3193results about "Optical light guides" patented technology

Disclosed herein is an angular optical component retention and removal system that reduces the amount of space needed to accommodate fiber optic cables and enables optical components to be quickly and easily inserted, retained, and removed from an optical communications system. The optical component retention and removal system may include a single or plural angular retention sections that retain optical components in an angular orientation through a faceplate. The system may further include an insertion / retention mechanism that enables an optical component to be inserted and removed with a single hand. With the system, fiber optic cables extend at an angle from the optical components, requiring less clearance space in front of the faceplate for provision of the fiber optic cables.

The embodiment of the invention provides an electro-optical modulator and a light quantum computer. The electro-optical modulator comprises an electrode assembly and an optical waveguide assembly. The electrode assembly comprises a positive signal electrode, a negative signal electrode, a first grounding electrode and a second grounding electrode, and the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode are arranged between the first grounding electrode and the second grounding electrode. The optical waveguide assembly is configured to bear optical signals and comprises a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide, the first optical waveguide is located between the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode and used for bearing first optical signals, and the second optical waveguide is located between the first grounding electrode and the positive signal electrode or between the second grounding electrode and the negative signal electrode and used for bearing second optical signals. The carrier is used for bearing second optical signals. Constant-amplitude voltage signals with opposite phases are applied to the positive signal electrode and the negative signal electrode which are tightly coupled, so that the modulation efficiency can be improved, and the common-mode noise can be reduced.

An apparatus includes a waveguide and one or more partially reflective surfaces embedded inside the waveguide, wherein each of the one or more partially reflective surfaces includes a multi-layer coating structure, wherein a first portion of the multi-layer coating structure induces an overall phase shift of light propagating through the first portion of the multi-layer coating structure and wherein a second portion of the multi-layer coating structure is selected to decrease the overall phase shift.

The invention belongs to the technical field of laser, and discloses a grating multiplexing spectrum synthesis system, which comprises a beamlet dense array, a diffraction grating and a turn-back mirror, each beamlet emitted by the beamlet dense array is diffracted by the diffraction grating and then is emitted in the form of convergent light, and the light is reflected twice by the turn-back mirror to form a light beam; each laser sub-beam is incident on the diffraction grating again along the opposite direction parallel to the original light, the sub-beams converge into one point on the diffraction grating by adjusting the distance between the turn-back mirror and the diffraction grating, and at the moment, the incident angle of each sub-beam is equal to the diffraction angle diffracted from the diffraction grating for the first time; and the diffraction angles of the sub-beams subjected to the second diffraction on the diffraction grating are equal and equal to the incident angle of the sub-beams subjected to the first diffraction, that is, the synthesized light beam is emitted along the direction parallel to and opposite to the direction of the light beam emitted from the sub-beam dense array. The invention provides a spectrum synthesis system which is simple in structure, easy in engineering implementation and compact in volume.

The invention provides a bent waveguide structure, an electro-optical modulator and a light quantum computer, and relates to the technical field of electro-optical modulation.The bent waveguide structure comprises an input waveguide, a bent waveguide and an output waveguide which are sequentially connected, and the bent waveguide comprises a substrate transmission waveguide layer, an input coupling part and an output coupling part; the input coupling part and the output coupling part are arranged at the two ends of the substrate transmission waveguide layer respectively, a shallow etching groove is formed between the input coupling part and the output coupling part, the input coupling part is connected with the input waveguide, and the output coupling part is connected with the output waveguide. Compared with the prior art, the shallow etching groove is formed between the input coupling part and the output coupling part, so that the thickness of the waveguide film at the bending part is reduced to ensure that the substrate transmission waveguide layer is of a single-mode structure, the transmission loss is reduced, and the bending waveguide is relatively independent from the input waveguide and the output waveguide, so that the transmission efficiency is improved. Therefore, the process precision of the bent waveguide can be independently adjusted, the process time is reduced, and the efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses an optical waveguide and a preparation method thereof, relates to the technical field of optics, and is used for solving the problems of high processing difficulty, low yield and high cost of the existing array optical waveguide. The optical waveguide comprises a turning waveguide which is provided with a light incident surface, a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of first light splitting surfaces, the first surface and the second surface are arranged in parallel, the first light splitting surfaces are arranged in parallel, the included angle between the first light splitting surfaces and the first surface is smaller than 90 degrees, and the first light splitting surfaces enable light entering the turning waveguide from the light incident surface to be partially reflected; the reflected light is transmitted to the coupling-out waveguide; the coupling-out waveguide and the turning waveguide are spliced, so that light entering the coupling-out waveguide from the turning waveguide is emitted out of the coupling-out waveguide. The first beam splitting surface of the turning waveguide is not perpendicular to the first surface of the turning waveguide, compared with an existing array optical waveguide, the situation that the perpendicularity precision of the beam splitting surface and the surface of the optical waveguide needs to be strictly controlled in the machining process can be avoided, and therefore the machining difficulty can be lowered, the yield can be improved, and cost can be reduced.

Heterogeneous photonic circuits comprise a gain section optically coupled to a photonics section. The gain section can include at least one gain waveguide which can be formed from a III-V semiconductor material to provide optical gain. The gain waveguide can be coupled to optical components in the photonics section to form an integrated pump module. The photonics section can include a light-generating photonic circuit, which can comprise at least one waveguide doped with a rare-earth ion or transition-metal ion. Output from the integrated pump module and / or the light-generating photonic circuit can be tunable. Tuning can be implemented with feedback control.

The invention discloses a polarization insensitive filter based on a sub-wavelength grating structure, and belongs to the technical field of integrated photonic devices. The filter comprises an input transition waveguide, a multimode waveguide grating and an output transition waveguide which are connected in sequence. The multimode waveguide grating is composed of a central sub-wavelength grating waveguide and Bragg gratings symmetrically distributed on the two sides, and the effective refractive indexes of TE polarization and TM polarization are equal by adjusting the waveguide width and duty ratio of the central sub-wavelength grating, so that the polarization sensitivity of the device is eliminated fundamentally. And the input / output transition waveguide adopts a transition mode of mixing a tapered waveguide and a sub-wavelength grating waveguide, so that low-loss mode transmission between a straight waveguide and a multimode grating is realized. According to the invention, the anisotropic equivalent medium characteristic of the sub-wavelength grating is utilized, a function of simultaneously and effectively filtering TE and TM polarization is realized, and the filter has the advantages of polarization insensitivity, flexible design, compact structure, simple process and compatibility with a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) process, and has important application value in the fields of optical communication, optical interconnection and the like.

The invention discloses an optical computing array based on micro-ring resonators without a free spectral range, which comprises an on-chip wavelength division multiplexing beam splitting array, an on-chip intensity modulation array, two groups of on-chip wavelength division multiplexing beam combining arrays and an on-chip balance detector, the on-chip wavelength division multiplexing beam splitting array and the on-chip wavelength division multiplexing beam combining array are respectively composed of a group of multiple FSR-free MRRs which share the same bus optical waveguide, each resonator corresponds to an independent wavelength channel, and the on-chip intensity modulator array is composed of a plurality of groups of on-chip MZI modulator arrays. According to the optical calculation array implementation method, independent control and coding calculation of different wavelength channels in a broadband wavelength range are realized by utilizing the single harmonic peak characteristic of the FSR-free MRR array and the wide-spectrum intensity modulation function of the MZI unit, the limitation of a free spectrum range on the optical calculation wavelength channel is eliminated, the higher wavelength parallelism is achieved, and the optical calculation array implementation method has the advantages of being simple in structure and convenient to implement. And therefore, the calculation scale is remarkably improved.

An electro-optic receiver includes a bus optical waveguide and a plurality of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) receiver slices positioned along the bus optical waveguide. Each of the plurality of WDM receiver slices includes a WDM element optically coupled to the bus optical waveguide, a photodetector, and a receiver circuit. The photodetector is optically connected to the WDM element by both a first optical connection and a second optical connection. The WDM element conveys a first component of input light through the first optical connection to the photodetector, and a second component of input light through the second optical connection to the photodetector, where first and second components of input light travel in opposite directions through the bus optical waveguide. The receiver circuit generates an electrical data signal from photocurrents received from the photodetector.

The invention discloses an array optical waveguide and a preparation method thereof, relates to the technical field of optics, and is used for solving the problems of high processing difficulty, low yield and high cost of the existing array optical waveguide. The turning waveguide is provided with a first surface and a second surface, a first area of the turning waveguide is provided with at least two first light splitting surfaces which are located between the first surface and the second surface and are parallel to each other, and the included angle between each first light splitting surface and the first surface is smaller than 90 degrees; the light enters the first light splitting surface to be partially reflected, and the reflected light is propagated to a second area of the coupling-out waveguide; the second area of the coupling-out waveguide enables the light to be emitted out of the array optical waveguide. Compared with an existing array optical waveguide, the array optical waveguide has the advantages that strict control of the perpendicularity precision of the light splitting surface and the surface of the optical waveguide during processing can be avoided, the processing difficulty can be reduced, the yield can be improved, and the cost can be reduced.

The invention relates to a micro-ring resonator based on a multi-circle square structure, the micro-ring resonator comprises a coupling waveguide and a multi-circle square micro-ring resonant cavity, the coupling waveguide comprises an S-bend waveguide, an input waveguide and an output waveguide which are all single-mode waveguides, and the multi-circle square micro-ring resonant cavity comprises a crossed waveguide chain and a multi-mode waveguide section connected with the crossed waveguide chain. The multi-mode waveguide section comprises a multi-mode straight waveguide and a 90-degree multi-mode Euler bending waveguide. By introducing the multi-mode waveguide, the energy distribution of the guided mode on the side wall is reduced, and the transmission loss of the micro-ring resonant cavity is reduced. Through the arrangement of the multi-circle square micro-ring resonant cavity, the length of the micro-ring is increased within a limited size, and the Q value of the multi-circle square micro-ring resonant cavity is improved. By means of the 90-degree multimode Euler bending waveguide, compact 90-degree turning is achieved, generation of a high-order mode is restrained, and meanwhile the micro-ring surrounding area is increased. Therefore, a solution can be provided for the high-performance sensing unit for the integrated micro-ring sensor.

Systems and methods for enhancing sensitivity in a sensor with exceptional points (EPs), including: providing a sensor in the form of an exception-point (EP)-enhanced sensor; providing one or optical fibers associated with the EP-enhanced sensor; providing a scatterer; and / or providing a reflective component, the reflective component influencing a mode coupling of the EP-enhanced sensor. Where the sensor is a microresonator: coupling one or more modes of the microresonator via a bidirectional coupling channel and a unidirectional coupling channel; manipulating the mode coupling by a scatterer and a reflective component, the reflective component influencing the mode coupling of the resonator; steering, via the reflective component, the microresonator around EPs; and / or sending, via the reflective component, one or more phase changes in response to external perturbations back to the microresonator.

The invention provides an on-chip optical element, a preparation method thereof and an integrated optical element. The on-chip optical element comprises a substrate, an input coupling waveguide located on the substrate, an output coupling waveguide located on the substrate and a modulation structure. The modulation structure comprises a phase change material layer located on the substrate, the phase change material layer is a continuous film layer and comprises a plurality of units, and the refractive indexes of at least two units are different; and the input coupling waveguide and the output coupling waveguide are respectively positioned at the side parts of the modulation structure, so that light rays emitted to the modulation structure through the input coupling waveguide are propagated along a direction parallel to the surface of the phase change material layer. The integrated optical element includes the on-chip optical element.

A photoelectric composite cable for an underwater buoy, and a preparation process therefor. A polyurethane, a self-repairing polyurethane prepolymer, and a composite nano zinc oxide are selected as an outer sheath base material. A modified polysiloxane having a B-O six-membered ring dynamic cross-linked network and a long-chain alkane group and an amino is introduced into the self-repairing polyurethane prepolymer; 5,5'-methylenedisalicylaldehyde and isophorone diisocyanate are together subjected to stepwise polymerization with the modified polysiloxane, and the 5,5'-methylenedisalicylaldehyde is cross-linked with diphenylmethane diisocyanate to obtain a self-repairing polyurethane prepolymer; and nano zinc oxide is subjected to a modification treatment, wherein dodecyltrimethoxysilane and 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane are used for dual modification, such that super-hydrophobic nano zinc oxide having good thermal stability and high dispersity is prepared in a toluene system.

An optical transmitter includes a distributed feedback (DFB) laser having an active region formed as a multiple quantum well (MQW) and a diffraction grating, an electro-absorption (EA) modulator having an absorption region formed as a MQW having a composition different from a composition of the DFB laser, a semiconductor amplifier (SOA) having an active region having a same composition as the composition of the DFB laser, a bent waveguide that rotates a light propagation direction, and a passive waveguide connected to the SOA and including a core having a band gap wavelength shorter than an oscillation wavelength of the DFB laser. A tapered region of the passive waveguide converts a width W1 of the passive waveguide connected to the SOA into a width W2 of a narrow waveguide region of the passive waveguide, and the passive waveguide is in contact with the end surface of the substrate.

The utility model discloses an optical waveguide assembly, a near-to-eye display device and an optical device, the optical waveguide assembly comprises a composite layer, a grating and a reflecting layer, the composite layer comprises a plurality of dielectric layers, the dielectric layers comprise a first dielectric layer located on the surface layer, and a total reflection area is at least formed in the first dielectric layer; the gratings are arranged on the same side of the first dielectric layer, the coupling-in grating is used for coupling incoming light into the total reflection area to form total reflection propagation, and the coupling-out grating is used for coupling at least one part of the light in the total reflection area out of the composite layer; the reflecting layers are selectively arranged in a plurality of areas on the outer side surface of the first dielectric layer and used for reflecting light rays of the total reflection area so that the light rays can continue to be transmitted along a total reflection path, and the reflecting layers of at least one area are arranged at intervals. According to the optical waveguide assembly disclosed by the utility model, external light can be transmitted to the composite layer on the premise that light can be propagated in a total reflection manner through the reflecting layers arranged at intervals, so that the lighting effect and the contrast display effect are ensured.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nonlinear optics, and discloses a method and a structure for realizing nonlinear waveguide quasi-phase matching. A plurality of groups of micro-nano structures are formed on the nonlinear waveguide along the waveguide propagation direction, each group of micro-nano structures comprises one or more air holes, the micro-nano structures are utilized to cause relative phases between different wavelength modes to generate jump, phase differences caused by phase mismatch are compensated, and quasi-phase matching is realized. The phase matching scheme provided by the invention is applicable to all nonlinear materials and waveguides, and has the advantage of high universality.

A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The device includes a dielectric layer, a ring waveguide embedded in the dielectric layer, and an input / output (I / O) waveguide embedded in the dielectric layer and optically coupled to the ring waveguide in a vertical manner. Materials of the dielectric layer, the ring waveguide, and the I / O waveguide are different.

The invention provides a micro-ring resonator and a wavelength division multiplexing network system, and relates to the technical field of photoelectricity. A microring resonator includes: an input port to receive an input optical signal; the two heat adjusting couplers are located on the two sides of the micro-ring waveguide respectively and used for adjusting the coupling ratio of the micro-ring waveguide; the two multi-mode interference devices are respectively connected with the heat adjusting coupler and are used for carrying out heat-light adjustment based on the heat adjusting electrode; the two thermal adjusting electrodes are respectively connected with the multi-mode interference device and are used for adjusting interference parameters of the multi-mode interference device; the voltages of the two thermal adjusting electrodes are the same or different; the micro-ring waveguide is located between the two thermally tunable couplers and is used for performing resonance enhancement on the optical signal of the target wavelength; and the two straight waveguides are respectively connected with the two thermal modulation couplers and the two multi-mode interference devices and are used for transmitting optical signals. Therefore, insertion loss and crosstalk are effectively reduced, and wavelength drift caused by temperature change is compensated at the same time.

Apparatuses and associated methods of manufacturing are described that provide a cage receptacle assembly configured to receive a cable connector. An illustrative cage receptacle assembly is described to include a cage body, a first heat dissipation unit disposed proximate to a bottom side of the cage body and configured to remove heat from the bottom side of the cage body, and a second heat dissipation unit disposed proximate to a top side of the cage body and configured to remove heat from the top side of the cage body.

A system for generating a supercontinuum comprising a frequency comb generator and a waveguide structure coupled to the frequency comb generator. The waveguide structure comprises distinct sections: an untapered input section with specified first cross-sectional outer dimensions, a down-taper transition section leading to a taper waist section with second cross-sectional outer dimensions that are smaller than the first cross-sectional outer dimensions, followed by an up-taper transition section extending to an untapered output section which reverts to third cross-sectional outer dimensions that are larger than the second cross-sectional outer dimensions.

The eyepiece waveguide stack includes a first eyepiece waveguide including a first incoupling diffractive optical element and a first compound pupil dilator, and a second eyepiece waveguide including a second incoupling diffractive optical element and a second compound pupil dilator, the second incoupling diffractive optical element being laterally offset from the first incoupling diffractive optical element.

Structures including an optical phase shifter and methods of forming a structure including an optical phase shifter. The structure comprises an optical phase shifter including a waveguide core having a first branch and a second branch laterally spaced from the first branch. The structure further comprises a thermoelectric device including a first plurality of pillars and a second plurality of pillars that alternate with the first plurality of pillars in a series circuit. The first plurality of pillars and the second plurality of pillars disposed adjacent to the first branch of the waveguide core, the first plurality of pillars comprises an n-type semiconductor material, and the second plurality of pillars comprises a p-type semiconductor material.

The embodiment of the invention provides a diffractive optical structure and near-to-eye display equipment. The diffractive optical structure comprises a waveguide substrate and a grating area and a non-grating area which are arranged on the waveguide substrate, a grating structure is formed in the grating area, a dielectric layer covers the non-grating area, and the refractive indexes of the grating structure and the dielectric layer are n1; a pre-compensation structure is arranged in at least part of areas, corresponding to the multiple grating structures and / or the multiple non-grating areas, on the waveguide substrate, the pre-compensation structure is a concave structure which is formed in the thickness direction of the waveguide substrate and has a specific depth, and the concave depth hi of the pre-compensation structure meets the condition that hi is smaller than di * (n1 / n2), wherein di is the grating depth of the grating structure or the thickness of the dielectric layer at the position corresponding to the pre-compensation structure, i is the number of the grating area or the non-grating area, and i is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; n2 is the refractive index of the waveguide substrate.

The invention relates to a bottom alignment grating preparation method and a bottom alignment grating, and the bottom alignment grating preparation method comprises the steps: depositing a grating material on a light-transmitting substrate, so as to form a grating material layer on the light-transmitting substrate; etching the grating material layer to form a plurality of grating areas with different heights on the grating material layer; and respectively etching each grating area to the light-transmitting substrate to form a plurality of groups of gratings with different heights so as to obtain a bottom-aligned grating. The partition structure of each grating area of the bottom-aligned grating is bottom-aligned, so that the optical efficiency of an optical device can be improved, and an optical film interference effect caused by a residual film is reduced. The bottom alignment grating can be prepared through the preparation method of the bottom alignment grating provided by the invention.

An anti-resonant hollow core optical fiber including: (1) a fiber longitudinal axis; (2) a cladding tube; (3) a support ring disposed within the cladding tube comprising (i) an outer surface separated from the cladding tube by an outer space and (ii) an inner surface forming an inner space; (4) outer capillaries within the outer space (a) fused to the cladding tube and the support ring and comprising; (5) inner capillaries within the inner space fused to the support ring; and (6) an effective core region comprising a core radius that is tangential to the outer surfaces of the inner capillaries, wherein, the outer radii of the outer capillaries are all a common first value or fall within a first range that is different than a common second value or a second range within which the outer radii of the inner capillaries fall.

A two-dimensional pupil-expanding waveguide optical module relates to the field of optical waveguides and comprises an image source, a waveguide element, a coupling-in element, a turning element and a coupling-out element. The turning element comprises a top grating and a bottom grating; the top grating is arranged on the upper surface of the waveguide element, and the bottom grating, the coupling-in element and the coupling-out element are arranged on the lower surface of the waveguide element; light emitted by the image source is subjected to total reflection in the waveguide element after being diffracted by the coupling-in element; after at least two times of total reflection in the waveguide, the light is diffracted by the top grating and is vertically emitted to the bottom grating, so that expansion in the first direction is realized; the light emitted from the top layer grating is emitted to the other direction after vertically emitting to the bottom layer grating, so that the turning of the light is realized; and the light emitted by the bottom grating is reflected totally at least once in the waveguide element, is diffracted by the coupling-out element and then is emitted to human eyes, so that expansion in a second direction is realized. According to the utility model, the two-dimensional pupil expansion of the image light is realized, the volumes of the coupling element and the projection light machine are reduced, and the manufacturing difficulty of the waveguide element is simplified.

An FM LIDAR system is described that includes a frequency modulated LIDAR system that incorporates a laser source that is optically coupled to a whispering gallery mode optical resonator. Light from the laser that is coupled into the whispering gallery mode optical resonator is coupled back out as a returning counterpropagating wave having a frequency characteristic of a whispering gallery mode of the optical resonator. This returning wave is used to reduce the linewidth of the source laser by optical injection. Modulation of the optical properties of the whispering gallery mode optical resonator results in modulation of the frequency of the frequencies supported by whispering gallery modes of the resonator, and provides a method for producing highly linear and reproducible optical chirps that are highly suited for use in a LIDAR system. Methods of using such an FM LIDAR system and vehicle assisting systems that incorporate such FM LIDAR systems are also described.

A fragrance dispenser includes a housing having a socket portion defining a receptacle for receiving a bottle of fragrance therein. A decorative cover assembly is coupled to the housing and conceals at least part of the socket portion. The decorative cover assembly comprises an outer cover and a light source positioned between the housing and the outer cover. Various illuminated effects are created by the light source and cover assembly, including a projected image effect, which may include timed projections, and an invisible ink effect.