Abstract:
Provided is an optical waveguide element having a reduced optical loss, a lower driving voltage, and a reduced size. A rib waveguide core of an optical waveguide includes a first core region and a second core region which constitute a PN junction and which are provided so as to overlap each other in a horizontal direction. A depletion layer is formed between the first core region and the second core region. The depletion layer extends from a rib region to both of two slab regions. The depletion layer is located so as to be vertically lower in the slab regions than in the rib region.
Abstract:
An optical receiver circuit includes: a substrate; and an optical waveguide device that is formed on the substrate. The optical waveguide device includes: a first optical splitter section branching the signal light into a first signal light propagation waveguide and a second signal light propagation waveguide and; a second optical splitter section branching the local-oscillator light into a first local-oscillator light propagation waveguide and a second local-oscillator light propagation waveguide; a first optical coupler section that combines the signal light propagating through the first signal light propagation waveguide and the local-oscillator light propagating through the first local-oscillator light propagation waveguide with each other; a second optical coupler section that combines the signal light propagating through the second signal light propagation waveguide and the local-oscillator light propagating through the second local-oscillator light propagation waveguide with each other.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide element includes: a rib waveguide and a pair of slab portions including a first slab portion and a second slab portion connected to both sides of the rib portion so as to sandwich the rib portion. The rib portion has a cross-sectional dimension which allows the propagation of a fundamental mode and a higher order mode in a predetermined single polarization state, and has a first P-type semiconductor and a first N-type semiconductor forming a PN junction, the first slab portion has a second P-type semiconductor and a P-type conductor connected to each other, the second P-type semiconductor is connected to the first P-type semiconductor of the rib portion, the second slab portion has a second N-type semiconductor and an N-type conductor connected to each other, and the second N-type semiconductor is connected to the first N-type semiconductor of the rib portion.
Abstract:
A planar optical waveguide device, includes: two input portions that are waveguides that have the same width, are parallel to each other, and have rectangular cross-sections; a wide portion that is a linear waveguide and is connected after the two input portions; a tapered portion that is connected after the wide portion and that is a multi-mode waveguide which has a tapered shape having a width decreasing gradually and through which at least TE1 propagates; and an output portion that is connected after the tapered portion and that is a multi-mode waveguide which has a rectangular cross-section and through which at least TE1 propagates. The planar optical waveguide device forms a high-order mode conversion combining element that outputs the TE0, which is input to the two input portions, as the TE1 from the output portion.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical element including an optical waveguide including a core formed from: a rib part; and a first and second slab parts sandwiching the rib part. The first slab part includes a P-type region, the second slab part includes an N-type region, the rib part includes a P-type region which is in contact with the P-type region provided in the first slab part, and an N-type region which is in contact with the N-type region provided in the second slab part. The rib part includes a top portion which is located above the first and second slab parts and includes an undoped region formed from at least one of an intrinsic region and a low-concentration doping region which is doped at a dopant concentration 1/10 or less of a dopant concentration in at least one of the adjacent P-type region and the adjacent N-type region.
Abstract:
An optical modulation device configured of a planar optical waveguide, includes: a light incidence unit which allows light to be incident on the planar optical waveguide; a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which includes a first optical splitter section branching the light incident on the light incidence unit, two arm portions guiding the light branched by the first optical splitter section, a phase modulation unit linearly disposed on each of the two arm portions, and a first optical coupler section combining the light guided from the two arm portions; a light launching unit which launches the light combined by the first optical coupler section from the planar optical waveguide; and a traveling-wave electrode which includes an input unit and an output unit, and applies a voltage to the phase modulation unit.
Abstract:
An optical integrated circuit includes: a mode conversion and branching section that launches light from a first optical waveguide to a second optical waveguide, converts light from the first optical waveguide into converted light, and launches the converted light to a third optical waveguide; an optical multiplexing and branching section that multiplexes lights from the second and third optical waveguides into one multiplexed light component, and branches the multiplexed light component into a light component to be input to a fourth optical waveguide and a light component to be input to a fifth optical waveguide; a phase modulation section that is provided in at least one of the fourth and fifth optical waveguides and modulates a phase of guided light; and an optical multiplexing section that multiplexes light components from the fourth and fifth optical waveguides into one light component.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide element includes a core and a cladding that is made of SiO2. When ng_i_TE is a group refractive index of a TE0 polarized wave in the i-th waveguide counted from a light incidence plane of the core and ng_i_TM is a group refractive index of a TM0 polarized wave in the i-th waveguide, the length L_i[m] of the i-th waveguide satisfies a predetermined relation.
Abstract:
Provided is a chromatic dispersion measurement device including a light branching unit that divides a incident measured light signal into a first measured light signal and a second measured light signal and causes a frequency difference between the first measured light signal and the second measured light signal when the signals are output, an optical phase shifter provided in either one of the first branch path and the second branch path having a polarization maintaining characteristic and periodically changing a phase αi of the measured light signal, an optical combination unit that combines the first measured light signal and the second measured light signal and outputs an interference element of an i-th optical component obtained by interference of the first measured light signal and the second measured light signal when the phase difference is the phase αi, as a combined measured light signal.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide device includes: a mode splitter including a main waveguide in which lights can be propagated in at least two propagation modes with different propagation orders and a subsidiary waveguide which includes a coupling section disposed in parallel with the main waveguide at a certain distance away from the main waveguide so as to constitute a directional coupler and is capable of splitting at least one propagation mode out of the two or more propagation modes from the main waveguide. Also, ncore/ncladding which is a refractive index ratio between a core and a cladding which constitute the main waveguide and the subsidiary waveguide is in a range of 101% to 250%.