Optical signal processing characterization of microwave and electro-optic devices

    公开(公告)号:US09923631B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-20

    申请号:US14674885

    申请日:2015-03-31

    Applicant: EOSpace Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04B17/00 G01M11/00

    Abstract: The invention introduces a new RF test and measurement methodology based on optical signal processing that has the capability to measure all of the RF parameters (both amplitude and phase) of an electronic component or system including transmission (S21) and reflection (S11). It can also be applied to measuring the electro-optic properties of electro-optic modulators, both phase modulators and intensity modulators. The basis of the invention is to use the RF information encoded in the optical sidebands generated by an electro-optic modulator to determine all of the relevant parameters of an electronic or electro-optic device. Optical carrier suppression techniques are used to isolate the information carrying optical sidebands from the dominant optical carrier.

    Electro-optic modulation of multiple phase modulator waveguides with a single electrode

    公开(公告)号:US11841562B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-12

    申请号:US16551786

    申请日:2019-08-27

    Applicant: Eospace Inc.

    Abstract: Electro-optic modulation of multiple phase modulator waveguides with a single electrode is made possible by determining places of equal electric field strength. Substrate extensions support edges of a wide hot electrode and ground electrodes equally spaced from the wide hot electrodes. Waveguides are positioned in the extensions separated from the electrodes by buffer layers. A wide microstrip hot electrode on a buffer layer, wider substrate and ground has multiple waveguides in the substrate below the buffer layer. A thinned substrate has a microstrip hot electrode and spaced coplanar grounds with multiple waveguides located on both sides. Decreasing substrate thickness flattens the electric field strength between the electrodes and allows multiple waveguides located between the central hot and outer ground electrodes. Adjacent waveguides with different asymmetric waveguide index portion staged along their length eliminate cross talk.

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