摘要:
An optical modulation element is disclosed which has, on a substrate directly or through a lower clad layer, an optical waveguide layer of a low impurity concentration, an upper clad layer of a refractive index smaller than that of the optical waveguide layer, and electrodes, and in which light of a constant intensity incident on a light incident end face of the optical waveguide layer is intensity-modulated by changing the absorption coefficient of the optical waveguide layer by means of an electric field applied thereto across the electrodes so that the thus modulated light is emitted from a light emitting end face of the optical waveguide layer. In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of low impurity concentration regions and a plurality of high impurity concentration regions are disposed alternately with each other in contact with at least one of the lower and upper clad layers in the direction of travel of light in such a manner that the distribution density of the plurality of high impurity concentration regions increases in the direction of travel of light.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated light emitting device is disclosed which comprises a light emitting waveguide including a light emitting layer, and an external waveguide directly coupled to the light emitting waveguide. In accordance with the present invention, the light emitting waveguide and the external waveguide are mutually laminated in the vicinity of a region where they are directly coupled together.The intensity of the optical output from the light emitting waveguide is modulated in the external waveguide by the electroabsorption effect.
摘要:
A protection path reservation method which reserves protection paths to avoid a node failure for each transmission path on a network formed of a plurality of nodes, comprising assuming the nodes as an imaginary failure node in turn in a condition in which the node failure is not present in the network, and selecting N neighbor nodes connected to the imaginary failure node through N links, wherein the imaginary failure nodes sequentially transmit protection path reservation request messages to neighbor nodes, and the nodes which have received the protection path reservation request messages sequentially, one by one, reserve N−1 protection paths starting from the nodes.
摘要:
An image pickup apparatus includes a system controller and a face detector, and can register face data of a photographer for a self-timer shooting mode in advance. In the self-timer shooting mode, the face detector extracts face data of people in a subject field from an image signal. When the system controller determines, on the basis of the extracted face data and the registered face data, that the photographer can be detected, the apparatus starts countdown for automatic shooting. Consequently, the apparatus can pick up an image of the photographer without fail, and the photographer can securely strike a pose within the countdown period of time. Furthermore, the apparatus can determine the countdown period of time optionally, thereby enabling the self-timer shooting to be executed depending on the personality of the photographer.
摘要:
An internal combustion engine includes a connecting rod that connects a crankpin and a piston. The connecting rod has first and second connecting rods, and a guide piston is disposed at a connecting portion between the first and second connecting rods. Deformed portions are formed on a lower end portion of a guide piston and on a balancer weight portion of a crankshaft in order to reduce the whole length of the connecting rod, whereby a bottom dead center of the guide piston is set to a lower position. The engine has improved thermal efficiency by reducing the distance between the crank portion and the piston, increasing the speed of behavior of the piston at a position near a top dead center to reduce thermal energy loss, and preventing generation of knocking.
摘要:
An optical reception apparatus comprises an optical receiver to receive an optical signal from an optical transmission line, an error corrector to correct an error of the received signal and to transmit the error-corrected signal and error rate information before error correction, a judging apparatus to judge transmission quality of the optical transmission line according to the error rate information from the error corrector and a threshold value equal to an error rate lower than an error correction limit of the error corrector, and a selective breaker to transmit the signal whose error is corrected by the error corrector in normal state and to block transmission of the signal whose error is corrected by the error corrector when the judged result by the judging apparatus indicates deterioration of the transmission quality of the optical transmission line.
摘要:
An optical clock multiplier comprises a phase modulator (12) to shift a phase in pulse duration of an input optical clock pulse by &pgr;, a polarization mode dispersion device (16) having a predetermined time difference between first and second polarizations orthogonal to each other to divide an output light from the phase modulator into the first and second polarization components, and a polarization device (20) to extract one of polarization components in a third polarization practically inclined at an angle of 45° against the first polarization and a fourth polarization orthogonal to the third polarization out of the output light from the polarization mode dispersion device.
摘要:
An optical transmitter outputs WDM signal lights comprising signal lights with 100 wavelengths of 10 Gbit/s, onto an optical transmission fiber. In the optical transmission line, a transmission fiber and a local area dispersion compensation fiber are disposed per repeater span defined by an optical amplification repeater, the local area dispersion compensation fiber is for compensating the average chromatic dispersion in the repeater span to become 2 ps/nm/km as well as a dispersion slope to become zero, and a wide area dispersion compensation fiber for compensating the average chromatic dispersion to become −0.2 ps/nm/km as well as the dispersion slope to become zero is disposed per predetermined number of optical repeater spans. The optical transmission fiber comprises a single mode optical fiber with large core diameter having a zero dispersion wavelength at a 1.3 &mgr;m band and plus chromatic dispersion at a signal wavelength band (a 1.55 &mgr;m band). The optical amplification repeater comprises an erbium-doped optical fiber to be pumped by a 0.98 &mgr;m band pumping light.
摘要:
An optical fiber (12a) with a large effective core area and a large chromatic dispersion value is disposed on an input side of signal light, and an optical fiber (12b) with a small effective core area and a small chromatic dispersion value or a chromatic dispersion value of negative polarity is disposed on an output side of the signal light. A pumping light source (14) generates pumping light of 1450 nm to cause Raman amplification of 1550 nm in the optical fiber (12b). The output light from the pumping light source (14) enters the optical fiber (12b) from the back through a WDM optical coupler (16). Provided that y=(Pin−&agr;)/(Pp·10 Log L) where input power of the optical fiber (12a) (i.e. output power of an optical transmitter (10)) is Pin, a total loss of the optical fibers (12a and 12b) is &agr;, pumping power for Raman amplification is Pp, and a total length of the optical fibers (12a and 12b) is L, the relation between ratio x (0≦x≦1) of the optical fiber (12b) and y is expressed as y=6.63×10−2x−0.077. Here, the satisfactory x value is in a range from +0.2 to −0.2 of the y value.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to prevent an increase of the degree of polarization of an output pumping light even if one of pumping light sources has a failure. Laser diodes (30a, 30b) are composed of FP-LDs made of InGaAsP to laser-oscillate at 1480 nm band. The outputs from the laser diodes (30a, 30b) enter a polarizing beam splitter (32) in orthogonal state of polarization and are combined there. The combined light by the polarizing beam splitter (32) enters a depolarizing element (34) and is depolarized there.