Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing an optical device including an optical waveguide having a core, a cladding and a light input/output part through which a light beam is input or output, a substrate is prepared which is provided with a uniform thickness of single-crystalline film having its constituent atoms forming a diamond lattice structure and its surface being neither the (111) plane nor its equivalent planes. In the single-crystalline film, a precursor structure is formed which has a precursor of light input/output part. A mask is formed such as to expose the precursor with the remaining part covered. The structure is immersed into an alkaline solution for wet etching with the (111) planes used as etch-stop planes.
Abstract:
An optical fiber guide that guides an optical fiber, the optical fiber guide includes a first substrate, and a guide groove that is formed on a main surface of the first substrate, the optical fiber being insertable from one end side of the guide groove, wherein the guide groove includes a positioning unit that forms a distal end portion of the guide groove, the positioning unit having a slide inclined surface that positions the optical fiber by sliding a distal-end inclined surface of the optical fiber in contact therewith.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light-receiving element, includes a light-receiving part provided on a substrate and having a semiconductor multilayer structure of a circular outer shape, a optical input part formed of a peripheral portion of the semiconductor multilayer structure, and having a tapered front end, and a silicon-thin-line waveguide configured to couple light with the optical input part. The waveguide includes a linear part extending through the optical input part to an at least one area of an upper-side area and a lower-side area of the light-receiving part, and a spiral part connected to the linear part and formed in the at least one area.
Abstract:
An optical element includes: a polarization splitter that splits light input from an input port into a first signal and a second signal according to a plane of polarization; a polarization rotator that rotates a plane of polarization of the second signal output from the polarization splitter by 90 degrees; a first optical coupler that combines the first signal output from the polarization splitter and the second signal output from the polarization rotator and splits the resultant signal into a third signal and a fourth signal with an equal amplitude; a phase controller that controls a phase of the third signal; and a second optical coupler that combines the third signal output from the phase controller and the fourth signal output from the first optical coupler and splits the resultant signal into a fifth signal and a sixth signal with an equal amplitude.
Abstract:
A circuit board (100) has a first surface (102). A semiconductor chip (200) (first semiconductor chip) is located at the first surface side (102) of the circuit board (100). An insulating layer (300) covers the first surface (102) of the circuit board (100) and the semiconductor chip (200). A conductive path (310) (first conductive path) is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip (200) and extends in the insulating layer (300). A waveguide (320) is optically coupled to the semiconductor chip (200) and extends in the insulating layer (300).
Abstract:
An optical communication component includes three or more couplers, a pair of waveguides, a phase shifter, a detector, and a controller. Each of the couplers multiplexes two input optical signals and two-branch outputs the multiplexed optical signals. Each of the pair of waveguides connects between the couplers and outputs each of the optical signals two-branch output from one of the couplers to another one of the couplers. The phase shifter, included in each of the waveguides, adjusts a phase amount of each of the optical signals passing through the waveguides. The detector detects an amount of power of the optical signal that has been subjected to phase adjustment and that is two-branch output from a most downstream coupler, from among the couplers, located in the traveling direction of the optical signal. The controller controls, based on the detected amount of power, each of the phase shifters.
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.
Abstract:
An electro-absorption optical modulator capable of realizing optical coupling with a Si waveguide with high efficiency, improving modulation efficiency, reducing light absorption by an electrode layer and achieving low optical loss includes a substrate; a first silicon layer doped to exhibit a first type of conductivity and a second silicon layer doped to exhibit a second type of conductivity that are disposed parallel to the substrate; and a Ge1−xSix (0
Abstract:
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes an active layer including quantum dots, a diffraction grating, a low-reflectance film disposed at a light-emitting end of the active layer, and a high-reflectance film disposed at another end of the active layer and having an optical reflectance higher than an optical reflectance of the low-reflectance film.
Abstract:
A photodetector which can perform high-speed operation and make the manufacturing process thereof easy is provided. A photodetector 400 comprises an Si layer including a lateral pin junction structure, and a light absorbing layer stacked on the lateral pin junction structure. At least part of an upper part of the light absorbing layer is doped to exhibit a first conductivity type. At least part of a side wall of the light absorbing layer is doped to exhibit the first conductivity type, for making the at least part of the upper part of the light absorbing layer to be electrically connected to a region of the first conductivity type in the lateral pin junction structure.