OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    255.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180184510A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-28

    申请号:US15853968

    申请日:2017-12-26

    CPC classification number: H05G2/008 H05G2/003 H05H1/0037 H05H1/04 H05H1/46

    Abstract: An optical waveguide is formed using a gas-enclosed vessel that has an internal space in which a polyvalent ionizable gas is enclosed, a laser beam irradiation unit, and a discharge circuit that causes a pulse current to flow in the gas-enclosed vessel at an initial current value. The pulse current is increased from the initial current value to a subsequent current value greater than the initial current value, and a polyvalent ionization channel is formed in the internal space, while increasing the pulse current, by irradiating the internal space in the plasma state with a trigger laser beam generated by the pulse laser beam irradiation device. The polyvalent ionization channel expands by an inverse pinch effect after the internal space is irradiated with the trigger laser beam due to a concentration of the pulse current in the internal space.

    Optical quantizer
    257.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09989784B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-05

    申请号:US15554300

    申请日:2016-02-16

    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Konishi

    CPC classification number: G02F1/011 G02B6/2938 G02F7/00 G02F2203/26

    Abstract: An optical quantizer including: a first shaping unit which performs at least intensity modulation of the sampling optical pulses using an analog signal to generate first optical pulses having a spectrum in which intensity is flat in a spectrum axis direction; a second shaping unit which performs spectrum shaping of the sampling optical pulses to generate second optical pulses having a spectrum in which intensity increases or decreases monotonously in the spectrum axis direction; a phase shifter which shifts a phase of optical pulses input to one of the first shaping unit and the second shaping unit so that a phase difference between the first optical pulses and the second optical pulses becomes a predetermined phase difference; an interference device which causes interference between the first optical pulses and the second optical pulses; and a wavelength demultiplexer which demultiplexes optical pulses output from the interference device into light of wavebands.

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