摘要:
A waveguide optical interferometer which is free from an additional work and excessive loss of light which accompanies the insertion of a 1/2 wavelength plate, low in cost, has high reliability and is independent of polarization. In an optical multiplexer / demultiplexer such as an AWG, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which utilizes interference of light beam passing through a plurality of optical waveguides of different lengths, all the integrals of the birefringence values of the optical waveguides (which may change or not change along the waveguides) in the longitudinal direction of the waveguides (201 and 202) are made to be equal to each other. Thus, polarization-independent operation can be realized and, to the contrary, a polarized beam splitter can be realized only by changing the waveguide widths. For instance, the core width averaged in the longitudinal directions of short optical waveguides out of the optical waveguides having different lengths is made wide, and the averaged core width of long optical waveguides is made narrow, thereby realizing polization independence.
摘要:
An optical waveguide circuit includes a plurality of waveguides with different lengths. Grooves (12) are formed in the waveguide by removing the upper cladding and the core of the waveguide (4) or by removing the upper cladding, the core and the lower cladding of the waveguide (4), and filled with a material (10) which have a refractive index temperature coefficient whose sign is different from the temperature coefficient of the effective refractive index of the waveguide. The difference between the lengths of the removed parts of the adjacent waveguides is proportional to the difference between the lengths of the remaining parts of the adjacent waveguides.
摘要:
An input port and an output port are provided to a wave transmission medium. Field distribution 1 of a propagated light (forward propagated light) that has entered through the input port is determined by numerical calculation. Field distribution 2 of a phase conjugate light (reversely propagated light) is also determined by numerical calculation. The phase conjugate light is such that the output field expected when an optical signal that has entered through the input port is outputted from the output port is propagated reversely from the output port. From field distributions 1, 2, the spatial distribution of the index of refraction in a medium can be so determined that there is no phase difference between the propagated light and the reversely propagated light at each point (x, z).
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical functional circuit where a holographic wave propagation medium is applied and a circuit property is excellent such as small transmission loss and crosstalk. The optical functional circuit where a plurality of circuit elements are formed on a substrate includes the wave propagation medium for converting an optical path of a leakage light so that the leakage light that is not emitted from a predetermined output port of the circuit element is not coupled to a different circuit element. This wave propagation medium is constituted by an optical waveguide that is provided with a clad layer formed on the substrate and a core embedded in the clad layer, and a part of the optical waveguide is formed in accordance with a refractive index distribution which is multiple scattered.
摘要:
An interference optical switch capable of switching in a wide band, having a high extension ratio and produced with a large production tolerance and an optical switch module. As optical multiplexing/demultiplexing means, a phase generation coupler (111) the output of which involves a phase difference having wavelength dependence is used. The total sum 2pi{phi1(lambda)+phiDeltaL(lambda)+phi2(lambda)} of the phase difference phi1(lambda) of the light outputted from the phase generation coupler (111), the phase difference phiDeltaL(lambda) due to the optical path length difference of an optical path length difference imparting section (131), and the phase differencephi2(lambda) of the light outputted from a directional coupler (153) is constant independently of wavelength. Thus, an interference optical switch independent of wavelength is realized.