摘要:
Disclosed is an optical conversion element capable of highly efficient optical coupling between a silicon waveguide and a general single-mode optical fiber only by butt-coupling without requiring anti-reflective coating. One embodiment is an optical conversion element that includes a waveguide structure and converts a mode field of guided light and is characterized in that at least a dual core is included, an innermost core of the dual core is a silicon inverse tapered thin wire core, a first outer core is a forward tapered ridge core having a ridge structure formed of an oxide film with only width of the ridge core changing. The first outer core is positioned on a narrow width side of the innermost core.
摘要:
Disclosed is an optical conversion element capable of highly efficient optical coupling between a silicon waveguide and a general single-mode optical fiber only by butt-coupling without requiring anti-reflective coating. One embodiment is an optical conversion element that includes a waveguide structure and converts a mode field of guided light and is characterized in that at least a dual core is included, an innermost core of the dual core is a silicon inverse tapered thin wire core, a first outer core is a forward tapered ridge core having a ridge structure formed of an oxide film with only width of the ridge core changing. The first outer core is positioned on a narrow width side of the innermost core.
摘要:
An optical switch is constituted of a wavelength filter and a control device. The wavelength filter includes a first waveguide exhibiting a transmission band of a predetermined basic mode and a second waveguide, arranged in at least one location of the first waveguide, exhibiting a transmission band with a cutoff frequency corresponding to a finite value included in the transmission band of the basic mode. A pair of optical couplers constituting a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is connected to opposite ends of a filter unit including the first waveguide and the second waveguide. When a plurality of wavelength filters is cascaded, these wavelength filters differ from each other in terms of the cutoff frequency of the second waveguide. The control device changes the cutoff frequency of the second waveguide within the transmission band of the first waveguide, thus adjusting the filtering band of the wavelength filter.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical switch having a photonic crystal structure. An optical switch of the invention has a slab optical waveguide structure whose core (35) has a two-dimensional photonic crystal structure where two or more media (33, 34) with different refractive indices are alternately and regularly arranged in a two-dimensional manner. The photonic crystal structure comprises: a line-defect waveguide; and means for altering the refractive index of the line-defect waveguide.
摘要:
An optical wavelength demultiplexer includes an optical lens, a first-side waveguide and a plurality of second-side waveguide. The lens has a wave number distribution-surface having a section where an angular frequency is constant, and said section having a shape which generally represents at least a part of an ellipse or a circle; a medium allowing group-velocity directions toward an inside of the section to allow said medium to exhibit a lens effect; a finite thickness defined by a distance between two parallel planarized surfaces of the medium; a first focusing point at an inside position of the lens; and a second focusing point at an outside position of the lens. The first-side waveguide is positioned for incidence of a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal into the lens. The plurality of second-side waveguide is so aligned that terminals thereof are positioned at respective focusing points of respectively different-wavelength components included in the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal.
摘要:
A photonic crystal comprises a plurality of elongated elements formed of a first dielectric material and arranged in a two-dimensional periodic honeycomb lattice. A second dielectric material surrounds the elongated elements and extending between them. The second dielectric material defines between the elongated elements a plurality of spaces filled with a third dielectric material. The first dielectric material has permittivity that is greater than permittivity of the second dielectric material and permittivity of the third dielectric material.
摘要:
A MESFET has a metallic laminate including WSi.sub.x, Ti, Pt and Au films and implementing gate, source and drain electrodes of the MESFET and interconnects therefor. The substrate of the MESFET is formed of a substrate body, a first semiconductor layer made of n.sup.+ -GaAs doped with Si at a concentration of 2.times.10.sup.18 atoms/cm.sup.3 and a second semiconductor layer made of n.sup.+ -InGaAs doped with Si at a concentration of 1.times.10.sup.19 atoms/cm.sup.3. The source and drain electrodes contact the second semiconductor layer in an ohmic contact while the gate electrode contacts the first semiconductor layer in a Schottky contact through a hole formed in the second semiconductor layer. A reduced number of steps in manufacture of the MESFET can be obtained, thereby reducing fabrication costs of the MESFET.
摘要:
The object is to provide an optical switch capable of efficient operation and a manufacturing method thereof. The optical switch according to the present invention is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer type optical switch composed of a line defect waveguide of a photonic crystal. Further, the optical switch according to the present invention includes two directional couplers 20 and 23, and two paths of waveguides 30 and 32 therebetween. Furthermore, between the two paths, group velocity of guided light differs in the first path waveguide 20 and the second path waveguide 32.
摘要:
Disclosed is an optical delay element that makes use of a line-defect waveguide of a photonic crystal, in which long optical delay time and small group speed dispersion are rendered compatible with each other and in which waveform distortion that might otherwise be produced in processing an ultra-high speed signal is eliminated. Two line-defect waveguides 5 and 11, having different pillar diameters and group velocity dispersions of opposite signs, are interconnected by a line-defect waveguide 8, the pillar diameters of which are gradually varied from one 5 of the line-defect waveguides to the other line-defect waveguide 11, such as to compensate for group speed dispersion as well as to maintain an optical delay effect.
摘要:
An optical converter comprises: a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a tapered waveguide arranged between both the waveguides, wherein heights of a core of the first waveguide and a core of the second waveguide are different; both ends in a direction of wave guiding of a core of the tapered waveguide are respectively connected to the core of the first waveguide and the core of the second waveguide; cross-sectional shapes and refractive indexes of cores of two waveguides that are connected change continuously or in a stepwise manner at each connection part; and a cross-sectional shape and refractive index of the core of the tapered waveguide change continuously or in a stepwise manner along a direction of wave guiding.