摘要:
An optical semiconductor apparatus having no polarization dependency and an optical communication system using the semiconductor apparatus are provided. In an optical communication system wherein a signal is demultiplexed by using a semiconductor waveguide type filter disposed on a receiver side, two semiconductor lasers disposed on a transmitter side modulate two light signals having different wavelengths using a common modulation signal and transmit the modulated light signals. One of the different wavelengths is accorded, for example, to the TE mode transmission wavelength of the filter, and the other is accorded, for example, to the TM mode transmission wavelength of the filter. On the receiver side, lights at different wavelengths may be branched into two light portions and the branched light portions may be respectively detected by two photodetectors.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical amplifying apparatus includes: a substrate; an active layer having a quantum well structure formed on the substrate, the active layer guiding first waveguide mode light and second waveguide mode light having a polarization direction perpendicular to that of the first waveguide mode light and amplifying the first waveguide mode light and the second waveguide mode light, the active layer having quantum wells such that projected quantization axes obtained by projecting quantization axes of the quantum wells thereof on a plane perpendicular to a light waveguide direction are inclined at 45.degree. with respect to vibration directions of electric field vectors of the first waveguide mode light and the second waveguide mode light; and an electrode for supplying a current to the active layer.
摘要:
An optical communication system comprises: a plurality of optical communication apparatus for communicating signals by using a plurality of communicating lights having different wavelengths; an optical transmitter for transmitting a controlling light having a different wavelength than any of the plurality of wavelengths; an optical transmission line for interconnecting the optical transmitter and the optical communication apparatus to transmit the communicating lights and the controlling light; an optical amplifier for amplifying the communicating lights and the controlling light transmitted over the optical transmission line; and control circuit for discriminating the controlling light amplified by the optical amplifier from the communicating lights and controlling a gain of the optical amplifier to keep a light intensity of the controlling light at a constant level.