that includes first and second cores (1A,1B) so as to form a space therebetween, in which an optical path is switched between the first and second cores; a third core (4) provided apart from the first and second cores, into which nematic liquid crystal orientated by an orientation film (7A,7B) along a predetermined direction is filled, the third core overlapping to the space formed between the first and second cores; a first electrode (6B) arranged on an opposite side of the third core with respect to the first and second cores so as to overlap to the space between the first and second cores, second and third electrodes (6A,6C) arranged on both sides of the first electrode, for orienting liquid crystal molecules along a direction perpendicular to the orientation direction of the orientation film; and a cladding (8A,8B) for incorporating the cores and the electrodes.