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公开(公告)号:US12092870B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US17782799
申请日:2019-12-11
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Takashi Go , Kenya Suzuki , Keita Yamaguchi , Ai Yanagihara
CPC classification number: G02B6/125 , G02B6/1228 , G02B2006/12035 , G02B2006/12147
Abstract: In a waveguide having a given Δ, a low-loss waveguide bend is realized while the curvature radius is kept small. In an optical waveguide in which a first waveguide and a second waveguide are connected, a clothoid tapered waveguide bend is inserted between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. In the clothoid tapered waveguide bend, the waveguide width continuously changes from a first waveguide width at a connection point of the first waveguide to a second waveguide width at a connection point of the second waveguide, the curvature radius continuously changes from a first curvature radius at the connection point of the first waveguide to a second curvature radius at the connection point of the second waveguide, the first waveguide width and the second waveguide width are different from each other, and the first curvature radius and the second curvature radius are different from each other.
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公开(公告)号:US11973535B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US17424733
申请日:2020-01-17
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Osamu Moriwaki , Manabu Oguma , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Yuichiro Ikuma
IPC: H04B10/079 , G01J3/45 , G02B6/12 , G02B6/125 , H04B10/572 , H04J14/02
CPC classification number: H04B10/07957 , G01J3/45 , H04B10/079 , H04B10/572 , G02B6/12009 , G02B2006/12159 , G02B2006/12164 , G02B6/125 , H04J14/02
Abstract: A wavelength monitoring circuit obtains a light output proportional to only an input optical signal, independent of wavelength, by adding a light split circuit to the configuration in the related art, or changing the light split circuit to a light trifurcation circuit. In addition, wavelength monitoring with high accuracy is possible while improving the resistance to noise. The extraction of the light output proportional to only the input optical signal is performed by a light split circuit for input light at the top stage of the wavelength monitoring circuit or a light split circuit for interference in a stage in the middle of the circuit. The changed light split circuit causes the MZI included in the wavelength monitoring circuit to operate in a state of losing the balance of the configuration or the optical signal level, and increases the signal level near the bottom portion of the transmission characteristics.
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公开(公告)号:US11112561B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-07
申请号:US16970270
申请日:2019-03-04
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Osamu Moriwaki , Ai Yanagihara , Keita Yamaguchi
Abstract: Provided is a variable wavelength filter having a wide variable wavelength range. In the variable wavelength filter, a slab waveguide that is a component of an arrayed-waveguide grating has a groove into which a resin is inserted. The groove intersects with a plurality of line segments A joining a place of connection between an input light waveguide and the slab waveguide to places of connection between respective array waveguides and the slab waveguide. The groove is formed such that a total length LA of an intersection of the groove and each of the line segments A monotonously increases or decreases between the adjacent line segments A with a difference in the total length LA between the adjacent line segments A being constant.
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公开(公告)号:US12032231B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17311959
申请日:2019-12-24
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Keita Yamaguchi , Ai Yanagihara , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Osamu Moriwaki
CPC classification number: G02F1/0147 , B29D11/00932 , G02F1/212 , G02F1/2257
Abstract: The present invention realizes an optical signal processing device that enables using a thermal oxidation silica film as the under clad of a silica PLC while also increasing the thickness of the under clad and reducing the time required for film growth during manufacturing. The optical signal processing device is formed as a planar optical circuit that includes an optical waveguide formed on a silicon substrate, and has a phase modulation element that employs a thermo-optical effect. A plurality of silica films are provided between a core of the optical waveguide and the silicon substrate, and at least one of the silica films was formed by thermal oxidation.
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公开(公告)号:US11977315B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-07
申请号:US17297817
申请日:2019-12-11
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Ai Yanagihara , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Keita Yamaguchi , Yuko Kawajiri
CPC classification number: G02F1/3136 , H01R12/71 , H01R13/24 , G02F2201/12
Abstract: The positions at which electrode pads are arranged can be made more flexible, and electrical interconnects to be installed can be reduced. In addition, the degree of integration of a chip increases, making it possible to realize a large-scale device (optical switch etc.). In an optical module of the present invention, an interposer (an electrical connection intermediary component with electrode pins attached onto upper and lower faces in an array) is laid over a chip that includes a device configured by using a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) fixed onto a fixing metal plate, and a control substrate for driving the device is laid over the interposer. These components are mechanically fixed by a fixing screw or the like, and the electrode pads of the chip and the control substrate are connected to each other via the interposer.
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公开(公告)号:US11822206B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-21
申请号:US16965090
申请日:2019-02-20
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Mitsumasa Nakajima , Masanobu Inubushi , Takashi Go , Toshikazu Hashimoto
Abstract: There is provided an optical signal processing device capable of RC in a complex space using optical intensity and phase information. An optical modulator controlled by an electric signal processing circuit modulates laser light, which is emitted from a laser light source, at a modulation period either or both of the intensity and phase values of the optical electric field. On the other hand, an input signal is also modulated by the optical modulator at a modulation period in the time domain so as to be an input signal. The converted input signal passes through an optical transmission path and enters an optical circulation circuit via an optical coupler. Part of the circulating light is branched into two by an optical coupler, and the branched light is converted into a complex intermediate signal at a coherent optical receiver. This complex intermediate signal demodulated at the coherent optical receiver is computed at an electric signal processing circuit, and thereby the operation as RC can be performed.
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公开(公告)号:US20220272427A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17623672
申请日:2019-07-01
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Keita Yamaguchi , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Osamu Moriwaki , Ai Yanagihara
Abstract: In order to reduce the number of power driving elements, an optical signal processing device includes a control unit, a current generation unit, a connection portion, and an optical signal processing unit, the current generation unit includes one or a plurality of power driving elements s, the optical signal processing unit is an optical waveguide on a substrate, and a plurality of driven elements are connected in parallel to an identical one of the plurality of power driving elements and are driven.
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公开(公告)号:US20220091473A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-24
申请号:US17419489
申请日:2020-01-07
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Keita Yamaguchi , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go , Osamu Moriwaki , Ai Yanagihara
IPC: G02F1/313
Abstract: To provide an optical signal processing device capable of reducing the crosstalk while narrowing the space between switch elements for downsizing, the optical signal processing device includes a plurality of input optical waveguides, a plurality of output optical waveguides, a plurality of optical waveguide elements arranged between the plurality of input optical waveguides and the plurality of output optical waveguides, and a connection optical waveguide. The connection optical waveguide positioned closely to the optical waveguide element is differentiated in propagation constant from the optical waveguide configuring the closely arranged optical waveguide element. The connection optical waveguide positioned closely to the optical waveguide element is a connection optical waveguide having one end or both ends connected to the optical waveguide element, or a connection optical waveguide having both ends not connected to the optical waveguide elements.
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公开(公告)号:US11194093B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-07
申请号:US16968508
申请日:2019-03-04
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Kazunori Senoo , Keita Yamaguchi , Kenya Suzuki , Takashi Go
Abstract: In an optical switch array on which optical switches that require individual electric wires are integrated, the present invention provides an optical switch array and a multi-cast switch in which the electric wires are shortened by optimizing the arrangement of the optical circuit portion. In the optical switch array in which three arrays of 1×4 switch circuits are disposed in parallel, the position where each optical switch is disposed is sequentially shifted by Dy in the y axis direction. That is, in the case where an adjacent 1×4 optical switch circuit exists on both sides, the 1×4 optical switch located there between is located at the center of the two 1×4 optical switch circuits, which are adjacent in the y axis direction. Each of the three 1×4 optical switch circuits that are arrayed are disposed at a position shifted from the adjacent 1×4 optical switch circuit by Dy in the y axis direction, in accordance with the positional coordinate in the x axis direction, and the electric wires at the ground side are shared such that each optical switch circuit is located sequentially shifted by Dy in the −y axis direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20240201521A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-20
申请号:US18555701
申请日:2021-04-28
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Takashi Go , Yuichiro Ikuma , Kenya Suzuki , Keita Yamaguchi , Ai Yanagihara
CPC classification number: G02F1/0147 , G02F1/212 , G02F1/225 , G02F2201/06 , G02F2203/50 , G02F2203/62
Abstract: An optical phase shifter in which a phase shift amount is kept constant in a wide wavelength region is provided. One aspect is the optical phase shifter constituting of two waveguides of a basic width, and configured so that two lights propagating through each waveguide have a phase difference, including a different type waveguide arranged in at least one of the two waveguides and having a waveguide width different from the basic width, and a configuration of the different type waveguide and a parameter of the two waveguides and different type waveguide are optimized.
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