Abstract:
Integrated optical network comprising: an array of optical waveguides having respective output ends defining a array of radiating elements, wherein said guides receive respective optical input signals and output said optical signals from said radiating elements to form an optical beam; and actuator means to introduce in said array of guides relative phase differences between said optical signals in order to deflect the optical beam formed; characterized in that the actuator means include at least one actuator track comprising a plurality of track sections substantially aligned with respective optical guides, said sections being fed by a common control signal to locally modify refractive indexes of the respective optical guides in order to introduce said phase differences.
Abstract:
The optical communication module can be coupled to at least one optical fiber and includes at least one optoelectronic device, a base portion, and a cover portion which can be connected to the base portion to define an internal chamber to house the optoelectronic device. The cover portion includes at least one window to couple at least one optical signal between the at least one device and the optical fiber. The module further includes a plate, substantially transparent to the optical signal, having a first side facing the cover portion and a second side facing the internal chamber, the first plate substantially enabling sealing of the window. A shielding plate can be connected to the second side and provided with at least one opening substantially aligned with the window to enable passage of the optical signal.
Abstract:
Integrated optical network comprising: an array of optical waveguides having respective output ends defining a array of radiating elements, wherein said guides receive respective optical input signals and output said optical signals from said radiating elements to form an optical beam; and actuator means to introduce in said array of guides relative phase differences between said optical signals in order to deflect the optical beam formed; characterized in that the actuator means include at least one actuator track comprising a plurality of track sections substantially aligned with respective optical guides, said sections being fed by a common control signal to locally modify refractive indexes of the respective optical guides in order to introduce said phase differences.
Abstract:
A method of producing an optical device including a Bragg grating formed in an optical waveguide, the method comprising: providing a support substrate; positioning the optical waveguide with respect to an optical source so as to achieve a desired optical coupling of optical power emitted by the optical source into the optical waveguide; attaching the waveguide to the support substrate in correspondence of a first location along the waveguide, said first location being at one side of the Bragg grating; attaching the waveguide to the support substrate in a correspondence of a second location along the waveguide, said second location being at an opposite side of the Bragg grating, so as to freeze a first stress condition in the Bragg grating.
Abstract:
Fault tolerant topology for passive optical networks essentially based on a "tree configuration" with branch points or nodes (16, 17) made up of passive optical splitters, in which each node (16, 17) of a specific level is connected to the same number of nodes (16, 17) of the level immediately below by two or more branches (Rd, Rs) and a supplementary connection (S1, S2 . . . ) is provided between each pair of nodes of the same level (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
A phase shift device of an optical fiber signal includes an actuator for changing the signal phase in at least one fiber portion by inducing the phase change by thermo-optical effect. An antenna system incorporating phase shift devices using the thermo-optical effect find particular utility in automotive and telecommunications fields.
Abstract:
An optical radiation coupling module includes a waveguide for the propagation of optical radiation, an optoelectronic device arranged on a substrate, and a mechanism for coupling the radiation between the waveguide and the optoelectronic device. The coupling mechanism includes a guiding element moulded and tapered in a radiation propagation direction.
Abstract:
A multi-source optical transmitter includes a substrate of semiconductor material and a plurality of semiconductor optical sources suitable to provide optical signals having respective wavelengths defining base colors for the formation of colored images in said visualization device. The sources are arranged according to a matrix pattern on one face of the substrate.
Abstract:
External cavity laser with reflector in optical wave guide, particularly HDBR laser, with an active element comprising a semiconductor optical amplifying cavity having a low-reflectivity facet (3), for example a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) with a facet (30) opposite to said low-reflectivity facet treated with a reflecting coating, or a Fabry-Perot laser, and an external reflector comprising a Bragg grating (70) formed in an optical wave guide (4) near a termination (5), facing said facet, of a segment (5, 6, 7) of said optical wave guide coupled with the facet. The grating has a spatial profile of modulation of the refraction index such that a corresponding optical reflectivity spectrum (A) has an optical bandwidth (W) sufficiently small around a prescribed laser oscillation mode wavelength (γc) for the laser to oscillate only on the prescribed mode and not on other oscillation modes even in conditions of high-frequency direct modulation.
Abstract:
Multifiber interconnection element for optic fiber cable including two cylindrical complementary elements with optic fibers belonging to multifiber cables to be connected, abutted to the same. Each one of the complementary elements shows outside a longitudinal notch at least, having shape and size similar to the shape and size of a corresponding longitudinal slide obtained on the internal surface of a coupling bush. These complementary elements are inserted for reciprocal coupling inside this bush with the relevant front contact parts turned one against the other.