PLUGGABLE OPTICAL MODULE AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240118507A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-11

    申请号:US18545038

    申请日:2023-12-19

    申请人: NEC Corporation

    发明人: Isao TOMITA

    摘要: A pluggable optical connector is configured to be insertable into and removable from an optical communication apparatus, and to be capable of communicating a modulation signal and a data signal with the optical communication apparatus. A wavelength-tunable light source is configured to output an output light and a local oscillation light. An optical transmission unit is configured to output an optical signal generated by modulating the output light in response to the modulation signal. An optical reception unit is configured to demodulate an optical signal received by using the local oscillation light to the data signal. Pluggable optical receptors are configured in such a manner that an optical fiber is insertable into and removable from the pluggable optical receptors, and configured to be capable of outputting the optical signal to the optical fiber and transferring the optical signal received thorough the optical fiber to the optical reception unit.

    OPTICAL MODULATION AND AMPLIFICATION APPARATUS, OPTICAL MODULE, OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240006859A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18468071

    申请日:2023-09-15

    IPC分类号: H01S5/50 H01S5/026 H01S5/34

    摘要: An optical modulation and amplification apparatus, an optical module, an optical network unit, and an optical communication system are provided. The optical modulation and amplification apparatus includes an electric absorption modulator and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The electric absorption modulator and the semiconductor optical amplifier share a same substrate and a same multi-layer material structure. The multi-layer material structure includes, from bottom to top, at least a first quantum well, an electron blocking layer, a second quantum well, and an upper separate confinement layer. The electric absorption modulator is configured to modulate injection light by using the first quantum well, and the semiconductor optical amplifier is configured to amplify the injection light by using the second quantum well.

    INTEGRATED PHOTONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230387666A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18321086

    申请日:2023-05-22

    申请人: Xuan Sun

    发明人: Xuan Sun

    摘要: A fully integrated photonic coherent microwave generator includes an external laser cavity on a suitable material waveguide platform (e.g., LiNbO3) operationally integrated with a III-V gain element. Operational components include a tunable high-Q resonator (e.g., LiNbO3 microresonator) and one or more end mirrors to form an integrated semiconductor external-cavity laser. Operationally coupled electrical components enable coherent microwave and phase-locked laser comb outputs as follows. An optical detector converts the beating of generated laser-comb modes into microwaves with a fundamental frequency equal to the free-spectral range fR of the microresonator. The external laser cavity enables high-speed electro-optic modulation of laser modes directly inside the laser cavity. Phase locking of the lasing modes is accomplished via electro-optic modulation and electro-optic comb generation directly inside the laser cavity. Highly coherent microwaves are generated via phase-locked comb-like lasing modes.

    Amplified spontaneous emission semiconductor source

    公开(公告)号:US11791437B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US16731193

    申请日:2019-12-31

    申请人: EXALOS AG

    摘要: An amplified spontaneous emission, ASE, source device combining a superluminescent light emitting diode, SLED, with a semiconductor optical amplifier, SOA, the SLED and SOA being arranged in series so that the SLED acts as a seed and the SOA acts as a broadband amplifier for the SLED output. Both SLED and SOA have a structure made up of a succession of epitaxial semiconductor layers which form a waveguide comprising a core of active region layers and surrounding cladding layers. The SLED and SOA confinement factors of the SLED and SOA, wherein confinement factor is the percentage of the optical mode power in the active region layers, is designed so that the SLED confinement factor is greater than that of the SOA by at least 20%. This allow higher power outputs, because the SLED power limits imposed by the onset of non-linear effects and catastrophic optical damage can be circumvented.

    MINIATURIZED MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER-AMPLIFIER STRUCTURE DIODE-PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER

    公开(公告)号:US20230231361A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18067392

    申请日:2022-12-16

    IPC分类号: H01S5/04 H01S5/50

    摘要: The present disclosure discloses a miniaturized MOPA structure DPSSL (Diode Pumped Solid State Laser), which comprises a laser oscillator module and a laser amplifier module. The laser oscillator module consists of a seed laser and its collimating system, and the laser amplifier module consists of a laser pump module and a laser gain element. The seed laser with high beam quality is collimated by collimation system, then input into the gain element; the pump laser is pumped into the gain element via end pump or side pump mode. The seed laser beam transmits into the gain medium and is reflected by the interface several times with the “Zigzag” path, which makes the seed laser fully gained and amplified, finally achieving high power and high beam quality laser output.
    In this present disclosure, the laser gain material is doped with different rare-earth ion concentrations and processed into different shapes. Some polishing surfaces of the gain material are deposited with different coatings including HR coating and AR coating, on the one hand, to improve the absorption efficiency of the pump laser, on the other hand, to make the seeds laser in the gain element achieve longer transmission distance by Zigzag transmission path, so that the energy in the gain medium can be fully extracted. And finally, achieve high power laser output.
    The present disclosure can adopt the host material doped at least at the same time with Er and Yb elements as the laser gain medium, adopt high-quality 1.55-micron or other medium emission peak band seed laser source as well as end or side pump mode, and can realize the laser output with high power and high beam quality.
    Compared with the MOPA laser of the prior art, the present disclosure has the advantages of simple structure, small volume, and low cost.