Abstract:
First and second optical fibers are opposed to each other, between which first and second lenses constituting a lens system having an optical axis coincident with those of the optical fibers are arranged with a gap therebetween in the direction of the optical axis. The actuators, ect are used to move the first and second lenses with electrostatic forces, in opposite directions along the optical axes of the optical fibers by the same amount at the same time. Thereby, the spot size of the light incident on the optical fiber on the reception side is changed while maintaining the light propagating between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber point-symmetric in mode field shape. This changes the coupling efficiency between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, allowing an adjustment in light power.
Abstract:
There is provided an optical telecommunications method that can externally modulate a plane of polarization without producing any null point. According to the invention, in an optical telecommunications system for externally modulating the plane of polarization of the light being transmitted through an optical fiber for the transmission of a polarized wave signal by externally applying a signal to modify the state of polarization, the source of light for the transmission of a polarized wave signal is a fiber ring laser.
Abstract:
There are provided a power supply device for an optical functional component that supplies power to the optical functional component with reliability for a long term and enables easy exchange of the optical functional component, and an optical functional module having such a power supply device, where the power supply device is provided with a reception electrode 104, a power supply electrode 107-1 that supplies power to the reception electrode 104 while holding tight the reception electrode 104 on its side faces and thereby holding an optical functional component 105-1 detachably, and a protecting member 108 that is made of an insulating material and surrounds the power supply electrode 107-1 to prevent current leaks, and the power supply electrode 107-1 is comprised of two bent metallic members (107-1a and 107-1B) which are in intimate contact with the reception electrode 104 by elasticity.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide comprising a core and a clad characterized in that a desired part is heated and transited to machining strain release state, the part transited to the machining strain release state is curved with a specified bending radius and transited to machining strain state. That part of the optical waveguide is heated to a temperature within a range between the bending point and softening point and transited to machining strain state. The optical waveguide is an optical fiber having the outer diameter not shorter than 50 μm. The optical waveguide has the outer diameter not shorter than ten times of the mode field diameter of the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has a bending radius of 5.0 mm or less and difference equivalent of refractive index &Dgr;1 between the core and clad falls within a range of 0.8-3.5%.
Abstract:
First and second optical fibers are opposed to each other, between which first and second lenses constituting a lens system having an optical axis coincident with those of the optical fibers are arranged with a gap therebetween in the direction of the optical axis. The actuators, ect are used to move the first and second lenses with electrostatic forces, in opposite directions along the optical axes of the optical fibers by the same amount at the same time. Thereby, the spot size of the light incident on the optical fiber on the reception side is changed while maintaining the light propagating between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber point-symmetric in mode field shape. This changes the coupling efficiency between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, allowing an adjustment in light power.
Abstract:
An optical attenuator has first and second lenses provided individually on the respective end faces of first and second optical fibers that are opposed to each other across a space, and a shutter plate interposed between the lenses. The distance between the shutter plate and the second lens and a mode-field radius of propagating light on the second-lens-side surface of the shutter plate are set so that the respective signs of the real and imaginary parts of an evaluation function, representing a diffraction pattern of the propagating light that propagates from the first optical fiber to the second optical fiber, are inverted 60 times or more when a variable of the evaluation function is changed within an evaluation range.
Abstract:
An optical power detector is provided which accurately detects the optical power of transmitted light and suffers almost no influence due to noise, and a multi-level digital transmission system which includes such an optical power detector. A beam of received light is incident into an entry end of a light fiber. A plurality of saturable absorbers are disposed in series along this light fiber, each having its own pair, differing in steps, of a first threshold value and a second threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value, and being substantially opaque to light of optical intensity below the first threshold value and substantially transparent to light of optical intensity above the second threshold value. A probe light source directs a beam of probe light to be incident upon each of the saturable absorbers in a direction crosswise to the light transmission path for the received light beam, when the received light beam is being transmitted along the light fiber to be incident upon the saturable absorbers in order. For each of the plurality of saturable absorbers, an avalanche photodiode (APD) is provided, which receives the probe light beam via its corresponding saturable absorber due to the received light beam passing through this saturable absorber, and which does not receive the probe light beam via this saturable absorber due to the received light beam being absorbed by this saturable absorber. And an optical power read out means detects whether or not probe light is received by each of the APDs which correspond to the saturable absorbers, thereby determines for each one of the saturable absorbers whether or not the received light beam has passed through it, and thus reads out the optical power of the received light beam.
Abstract:
Two Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13a and 13b are accurately point-symmetrically connected to each other to form a first point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 5 constituting a light input side circuit 1. Optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths are input to a light input terminal 17. A second point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 7 having the same functional structure as the first point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 5 is connected to a through port 18, which is an output terminal of the light input side circuit 1, as a first light output side circuit 2. A cross port 19, which is the other output terminal of the light input side circuit 1, is connected to a second light output side circuit 3 having at least one of Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13c and 13d whose transmittance characteristics are different from those of the Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13a and 13b.
Abstract:
There are provided a power supply device for an optical functional component that supplies power to the optical functional component with reliability for a long term and enables easy exchange of the optical functional component, and an optical functional module having such a power supply device, where the power supply device is provided with a reception electrode 104, a power supply electrode 107-1 that supplies power to the reception electrode 104 while holding tight the reception electrode 104 on its side faces and thereby holding an optical functional component 105-1 detachably, and a protecting member 108 that is made of an insulating material and surrounds the power supply electrode 107-1 to prevent current leaks, and the power supply electrode 107-1 is comprised of two bent metallic members (107-1a and 107-1B) which are in intimate contact with the reception electrode 104 by elasticity.
Abstract:
The invention comprises three parts: The first parts provides a miniaturized functional optical module, which is provided with a lens-exchange type collimator enabling rapid and easy exchange of an optical functional component and/or lenses and being compact in size and excellent in durability.The second part provides a power supply device for an optical functional component that supplies power to the optical functional component with reliability for a long term and enables easy exchange of the optical functional component, and an optical functional module having such a power supply device. The third part provides an optical switch compact in size and greatly easy in handling, which is provided with a connector module having a plurality of optical fibers for light-beam input, a plurality of optical fibers for light-beam output corresponding to the plurality of optical fibers and a light-beam reflecting member.