摘要:
Structures for an optical component, such as an optical reflector or an Echelle grating, and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a first waveguide core positioned in a vertical direction over a semiconductor substrate. The first waveguide core includes a tapered section and a plurality of segments separated by a plurality of gaps. A second waveguide core, which is positioned in the vertical direction relative to the first waveguide core, includes a portion positioned adjacent to the first waveguide core.
摘要:
Two AWG circuits are integrated while preventing degradation in quality of a multiplexing/demultiplexing function. An arrayed waveguide grating circuit includes: a first slab waveguide (52) connected to a first input waveguide (51a) and second output waveguides (55b); a second slab waveguide (54) connected to first output waveguides (55a) and a second input waveguide (51b); and an array waveguide (53) connecting the first slab waveguide (52) and the second slab waveguide (54), wherein the input waveguides (51a, 51b) are connected to the slab waveguides (52, 54) at an interval of 1.5x from the outermost second output waveguide out of the second output waveguides (55a, 55b) connected at an interval x depending on a wavelength.
摘要:
Roughly described, an AWG has two or more inputs and multiple outputs. By selecting the angular spacing among the inputs, and by designing the different inputs to address different orders of the waveguide array, the device can be designed such that the inputs will carry frequency bands having any desired center frequency spacing and any desired same or different channel spacing. For example a dual input device can be designed such that one input carries C-band channels and the other input carries L-band channels, and both have channel spacings that match or substantially match the ITU grid.
摘要:
Technologies for generating a broadband optical output include a plurality of narrowband optical sources formed in a silicon substrate to generate a narrowband optical output, a plurality of input optical waveguides to route the narrowband optical output, an optical multiplexer formed in the silicon substrate to reflect the routed narrowband optical output, and an output optical waveguide to collect the reflected narrowband optical output to generate the broadband optical output. The output optical waveguide may route the broadband optical output to an output of the photonic integrated circuit.
摘要:
Technologies for generating a broadband optical output include a plurality of narrowband optical sources formed in a silicon substrate to generate a narrowband optical output, a plurality of input optical waveguides to route the narrowband optical output, an optical multiplexer formed in the silicon substrate to reflect the routed narrowband optical output, and an output optical waveguide to collect the reflected narrowband optical output to generate the broadband optical output. The output optical waveguide may route the broadband optical output to an output of the photonic integrated circuit.
摘要:
An optical multi/demultiplexing circuit that is arranged to multi/demultiplex a plurality of optical signals in a whole passband, the whole passband being configured with a plurality of passbands, the optical multi/demultiplexing circuit comprising: at least two optical multi/demultiplexing devices (111,112), wherein a first one includes at least one input section and at least two output sections and a second one includes at least two input sections and a plurality of output sections, and at least one optical delay line device (107) interposed between said optical multi/demultiplexing devices; characterized in that at least one of said optical multi/demultiplexing devices includes a phase generating device; wherein said phase generating device is arranged to generate an optical frequency-dependent phase defined as a phase difference between two optical signals output from two of said plurality of output sections of the optical multi/demultiplexing device, wherein one or more phase generating device is arranged to generate a resulting optical frequency dependent phase Φ which provides a quadratic or higher order polynomial optical frequency dependency or an optical frequency dependency according to a Gaussian function, and which sets an optical frequency period between said passbands and a center frequency of said whole passband at desired values independently.
摘要:
The invention relates to an optical component comprising at least one input guide element (1-4), at least one output guide element (5) and a spectral separation element (7) which is disposed between the input guide element(s) (1-4) and the output guide element(s) (5). The inventive component is characterised in that at least one of the input or output guide elements (1-5) comprises a fibre (1-5) containing a portion (21-25) which is designed to increase the mode range of a beam that it guides. According to the invention, the portion which is designed to increase the beam mode range can comprise a portion with a graded index, a portion having a core or gain size which varies radially and/or longitudinally, or a portion having a core or gain index which varies transversely and/or longitudinally.
摘要:
A passband-flattened phasar including two free space regions (48, 52) coupled by a plurality of waveguides (50) having predetermined differences between their lengths so as to act as an arrayed waveguide grating. The phasar is particularly useful in a wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication system. The input waveguide is coupled to the first free space region through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) (64) having two waveguide arms (66, 68) of differing lengths receiving approximately equal amounts of the input signal. The arms differ in lengths so as to produce a phase difference between them. In WDM network, the waveguide arm produces a phase difference such that the free spectral range of the MZI equals the wavelength channel spacing, such that the wavelength response of the MZI is the same for each of the WDM wavelengths. The two outputs of the MZI are coupled into the input end of a multi-mode interferometer (MMI) (44) with a lateral separation which provides a lateral spatial dispersion in the MMI equalling the lateral spatial dispersion of the conventional phasar. Thereby, a larger portion of the passband is equally passed through the phasar.