Abstract:
Provided are a high-speed superluminescent diode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a wavelength-tunable external cavity laser including the same. The superluminescent diode includes a substrate having an active region and an optical mode size conversion region, waveguides including an ridge waveguide in the active region and a deep ridge waveguide in the optical mode size conversion region connected to the active waveguide, an electrode disposed on the ridge waveguide; planarizing layers disposed on sides of the ridge waveguide and the deep ridge waveguide on the substrate, and a pad electrically connected to the electrode, the pad being disposed on the planarizing layers outside the active waveguide.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide structure includes a substrate and a core structure disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a first waveguide region, a second waveguide region, and a transition region between the first waveguide region and the second waveguide region. The core structure includes first core segments arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction on the transition region. The core structure includes second core segments arranged in the first direction and the second direction on the second waveguide region. The first direction and the second direction are parallel to a top surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
Provided is a light modulation device includes a substrate, a lower clad layer disposed on the substrate, a core layer disposed on the lower clad layer to extend in a first direction which is parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and an upper clad layer covering the core on the lower clad layer. The core layer includes a waveguide layer extending in the first direction; and photonic crystal structures disposed in the waveguide layer and periodically arranged along the first direction.
Abstract:
Provided is a polarization decomposition device. The polarization decomposition device includes a polarization beam splitter configured to split an optical signal into a first polarized light having a first polarization direction and a second polarized light having a second polarization direction different from the first polarized light, a phase shifter configured to delay a phase of the first polarized light, a polarization rotator configured to rotate the second polarized light so that the polarization direction of the second polarized light is changed, and an interference beam splitter configured to allow the first polarized light in which the phase is delayed and the second polarized light in which the polarization direction is rotated to interfere with each other and split them into a third polarized light and a fourth polarized light.
Abstract:
Provided herein are a method and apparatus for controlling the wavelength of an external-cavity wavelength-tunable laser. The reflectivity or transmittance characteristics of a wavelength depend on the phase difference between light reflected by a wavelength-tunable filter and parasitic reflective light. Thus, when the temperature of a module and current applied to a phase control electrode and an external reflector are changed, the characteristics are changed in a periodic manner. The present disclosure relates to a wavelength control algorithm of determining combinations of these parameters to set conditions having optimum chirping characteristics at a desired wavelength.
Abstract:
Provided is a reflective colorless optical transmitter receiving a carrier signal, which is a continuous wave, and outputting a modulated optical signal. The reflective colorless optical transmitter includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) amplifying an input optical signal allowing the input optical signal to have a gain, an optical modulator connected to the SOA and outputting a modulated optical signal, a high reflectivity facet reflecting the modulated optical signal from the optical modulator, and a Bragg reflection mirror connected to the high reflectivity facet, the optical modulator, and the SOA in series, wherein a Bragg resonator is formed by the Bragg reflecting mirror and the high reflectivity facet.
Abstract:
Provided is a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical transmitting apparatus including first to n-th optical transmitters configured to output first to n-th optical signals having different wavelengths, respectively; a wavelength multiplexer configured to multiplex the first to n-th optical signals and generate an output optical signal; a tap coupler configured to receive the output optical signal and generate a controlling optical signal based on some of the output optical signal; a controlling photodetector configured to receive the controlling optical signal and output an optical current based on the controlling optical signal; and a controller configured to control each of the first to n-th optical transmitters based on the optical current, wherein the controller comprises a look-up table, sequentially detects driving conditions for the first to n-th optical transmitters, stores the detected driving conditions in the look-up table, and controls the first to n-th optical transmitters based on the detected driving conditions.