摘要:
In an integrated polarization splitting and rotating photonic device comprising at least one first waveguide; a second waveguide, both said waveguides extending from an input section to an output section; a top cladding; a bottom cladding and a symmetry-breaking layer so as to form an optical guiding structure in a wafer chip, said top and bottom claddings extending throughout the whole optical guiding structure sandwiching said waveguides therebetween, said symmetry-breaking layer extends in the optical guiding structure at least over the whole guiding structure length, and, at the input section, the at least one first waveguide core has a predetermined width through the optical guiding structure to the output section, receiving an input light signal, and further, the second waveguide core, both at the input and the output section, has a width narrower than said predetermined width of the first waveguide core; so that the optical guiding structure guides a first mode substantially confined within said at least one first waveguide core and a second mode substantially confined within said second semiconductor waveguide core said first and said second modes having the same polarization at the output section.
摘要:
A method of filtering an optical signal includes operating an optical filter having resonators, each having a respective free spectral range and a respective resonance falling within a first frequency band, first tuning at least one resonator with respect to at least another resonator to obtain a separation between any resonance of at least one resonator falling within an optical bandwidth with respect to a resonance of at least another resonator nearest to the any resonance, second tuning all the resonators of the optical filter so as to move all respective resonances by a respective frequency interval greater than a frequency spacing, and third tuning the at least one resonator and the at least another resonator such that a further respective resonance of each one of the resonators falls within a second frequency band, different from the first frequency band.
摘要:
An optical mode transformer comprises a first waveguide including a first core, a first cladding and an end facet configured to be coupled to an optical fiber. The transformer further includes a second waveguide comprising a second core, a second cladding and an end directly coupled to an end of the first waveguide. A third waveguide comprises a third core and a third cladding, and is arranged with respect to the second waveguide so as to realize an evanescent optical coupling with the second waveguide. The third core includes a tapered region wherein evanescent coupling takes place, and wherein a refractive index contrast of the first waveguide is less than a refractive index contrast of the second waveguide, the refractive index contrast of the second waveguide is less than a refractive index contrast of the third waveguide, and the refractive index contrast of the third waveguide is not less than 18%.
摘要:
Bidirectional isolating devices including non-reciprocal rotators (i.e. Faraday rotators) and wavelength selective reciprocal polarization rotators are disclosed. Each wavelength selective rotator behaves like a half-wave retarder in a first frequency range and behaves like a full-wave retarder in a second frequency range, according to a substantially periodic transfer function. The rotation has a predetermined number of birefringent elements (e.g. waveplates), the thickness and the orientation of which are chosen so as to obtain a transition between the half-wave retarder behavior and the full-wave retarder behavior in a frequency range lower than or equal to 40% of the period of the transfer function. In order to satisfy such a requirement, a relatively high number of birefringent elements is required, i.e. at least the five birefringent elements. Advantageously, the isolating device may comply with any allocation scheme for the opposite propagating signals.
摘要:
An optical transmission system having optical fibres having chromatic dispersion of alternate sign arranged in an optical path in accordance with a dispersion map appropriate for the transmission of dispersion managed solitons at a wavelength λc. The transmission system has a transmission station and a receiver station connected to the optical path. The transmission station launches at least a first optical pulse of wavelength λ1 which is different from λc on the optical path. At least one wavelength conversion device such as a phase conjugation device located along the optical path alters the wavelength of the first pulse of wavelength λ1 in such a way as to obtain a second pulse of wavelength λ2, such that λ2 is on the opposite side from λ1 with respect to λc.
摘要:
An optical device includes an optical splitter having an input port, a first output port and a second output port and is adapted to receive at said input port a WDM optical signal including a plurality of channels equally spaced by a frequency spacing and occupying an optical bandwidth, and wherein the optical splitter is adapted to output at the first and second output ports, respectively, a first and a second portion of the optical signal; an optical combiner having a respective first and second input ports and a respective output port; a first optical path optically connecting the first output port of the optical splitter to the first input port of the optical combiner; a second optical path optically connecting the second output port of the optical splitter to the second input port of the optical combiner, a first optical filter optically coupled along the first optical path, and a second optical filter optically coupled to the second optical path and the free spectral range of both the first and the second optical filter is equal to an odd multiple of the frequency spacing and greater than half of the optical bandwidth.
摘要:
The method for filtering an optical signal comprising a plurality of channels lying on a grid of optical frequencies equally spaced by a frequency spacing and occupying an optical bandwidth, comprises: a) operating an optical filter comprising a plurality of resonators each having a respective free spectral range, wherein a first resonator of the plurality is optically coupled to the optical signal and the remaining resonators are optically coupled in series to the first resonator, so that a respective resonance of each one of the plurality of resonators falls within a first frequency band having bandwidth less than or equal to 15 GHz; b) operating the optical filter so as to obtain a separation between any resonance of at least one resonator falling within the optical bandwidth with respect to a resonance of at least another different resonator nearest to the any resonance, the separation being greater than or equal to 150 GHz and no more than 1 THz; c) tuning all the resonators of the optical filter so as to move all respective resonances of the resonators by a respective frequency interval greater than the frequency spacing while maintaining a distance between the any resonance of the at least one resonator with respect to the nearest resonance of the at least another different resonator not less than 150 GHz and no more than 1 THz; and d) operating the optical filter so that a further respective resonance of each one of the plurality of resonators falls within a second frequency band, different from the first frequency band, having bandwidth less than or equal to 15 GHz. A corresponding device for filtering an optical signal is disclosed.
摘要:
A method for switching from a first optical path optically coupled to an optical processing device to a second optical path, the first and second optical paths optically connecting, in parallel configuration, a first optical switch to a second optical switch, according to the following steps: directing optical radiation comprising at least a fast operating wavelength through the first optical path to the optical processing device, which is tuned to the first operating wavelength; tuning a resonant all-pass filter optically coupled to the second optical path so as to match, at least at a wavelength adjacent to the first operating wavelength, a phase distortion introduced by the optical processing device on the optical radiation; synchronously actuating the first and the second optical switch so as to switch the optical radiation from the first optical path to the second optical path.
摘要:
A compensating optical fiber length having a negative chromatic dispersion slope, the compensating optical fiber having a core region surrounded by a cladding region, the cladding region defining a first ring of holes, which substantially defines, around the core region an annulus with an inner radius r1 and an outer radius r2, and at least one second ring of holes that surrounds the first ring of holes, the holes running along the compensating optical fiber longitudinally and being spaced apart from each other substantially according to a predefined pitch Λ, wherein a) r1≦λ/n≦r2 where n is the refractive index of the material making up the core region of the compensating optical fiber length; b) the holes of the first and the at least one second ring are substantially of the same diameter d; and c) the ratio d/Λ substantially satisfies the following relationship (A) 0.8≦d/Λ
摘要翻译:具有负色散斜率的补偿光纤长度,所述补偿光纤具有由包层区域包围的纤芯区域,所述包层区域限定第一环孔,所述第一环孔基本上限定在所述芯区域周围的具有内半径 r 1和外半径r 2以及围绕第一环孔的至少一个第二环孔,所述孔沿着补偿光纤纵向延伸并且基本上按照预定间距Lambda彼此间隔开,其中 a)r 1 <=λ/ n <= r 2其中n是构成补偿光纤长度的核心区域的材料的折射率; b)第一和第二环的孔基本上具有相同的直径d; 和c)比率d /λ基本上满足以下关系式(A)0.8 <= d /λ1。
摘要:
Device for performing a parametric process, comprising a substantially periodic photonic crystal structure comprising a plurality of unitary cells each comprising a first layer having a first refractive index n1 and a first length L1, a second layer having a second refractive index n2, with n1 different from n2, and a second length L2, a third layer having a third refractive index n3, with n3 different from n2, and a third length L3 and a fourth layer having a fourth refractive index n4, with n4 different from n1 and from n3, and a fourth length L4, wherein at least one among the first, the second, the third and the fourth layers has a non-linearity of the χ2 or χ3 type; at least one of the following conditions is met: a) n1 is different from n3; b) n2 is different from n4; c) L1 is different from L3; d) L2 is different from L4; and n1, n2, n3, n4, L1, L2, L3, L4 have such values as to perform the parametric process in phase matching conditions.