摘要:
An electrooptic switch in which one of four channel waveguides is selectively induced in a thin slab of electrooptic material by the application of an electric field between intersecting strips of electrodes disposed adjacent the top surface of the slab and other intersecting strips of electrodes disposed adjacent the bottom surface directly below the top surface strips. The electrode strips comprise (1) primary electrodes to which constant potentials are applied to induce optical paths partially through the slab and (2) switching electrodes, vertically displaced and electrically isolated from the primary electrodes, to which alternating potentials are applied to complete the desired optical path through the slab.
摘要:
An active optical-waveguide branch which has the maximum possible switching efficiency and minimum length. The waveguide includes a single main waveguide branched into two element arms or paths such that optical radiation passing through the main waveguide will be normally divided equally into each branched arm. Electrodes are formed between the branching arms and on the outer side of each arm. The electrodes are connected electrically so that the potential between the center electrode and each of the outer electrodes may be either negative or positive with each outer electrode having the same potential with respect to the center electrode. The optical radiation will choose one arm or the other depending on the polarity of the potential applied. The electrode separation is preferably a decreasing function of the length, z, of the electrode along the length of the arms. That is, for a constant voltage on the electrodes, the mode synchronism is a function of the length, z.
摘要:
An optical waveguide device including an electro-optical crystal substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface; an optical waveguide path formed within a surface of the electro-optical crystal substrate; at least one electrode positioned above the optical waveguide path for applying an electric field to the optical waveguide path; and a silicon titanium oxynitride layer and a connecting layer for interconnecting the silicon titanium oxynitride layer to another surface of the electro-optical crystal substrate that is opposite to the surface in which the optical waveguide path is formed.
摘要:
An optical modulator includes a substrate having an electrooptic effect, an optical waveguide having first and second cascading portions in the substrate, and transmitting an optical field, a first coplanar strip electrode having a first part over the first cascading portion and second and third parts extending beyond the first cascading portion, wherein the first part is approximately perpendicular to the second and third parts and has a width substantially the same as the first cascading portion, a second coplanar strip electrode having a first part over the second cascading portion and second and third parts to extend beyond the second cascading portion, and the first part being approximately perpendicular to the second and third parts, and a voltage source supplying a voltage to the first coplanar strip electrode, wherein the second coplanar strip electrode is grounded and is symmetrical to the first coplanar strip electrode.
摘要:
A transmission system responsive to an electrical input information signalncludes means for modulating the input signal with a microwave subcarrier signal to produce a subcarrier modulated signal. A first interferometric modulator responsive to a source light and to the subcarrier modulated signal produces a first modulated optical signal. A second interferometric modulator cascade coupled to the first modulator and being responsive to the first modulated optical signal and to a microwave local oscillator signal produces a second modulated optical signal. Means coupled between the first and second modulators transmit the first modulated optical signal from the first modulator to the second modulator. Means responsive to the second modulated optical signal produce an output signal.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for counteracting polarization fading and stimulated Brillouin scattering in long runs of non-polarization maintaining optical fiber. A linearly polarized optical signal is depolarized by phase modulating the signal at a frequency significantly above the fiber's Brillouin scattering linewidth V.sub.b prior to launch into the long run of fiber.
摘要:
A depolarized fiber optic gyroscope with a detector for detecting a rotat about an axis of rotation and a method therefor is disclosed. The gyroscope includes a depolarized light source for generating the depolarized light; a gyro coil for conducting depolarized light about the axis of rotation, the gyro coil including a coil of a non-polarization preserving fiber having first and second ends; a depolarizer with first and second ports for eliminating birefringence induced scale factor variations caused by the non-polarization preserving fiber, the first port of the depolarizer being coupled to the first end of the gyro coil; and a coupler device for coupling the second end of the gyro coil, the second port of the depolarizer, the detector and the depolarized light source, without utilizing a polarizer.
摘要:
A method for correcting birefringence in a fiber optic coupler comprising measuring the intrinsic birefringent retardation, fast axis orientation and rotation of separate paths through the coupler and adding lumped birefringent elements to the ports of the coupler in a fashion to compensate for the intrinsic birefringence.
摘要:
A fiber optic gyroscope comprising a Sagnac interferometer including a (3.times.3) optical directional coupler. The gyroscope is driven with an essentially unpolarized broadband spatially coherent light beam supplied by a super-luminescent diode source. A significant reduction in baseband noise occurs due to the use of the essentially unpolarized light beam.
摘要:
A Bragg cell RF spectrum analyzer of the type having a laser input wherein the laser input is coupled to the Bragg cell analyzer by a signal-mode optical fiber for the purpose of improving the spatial quality of the laser, thus limiting side lobes of the input laser beam; and allowing the laser input to be remote from the Bragg cell.