Abstract:
A differential TWE MZM includes a differential driver, first and second capacitors, and first and second terminations. The differential driver includes a first differential output and a second differential output that collectively form a differential pair. The first differential output is DC coupled to a cathode of a first arm optical phase shifter of a TWE MZM. The second differential output is DC coupled to a cathode of a second arm optical phase shifter of the TWE MZM. The first capacitor AC couples the second differential output to an anode of the first arm optical phase shifter. The second capacitor AC couples the first differential output to an anode of the second arm optical phase shifter. The first and second terminations are coupled to the cathode and the anode of, respectively, the first or second arm optical phase shifter.
Abstract:
An optical modulator is provided that suppresses the chirp due to the mask offset for example during the phase modulation and that provides a high waveform quality. An optical modulator is provided that includes: two RF electrodes for applying one pair of differential signal voltages; at least one fixed potential electrodes for applying a fixed potential; a first conductive semiconductor layer and a second conductive semiconductor layer abutted to the RF electrode or a fixed potential electrode; and a light modulation unit including two optical waveguides branched from one optical waveguide that are arranged along a pn junction unit functioning as a boundary between the first and second conductive semiconductor layers, wherein: the semiconductor layers and the electrode are provided so that the integration amounts of the phase changes caused by the offsets of the positions of the pn junction units in the two optical waveguides from a design value is equal between the two optical waveguides.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
The invention relates to An electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulator arrangement, comprising a plurality of first waveguide electrodes (210) and a plurality of second waveguide electrodes (220) arranged on top of capacitive segments (1110, 1210) of the first and the second optical waveguide (11, 12); a plurality of driver units (410) for supplying a voltage (V) to the electrode arrangement (2), each one of the driver unit (410) comprising at least a first output port (4410) coupled to one of the first waveguide electrodes (210) and a second output port (4420) coupled to one of the second waveguide electrodes (220); a non-grounded conductive region (30) via which the capacitive segment (1110) of the first optical waveguide (11) is connected to the capacitive segment (1210) of the second optical waveguide (12); and a DC-source (6) connected to the first and/or the second waveguide electrodes (210, 220) and the conductive region (30) for supplying a bias voltage (V bias ) across the capacitive segments (1110, 1210) of the optical waveguides (11, 12). According to the invention, each one of the driver units (41) is configured to supply a first varying signal (S+) to the first waveguide electrode (21) via the first output port (441) and to supply a second varying signal (S-) to the second waveguide electrode (22) via the second output port (442), wherein each one of the driver units (410) is a differential driver unit assigned to one first waveguide electrode (210) and one second waveguide electrode (220), and wherein the DC-source (6) is connected to the conductive region (30) and ground.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for controlling a bias voltage (20) supplied to an optical modulator that comprises a biasable component configurable to be biased by application of the bias voltage (20), the method comprising: providing a target for the modulator output power; applying, to the biasable component, a bias voltage (20) that biases the biasable component so that the output power is within a pre-defined range of the target; monitoring the output power and, if the output power of the modulator is determined to be outside the pre-defined range, varying the value of the bias voltage (20) to bring the output power back within the pre-defined range; and monitoring the optical input to the modulator and, if it has been disabled, maintaining the bias voltage (20) at its current level for a pre-determined length of time that is dependent upon how long the modulator has been operating at quadrature.
Abstract:
An electro-optical modulator (1) is proposed to have two electrodes (33, 35) being part of a transmission line (19) of a first phase modulator and further two electrodes (37, 39) being part of a transmission line (19) of a second phase modulator included in two arm of a Mach-Zehnder-interferometer. Each transmission line (19) comprises a pn-diode (41, 43) or a semiconductor-isolator-semiconductor capacitor. Furthermore, an electrical controller (17) is adapted for applying first electrical high-frequency-modulated voltage signals Sig1(t) between the first and second electrodes (33, 35) and for applying second electrical high-frequency-modulated signals Sig2(t) between the fourth and third electrodes (39, 37). However, a DC component of these signals Sig1(t) and Sig2(t) and a polarity with which these signals are applied to the first and second diodes (41, 43) or to the first and second semiconductor-insulator-semiconductor capacitor principally differ in comparison to conventional approaches in that the electrical controller (17) shall apply signals such that voltages applied to the first and fourth electrodes (33, 39) have substantially a same high-frequency content, and the voltages applied to the second and third electrodes (35, 37) have substantially the same high-frequency content. In such configuration, either the voltages applied to the first and fourth electrodes (33, 39) differ by a constant voltage offset, or, alternatively, the voltages applied to the second and third electrodes (35, 37) differ by a constant voltage offset. Thereby, cross-talk between electrodes and electrical losses as well as device size and fabrication costs may be reduced.
Abstract:
An optical transmitter includes: a mapper (31) that generates an electric field information signal from transmission data; a phase rotation circuit (33) that adds a phase rotation to the electric field information signal; a driver (13a-13d) that generates a driving signal from the electric field information signal to which the phase rotation is added; a modulator (15x, 15y) that generates a modulated optical signal according to the driving signal; and a controller (52) that controls a bias of the modulator according to a change in a carrier frequency of the modulated optical signal corresponding to the phase rotation that is added to the electric field information signal by the phase rotation circuit.