摘要:
An optical modulator according to the invention comprises an optical modulation element (1) including a substrate having electro-optic effect, an optical waveguide formed on the substrate, and a modulation electrode for modulating light passing through the optical waveguide; and a terminal substrate (30) disposed outside the substrate to supply a modulation signal for driving the optical modulation element (1) from the optical modulation element (1) to a terminator (9), wherein the terminal substrate (30) is provided with the terminator (9), and a modulation signal monitoring output line (35) for monitoring the voltage amplitude of the modulation signal inputted to the terminator (9).
摘要:
A method and a device for measuring the half−wave voltage of a Mach−Zehnder type optical modulator accurately and without depending on the bias variation of an optical modulator. The method of measuring the half−wave voltage of the Mach−Zehnder type optical modulator comprising the steps of applying a high−frequency AC signal (34) and a monitoring low−frequency AC signal (35) in a superimposed manner to a Mach−Zehnder type optical modulator (1), or applying the both respectively to separately constituted electrodes, and observing the low−speed response of an output light from the optical modulator (1), wherein the half−wave voltage at a frequency to be measured of the Mach−Zehnder type optical modulator (1) is measured by using the voltage amplitude of the high−frequency AC signal (34) when the intensity change of an output light by the monitoring low−frequency AC signal (35) is almost zero with the voltage amplitude of the high−frequency AC signal (34) kept variable.
摘要:
Provided is an optical waveguide element module wherein the optical response frequency characteristics can be flattened over a wide band exceeding tens of GHz, even when the impedance of a modulation electrode of an optical waveguide element and the impedance of a transmission line for inputting a modulation signal from outside the optical waveguide element are different from each other, and even when a filter circuit including a capacitor is arranged on a line for inputting the modulation signal into the modulation electrode of the optical waveguide element. The optical waveguide element module is equipped with an optical waveguide element having an optical waveguide (2) formed on a substrate (1), a modulation electrode (3) which modulates light waves propagating in the optical waveguide, a connector (8) connecting an external signal line which inputs the modulation signal to the modulation electrode, and a relay line formed on a relay substrate (7) and which connects the connector and the modulation electrode. The optical waveguide element module is characterised by the relay line being a coplanar line that sandwiches the signal terminal with the earth terminal, by being composed so as to suppress the reflection of the modulation signal in the optical waveguide element module by the continuous or stepwise change in the impedance of the relay line, as well as by the placement of the filter circuit including a capacitor in the middle of the relay line.
摘要:
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.