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7620284 Optical waveform shaping device including portions for respectively absorbing and amplifying transmitted optical signal  
An optical waveform shaping device includes a first waveguide portion, formed on a substrate, for transmitting the optical signal and simultaneously absorbing a portion of the optical signal, which...
7616843 Optical functional device and fabrication process of the same  
Arranged for at least one of a pair of branch optical waveguides in a Mach-Zehnder type interference optical system is a ring resonance type phase shifter for modulating a light wave signal...
7616618 Code cycle modulation in optical code division multiple access systems  
An optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system includes an optical transmitter system configured to transmit data from a plurality of users through a shared optical channel by encoding the...
7606447 Mach-Zehnder type semiconductor device and method of controlling the same  
A Mach-Zehnder type semiconductor device includes electrodes for injecting carriers into first and second branch waveguides so as to change reflection indexes of the first and second branch...
7603002 Optical device  
An optical device having a substrate having an electro-optical effect, an optical waveguide formed in the substrate, and an electric field emission electrode, and an electric field convergence...
7599595 Semiconductor optoelectronic waveguide  
The present invention relates to a semiconductor optoelectronic waveguide having a nin-type hetero structure which is able to stably operate an optical modulator. On the upper and lower surfaces of...
7590313 Phased-array optical whispering gallery mode modulation and method  
A whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator device and method capable of filtering sidebands of optical modulators are provided. The method includes providing an optical resonator adapted to support...
7590312 Interferometer optical switch and variable optical attenuator  
The present invention discloses an interferometer optical switch that can carry out switching over a broad band and has a high extinction ratio and large fabrication tolerance. The interferometer...
7583868 3R recovery system  
A full 3R (re-timing, re-shaping, re-amplifying) recovery system is provided. In the full 3R recovery system, a self-pulsating laser diode (SP-LD) and an electroabsorption modulator (EAM) are...
7580594 Optical modulation element and optical modulation device having the same  
An optical modulation element includes a waveguide defined based on a defect in a photonic crystal, a carrier conducting region for conducting a carrier to the waveguide, an electrode for injecting...
7577367 Optical communication using duobinary modulation  
Optical techniques, devices and systems for combining duobinary modulation and optical subcarrier multiplexing in optical communication applications. An analog mixer is used to mix a duobinary...
7570843 Optical modulation element module  
The present invention provides an optical modulation element module which is capable of the optical modulation for analog transmission with a low driving voltage and low chirp. An optical...
7567736 Waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch  
A waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch includes an input/output port including at least three waveguide spectrometers stacked in thickness direction, a first lens for collecting light...
7561806 Method and system for keeping timing alignment between driving signals in optical double modulation  
A method and system is disclosed for making timing alignment for a data transmission system, the method comprising providing a reference clock signal with a first frequency to a multiplexer through...
7561760 System and method for optical beam steering using nanowires and method of fabricating same  
An apparatus and a method for steering optical frequency beams using nanowire. A method includes providing one or more nanowire waveguide arrays, generating an optical frequency beam, wherein the...
7561759 Optical modulator  
Optical modulator devices exhibiting improved response characteristics are constructed from a ring resonator having a tunable loss element positioned within the ring resonator structure and one or...
7558456 Optical waveguide device  
An optical waveguide device includes a lower cladding layer, a high refractive index region provided on the lower cladding layer, a pair of cores provided on the lower cladding layer on both sides...
7558444 Traveling-wave-type optical modulator and method of adjusting the same  
To provide a traveling-wave-type optical modulator and a method of adjusting the same, in which an occurrence of a jitter can be suppressed when an optical modulator is driven by using a driver,...
7555226 Automatic bias control for an optical modulator  
An automatic bias controller for an optical modulator is provided. The automatic bias controller comprises a driver for providing an electrical data signal to the modulator and a bias voltage...
7546017 Electro-photonic modulators  
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to modulators that can be operated electronically and used to modulate electromagnetic radiation. In one embodiment of the present...
7542630 High speed optical phase modulator  
An optical device includes a phase modulator having a waveguide on a substrate. The phase modulator also includes an n-type region having a proximity to a p-type region that causes formation of a...
7539359 Systems and methods for chirp control of a dual arm Z-modulator to minimize dispersion effect of fiber plant  
The present invention provides systems and methods for chirp control of a dual arm Z-modulator to minimize dispersion in the fiber plant. The chirp control is based upon a real-time control loop...
7536065 Electro-optic gap-cell for waveguide deployment  
The present invention provides an electro-optic gap-cell for waveguide deployment, including a first optical transmission medium formed in at least a portion of a device layer, a second optical...
7532778 Optical waveguide modulator equipped with an output light monitor  
An optical waveguide element having a plurality of surface waveguide portions. A connecting portion for connecting the surface waveguide portions. An output light-outputting waveguide portion...
7532777 Optical functional devices  
An optical functional device has a slab type two-dimensional photonic crystal layer. The photonic crystal layer has a dielectric layer and a plurality of lattice columns each comprising dielectric...
7532776 Optical element and optical switch  
A core layer of an optical waveguide is grown as a film comprised of an electro-optic material with a rhombohedral structure and grown above a substrate with (100) crystal orientation on a major face.
7526209 Optical frequency shift keying modulator  
An optical FSK modulator which can be used for an optical information communication is provided. The optical FSK is provided with: a second sub Mach-Zehnder waveguide (MZ B ) 3 ; a main...
7519249 Semiconductor optical modulator  
Semiconductor optical modulator devices exhibiting improved chirp characteristics are constructed from a Mach-Zehnder structure having resonators positioned within each arm and a number of phases...
7519241 Optical device  
The present invention relates to an optical device including a branching unit for making branches of incident light in a first branch ratio, a phase adjusting unit for adjusting the relationship in...
7519240 Multi-section coupler to mitigate guide-guide asymmetry  
A wavelength independent multi-section optical coupler having at least three optical couplers, and at least two differential phase cells. Each optical coupler has two waveguides forming a coupling...
7515778 Segmented optical modulator  
An optical modulator is formed to include an adjustable drive arrangement for dynamically adjusting the effective length of the optical signals path(s) within the modulator. Each modulator arm is...
7515776 Temperature-controlled optical modulator  
SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this...
7515775 Distributed amplifier optical modulator  
Various embodiments described herein comprises an optoelectronic device comprising a waveguide structure including a plurality of optical modulator elements each having an optical property that is...
7509003 Optical waveguide, optical device, and manufacturing method of the optical waveguide  
An optical waveguide has a diffusion area (optical waveguide) with a high refractive index formed by diffusing impurities on a substrate. The diffusion area has a bent portion, and the optical...
7499612 Multimode planar waveguide spectral filter  
A spectral filter comprises a planar optical waveguide having at least one set of diffractive elements. The waveguide confines in one transverse dimension an optical signal propagating in two other...
7499603 Range extended electrooptic modulator  
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for an electrooptical modulator. One method embodiment includes receiving an optical input signal to an electrooptical modulator. A first voltage input is...
7492975 Optical switch, optical modulator and wavelength variable filter  
The present invention provides an optical switch, an optical modulator, and a wavelength variable filter each of which has a simple configuration, which requires only a low driving voltage, which...
7486897 Polarization duobinary optical transmitter  
A polarization duobinary optical transmitter is disclosed. The transmitter includes a precoder for coding an electric signal and a light source for generating continuous light. The transmitter also...
7483609 Image wavelength conversion device, method of manufacturing the device, and image conversion system using the device  
An image wavelength conversion device for converting an infrared light image into a visible light, a method of manufacturing the device, and an image conversion system using the device are...
7483597 Optical modulator utilizing multi-level signaling  
An optical modulator is formed to include a plurality of separate electrodes disposed along one arm, the electrodes having different lengths and driven with different signals to provide for...
7474812 Monitor photodetector equipped optical modulator  
An optical modulator has, on a substrate having electro-optic effect, an optical waveguide including an input optical waveguide, two branching optical waveguides which branch a light beam incident...
7471853 Optical modulator  
In an optical modulator according to the invention, with respect to two MZ type optical modulators connected to each other in tandem by a curved folded waveguide on an identical substrate, a...
7469075 Digital phase modulator for a fiber-optic device  
A method and arrangement of electrodes for increasing the resolution of a digital phase modulator for a fiber-optic signal transmission or measuring device. A predetermined total number m of...
7457489 Frequency tuning of photonic oscillator using amplifier bias voltage  
In one implementation, a method is provided for frequency tuning of a photonic oscillator. The method includes supplying an optical signal, for example laser light, which is modulated, delayed, and...
7457487 Surface parallel modulator  
SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this...
7450787 Distributed amplifier optical modulators  
High speed optical modulators can be made of k modulators connected in series disposed on one of a variety of semiconductor substrates. An electrical signal propagating in a microwave transmission...
7447443 Method and system for keeping time alignment between optical data modulation and a periodically modulated light source  
A method and system is disclosed for making time alignment for a data transmission system. A first reference clock signal is provided to a first multiplexer coupled to a data modulator through a...
7447386 Cascaded modulator system and method for QKD  
A cascaded modulator system ( 20 ) and method for a QKD system ( 10 ) is disclosed. The modulator system includes to modulators (M 1 and M 2 ) optically coupled in series. A parallel shift...
7440643 Variable light controlling device and variable light controlling method  
A variable light controlling device comprising a substrate, an optical waveguide disposed on the substrate, a first heater and a second heater to change the optical waveguide's temperature is...
7440642 Integrated optical modulator and method for manufacturing the same  
An integrated optical modulator and method for manufacturing thereof are disclosed. The integrated optical modulator comprises a carrier wave band modulator using a double sideband modulation...