Abstract:
An optical wavelength converter includes: a first branch passage and a second branch passage receiving direct current light, one of the first branch passage and the second branch passage receiving input signal light; wavelength converting semiconductor optical amplifiers inserted into the first branch passage and the second branch passage, respectively; and a signal amplifying semiconductor optical amplifier for amplifying the input signal light, which is coupled with a port through which the input signal light is input to one of the first branch passage and the second branch passage. In the optical wavelength converter, differential gain of the signal amplifying semiconductor optical amplifier at a wavelength of the input signal light is less than differential gain of the wavelength converting semiconductor optical amplifier at the wavelength of the direct current light.
Abstract:
A distributed feedback semiconductor laser includes an n-InP substrate, an n-InGaAsP diffraction grating layer above the n-InP substrate, an AlGaInAs-MQW active layer above the diffraction grating layer and a ridge portion on the active layer. The ridge portion includes a p-InP cladding layer and a p-InGaAs contact layer. The wavelength λg corresponding to the bandgap energy of the diffraction grating layer and the oscillation wavelength λ of laser light produced by the laser satisfy the relationship λ−150 nm
Abstract:
A waveguide semiconductor optical device with a mesa ridge structure includes a semi-insulating substrate; and a ridge on the semi-insulating substrate, and including a lower cladding layer, a core layer, and an upper cladding layer sequentially laminated on the semi-insulating substrate, wherein the lower cladding layer includes a first laterally extending from the ridge and having an electrode on a top face, and a second layer with a carrier density lower than that of the first layer and in contact with the core layer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical device includes a substrate, an optical waveguide layer on the substrate and having well and barrier layers. The semiconductor optical device also includes an optical absorbing layer on the substrate and adjacent to the optical waveguide layer so that incident light having an incident wavelength &lgr;LD is guided into the optical absorbing layer. Each of the well layers has a wavelength &lgr;g corresponding to the band gap of the well layers and that is larger than the incident wavelength &lgr;LD. Also, the band gap energy between base levels of a conduction band and a valence band of the optical waveguide layer is larger than the energy of the incident light having the incident wavelength &lgr;LD.
Abstract:
At least part of the waveguide of a laser, the waveguide including a first cladding layer, an active layer, and a second cladding layer of a second conductivity type, and, for a ridge type laser, a ridge in the second cladding layer, has a width such that light leaks from the side walls of the waveguide. A case encloses the side walls of the waveguide and a fluid having a refractive index is sealed in the case in contact with the side walls of the waveguide. A characteristic of the laser can be adjusted easily. Therefore a laser having a uniform characteristic can be provided at a low cost. This laser is useful as a light source for wavelength multiplex transmission used for optical transmission, of a main line system, such as a submarine cable.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical modulator which, with a relatively simple configuration, eliminates phase modulation of output light from the semiconductor optical modulator by applying a voltage to a light absorption layer on the modulator. A nonlinear optical material layer changing refractive index is located in the direction of light propagation and cancels, in the output light, the phase modulation that is generated due to light intensity variations in the light absorption layer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser comprises a first laser structure, a tunnel diode structure, and a second laser structure which are successively formed so that the forward directions of the first laser structure and the second laser structure are the same as the forward direction of the semiconductor laser, and the forward direction of the tunnel diode structure is reverse to the forward direction of the semiconductor laser, wherein laser beams are generated when a current flows in the forward direction, and an optical waveguide layer having a larger refractive index than the refractive indices of the first laser structure and the second laser structure and provided between the second laser structure and the tunnel diode structure or between the first laser structure and the tunnel diode structure. Therefore, even though the first laser structure 14 and the second laser structure 16 are formed at a long distance, the laser beam at the light emitting surface is made a single peak in shape, thereby increasing the output power of the laser.
Abstract:
There are provided a high-permittivity dielectric raw material, an antenna device using the raw material and being useful as, especially, the built-in antenna device of a portable phone; a portable phone which can be reduced in weight, thickness and size, with an antenna radiation efficiency improved, and an electromagnetic wave shielding body for effectively shielding electromagnetic wave from an electric cooker.A dielectric raw material A having carbons dispersed in a silicone rubber base material 1, wherein, in any one of dielectric raw materials A, 1) containing 150 to 300 pts.wt. of carbons per 100 pts.wt. of silicone rubber, 2) formed by crosslinking and molding a mixture of non-crosslinked silicone rubber, non-crosslinked organic polymer and carbons, and 3) formed by combining and blending at least two kinds of carbons having different shapes and selected from spherical carbon 2, flat carbon, carbon fiber with a specific aspect ratio, carbon nanotube and conductive carbon 3, carbons are unevenly distributed in a silicone rubber base material 1 or carbons are contained with at least part of them contacting each other.
Abstract:
An optical semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor laser part on the semiconductor substrate and having a vertical ridge; and an optical modulator part on the semiconductor substrate, having an inverted-mesa ridge, and modulating light emitted by the semiconductor laser part.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical integrated element includes: a substrate; and a laser diode and a modulator which are integrated on the substrate. The laser diode includes an embedded waveguide having a core layer, both sides of which are embedded in a semiconductor material. The modulator includes a high-mesa ridge waveguide having a core layer, neither side of which is embedded in the semiconductor material. The core layers in the laser diode and the modulator are stripe-shaped.