摘要:
A light wavelength converting apparatus includes a semiconductor laser having gain, phase, and DBR regions, a nonlinear optical device for receiving fundamental-wave light emitted from the semiconductor laser and outputting second harmonic wave light, a first optical detector for monitoring output of the fundamental-wave light, a second optical detector for monitoring the second harmonic wave light, and a control portion for controlling a drive current for driving the semiconductor laser. The control portion includes a control parameter determiner and wavelength controller. The control parameter determiner changes a DBR current supplied to the DBR region and a phase current supplied to the phase region to obtain a changing point, and determines a control parameter for controlling the DBR and phase currents such that the relationship therebetween is not located on the changing point. The wavelength controller controls the DBR and phase currents pursuant to the control parameter.
摘要:
A distributed Bragg reflection (DBR) semiconductor laser is controlled in an image projecting apparatus. The image projecting apparatus includes the DBR semiconductor laser which is provided with a phase region and a DBR region, a light wavelength converting device for converting fundamental-wave light emitted from the DBR semiconductor laser into second harmonic wave light, an optical deflector for scanning the second harmonic wave in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional manner, and a modulating portion for modulating the DBR semiconductor laser based on an image signal. In the control method, a coefficient calculating step and a wavelength adjusting step are performed within a non-drawing time during which a drawing signal, which corresponds to the image signal, is absent. In the coefficient calculating step, at least one coefficient in a relationship between a DBR current to be injected into the DBR region and a phase current to be injected into the phase region for continuously shifting the wavelength of the fundamental-wave light is calculated. In the wavelength adjusting step, the DBR current injected into the DBR region and the phase current injected into the phase region are changed based on the relationship such that the second harmonic wave light is adjusted.
摘要:
A surface plasmon resonance sensor apparatus includes a common substrate, a surface emitting laser, such as a VCSEL, arranged on the common substrate, a sensor array, such as CCD array, arranged on the common substrate, a light-transmitting medium provided above the common substrate, and a metal thin film formed on the light-transmitting medium to cause surface plasmon resonance due to light which is emitted from the surface emitting laser, transmitted through the light-transmitting medium and impinging on the metal thin film. The surface emitting laser, metal thin film and sensor array are positioned such that a change in an intensity of light reflected by the metal thin film caused by the surface plasmon resonance can be measured by the sensor array.
摘要:
A light deflection device includes a deflection member having a sphere body enclosing a deflection face portion for deflecting a light beam, or a segmental sphere body having the deflection face portion and a segmental sphere face opposing to the deflection face portion. The device also includes a supporting member for supporting the deflection member in a turnable manner, and a driver for turning the deflection member. The driver is provided on the sphere face of the deflection member, and at a position opposing the sphere face or the segmental sphere face of the deflection member to apply a driving force to the sphere face or the segmental face. In one embodiment, a light deflection device array includes the arrangement of light deflection devices in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array.
摘要:
An optical semiconductor apparatus includes at least two semiconductor laser portions each having a light waveguide with an active layer and a distributed reflector, and a stimulating unit for independently stimulating the active layers of the light waveguides. The semiconductor laser portions are serially arranged in a light propagation direction. The light waveguides are constructed such that a difference between propagation constants for two different polarization modes in one of the waveguides is different from a difference between propagation constants for the two different polarization modes in the other of the waveguides. When one of injection of a modulation current signal into or application of a modulation voltage to the optical semiconductor apparatus, an oscillation state can be switched between a state in which Bragg wavelengths for one of the two different polarization modes coincide with each other between the light waveguides and a state in which Bragg wavelengths for the other of the two different polarization modes coincide with each other between the light waveguides.
摘要:
An optical device comprises a substrate, a first guiding layer having a guided mode provided on the substrate, a second guiding layer laminated with the first guiding layer on the substrate, the second guiding layer having a guided mode different from that of the first guiding layer, and a diffraction grating provided on an area where the first and second guiding layers have their guided modes overlapping, the diffraction grating serving to couple the light on the specific range of wavelengths that propagate through the first guiding layer, with the second layer, wherein the diffraction grating comprises a high refractive index region and a low refractive index region disposed periodically in the propagation direction of light, the ratio of the high refractive index region to the low refractive index region occupied in one period changing gradually in the propagation direction of light.
摘要:
There is provided a display device in a viewfinder, including a diffraction grating whose shape is determined at an interface between first and second materials, at least one of the first and second materials being adapted to have a variable refractive index for light reflected by an object to be photographed, and control means for changing the refractive index of the first and/or second materials, wherein the control means causes the light from the object to substantially pass through the diffraction grating in a first state and causes the diffraction grating to partially diffract the light from the object to display a pattern in a second state.
摘要:
This specification discloses an integrated type optical node comprising a substrate, a channel light waveguide formed on the substrate for connecting the transmission lines of an optical information system, an amplifying portion provided on the light waveguide for amplifying a light propagated through the waveguide, and a light branching-off portion provided on the light waveguide for coupling a light transmitter and/or a light receiver to the transmission lines. The specification also discloses an optical information system using such optical node.
摘要:
This specification discloses an integrated type optical node comprising a substrate, a channel light waveguide formed on the substrate for connecting the transmission lines of an optical information system, an amplifying portion provided on the light waveguide for amplifying a light propagated through the waveguide, and a light branching-off portion provided on the light waveguide for coupling a light transmitter and/or a light receiver to the transmission lines. The specification also discloses an optical information system using such optical node.
摘要:
The present invention relates to optical apparatus such as a photosensor, a semiconductor laser, an optical amplifier in which a wavelength selective photocoupler is used so as to couple two waveguides through a diffraction grating. A photosensor which is one of the optical apparatus according to the present invention comprises a substrate, a first waveguide layer formed on the substrate, a second waveguide layer formed on the first waveguide layer to be stacked in a direction of thickness and which has a guided mode difference from that of the first waveguide layer, a diffraction grating formed on an overlapping region of the guided modes of the first and second waveguide layers and which couples light components of a specific wavelength range of light propagating through the first waveguide layer to the second waveguide layer, a light absorption layer for absorbing at least some light components of the light components coupled to the second waveguide layer, and an electrode for converting the light components absorbed by the light absorption layer into an electrical signal and outputting the electrical signal.