摘要:
A polarization-independent SOA is provided which uses an InP substrate (11) as a semiconductor substrate and uses GaInNAs having introduced tensile strain as an active layer (14). With this configuration, the polarization independence is achieved by introducing the tensile strain, and high saturation optical output power is realized by reducing the film thickness of the active layer (14) as well as the gain peak wavelength is increased by reducing the band gap of the active layer (14) through use of GaInNAs made by adding nitrogen (N) to GaInAs as a material of the active layer (14) so as to achieve high gain especially in C-band and L-band even when band filling exits at the time of injecting a high current into the active layer (14).
摘要:
A polarization-independent SOA having an InP substrate used as a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer taking an MQW structure formed of a barrier layer made of GaInAs with tensile strain applied thereto and a well layer made of GaInNAs with no strain applied thereto alternately laminated in a plurality of layers, here, four layers of the well layer and five layers of the barrier layer are alternately laminated, is proposed.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical amplifier, an acousto-optic tunable filter, a phase shifter, a lens, and an internal etalon are arranged in a resonator. Outside the resonator, two lenses, two beam splitters, two photo-detectors, and an external etalon are arranged. The internal etalon is a quartz etalon and the external etalon is a crystal etalon. Therefore, the rate of change in transmission peak wavelength of the internal etalon to a temperature change is greater than that of the external etalon.
摘要:
Aiming at realizing a semiconductor integrated optical element comprising a single semiconductor substrate, and first and second optical waveguides differed in the equivalent refractive index from each other on the semiconductor substrate, allowing light signal to propagate from the first optical waveguide to the second optical waveguide, in which the first and second optical waveguides are provided side-by-side on the semiconductor substrate to form a directional coupler allowing optical coupling between the first and second optical waveguides, and a first-guiding-mode optical signal in the first optical waveguide is output after being converted into a second-guiding-mode optical signal in second optical waveguide, which makes possible to suppress generation of reflection loss and emission loss in optical coupling, and obtain extremely desirable optical coupling characteristics, without causing reflection of optical signal, between different types of optical waveguides differed from each other in the equivalent refractive index.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical amplification device is disclosed that has a gain spectrum of a wide bandwidth. The semiconductor optical amplification device includes an InP substrate and an active layer on the InP substrate. The active layer has a quantum well structure formed by alternately stacking a barrier layer and a well layer, the barrier layer is formed from a tensile-strained InGaAs film, and the well layer is formed from a compressively-strained InGaAs film.
摘要:
An optical integrated device includes a plurality of input optical waveguides connected respectively to a plurality of input ports provided on one end face of the optical integrated device, a single output optical waveguide connected to an output port, an optical coupler for optically coupling signal lights propagated along the plural input optical waveguides to the single output optical waveguide, and a semiconductor optical amplifier gate array formed from a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers provided on the input optical waveguides, respectively, and each having an electrode on the surface thereof. The optical integrated device further includes a plurality of signal lines formed on the surface of the optical integrated device in such a manner as to extend from the electrodes to an end face of the optical integrated device on which none of the input ports and the output port is provided.
摘要:
A wavelength tunable laser device includes: a pair of reflection mirrors; a semiconductor element disposed between the pair of reflection mirrors, the semiconductor element integrating a region for providing an optical gain, a region having a wavelength tunable filter function and a phase control region; and an optical filter disposed between the semiconductor element and one of the pair of reflection mirrors, the optical filter having periodical transmission wavelengths. A wavelength tunable laser device is provided which is easy to be controlled and can be made compact.
摘要:
In a TTG-DFB-LD including a MQW wavelength control layer 16 whose refractive index varies by the current injection, the effective forbidden bandwidth of the MQW wavelength control layer 16 is larger by a value in the range of above 40 meV including 40 meV and below 60 meV excluding 60 meV than an energy of light generated in the MQW active layer 20.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical amplifier, an acousto-optic tunable filter, a phase shifter, a lens, and an internal etalon are arranged in a resonator. Outside the resonator, two lenses, two beam splitters, two photo-detectors, and an external etalon are arranged. The internal etalon is a quartz etalon and the external etalon is a crystal etalon. Therefore, the rate of change in transmission peak wavelength of the internal etalon to a temperature change is greater than that of the external etalon.
摘要:
An optical amplification control apparatus is formed from a semiconductor optical amplifier, a temperature adjustment unit adjusting the temperature of the semiconductor optical amplifier, and an optical gain control unit adjusting the temperature of the semiconductor optical amplifier by controlling the temperature adjustment unit, and varying an optical gain of the semiconductor optical amplifier. Thus, a pattern effect is suppressed even if the output light intensity (the intensity of amplified light) is increased.