Abstract:
A drive circuit for increasing the voltage range applied across optical modulators in a transmitter stage of an optical communication system. The circuit comprises a first switch and a second switch connected thereto. The first switch is responsive to a first input signal and has a maximum voltage drop equal to a first reference voltage. The second switch is responsive to a second input signal and has a maximum voltage drop equal to a second reference voltage. A modulator is connected between the first and second switches so that, depending on the values of the first and second input signals, the maximum voltage drop across the modulator will be a value greater than either the first or the second reference voltage.
Abstract:
This polarization beam splitter for guided light is e.g. produced on Z-propagating, X-cut LiNbO.sub.3 :Ti and comprises in series a passive Y-junction (66), an active phase shifter (68) and an active directional coupler (70), independent of the polarization and able to constitute a 3 dB coupler. Thus, on supplying a light wave to the input of the Y-branch and with the coupler constituting a 3 dB coupler, the TM and TE modes of the input wave are respectively obtained at the outputs of the coupler by appropriately polarizing the phase shifter. Application to optical fiber sensors or transducers and to the coherent transmission of information by monomode optical fibers.
Abstract:
A Mach-Zehnder interferometric modulator includes on a Z-cut crystal substrate of LiNbO.sub.3 an input waveguide section (302), an input branching section (303) for dividing an optical signal on the input waveguide into two substantially equal portions, first and second branch waveguides (304, 305) each having an electrode associated therewith (309, 308), an output branching section (306) for recombining the light from each branch waveguide into a single optical signal on an output waveguide section (307). The two branch waveguides are spaced close enough to maximize the field overlap between the applied electrical field and the optical field in the waveguides but are optically decoupled to prevent cross-coupling of light between the branches. This decoupling is achieved by using structures which change the propagation constant of one of the branches with respect to the other along the modulation length.
Abstract in simplified Chinese:一种设备包括光学强度分离器、光学强度结合器、第一及第二马赫-任德干涉仪、第一及第二驱动电极。第一马赫-任德干涉仪连接光学强度分离器之第一光学输出至光学强度结合器之第一光学输入。第二马赫-任德干涉仪连接光学强度分离器之第二光学输出至光学强度结合器之第二光学输入。第一驱动电极位在沿着马赫-任德干涉仪的第一内部光学臂之一对半导体接面之间并连接至该对半导体接面。第二驱动电极位在沿着该些马赫-任德干涉仪的第二内部光学臂的一对半导体接面之间并连接至该对半导体接面。
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To downsize a package of an optical modulator in the optical modulator and an optical transmitter.SOLUTION: An optical modulator 1 is configured to house a first substrate 3 and a second substrate 4 different from the first substrate 3 in a package 2, and has a flexible circuit substrate 5 outside the package 2. In the first substrate 3, a plurality of optical modulators 6 and 7 is juxtaposed that has a Mach-Zehnder type optical waveguide. In the second substrate 4, a plurality first signal lines 51 and 52 is provided that corresponds to each of the optical modulators 6 and 7, respectively. In the flexible circuit substrate 5, a plurality of second signal lines 61 and 62 is provided that corresponds to each of the optical modulators 6 and 7, respectively. An electric length of each of the second signal lines 61 and 62 is mutually different. An electric length of a signal path is mutually equal that reaches origins P, Pon signal electrodes 14 and 24 via the first signal lines 51 and 52 from input terminals 63 and 64 of the second signal lines 61 and 62 respectively corresponding to each of the optical modulators 6 and 7.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor optical phase modulator capable of reducing phase distortion when an optical waveguide is formed of a semiconductor, and to provide a method for driving the same.SOLUTION: The semiconductor optical phase modulator includes a pair of optical waveguides 12 and 13 formed of a semiconductor, and a Mach-Zehnder modulator 10 for performing binary phase modulation of a phase difference π(rad) of input light Lin1 by applying voltages V11 and V12 to the pair of optical waveguides 12 and 13. The Mach-Zehnder modulator 10 has a phase change section 17 for changing the phase of light L12 propagating through one optical waveguide 13 out of the pair of optical waveguides 12 and 13 to the π(rad).
Abstract:
A silicon-based optical modulator structure includes one or more separate localized heating elements for changing the refractive index of an associated portion of the structure and thereby providing corrective adjustments to address unwanted variations in device performance. Heating is provided by thermo-optic devices such as, for example, silicon-based resistors, silicide resistors, forward-biased PN junctions, and the like, where any of these structures may easily be incorporated with a silicon-based optical modulator. The application of a DC voltage to any of these structures will generate heat, which then transfers into the waveguiding area. The increase in local temperature of the waveguiding area will, in turn, increase the refractive index of the waveguiding in the area. Control of the applied DC voltage results in controlling the refractive index.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide chirp-free coplanar waveguide modulators and single-drive double coplanar strip modulators. SOLUTION: A coplanar integrated optical waveguide electro-optical modulator comprises a substrate of an electro-optic material, at least two optical waveguides 41 and 42 integrated on a corresponding surface of the substrate, and electrode systems 80, 90 and 100 arranged on the surface for applying a modulating electric field to the waveguide suitable for causing a modulation of refractive index of the two waveguides in a device modulation region. The waveguides are formed, for at least a section thereof (411, 421) in the device modulation region, in respective substrate regions which have electro-optic coefficients of opposite sign along an axis transversal to the waveguide sections, so that a modulating electric field of same direction and orientation in the waveguide sections causes refractive index modulations of opposite sign in the waveguide sections.