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A grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator has whispering gallery modes existing in a nearly circular resonator. Light is outcoupled by providing a grating region in the plane of the grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator. The grating region provides an outcoupling or lass mechanism that symmetrically interacts with the clockwise and counterclockwise whispering gallery modes, thereby making the resonator capable of surface emission.

In an optical coherence tomography apparatus: low-coherence light from a light source is split into signal light and reference light; at least one of the frequencies of the signal light and the reference light is shifted so as to produce a predetermined frequency difference between the frequencies; the reference light and a portion of the signal light reflected from the object are optically multiplexed so as to produce interference light; and the optical intensity of the interference light is detected in order to obtain a tomographic image of the object. In the light source, the pulse width of pulsed light emitted from a pulsed light source unit is reduced by an optical-waveguide structure. The optical-waveguide structure is made of a material having a normal dispersion characteristic, and includes a structure which realizes an anomalous dispersion characteristic so as to reduce the pulse width of the pulsed light.

An illumination light source is provided with a laser light source having a laser medium with a specified gain region, and a reflector having a narrow band reflection characteristic. A part of a laser light emitted from the laser light source is reflected and fed back by the reflector, so that an oscillation wavelength of the laser light source is fixed at a reflection wavelength. A peak of the gain region of the laser medium is shifted from the reflection wavelength by a change of an oscillation characteristic of the laser light source, so that the oscillation wavelength of the laser light source is changed from the reflection wavelength. Thus, an oscillation spectrum of the laser light source is spread to reduce speckle noise.

A photoelectric conversion device comprising a photo-electric conversion part including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, wherein light is made incident from an upper part of the second electrode layer into the photoelectric conversion layer; the photoelectric conversion layer generates a charge containing an electron and a hole corresponding to the incident light from the upper part of the second electrode layer; and the first electrode layer works as an electrode for extracting the hole.

A grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator has whispering gallery modes existing in a nearly circular resonator. Light is outcoupled by providing a grating region in the plane of the grating-outcoupled microcavity disk resonator. The grating region provides an outcoupling or loss mechanism that symmetrically interacts with the clockwise and counterclockwise whispering gallery modes, thereby making the resonator capable of surface emission.

A group velocity dispersion measuring device capable of measuring group velocity dispersion (GVD) with a simple configuration and in a short time, comprising an FSF laser (FSFL) (2) for generating frequency chirp light, an optical amplifier (AMP) (3) for amplifying the frequency chirp light, an optical coupler (4), a circulator (5) for branch-controlling optical signals, a photodetector (6) for receiving a ray of light before and after its propagation through an optical fiber (1) to be measured, and an RF spectrum analyzer (RFSA) (7) for observing an optical spectrum waveform. Beat signals generated between chirp lights before and after the propagation, through the optical fiber (1) to be measured, of frequency chirp light emitted from the FSF laser (2) are alternately observed to calculate a GVD value from frequency differences between these beat signals.

This invention pertains to a device for broadening optical wavelength in the 2–14 μm region comprising a light source and a highly nonlinear chalcogenide fiber associated therewith whereby a light signal is passed from the light source into the fiber wherein and through interactions between the light signal and the material, bandwidth of the light signal is broadened in the 2–14 μm region.

This invention pertains to a device for broadening optical wavelength in the 2-14 μm region comprising a light source and a highly nonlinear chalcogenide fiber associated therewith whereby a light signal is passed from the light source into the fiber wherein and through interactions between the light signal and the material, bandwidth of the light signal is broadened in the 2-14 μm region.

An illumination device and a projection system using the same. The illumination device includes two or more color channels each including one or more light sources for generating a color light. At least one of the color channels includes light sources of a first type for generating a first (narrow band) light and light sources of a second type for generating a second light. The dominant wavelengths of the first and second lights are within 50 nm of each other, and the width of the combined spectrum (sum of normalized spectra of the first and second lights) is greater than the width of the spectrum of the first light by at least 10 nm. A wavelength-based light combiner is used to combine the color lights from the color channels into a combined light

A light source device including a seed light generation device, a light amplification unit which optically amplifies seed light generated by the seed light generation device, and a wavelength conversion unit which converts the wavelength of the light optically amplified by the light amplification unit. The seed light generation device includes a pulsed light generation unit which generates pulsed light having a single wavelength, a pulse modulation unit which selectively passes and extracts a part of the pulsed light, and a timing adjustment unit which relatively adjusts the extracting timing of the pulsed light by the pulse modulation unit during the generation period of the pulsed light by the pulse generation unit, according to an operation.

Provided is a communication method of a secondary transmitter included in a multiple-antenna based multiple input multiple output (MIMO) cognitive radio communication system, the method including: estimating an interference channel between the secondary transmitter and a primary user in each of at least one first spectrum band that is being used in a primary system; calculating an orthogonal projection matrix to cancel interference with respect to the primary user from the interference channel; calculating an effective channel between the secondary transmitter and a secondary receiver based on the to orthogonal projection matrix; and selecting an index of an optimal spectrum band from the at least one first spectrum band based on the orthogonal projection matrix and the effective channel.

Systems and methods of increasing the supportable capacity from a first point to a second point in an optical network, include identifying a first optical signal that occupies a first portion of optical spectrum from the first point to the second point; identifying a second optical signal that occupies a second portion of the optical spectrum from the first point to the second point, wherein the second portion is adjacent to the first portion; adjusting the second optical signal to minimize part of or remove all of the second portion that is adjacent to the first optical signal to provide a freed up portion of the second portion; and adjusting the first optical signal to occupy some or all of the freed up portion.

A laser apparatus for producing mode locked pulses includes a closed optical system adapted to connect to a fibre grain medium to form a laser cavity. The fibre gain medium is adapted to receive pulses characterized by a first state and to output pulses characterized by a second state. The closed optical system is adapted to receive the pulses in the second state and output pulses in a state similar to the first state.

Systems and methods of optimizing capacity of an optical network include identifying a first wavelength with an associated target capacity; determining that the first wavelength has insufficient capability to operate at the associated target capacity; and adjusting one or more wavelengths to increase capability of the first wavelength such that the first wavelength can operate at the associated target capacity.

The invention relates to a broad spectrum optical imaging system of a large-diameter photon sieve space telescope. The broad spectrum optical imaging system comprises a large-diameter photon sieve. A negative diffraction lens, a positive lens, a first harmonic diffractive and a second harmonic diffractive of lens zero focal power, and a photoelectric detector are arranged in sequence after the photon sieve along the incident direction of light. The system has the advantages of large diameter, light equipment, broad spectrum and high resolution.

Systems and methods of increasing the supportable capacity from a first point to a second point in an optical network, include identifying a first optical signal that occupies a first portion of optical spectrum from the first point to the second point; identifying a second optical signal that occupies a second portion of the optical spectrum from the first point to the second point, wherein the second portion is adjacent to the first portion; adjusting the second optical signal to minimize part of or remove all of the second portion that is adjacent to the first optical signal to provide a freed up portion of the second portion; and adjusting the first optical signal to occupy some or all of the freed up portion.

The invention relates to an optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage accident recognition device and relates to the technical field of mechanical vibration measuring, impact measuring and pipeline systems. The optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage accident recognition device comprises a light source, a transmission optical path part, optical fiber sensors, a photoelectric detector and a signal collecting and processing module. The optical fiber sensors are installed on a pipeline body at certain intervals and form optical fiber sensor groups, each optical fiber sensor group is connected with a beam splitter serially connected in optical fibers through an optical fiber and then is connected with the light source and photoelectric detector at the receiving end, and the output of the photoelectric detector is connected with the signal collecting and processing module which is connected with a microcomputer. Through processing of the signal collecting and processing module, the sensor group signals mixed based on a frequency division multiplexing mode achieve demultiplexing of sensors in the sensor groups to obtain original leakage vibration wave signals. The optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage accident recognition device can timely monitor abnormal signals at the primary stage of pipeline leakage and is high in alarming accuracy.

Pulses of signals in the terahertz region are generated using an apparatus made up of a mode-locked semiconductor laser diode with a short duty cycle that is optically coupled to a biased Auston switch. The output from the mode-locked semiconductor laser diode may first be supplied to a pulse compressor, and the resulting compressed pulses supplied to the Auston switch. Preferably, the mode-locking of the semiconductor laser diode is controllable, i.e., it is an active mode-locking semiconductor laser, so that the phase of the output optical signal from the laser is locked to the phase of an input control signal.

A photoelectric conversion device comprising a photo-electric conversion part including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, wherein light is made incident from an upper part of the second electrode layer into the photoelectric conversion layer; the photoelectric conversion layer generates a charge containing an electron and a hole corresponding to the incident light from the upper part of the second electrode layer; and the first electrode layer works as an electrode for extracting the hole.

In an optical coherence tomography apparatus: low-coherence light from a light source is split into signal light and reference light; at least one of the frequencies of the signal light and the reference light is shifted so as to produce a predetermined frequency difference between the frequencies; the reference light and a portion of the signal light reflected from the object are optically multiplexed so as to produce interference light; and the optical intensity of the interference light is detected in order to obtain a tomographic image of the object. In the light source, the pulse width of pulsed light emitted from a pulsed light source unit is reduced by an optical-waveguide structure. The optical-waveguide structure is made of a material having a normal dispersion characteristic, and includes a structure which realizes an anomalous dispersion characteristic so as to reduce the pulse width of the pulsed light.

The invention relates to a multi-pass phase modulation device of a high-power laser system. The multi-pass phase modulation device comprises a first half-wave plate, a first thin-film polarization film, a light rotation unit, a first totally-reflecting mirror and a multi-pass phase modulation unit which are sequentially arranged along an incident light beam advancing direction. An optical cavity structure is utilized to make an optical pulse repeatedly pass through a phase modulator, the phase modulation capability of the phase modulator on the optical pulse can be improved, and the multi-pass phase modulation device plays an important role in realizing uniform irradiation of a target surface of the high-power laser system.

An illumination light source is provided with a laser light source having a laser medium with a specified gain region, and a reflector having a narrow band reflection characteristic. A part of a laser light emitted from the laser light source is reflected and fed back by the reflector, so that an oscillation wavelength of the laser light source is fixed at a reflection wavelength. A peak of a gain region of the laser medium is shifted from the reflection wavelength by a change of an oscillation characteristic of the laser light source, so that the oscillation wavelength of the laser light source is changed from the reflection wavelength. Thus, an oscillation spectrum of the laser light source is spread to reduce speckle noise.

Provided is an optical transmission apparatus and method for uplink transmission in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access-passive optical network (OFDMA-PON), wherein the optical transmission apparatus includes a digital signal processor to output a baseband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, a tone generator to generate a dithering tone, a synthesizer to synthesize the dithering tone and the baseband OFDM signal, and an optical source to output an output light in which a spectrum width is increased to be greater than a spectrum width of a carrier light based on the baseband OFMD signal synthesized with the dithering tone.

An illumination device and a projection system using the same. The illumination device includes two or more color channels each including one or more light sources for generating a color light. At least one of the color channels includes light sources of a first type for generating a first (narrow band) light and light sources of a second type for generating a second light. The dominant wavelengths of the first and second lights are within 50 nm of each other, and the width of the combined spectrum (sum of normalized spectra of the first and second lights) is greater than the width of the spectrum of the first light by at least 10 nm. A wavelength-based light combiner is used to combine the color lights from the color channels into a combined light.

A radiation-emitting semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body. The semiconductor body has a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region provided for generating radiation. The semiconductor component has a waveguide, which is provided for laterally guiding the radiation generated in the active region and which extends between a mirror surface and a coupling-out surface. The waveguide meets the mirror surface perpendicularly and forms an acute angle with a normal to the coupling-out surface.

The invention provides a device and a method for expanding spectral widths. The device for expanding the spectral widths comprises a spectroscope, a first plane mirror, a second plane mirror and a focusing lens. The spectroscope is used for respectively carrying out reflex and transmission on laser pulses coming from an incidence end in an incident mode. The first plane mirror is used for carrying out reflex on a laser pulse which is reflected by the spectroscope. The second plane mirror is used for carrying out reflex on a laser pulse which is transmitted by the spectroscope. The distance between the first plane mirror and the spectroscope is unequal to the distance between the second plane mirror and the spectroscope. The spectroscope is further used for transmitting the laser pulse which is reflected by the first plane mirror to the focusing lens, and for reflecting the laser pulse which is reflected by the second plane mirror to the focusing lens. The focusing lens is used for outputting the two incident laser pulses to an optical fiber through an outgoing port. Through controlling on the sequence by which the two laser pulses enter the optical fiber, strong orphans of the two laser pulses are crashed in the optical fiber, and the spectral widths of the output laser pulses are expended.

The invention relates to a laser system with a passively Q-switched laser 1, a spectrally widening element 3, and a compression element 4. Laser systems of this kind are utilized for generating ultra-short laser pulses. Systems, mode-coupled solid-state lasers known from prior art allow for generating laser pulses in the sub-10 ps range only with complicated and alignment-sensitive free-beam arrangements. Therefore, it is the object of the present invention to create a laser system that generates pulse durations of less than 10 ps and which is simple and compact to produce at the same time. In order to achieve this object, the present invention proposes that the passively Q-switched laser 1 is provided with a longitudinally monomode output radiation which is spectrally widened by means of the spectrally widening element 3 by self-phase modulation and is temporally compressed by the compression element 4.

The invention relates to the technical field of laser, and aims to solve the problems that an existing speckle eliminating method is complex and influences the service life of a laser system. A semiconductor laser light source and a laser projector are provided. The semiconductor laser light source comprises a laser diode array and a driving module, the laser diode array comprises at least two laser diode groups with different central wavelengths. Each laser diode group comprises one or more laser diodes with the same central wavelength; the number of the driving modules is the same as that of the laser diode groups; the driving modules are connected with the corresponding laser diode groups; and the driving module is used for providing corresponding driving currents for the correspondinglaser diode groups, so that the difference value of the total light output power of any two laser diode groups in the laser diode array is within a preset range, and the total light output power is the sum of the light output power of all laser diodes in the laser diode groups. The method can effectively reduce speckle contrast.

The invention relates to the field of noise control and utilization, particularly to a noise-reducing electrotransformation device for a central air-conditioning air supply pipe. The noise-reducing electrotransformation device for the central air-conditioning air supply pipe provided by the invention comprises a noise absorption unit, an audio frequency tracking unit and an acoustoelectric transformation unit, wherein the noise absorption unit is connected with the audio frequency tracking unit; the acoustoelectric transformation unit is arranged in the audio frequency tracking unit, and is externally connected with a voltage output circuit; and the audio frequency tracking unit is arranged on the outer wall of the central air-conditioning air supply pipe. The noise-reducing electrotransformation device has the advantages that by the resonance characteristics of a helmholtz resonator, noise energy of an air pipe is transformed into electric energy through piezoelectric ceramics, so that the noise of the air-conditioning air pipe is reduced; the electric energy is also generated; and in addition, the spectrum width of available noise can be increased by the audio frequency tracking unit.