Abstract:
Semiconductor structure having a virtual diffraction grating. This structure comprises an intermediate semiconductor layer (4) between two other semiconductor layers (6,8) having opposite dopings and on one side of the intermediate layer a periodic arrangement or layout (12,14) able to spatially modulate the distribution of the charge carriers or the electric field in said intermediate layer when an electric current is injected into the p-n junction formed by the two other layers or said junction is reverse biased. The periodic arrangement is located in one of the first and second semiconductor layers and is constituted by a sequence of first semiconductor zones having a doping below 10.sup.19 cm.sup.-3 and of the opposite type to that of the semiconductor layer in which the periodic arrangement is located, alternating with second semiconductor zones having the same doping type as that of the semiconductor layer in which the periodic arrangement is located. Application to distributed feedback laser diodes or distributed Bragg reflectors.
Abstract:
An optical device having a switching function has a waveguide filter for switching whether input signal light of including at least one specific wavelength should be transmitted or reflected. The input signal lights of wavelength of .lambda..sub.1 .about..lambda.n are transmitted to the input waveguide. When the waveguide filter is off, the signal lights of all wavelength are transmitted to the output port. When the waveguide filter is on, the signal light of wavelength of .lambda..sub.2 .about..lambda.n are transmitted, but the signal light of wavelength of .lambda..sub.2 is reversed and output to the drop port. If the thin film heaters are off, a signal light of wavelength of .lambda..sub.1 is output (dropped) from the drop port. If the thin film heaters are on, it is reversed and transmitted to the output port.
Abstract:
A new class of optical energy transfer devices and energy guiding devices uses an electric field to control energy propagation using a class of poled structures in solid material. The poled structures, which may form gratings in thin film or bulk configurations, may be combined with waveguide structures. Electric fields applied to the poled structures control routing of optical energy. Devices include splitters, parallel and Y couplers, mode converters and energy leakage attenuators.
Abstract:
There is described a semiconductor microcrystallite doped glass that exhibits SHG, and a method of preparing, or encoding, a semiconductor microcrystallite doped glass by the simultaneous injection of fundamental and second harmonic fields, such as 1.06 .mu.m and 532 nm. More specifically, the disclosure pertains to a structure that exhibits SHG, the structure being comprised of, by example, borosilicate glass that contains CdS.sub.x Se.sub.1-x microcrystallites. Also disclosed are embodiments of devices having an optical waveguide structure formed within a glass substrate that contains semiconductor microcrystallites. The optical waveguide structure guides and contains injected radiation and also converts a portion thereof to the second harmonic. Also disclosed are optoelectronic devices that include frequency doublers, self-doubling lasant material, bichromatic optical switches, and a volume holographic medium, all of which include a glass host having semiconductor microcrystallites embedded within.
Abstract translation:描述了显示SHG的半导体微晶掺杂玻璃,以及通过同时注入基波和二次谐波场(例如1.06μm和532nm)制备或编码半导体微晶掺杂玻璃的方法。 更具体地,本公开涉及显示SHG的结构,该结构由例如包含CdS x Se 1-x微晶的硼硅酸盐玻璃组成。 还公开了具有在包含半导体微晶的玻璃基板内形成的光波导结构的器件的实施例。 光波导结构引导并包含注入的辐射,并将其部分转换成二次谐波。 还公开了包括频率倍增器,自加倍惰性材料,双色光学开关和体积全息介质的光电子器件,所有这些都包括嵌入其中的半导体微晶的玻璃主体。
Abstract:
A tunable optical filter device has a wavelength selective optical filter that includes a grating structure arranged in a waveguide structure. The grating structure is formed so that it comprises two controllable grating sections electrically isolated from each other and which have different grating periods.
Abstract:
An optical speed sensor includes a laser diode 10 that provides a broadband source light 12 to a coupler 18 which provides a source light 22 to a fiber Bragg grating 26 which reflects a first reflection wavelength of light 28 and passes the remainder as a light 30. The light 30 is incident on another fiber Bragg grating 32 which reflects a second reflection wavelength of light 34. The power of an output signal 40 is indicative of the reflected light beams 34,28, and is measured by a photodetector 46. The gratings 26,32 are mounted on a magnetostrictive material 60 which is connected to a permanent magnet 62 which is connected to a material 70 which conducts magnetic fields. The material 60 expands and contracts in response to the strength of magnetic fields therein. The reflection wavelengths for both gratings 26,32 are the same when the tooth 100 is not nearby, thereby causing the output signal 40 to be primarily equal to the reflected light 28. However, when the tooth 100 is nearby, the material 60 and the grating 32 expands causing the reflection wavelengths to separate, thereby causing the power of the output signal 40 to increase. Because both gratings 26,32 are on the same material thermal expansions will have no effect on the sensor measurement. Alternatively, one of the gratings 26,32 may be mounted to the material 70 or the magnet 62. The detection may performed in either reflection or transmission mode.
Abstract:
An optical device comprising a length of optical waveguide (1) having incorporated therein an extended sequence of coupled single resonator structures (9) so as to form an optical slow wave structure. The sequence of resonator structures is suitably formed by a Bragg diffraction grating pattern (7) extending along the waveguide.
Abstract:
Optical signal processing devices, primarily intended for use in integrated optical communication systems, include 3 dB coupled strip guide directional couplers. Each coupler is formed in a body of electrooptic material and includes electrodes bracketing at least one of the guides in the coupled region. Each coupler is fabricated so as to be overcoupled (i.e., greater than 3 dB coupling) when the coupling is synchronous. Voltage bias, supplied to the electrodes of each coupler, produces sufficient asynchronism to independently adjust each coupler to the desired 3 dB coupling condition. Permutation switches are produced by including a switchable phase shifter between two couplers. Channel drop filters are produced by including reflection gratings between two couplers. Differential phase detectors, for a pulse code modulation system, are produced by including a selected path length difference between the two strip guides connecting two couplers. A photolithographic technique for producing the required electrodes in precise registry with the strip guide couplers (typically characterized by 3 micrometer spacings) includes the use of the primary strip guide mask and a secondary mask to produce a photolithographic mask for defining the electrodes.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and method for generating wavelength-tunable laser output pulses using parametric processes, wherein a simultaneous and tuned tuning of the pump pulse wavelength and repetition rate ensures a temporal overlap between pump and seed pulses in a parametric gain medium. Based on this parameter coupling, lasers with a wide tunable wavelength range can be obtained, which can be fully fiber-based and which are also suitable for modern nonlinear microscopy or fluorescence microscopy due to a particularly fast response.
Abstract:
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel includes sub-pixels and a light-shielding layer disposed around the sub-pixels. A reflective nano-grating is disposed on one side of the light-shielding layer near the backlight module. The backlight module provides a backlight source for the display panel, and the backlight source is converted into a polarized light in the display panel. The reflective nano-grating is used to reflect at least one part of the polarized light emitted toward the reflective nano-grating back to the backlight module for recycling.