Abstract:
An optical module controls its output characteristics electrically and an optical switch constitutes the optical module. An optical waveguide circuit (PLC) and an electronic circuit (IC) for driving the PLC are mounted on the same substrate. The IC is composed of a bare chip to be molded afterward. Wiring of the IC is grouped and integrated on the PLC substrate to achieve higher density and miniaturization of the optical module.
Abstract:
An optical module controls its output characteristics electrically and an optical switch constitutes the optical module. An optical waveguide circuit (PLC) and an electronic circuit (IC) for driving the PLC are mounted on the same substrate. The IC is composed of a bare chip to be molded afterward. Wiring of the IC is grouped and integrated on the PLC substrate to achieve higher density and miniaturization of the optical module.
Abstract:
Digital control of frequency and/or amplitude modulation techniques of an intracavity and/or extracavity AOM (60) facilitate substantially full extinction of a laser beam (90) to prevent unwanted laser energy from impinging a workpiece (80); facilitate laser pulse amplitude stability through closed-loop control of pulse-to-pulse laser energy; facilitate beam-positioning control including, but not limited to, closed-loop control for applications such as alignment error correction, beam walk rectification, or tertiary positioning; and facilitate employment of more than one transducer on an AOM (60) to perform any of the above-listed applications.
Abstract:
The invention relates to optical switching. Rapid, low-power optical switching is achieved by selectively substantially depleting majority carriers in a plurality of planes of semiconducting material to alter their transmissive response to incoming radiation.
Abstract:
The invention relates to optical switching. Rapid, low-power optical switching is achieved by selectively substantially depleting majority carriers in a plurality of planes of semiconducting material to alter their transmissive response to incoming radiation.
Abstract:
The optical waveform shaper comprises a plurality of interferometers connected in series. The transfer function of each interferometer is either one of a first transfer function, in which the second order derivative of the output optical power in respect to the input optical power is positive when the input optical power is in the neighborhood of zero, or a second transfer function, and the output optical power shows substantially periodical changes to the input optical power, or a second transfer function, in which the second order derivative of the output optical power in respect to the input optical power is negative when the input optical power is in the neighborhood of zero, or a second transfer function, and the output optical power shows substantially periodical changes to the input optical power. At least one of the interferometers uses the second transfer function.
Abstract:
An electro-optic modulator includes a substrate, at least two parallel optical waveguides, at least one ground plane, at least one active electrode with at least two lower portions of the active electrode, and an upper portion connected to the lower portions, the lower portions spaced apart from each other, each of the two lower portions of the active electrode extending over one of the optical waveguides. An electro-optic phase modulator having at least one optical waveguide and at least one active electrode formed on a face of the substrate, the active electrode having a wider upper portion and a narrower lower portion, the lower portions of the active electrode aligned with and extending over one of the optical waveguides. A bridge electrode has at least one narrower lower portion, and a wider upper portion, the lower portion for being arranged over an optical waveguide formed in a substrate.
Abstract:
A display apparatus includes first and second display panels, a driver chip and a flexible printed circuit board. The driver chip disposed on the first display panel provides the first display panel with first and second driving signals. The flexible pcb electrically connects the first and second display panels to transfer the first and second driving signals to the second display panel. Each of the first and second display panels includes lower and upper substrates, a liquid crystal interposed between the lower and upper substrates, a combining member combining the lower and upper substrates and has an opening portion formed between sides of the lower and upper substrates, and a sealing member sealing the opening portion. By using a single chip to drive both LCD panels, both size reduction and yield/productivity increase are achieved.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an electroabsorption modulator (EAM) (300), comprising a first EAM section (302) optically coupled to a second EAM section (304), a transition wavelength in the electroabsorption (EA) spectrum of the first EAM section (302), at which absorption changes substantially, being different to a transition wavelength in the EA spectrum of the second EAM section (304). The EAM (300) compensates for chirp (which is caused by intrinsic absorption effects) by driving the two sections with a signal (312) generated from a common modulating signal (314). The driving signal (312) at the first EAM section (302) being preferably in anti-phase with the driving signal (312) at the second EAM section (304).
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for implementing a colorless polarization independent Mach-Zehnder-interferometer (MZI)-based tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) that has only three MZI stages (two in a reflective MZI-TDC ) and two adjustable couplers which are responsive to one control voltage, making it compact, low power, and simple to fabricate, test, and operate. Polarization independence is obtained by using a half-wave plate positioned across the midpoints of the two path lengths of middle stage MZI of the three stage MZI-TDC and by using a quarter-wave plate in front of a reflective facet of the reflective MZI-TDC. A cascaded MZI-TDC arrangement with also only a single control is formed by cascading two MZI-TDC arrangements and driving all adjustable couplers with the same control signal.