Abstract:
Provided are an optical connector and an optical apparatus having the same. The optical connector comprises a substrate, at least one optical waveguide, an optical coupler, and a ferrule alignment unit. The at least one optical waveguide is formed on the substrate. The optical coupler is formed on the optical waveguide. The ferrule alignment unit allows a ferrule fixing optical fibers combined with the optical coupler to be aligned with the substrate.
Abstract:
Provided are an optical device and a method of fabricating the same. The optical device includes: a substrate; and a ring resonator on the substrate. The ring resonator includes: a cladding layer including a lower cladding layer and an upper cladding layer on the substrate; a core including a plurality of rings between the lower cladding layer and the upper cladding layer; and an embeded layer interposed between the core and the cladding layer and having a refractive index less than that of the core and more than that of the cladding layer.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical device, which includes a substrate, a first cladding disposed on the substrate, a first optical waveguide extended in a first direction on the first cladding, and having a first refractive index, a side grating formed in at least one side of the first optical waveguide, a second optical waveguide filling a space of the side grating, extended in a second direction across the first direction on the first cladding, and having a second refractive index, and a second cladding disposed on the second optical waveguide, and having a third refractive index, wherein the first refractive index is greater than the second refractive index, and the second refractive index is greater than the third refractive index.
Abstract:
An optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing includes: at least one or more input waveguides; an input-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the input waveguides; array waveguide which is connected to the input-stage star coupler and in which a plurality of individual waveguides, each of which has an optical path having a predetermined length different to those of the other waveguides and has a heterogeneous waveguide interval formed of a material having a different refraction index from that of a core of the waveguides, are sequentially arranged; an output-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the array waveguides; and at least one or more output waveguides connected to the output-stage star coupler. According to the optical filter module and the method of manufacturing the same, heterogeneous waveguide intervals having core materials different from those of conventional waveguides are introduced in predetermined areas of array waveguides, thereby reducing polarized light and temperature dependency and at the same time effectively removing optical coupling loss, which can occur at both ends of a heterogeneous waveguide interval, without an additional process of forming waveguides.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a plurality of light sources is provided with a low cost to economically construct a passive optical subscriber network of a wavelength division multiplexing method using a wavelength division multiplexing and demultiplexing device. More specifically, disclosed is a method for manufacturing a plurality of light sources with a low cost applying a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) hybrid integrated technology to a PLC chip as a method for constructing a light source with a plurality of wavelengths constituting an optical transmitter of a base station to economically construct a passive optical subscriber network of a wavelength division multiplexing method.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving coherent optical OFDM. The apparatus includes: a transmitted OFDM digital signal processing unit outputting an in-phase (I) component digital signal and a quadrature phase (Q) component digital signal; a digital-analog converter converting the in-phase (I)-component digital signal and the quadrature-phase (Q)-component digital signal into an in-phase (I)-component analog signal and a quadrature-phase (Q)-component analog signal, respectively; an adder adding an additional pilot tone signal to each of the in-phase (I)-component analog signal and the quadrature-phase (Q)-component analog signal outputted from the digital-analog converter; and an optical I/Q modulator up-converting the in-phase (I)-component analog signal added with the additional pilot tone signal and the quadrature-phase (Q)-component analog signal added with the additional pilot tone signal to an optical domain to output a coherent optical OFDM signal including the additional pilot tone signal.
Abstract:
Provided is an electro-optic modulating device. The electro-optic modulating device includes an optical waveguide with a vertical structure and sidewalls of the vertical structure are used to configure a junction.
Abstract:
Provided is a core which reduces optic splice loss between discontinuous optical waveguides. The core includes a first waveguide propagation portion having first light-receiving width, a first lightwave discontinuous portion having second light-receiving width, a first taper structure portion having both ends connected to the first lightwave propagation portion and to the first lightwave discontinuous portion, respectively and decreasing in light-receiving width as it goes from the first lightwave propagation portion to the first lightwave discontinuous portion, a second lightwave propagation portion having third light-receiving width, a second lightwave discontinuous portion having fourth light-receiving width, and a second taper structure portion having both ends connected to the second lightwave propagation portion and to the second lightwave discontinuous portion, respectively and decreasing in light-receiving width as it goes from the second lightwave propagation portion to the second lightwave discontinuous portion.
Abstract:
Provided are a waveguide structure and an arrayed waveguide grating structure. The arrayed waveguide grating structure includes an input star coupler, an output star coupler, and a plurality of arrayed waveguides optically connecting the input star coupler and the output star coupler. Each of the arrayed waveguides includes at least one section having a high confinement factor and at least two sections having a relatively low confinement factor. The sections of the arrayed waveguides having a high confinement factor have the same structure.
Abstract:
Provided is a photonics device. The photonics device includes: a substrate including a star coupler region and a transition region; a lower core layer formed on the substrate; and upper core patterns formed on the substrate to define a waveguide. The upper core patterns are disposed on the lower core layer at the transition region, so that the transition region has a multi-layered core structure.