Abstract:
Disclosed is a Gunn-effect device comprising, for example, a crystal of n-type gallium arsenide having alloyed contacts (e.g., indium and gold) which is switched from one frequency of oscillation to another by controlling the incident light while maintaining an appropriate temperature and bias voltage. It is believed that trap zones which are localized within the crystal by virtue of introducing acceptor impurities account for a frequency of oscillation different from the usual transit-time frequency. The Gunn domains and the incident light are made to dynamically perturb the trap system so as to achieve a nonequilibrium condition.
Abstract:
In the disclosed laser communication system, at a transmitter a linearly polarized laser carrier beam is phase modulated with an informational signal such that when the resultant beam is resolved into two linearly polarized component beams in mutually perpendicular planes the respective component beams are shifted forwardly and backwardly in phase by an amount proportional to the informational signal. In a receiver the received phase modulated beam is combined with a local oscillator laser beam which is linearly polarized in a plane parallel to the plane of polarization of the carrier beam, and the resultant beam is separated into a pair of linearly polarized laser beams in respective planes parallel to the planes of the aforementioned transmitter component beams. These linearly polarized laser beams are converted into respective intermediate frequency electrical signals, and a reproduction of the informational signal is obtained by phase comparing these electrical signals.
Abstract:
A branch portion 107 branches a modulating signal into two signals in opposite phases. One of them is inputted to an FM laser element 102. The other one is adjusted in propagation delay and in amplitude and then is inputted to an IM suppressing laser element 110. The FM laser element 102 outputs an optical-frequency-modulated signal around a wavelength .lambda.1, whose optical intensity is also modulated. A local light source 104 outputs light at a wavelength .lambda.0, which is different from the oscillation wavelength .lambda.1 of the FM laser element 102 by .DELTA..lambda.. The IM suppressing laser element 110 outputs an optical-intensity-modulated signal. The three lights are combined and inputted to a photodetection portion 106. The photodetection portion 106 applies a heterodyne detection to inputted lights to output an FM modulated signal corresponding to a beat signal of the outputted optical signal from the FM laser element 102 and the outputted light from the local light source 104 at frequency corresponding to the difference .DELTA..lambda. between the original two wavelengths, and also cancels the average-value variation component in the FM modulated signal with an electrical signal produced by square-law detecting the optical-intensity-modulated signal from the IM suppressing laser element 110, thereby producing an ideal FM modulated signal.
Abstract:
Apparatus for modulating the output signal of a converter for converting electric signals into other signals, for example optical signals. An analog signal is applied to a subtraction device (6) the output signal of which controls a limiter (7). The binary output signal thereof controls the semiconductor laser diode (1) which is coupled to a photo-sensitive detector (3) for producing a feedback signal. After being amplified in a broad-band amplifier (9) and integrated in an integrator (13), this feedback signal is applied to the subtraction device (6), so that the feedback signal is subtracted from the analog signal. Variations in the optical output signal due to a non-linear conversion characteristic of the laser diode (1) and due to an optical retroaction of the fibre (2) on the laser diode, as well as output noise and signal-dependent amplitude variations, are reduced by the negative feedback.