OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXER, OPTICAL TRANSPORT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING

    公开(公告)号:US20200379181A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16884244

    申请日:2020-05-27

    Inventor: Tomoyuki Akiyama

    Abstract: An optical demultiplexer is disclosed that separates light including a plurality of wavelengths into light of respective wavelengths. Unit circuits are cascaded in a tree structure. In optical demultiplexer components having the same structure, a combination of arm length differences in waveguide pairs is the same with respect to the N−1 Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers in which the phase shifters are arranged, where N equals number of 2×2 couplers. In three of the optical demultiplexer components in at least one of the unit circuits, N is three or more. Each of control circuits controls the phase shifters arranged in a corresponding optical demultiplexer component of a corresponding unit circuit in order to increase or decrease a value of a function having, as an argument, a power value acquired by a monitor from among monitors arranged at four optical waveguides at an output side of the corresponding unit circuit.

    OPTICAL ELEMENT
    32.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL ELEMENT 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200264375A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16788756

    申请日:2020-02-12

    Abstract: To provide an optical element that can be more easily aligned with an optical fiber, an optical element includes one grating coupler optically coupled to an optical fiber, a waveguide connected to the grating coupler, a multimode interferometer connected to the waveguide on the opposite side to the grating coupler, and a waveguide inserted between two input/output ports on the branched side of the multimode interferometer.

    Optical device and optical apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10439729B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US16117958

    申请日:2018-08-30

    Inventor: Tomoyuki Akiyama

    Abstract: A demultiplexing unit that is provided in an optical device and performs demultiplexing into a plurality of optical signals having wavelengths different from each other includes a plurality of optical filters that are coupled in multiple stages and in which a period of a peak wavelength of a transmission spectrum differs among different stages, a monitoring optical filter coupled to one of the plurality of optical filters, a monitoring photodetector coupled to the output side of the monitoring optical filter, and a plurality of wavelength adjustment units that are provided individually for the plurality of optical filters and the monitoring optical filter and cause wavelength shifts of an equal amount in a same direction.

    MODULATED LIGHT SOURCE
    37.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190097383A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-28

    申请号:US16138304

    申请日:2018-09-21

    Inventor: Tomoyuki Akiyama

    Abstract: A modulated light source includes a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier including a mirror at a first end of the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier, a modulator configured to modulate a central wavelength, a first mirror configured to reflect light transmitted by the modulator, an optical filter disposed between a second end of the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier and the modulator, and a second mirror configured to reflect part of incoming light and to transmit the other part of the incoming light. The reflective semiconductor optical amplifier, the optical filter, and the second mirror configure a Fabry-Perot laser. The first mirror is configured to feed light emitted from the Fabry-Perot laser back to the Fabry-Perot laser, and the modulated light source is configured to select light corresponding to one of longitudinal modes oscillated by the Fabry-Perot laser, to modulate the selected light, and to output the modulated light.

    OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT AND RECEIVING CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20180267237A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-20

    申请号:US15838447

    申请日:2017-12-12

    Abstract: The optical waveguide element has a first optical waveguide core; and a second optical waveguide core. In the optical waveguide element, the first optical waveguide core includes a first coupling portion configured to propagate any one polarized wave of a TE polarized wave and a TM polarized wave of a kth-order mode, the other polarized wave of an hth-order mode, and the other polarized wave of a pth-order mode, and a first Bragg reflector connected to the first coupling portion. The second optical waveguide core includes a second coupling portion. The first Bragg reflector includes a rib waveguide including a grating configured to convert the one input polarized wave of the kth-order mode into the other polarized wave of the hth-order mode, reflect the converted polarized wave on the basis of Bragg reflection, and transmit the other input polarized wave of the pth-order mode, and slab waveguides having thicknesses smaller than that of the rib waveguide and integrally formed with the rib waveguide on both side surfaces of the rib waveguide respectively, in the light propagation direction.

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