Apparatus of optical transmitters and receivers operating in long wave infrared wavelength ranges

    公开(公告)号:US11841599B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-12

    申请号:US17451711

    申请日:2021-10-21

    摘要: Optical transmitters and optical receivers utilizing long wave infrared light for use with an earth-orbiting satellite communication system, and a structure including an intracavity optical nonlinear process, are described herein. The transmitters include a pumping laser diode with a fast-axis collimating lens and a pumping wavelength λ0, operating in a continuous wavelength (CW) mode. The transmitters also include a laser cavity having a beam combiner or a dichroic mirror, a laser crystal with a lasing wavelength λ1 and a difference frequency generation orientation patterned semiconductor to generate long wave-IR light. The transmitters also include a second laser at a wavelength λ2, operating in a modulation mode. The receivers have a similar structure to the transmitters, utilizing a sum frequency generation orientation patterned semiconductor to convert long wave-IR light into the short wave-IR.

    LOW-THRESHOLD SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN BULK DIELECTRICS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

    公开(公告)号:US20240103337A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18260020

    申请日:2021-12-29

    IPC分类号: G02F1/35 G02F1/355

    摘要: Controlling a low-threshold femtosecond supercontinuum (fs SCG) in a bulk nonlinear material (BNLM) with a positive thermo-optic coefficient (dn/dT>0 K−1) is provided by coupling light at a first wavelength output by a fs oscillator at a full pulse repetition PRR into the BNLM. The coupling of light produces a nonlinear lens of the coupled beam in the BNLM which is insufficient to provide intensity of the light sufficient to reach ta threshold of the fs SCG. To raise the pulse energy and reach the SCG threshold, light at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength is absorbed in the BNLM to form a thermal lens in the BNLM which assist the nonlinear lens in creating the SCG.

    GATE-TUNABLE ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIR GENERATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240118586A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-11

    申请号:US18045189

    申请日:2022-10-10

    IPC分类号: G02F1/39 G02F1/35

    CPC分类号: G02F1/395 G02F1/3548

    摘要: An electro-optical modulating device and method that provides efficient control of the nonlinear propagation constant in an optical waveguide are featured. The electro-optical modulating device provides large wavelength tunability of the generated entangled photon pairs in real-time by using an applied external bias voltage. The electro-optical modulating device uses gate-tunable material at locations near the optical waveguide. The application of an external bias voltage creates a variable field-effect which in turn varies the optical dielectric properties of the waveguide. The result is a compact active, highly efficient wavelength-tunable integrated quantum photonic device for tunable entangled photon pair generation using an external bias voltage.