摘要:
A laser system and method for self-injection locking. The system includes a laser having a laser output at a frequency ωo. An optical port provides a portion of the laser output at the port and a modulator, coupled to the port, is driven by a RF signal at a frequency ωm generates two sidebands at ωo±ωm. A filter passes one of the two sidebands; and an optical path couples an output of the filter to the laser for injection locking.
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A limiter for limiting selected frequency components by generating Stokes waves in a stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The generated Stokes waves create a seed that is provided to another stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The seed selecting the undesired frequency components to be attenuated.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a laser transmitter capable of being configured to transmit one of a plurality of wavelengths. Specifically, the laser transmitter may be reconfigured using the resonance passbands of a tunable microresonator coupled with a fixed grating.
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The invention is an optical labeling/identification system that comprises an optical interrogator, optical label and a programmer. The optical label stores and returns to the interrogator different parts of a wavelength code word. The programmer programs the optical labels with a programming light beam to change the wavelength response of the labels. Interrogation and programming of the labels can be accomplished from a stand off distance without physical contact between the label and the interrogator/programmer. The label may be applied to uneven, wrinkled or discontinuous surfaces.
摘要:
An apparatus and methods for encoding and decoding data are disclosed. The method for transmitting and receiving data allows for coding and decoding each bit of data with a different code. The transmitter and receiver devices allow encoding and decoding, respectively, each bit of data with different a code.
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A vertical cavity modulator/detector (VCMD) device and a method for modulating and detecting light are disclosed. The VCMD device contains an n-type contact layer, a transparent tuning layer, a multiple quantum well structure, a p-type contact layer, a low reflectance mirror arranged to be an input for a light that is to be modulated and a light that is to be detected, and a high reflectance mirror, wherein said n-type contact layer, said transparent tuning layer, said multiple quantum well structure and said p-type contact layer are arranged in a stack between said low reflectance mirror and said high reflectance back mirror.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for building an optically pumped laser integrated with an electrically driven pump laser is disclosed. The apparatus disclosed comprises an optically pumped laser containing an active layer and an optical pump laser containing an optical mode at least partially overlapping and propagating substantially parallel to optically pumped laser's active layer. The method discloses forming an optically pumped gain element containing an active layer, forming a pump laser containing an optical mode at least partially overlapping and propagating substantially parallel to optically pumped gain element's active layer.
摘要:
An optoelectronic-RF device has at least one optical modulator/sensor comprising at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings and at least one non-grating optical waveguide segment interconnecting the at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings, with at least one optical waveguide segment interconnecting the at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings via the at least one non-grating optical waveguide segment. An RF waveguide is provided for propagating an RF electric field, the at least one optical modulator/sensor being disposed in and forming a portion of the RF waveguide with light propagating through the cascaded optical-waveguide gratings in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction of propagation of the RF electric field in the RF waveguide.
摘要:
The present invention describes a microresonator that can be used as a 1:f variable coupler in a unit cell. It is described how a cascade of unit cells can be used to form a tunable, higher-order RF-filter with reconfigurable passbands. The disclosed filter structure can be utilized for the narrowband channelization of RF signals that have been modulated onto optical carriers. It is also disclosed how to utilize add/drop capabilities of the contemplated microdisks to confer connectivity and cascading in two dimensions. The present invention can conveniently provide a wavelength division multiplexing router, where an array of unit cells as provided herein can form a programmable optical switching matrix, through electronic programming of filter parameters.
摘要:
An agile spread spectrum waveform generator comprises a photonic oscillator and an optical heterodyne synthesizer. The photonic oscillator comprises a multi-tone optical comb generator for generating a series of RF comb lines on an optical carrier. The optical heterodyne synthesizer includes first and second phase-locked lasers; the first laser feeding the multi-tone optical comb generator and the second laser comprising a rapidly wavelength-tunable single tone laser whose output light provides a frequency translation reference. A photodetector is provided for heterodyning the frequency translation reference with the optical output of the photonic oscillator to generate an agile spread spectrum waveform.