摘要:
With a single laser light source, the line width of a beat signal is set to a few tens of kHz or less without it fluctuating over time, and the frequency thereof is set as desired. CW light from a CW laser light source is input into an electroabsorption modulator to which a sine wave electrical signal is applied. A modulation sideband which is made up from line spectra at separations equal to the modulation frequency is generated from the electroabsorption modulator. An optical fiber for higher-order soliton compression broadens the optical spectrum width, and increases the number of line spectra. A tunable wavelength filtering device which is made up from optical fiber gratings and optical circulators chooses two of the line spectra, which are combined by an optical coupler with their beat signal being heterodyne wave detected by a photo-detector.
摘要:
A polarization-maintaining optical fiber and absolutely single-polarization optical fiber are provided which enable long distance transmission maintaining a polarization state of signal light. The polarization-maintaining optical fiber includes a core, photonic crystal cladding, and jacket. The photonic crystal cladding is divided into four segments by broken lines from the center to the periphery. Among a plurality of grating holes in a pair of segments opposed to each other with respect to the core, the diameter of grating holes close to the core is greater than the diameter of grating holes in another pair of segments opposed with each other, and than a grating constant.
摘要:
A polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 includes six thin holes 4a and 4b adjacent to a core 1. Among these holes 4a and 4b, a pair of holes 4b at opposite sides of the core 1 have a diameter greater than that of the other four thin holes 4a, and therefore, the polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 has polarization-maintaining ability. An overclad layer 3 exists around the clad layer 2 which includes a large number of thin holes 4a and 4b around the core 1. The overclad layer 3 includes a pair of marking portions 5 at opposite sides of the core 1. The marking portions 5 are holes which can be seen at positions different from the clad layer 2 when the fiber 10 is viewed from a position right above the fiber 10 in the drawing. In this way, the direction of the polarization plane of the polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 is identified.
摘要:
A polarization-maintaining optical fiber and absolutely single-polarization optical fiber are provided which enable long distance transmission maintaining a polarization state of signal light. The polarization-maintaining optical fiber includes a core, photonic crystal cladding, and jacket. The photonic crystal cladding is divided into four segments by broken lines from the center to the periphery. Among a plurality of grating holes in a pair of segments opposed to each other with respect to the core, the diameter of grating holes close to the core is greater than the diameter of grating holes in another pair of segments opposed with each other, and than a grating constant.
摘要:
A polarization maintaining optical fiber is formed by using a core in a cross sectional shape having different diameters along two orthogonal axes defined on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, or a photonic crystal structure cladding having a diffraction grating with lattice intervals for realizing confinement of lights within the core which are different along two orthogonal axes defined on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, or the photonic crystal structure cladding that is divided into four divided portions along a circumferential direction, where at least a part of lattice holes in a first pair of divided portions that are facing each other along one direction have a diameter larger than that of lattice holes in a second pair of divided portions that are facing each other along another direction orthogonal to the one direction.
摘要:
An optical fiber including a core having an area of about several times an optical wavelength and composed of a hollow hole, and a cladding having a diffraction grating which is arranged at least in a peripheral area adjacent to the core and has a grating period equal to ½ the optical wavelength.
摘要:
High peak pulse light is incident on an optical fiber having a dispersion decreasing region which serves as a main region for generating supercontinuum or idler light and in which the chromatic dispersion does not increase but at least partially decreases in the direction in which light travels. The fiber can be applied to broad band width idler light generation with both light transmission directions. Four wave mixing upon incidence of the light on the dispersion decreasing region of the optical fiber are efficiently obtained.
摘要:
An optical modulation/multiplexing circuit can fabricate a plurality of nonlinear optical waveguide devices and silica optical waveguides through a small number of processes, and achieve the simplification of the fabrication process and stabilization of the operation by hybrid integration with reduced connection loss. It employs lithium niobate domain inversion optical waveguides as nonlinear optical switches, and implements functions necessary for modulation and multiplexing such as input, splitting, multiplexing and timing adjustment of optical modulation signals and an optical clock signal by connecting glass waveguides to the input and output terminals of the domain inversion optical waveguides. Nonlinear optical media generate a second harmonic light beam of the optical clock signal, and at the same time produces a light beam with a frequency corresponding to the difference frequency of the two high frequency signals, the second harmonic light beam and the signal pulses.
摘要:
This invention is an improvement of a mode-locked laser stabilizing method and apparatus used with a mode-locked laser apparatus which comprises an optical cavity which consists of an optical modulator which modulates the loss or the phase of light at a fixed frequency, an optical delay line to electrically change the optical path length of the cavity, and an optical amplifier which amplifies a modulated optical pulses. In this method, at least one of the relaxation oscillation frequency components and the harmonic components in the output optical pulses of the mode-locked laser are extracted, and a process of controlling the optical delay line by using the extracted frequency component as an error signal for feedback control and to suppress the error signal below a fixed value.
摘要:
A 1.55 μm band dispersion shifted optical fiber is provided which has a low loss and low dispersion slope. A core region “a” is heavily doped with GeO2 . A core region “b” is composed of pure SiO2 glass. A cladding section is arranged around the core region. The cladding section has a lot of holes extending in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber. The holes of the cladding section are not located at random, but have a honeycomb structure composed of regular hexagons which have a side length of Λ, and serve as a primitive lattice. The center of the core section has a region having a refractive index higher than that of the periphery of the core section. The core section has the refractive index distribution in which the group velocity dispersion at the operation wavelength of the region becomes the normal dispersion.