摘要:
A semiconductor optical waveguide-A having an optical amplification function and a semiconductor optical waveguide-B having a light control function are integrated together on the same substrate. A facet of the semiconductor optical waveguide-A facing an isolation trench and a facet of the semiconductor optical waveguide-B facing the isolation trench are configured as a composite optical reflector/optical connector using an optical interference. The facet of the semiconductor optical waveguide-A achieves an optical reflectivity not higher than the reflectivity corresponding to a cleaved facet and not smaller than several percent, and an optical coupling coefficient of not lower than 50% between the semiconductor optical waveguide-A and the semiconductor optical waveguide-B.
摘要:
An optical intensity-to-phase converter according to the present invention includes first and second waveguides to which a first input light is input, a third waveguide to which a second input light is input, and an interaction region that is provided in common on the second and third waveguides in which the first and second input lights are multiplexed and interact. The optical intensity-to-phase converter provides delay to output lights output from the first and second waveguides based on intensity of the first or second input light. Then, it is possible to provide an optical intensity-to-phase converter that enables simple configuration of an optical A/D converter.
摘要:
The present invention has an object to provide an optical modulation device and an optical modulation method that achieve an excellent spectral efficiency with a simple and compact configuration and low power consumption. An optical modulation device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a CW light source (11), a coupler (12), optical modulators (14a) and (14b), an optical frequency shifter (15b), a serial-to-parallel converter (21), and a delay circuit (24a). The serial-to-parallel converter (21) divides a data signal having a bit rate B into two data strings having a bit rate B/2, and extracts a clock signal (CLK). The delay circuit (24a) temporally synchronizes the two data strings. CW light emitted from the CW light source is split into two beams by the coupler (12). The optical modulators (14a) and (14b) generate optical signals by modulating the two split light beams according to the data strings. The optical frequency shifter (15b) shifts center frequencies of the optical signals by Δf=B/(2×2) according to the clock signal (CLK).
摘要翻译:本发明的目的是提供一种光调制装置和光调制方法,其以简单紧凑的结构和低功耗实现了优异的光谱效率。 根据本发明的示例性方面的光调制装置包括CW光源(11),耦合器(12),光调制器(14a)和(14b),光移频器(15b),串 - 并联转换器(21)和延迟电路(24a)。 串行到并行转换器(21)将具有比特率B的数据信号分成具有比特率B / 2的两个数据串,并提取时钟信号(CLK)。 延迟电路(24a)在时间上同步两个数据串。 从CW光源发射的CW光被耦合器(12)分成两束。 光调制器(14a)和(14b)通过根据数据串调制两个分束光束来产生光信号。 光移位器(15b)根据时钟信号(CLK)将光信号的中心频率移位&Dgr; f = B /(2×2)。
摘要:
In an external cavity wavelength tunable laser device including an external cavity (20) which includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (2) and performs laser oscillation operation by feeding back external light, a wavelength tunable mirror (7) having at least a single-peak reflection spectrum characteristic within a laser wavelength tuning range is placed on one end of the external cavity (20), and a Fabry-Perot mode interval determined by the effective length of the external cavity (20) is not less than 1/10 times and not more than 10 times the reflection band full width half maximum of the wavelength tunable mirror (7).
摘要:
Only the light at an overlapping wavelength of the transmission characteristics of at least two wavelength selecting filters is looped, and at least one of the wavelength selecting filters varies a selected wavelength. Since a loss due to the optical filters is small and there is not a loss caused by a highly reflecting film, the output of an external-resonator variable-wavelength laser can be increased. Optical circuit component (8) divides light input from external device (1) into at least two ports. Loop waveguide (11) interconnects at least ports (9, 10) divided by optical circuit component (8) in the form of a loop. At least two first wavelength selecting filters (12, 13) are inserted in series in a path of loop waveguide (11), and have periodic transmission characteristics on a frequency axis which are different from each other. At least one of first wavelength selecting filters (12, 13) varies the selected wavelength.
摘要:
In an external cavity wavelength tunable laser device including an external cavity (20) which includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (2) and performs laser oscillation operation by feeding back external light, a wavelength tunable mirror (7) having at least a single-peak reflection spectrum characteristic within a laser wavelength tuning range is placed on one end of the external cavity (20), and a Fabry-Perot mode interval determined by the effective length of the external cavity (20) is not less than 1/10 times and not more than 10 times the reflection band full width half maximum of the wavelength tunable mirror (7).
摘要:
An optical intensity-to-phase converter according to the present invention includes first and second waveguides to which a first input light is input, a third waveguide to which a second input light is input, and an interaction region that is provided in common on the second and third waveguides in which the first and second input lights are multiplexed and interact. The optical intensity-to-phase converter provides delay to output lights output from the first and second waveguides based on intensity of the first or second input light. Then, it is possible to provide an optical intensity-to-phase converter that enables simple configuration of an optical A/D converter.
摘要:
In an external resonator type semiconductor wavelength tunable laser apparatus using a wavelength tunable mirror or a wavelength tunable filter which uses a refractive index change of liquid crystal, a resonant frequency is set as FR, when a response of the refractive index change to a drive voltage frequency of liquid crystal becomes maximum. A frequency F1 of a drive AC power supply voltage to control the refractive index of liquid crystal is set to a frequency largely different from FR. A wavelength tunable mirror or a wavelength tunable filter is driven with a signal in which a dither AC signal F2 of a frequency close to the FR and an AC power supply voltage are superimposed. A PD to monitor a light output from the laser controls an amplitude of the drive AC power voltage such that an amplitude of the dither AC signal F2 become minimum. Thus, high laser mode stability is realized.
摘要:
The reflectance of a semiconductor optical amplifier (1) on the side where an external cavity is formed is 0.1% at most. The finesse value obtained by dividing the period of the transmission characteristic of the wavelength selection filter (3) by the half value width of the transmission characteristic is 4 or more and 25 or less. Even when the reflectance of a cavity side end face (1bb) of the semiconductor optical amplifier (1) is about 0.1%, a wavelength accuracy of ±1.5 GHz can be achieved by setting the finesse to 4 or more. In addition, a wavelength accuracy of about ±0.5 GHz can be achieved by setting the finesse to 8 or more. In order to suppress insertion loss, it is preferable to set the finesse of the FP etalon to 25 or less. This makes it possible to implement an external cavity wavelength tunable laser with high wavelength accuracy.
摘要:
An optical A/D converter according to the present invention includes an optical splitter that splits an analog input signal light into plurals, a plurality of Mach-Zehnder interferometers to which each of the signal lights split by the optical splitter is input, and plurality of optical/electrical conversion unit that convert each signal lights output from each Mach-Zehnder interferometer into a digital electrical signal, in which each Mach-Zehnder interferometer includes optical intensity-to-phase conversion unit that optically convert intensity of the input signal light into an amount of phase shift and the amount of phase shift differs for each Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Then, it is possible to provide a high speed and low power consuming optical demodulation circuit.