摘要:
An optical signal is generated by an SOA and then modulated by an optical amplitude modulation device. The signal is transmitted into a first end of an optical transmission line with a first polarization state. A fraction of the optical signal is re-transmitted into the other end of the transmission line, such that when it has at the other end a polarization state orthogonal to the polarization state of the signal fraction present at the other end. The re-transmitted signal, when having at the first end a polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state, is guided from the first end to the SOA, next to the modulation device and then to the first end without passing the SOA again, using a polarizing beam splitter and a polarization device. The SOA is operated in a gain saturation state, such that an amplitude modulation of the re-transmitted optical signal is cancelled.
摘要:
The present document relates to the field of optical access networks. In particular, the present document relates to an optical transmitter, in particular (but not exclusively) for a WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) passive optical network, and to a WDM PON comprising such an optical transmitter. An optical transmitter arrangement (7) is described. The arrangement (7) comprises a first mirror (41) and a second mirror (64) at a first end and a second end of a cavity, respectively; an optical amplifier (63) configured to amplify light polarized in a first polarization plane; wherein the optical amplifier (63) is positioned within the cavity upstream the first mirror (64); an optical waveguide (5-2) configured to transmit light from the optical amplifier (63) to the second mirror (41) and vice versa; a first non-reciprocal polarization rotator (82) positioned within the cavity upstream of the optical amplifier (63) and downstream of the optical waveguide (5-2); and a second non-reciprocal polarization rotator (81) positioned within the cavity upstream of the optical waveguide (5-2) and downstream of the first mirror (41); wherein the first (82) and second (81) non-reciprocal polarization rotators are configured to rotate the polarization of the light such that light which re-enters the optical amplifier (63) after having been reflected by the second mirror (41) is polarized in the first polarization plane.
摘要:
It is disclosed an optical transmitter comprising a first mirror and a second mirror, an optical amplifier and an optical component comprising a first port, a second port and a third port. The optical component is configured so that a first and second diffraction orders of an optical signal at a given wavelength entering the optical component through the first port are focused at the second port and at the third port, respectively. The third port is optically connected to the second mirror. The first mirror and the second mirror delimit a cavity that comprises the optical component and the optical amplifier, the cavity being configured to emit a coherent optical radiation at the given wavelength through the second port.