摘要:
An acousto-optic modulator arrangement includes an optical waveguide, such as an optical fiber (5), coupled to a substrate (12) having an acoustic transducer (20) formed thereon, by an acoustically-compatible solder composition. An acoustically-compatible solder composition (25) provides advantageously low power reflections at the substrate-solder and solder-optical waveguide interfaces for acoustic waves generated by the transducer (20). Such propagated acoustic waves are then useable to modulate a light signal propagating through the waveguide (5) by an acousto-optic effect with an advantageous modulation efficiency.
摘要:
An optical receiving system includes a Fresnel lens optically coupled to a detector via a tapered concentrator. The Fresnel lens is adapted to receive an electromagnetic signal and has a Fresnel focal point. The tapered concentrator has a first end surface area larger than a second end surface area. The detector has a sensing surface area oriented to receive the electromagnetic signal emerging from the tapered concentrator.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for aligning and maintaining the alignment of the transmitting unit and the receiving unit in an optical wireless communication system. The receiving unit includes an optical bundle positioned at the focal point of an objective optic element. The optical bundle is comprised of an array of optical fibers, arranged surrounding the receiving fiber. The receiving unit also includes a number of detectors that measure the optical signal strength on a corresponding fiber in the optical bundle. The array of fibers is used to detect the location of the received signal relative to the receiving optical fiber and to provide feedback to adjust the orientation of the optical bundle to optimize the received signal strength. When misalignment occurs between the received signal and the receiving fiber, some of the incident received signal will be captured by one or more of the outer optical fibers. The amplitude of each of the generated signals are then compared to each other, thereby giving a direction in which to drive the optical bundle back into alignment with the received signal. The present invention provides automatic tracking using the information-carrying optical signal, without the need for a separate laser.
摘要:
An optical planar waveguide notch filter employs a waveguide with first, second and third regions. The first and third regions have structures for propagating an optical signal in a first transmission mode. The second region is located between the first and third regions and has a structure in which an optical signal propagates in the first transmission mode as well as at least one other higher order transmission mode. The structure of the second region further couples a particular wavelength band of the signal propagating in the first transmission mode to at least one of the other transmission modes. This coupling causes an attenuation of energy of such bandwidth in the signal propagating in the first transmission mode. As a result, the signal propagating from the second region to the third region in the first transmission mode is a notch filtered signal possessing an attenuation at the particular wavelength band.
摘要:
A mechanically stable self-aligned MxN optical switch (1) having a low insertion loss is achieved by employing three cleaved silica optical structures (30,40,50) containing a plurality of waveguides (35,45,55). A monolithic silica optical structure is cleaved into the three corresponding structures (30,40,50). Each of the first and third structures (30,50) has a cleaved edge (32,52) and a respective set of waveguides (35,55) extending parallel to a corresponding structure surface. The second structure (40) has two substantially parallel cleaved edges (42,44) and a plurality of sets of waveguides (45) extending parallel to a corresponding structure surface. The corresponding surfaces of the first, second and third structures (30,40,50) are positioned on, for example, surfaces of respective first, second and third bases (5,10,20) aligned in a common plane. The structures are further positioned with the cleaved edges (42,44) of the second structure (40) arranged adjacent to and facing respective ones of the cleaved edges (32,52) of the first and third structures (30,50). In operation, the second structure (40) is moveable in a direction along the cleaved edges relative to the first and third structures (30,50) to selectively align different waveguide sets (45) with the waveguides (35,55) of the first and third structures (30,50) to provide various different optical connections between the waveguide sets (35,55) of the first and third structures (30,50).