468 results about "Electro-optic effect" patented technology

An active photonic crystal device for controlling an optical signal is disclosed. The device includes a planar photonic crystal with a defect waveguide bounded on the top and bottom by an upper cladding region and a lower cladding region. An optical signal propagating in the defect waveguide is confined in the plane of the photonic crystal by the photonic bandgap, and in the direction normal to the photonic crystal by the upper clad region and the lower clad region. The propagation of the optical signal in the defect waveguide is controlled by varying the optical properties at least one of the upper clad region or the lower clad region. The variation of the optical properties of the controllable regions may be achieved using a thermo-optic effect, an electro-optic effect, a stress-optic effect, or a mechano-optic effect, or by moving a material into or out of the controllable region.

An optical communication device includes a substrate which has electro-optical effect; a first optical modulator which has a pair of waveguides formed in the substrate; a second optical modulator which has a pair of waveguides formed in the substrate; a waveguide coupler which is provided in an out put of the first optical modulator, the waveguide coupler being able to couple and branch light propagating through the pair of waveguides of the first optical modulator; and a delay connecting section which gives differential delay to the output branched by the waveguide coupler and inputs the output to the pair of waveguide of the second optical modulator. As a result, the optical communication device and optical device in which insertion loss is reduced compared with the conventional optical modulator can be provided.

The invention discloses a composite single crystal thin film and a method for manufacturing the composite single crystal thin film. The composite single crystal thin film comprises a substrate, an optical isolation layer, a lithium niobate single crystal thin film or a lithium tantalate single crystal thin film and a silicon thin film, wherein the optical isolation layer is located on a substrate; the lithium niobate single crystal thin film or the lithium tantalate single crystal thin film is located on the optical isolation layer; and the silicon thin film is located on the lithium niobate single crystal thin film or the lithium tantalate single crystal thin film. The composite single crystal thin film disclosed by the invention has good nonlinear optical effect, acousto-optical effect, electro-optic effect and the like of a lithium niobate or lithium tantalite material, and simultaneously has the characteristic of a mature processing technology of a silicon material, so that the composite single crystal thin film disclosed by the invention can achieve relatively good compatibility with an existing IC production technology and has a broad industrial prospect. In addition, stable and effective industrial production can be achieved according to the method for manufacturing the composite single crystal thin film disclosed by the invention.

This disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device, said display panel comprising an array substrate, a color film substrate and a first liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate, said display panel further comprising an electro-optic effect layer and an electrode layer disposed on one side or on both sides of the electro-optic effect layer; said electrode layer is used to generate an electric field in said electro-optic effect layer; said electro-optic effect layer is disposed on an outer side of the array substrate or on an outer side of the color film substrate, for causing birefringence of light rays to occur under the effect of said electric field when they pass through said electro-optic effect layer. Said display panel is capable of flexibly adjusting the color gamut displayed by the display panel within a larger range and has a lower cost.

An object of the invention is to provide a Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator that can reduce wavelength chirp occurring in a modulated light, and also can reduce an optical loss with a small sized configuration. To this end, according to the present Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator, in a configuration where optical waveguides and a coplanar electrode are formed on a substrate having an electro-optical effect, a polarization inversed region is formed in a part of an interaction portion of the substrate, and a signal electrode is arranged above one of parallel waveguides in a polarization inversed region and is arranged above the other parallel waveguide in a non-inversed region. Furthermore, a surface area of the substrate positioned on both sides of each of the parallel waveguides is lowered to provide a ridge structure section, and a buffer layer is formed on a ridge side face thereof.

It is an object to provide an optical control device capable of realizing speed matching between a microwave and a light wave or impedance matching of microwaves and of reducing a driving voltage. An optical control device including a thin plate 1 (11) which has an electro-optical effect and has a thickness of 10 μm or less, an optical waveguide 2 formed in the thin plate, and control electrodes for controlling light passing through the optical waveguide is characterized in that the control electrodes are configured to include a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to interpose the thin plate therebetween, the first electrode has a coplanar type electrode including at least a signal electrode 4 and a ground electrode 5, and the second electrode has at least a ground electrode 54 (55, 56) and is configured to apply an electric field to the optical waveguide in cooperation with the signal electrode of the first electrode.

There is provided a high performance optical waveguide type optical modulator with excellent long term reliability, in which contamination of the buffer layer in a forming process of a signal field adjustment region on the buffer layer by a lift-off method or an etching method, is prevented and DC drift thus suppressed. The optical waveguide type optical modulator 10 comprises a substrate 11 having an electro-optic effect, optical waveguides 12 formed on the surface of this substrate 11, a traveling-wave type signal electrode 13a and ground electrodes 13b which are provided on the substrate 11 and control a lightwave, and a buffer layer 14 provided between the electrodes 13 and the optical waveguides 12, and furthermore, a dielectric layer 15 is provided on the entire surface of the buffer layer 14 on the side of the electrodes 13, and a signal field adjustment region 16 which has a wider width than that of the traveling-wave type signal electrode 13a and is made of a material with a higher refractive index than that of the dielectric layer 15 is formed between the dielectric layer 15 and the traveling-wave type signal electrode 13a.

An optical modulator using a thin plate capable of improving an S / N ratio of an output light is provided. The optical modulator including a thin plate 1 having an electrooptic effect and having a thickness of 20 μm or less, an optical waveguide 4 formed on a top or bottom surface of the thin plate, and a modulation electrode formed on the top surface of the thin plate to modulate light passing through the optical waveguide, wherein a stray light removing member 10 is disposed within the thin plate or in a vicinity of the thin plate.

An optical modulator restricted in a photorefractive phenomenon caused by a stray light in an optical modulator, and improved in the quenching ratio characteristics of a signal light. The optical modulator comprises a substrate consisting of a material having an electro-optic effect, an optical waveguide formed on the substrate, and a modulating electrode for allowing an electric field to work on the optical waveguide and changing the phase of light passing through the optical waveguide, characterized in that stray light removing means are provided on the surface of the substrate.

In an optical element, a first mirror stack layer is formed on a substrate, and a spacer layer made of a paraelectric material having a secondary electrooptic effect is formed thereon through a first conductive thin film. Further, a second mirror stack layer is formed thereon through a second conductive thin film, and a coupling layer is formed thereon; thus, a basic structure of the optical element is formed. By changing a voltage to be applied between the first and second conductive thin films, it becomes possible to switch wavelengths of light to be transmitted through the optical element at a high speed.

A waveguide type polarizing beam splitter belongs to the technical field of integrated photon devices, is based on the total internal reflection principle and the mode field coupling principle and adopts liquid crystal materials with a large double refraction difference. According to the invention, optical signals of different polarization states can automatically select specific branch waveguides at branch positions to transmit so as to realize effective separation of the optical signals of different polarization states; the refractivity of the liquid crystals at a regulation and control area can be changed through utilizing an electro-optical effect so as to achieve the purpose that the output ports of the optical signals of different polarization states exchange and further realize regulation and control of a polarized light output passage. The polarizing beam splitter provided by the invention has the advantages of simple structure, easiness in design and manufacturing, low wave length dependence, simplicity and convenience in regulation and control, and the like, and has an application prospect in an integrated photon system.

The present invention provides a cost-saving and space-saving optical modulator enabling application of modulation signals with high phase difference accuracy without using a separate component for generating a phase difference outside of the optical modulator, when identical modulation signals having a predetermined phase difference are applied into a plurality of modulation electrodes.An optical modulator 20 including a substrate with an electro-optic effect, a plurality of optical waveguide sections 10 formed on the substrate, and a plurality of modulation electrodes 21 and 22 for modulating lights passing through the optical waveguide sections, and into which identical modulation signals having a predetermined phase difference are applied, wherein a branch element for branching a modulation signal into a plurality of modulation signals is formed, and a delay line for generating the phase difference is formed in the middle of lines for applying the modulation signals branched by the branch element into the plurality of modulation electrodes.

An object of the invention is to provide a Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator that can reduce wavelength chirp occurring in a modulated light, and also can reduce an optical loss with a small sized configuration. To this end, according to the present Mach-Zehnder type optical modulator, in a configuration where optical waveguides and a coplanar electrode are formed on a substrate having an electro-optical effect, a polarization inversed region is formed in a part of an interaction portion of the substrate, and a signal electrode is arranged above one of parallel waveguides in a polarization inversed region and is arranged above the other parallel waveguide in a non-inversed region. Furthermore, a surface area of the substrate positioned on both sides of each of the parallel waveguides is lowered to provide a ridge structure section, and a buffer layer is formed on a ridge side face thereof.

An apparatus has an input waveguide to receive light. An optical power splitter is connected to the input waveguide to form split signals. An array of waveguides receives the split signals. A phase tuning region includes electrodes within a cladding structure surrounding cores of the array of waveguides. The phase tuning region produces an electro-optic effect under the control of a phase tuning control circuit applying an electric field to the electrodes to render phase difference split signals within the array of waveguides. Output array waveguides emit the phase difference split signals as steered beams based on relative phase differences among the phase difference split signals.

An optical device having a substrate having an electro-optical effect, an optical waveguide formed in the substrate, and an electric field emission electrode, and an electric field convergence electrode to which an electric field emitted from the electric field emission electrode converges. The optical waveguide is formed such that light propagating through the optical waveguide passes through an area under the electric field emission electrode or an area under the electric field convergence electrode and then passes through a remaining electrode. As a result, even when an interaction length is increased, the optical device acquires (increases) a modulation index appropriate to the increase in interaction length, thereby diminishing a drive voltage.

An electrooptic device having a simple structure that can efficiently increase deflection of a beam is provided. The device includes: an electrooptic crystal (11) having an electrooptic effect; an electrode pair of a positive electrode (12) and a negative electrode (13) for generating an electric field inside the electrooptic crystal; and a power source for applying a voltage between the electrode pair so as to generate a space charge inside the electrooptic crystal. With this arrangement, by using a simple structure, a change in a deflection angle is temporally rapid, and a large deflection angle that can not be obtained by a conventional electrooptic crystal prism can be acquired at a low applied voltage.

The invention is a tunable wavelength selecting / locking optical dense wave division multiplex wave combining / separating device, including an input port and eight wave separation output ports, two wavelength tuning selection combining components, and the wavelength locking control structure includes optical-fiber coupler, optical FP etalon, fast wavelength tuning filter, two fast photoelectric conversion probes, and differential amplifier tracking signal processor. The wavelength locking control structure collects and processes two optical signals of a primary optical path and controls the wavelength tuning selection combining components in the primary optical path by circuit feedback. The wavelength tuning selection combining components are packaged with many optical resonance cavities in parallel on an optical shared surface, adopt the electrooptical effect of electrooptical polymer film and the multi-reflection coherence theory of optical resonance cavities to form tuned filtering characteristic, making the output of each wave separation port of the multiplexer meet the design requirements on wavelength selection and wideband tuning, and it makes locking control on the central wavelength of each channel, stable and reliable.

Disclosed herein is a display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.

An electro-optic effect based optical voltage transformer comprises an optical voltage sensor head and an electrical unit, wherein the electrical unit comprises an optical closed-loop feedback control unit and a signal processing unit, the optical closed-loop feedback control unit is connected to the optical voltage sensor head and the optical voltage sensor head is connected to the signal processing unit. In this invention, the light source output power is more stable, the light source center wavelength drift is effectively controlled and the output power coastdown caused by light source aging is prevented; the optical power fluctuation of the optical polarization caused by factors such as temperature, optical fiber vibration, etc., is eliminated, which is conductive to stability and reliability of the optical system; the accuracy of data is improved.

Provided is a concept for variably guiding optical waves by using a layer-stack having an electro-optic core layer of electro-optic material for guiding light and an electrode arrangement with at least a first electrode layer in proximity to the electro-optic core layer, wherein the electrode arrangement is configured to activate an electro-optic effect in a region of the electro-optic core layer by an electric field generated by means of the electrode arrangement, such that a propagation of the light is manipulated in the region of the activated electro-optic effect.

The invention is a fiber-optical electric-field sensor namely a photoelectric measuring device, based on electrooptic effecct to measure electric field, including collimation lens, polarizer, lambda / 4 wave piece, electrooptic crystal, polarization detector and coupler lens in order placed in light path. Each optical cell is inserted on organic glass basic body with the flute matching the shape and order of the optical cells, and the optical cells are felted one another and the cells and the glass are also felted by optical glue. The link and test of light-path system is convenient.

The present invention provides a highly-integrated and compact optical element and further provides an optical element having various functions such as lower driving voltage, chirping suppression and polarization-independency. The optical element comprising a substrate 1 consisting of a material having an electrooptic effect, top optical waveguides 2-1 an 2-2 formed on the top face of said substrate, bottom optical waveguides formed on the bottom face of said substrate, a top modulating electrode for controlling the phase of a light wave being propagated through said top optical waveguide, and a bottom modulating electrode for controlling the phase of a light wave being propagated through said bottom optical waveguide, is characterized in that at least one side edge of said substrate comprises output and input of said optical waveguides formed on said top and bottom faces, and a turnback element is located adjacent to said one side edge to guide the light wave from said output to said input.

The invention discloses a KTa1-xNbxO3 (KTN) crystal quadratic electro-optical effect-based laser deflection modulation method, and belongs to the field of researches on the design and preparation of electro-optical components. The continuous unmechanical scanning of a laser beam in a direction perpendicular to the direction of an electric field within kilovolt direct current voltage is realized by simple components and a simple experimental design on the basis of the quadratic electro-optical effect of cubic phase Cu:KTN crystals doped with ions at certain concentration. The laser beam is deflected on the basis of accurate temperature control through a proper electrode design and a proper modulation way by taking cuboidal block KTN crystals which are different in component, doping concentration and machining size and opposite to crystal axes as deflection components, and deflection efficiency is as high as 120mrad / kV. The method has the remarkable characteristics that the transverse deflection of a laser propagation direction perpendicular to the direction of the electric field is realized; a device is easy to design; a deflection mode is unique; and the deflection efficiency reaches an advanced world standard.

The invention discloses an atomic magnetometer detection light frequency measuring and stabilizing device and method based on second harmonic. According t the method, based on the optical absorption effect and dispersion effect of an alkali metal atom gas chamber for detection laser and optical effects (such as an electro-optic effect, a magneto-optical effect, and a photoelastic effect) of a phase modulator, through monitoring a second harmonic signal outputted by an atomic magnetometer optical detection system, the detection light frequency is calculated in real time, with a servo controller and a closed-loop control algorithm, a control signal is fed to a detection light source control module to carry out corresponding adjustment, and the frequency online measurement of large detuning detection light and long time closed loop stability are realized. According to the device and the method, the advantages of system simplification, a small size, application range enlargement, real-time measurement and feedback are developed, the improvement of the sensitivity and stability of a miniaturized and integrated atomic magnetic field measurement device is facilitated, and the device and the method can be used for the industrial integration and practical application of a quantum sensing instrument such as an atomic magnetometer in the future.

An optical switching element comprising: a multimode waveguide having an electro-optical effect; one or a plurality of first single mode waveguides; a plurality of second single mode waveguides; a first electrode arranged in the vicinity of one edge on one side of the multimode waveguide; a second electrode arranged in the vicinity of the other edge on the same side of the multimode waveguide; and a third electrode arranged on the other side of the multimode waveguide, over the first electrode and the second electrode being arranged so as to be positioned on bright spots formed by multimode interference in an optical mode field generated by the light propagating through the multimode waveguide, and an optical path being switched between the first single mode waveguide and the second single mode waveguide by applying voltage between the first electrode and the third electrode and between the second electrode and the third electrode, is provided.

“This invention offer optical modulator module with fulfilling the effective and the stable optical modulation, which stabilizes the emission of semiconductor and control the shift of optic axis between the optical component by the temperature change and so on, when using the semiconductor laser. Peculiarly, the optical modulator module includes, in same package, the semiconductor laser (27) as light source, the optical modulation device (28) that has optical waveguide on the surface of the chip made by the element of the electro-optical effect, and the polarization rotating element (40) between said semiconductor laser and said optical modulation device, for bringing plane of polarization of light from said semiconductor laser (27) to optimum plane of polarization in waveguide of the said optical modulation device in line and blocking the returning light from said optical modulation device to said semiconductor laser.”

The invention provides a high-speed multi-width terahertz time-domain spectral imager, aiming at problems in the prior art. Femtosecond laser pulse is divided, and certain time delay exists among pulses; then the sequence is divided into two ways, one way is used for generating a terahertz pulse sequence, and the other way is used for generating probe light pulse with an oblique leading edge through an oblique leading edge pulse light generating device, so that the one-time transient measurement of the terahertz pulse is realized; a signal acquiring and processing module is combined for imaging each probe pulse, so that the wave form information of each sub pulse of a plurality of terahertz pulse sequences can be obtained. According to the invention, the wave form information of a plurality of sub pulses of the terahertz pulse sequence is measured by a femtosecond pulsed laser device, a negative chirp pulse light generating device, a light splitting delay device, a terahertz generating device, an oblique leading edge pulse light generating device, an electrooptical effect crystal and the signal acquiring and processing module.

The invention provides an optical switching method capable of using the electronic control quadratic electro-optical effect for deflecting incident light, belongs to the technical field of optics, and aims to solve the problem in the existing optical switching technology that a broadband range and quick responses cannot be realized. The optical switching method specifically comprises the following steps: a quadratic electro-optical effect potassium tantalate niobate crystal is used; when laser radiation is needed, an external electric field is not applied to the crystal, and lasers directly penetrate through the crystal; when laser radiation is not needed, the external electric field is applied to the crystal in the two directions perpendicular to the incident lasers, and the quadratic electro-optical effect is used for making polarized components in the incident lasers be polarized sequentially after the polarized components pass through the crystal, wherein the polarization direction of the polarized components is parallel to the direction of the externally applied electric field; finally, the polarized components deviate from the original propagation direction, and the purpose of switching on and off is achieved. An optical switch manufactured by the adoption of the optical switching method has the advantages of being small in size, low in cost, easy to process, and high in response speed (at a nanosecond level), so that the application prospect of the optical switch is quite broad.

The present invention has an object to provide a Mach-Zehnder optical modulator for achieving the reduction of wavelength chirping caused in a modulated light. To this end, according to the present invention, in a Mach-Zehnder optical modulator configured by forming an optical waveguide and a coplanar electrode on a substrate having an electro-optic effect, a polarization inversion region is formed on a part of a portion where lights being propagated through a pair of parallel waveguides and a high frequency electric signal being propagated through a signal electrode interact to each other, and also the signal electrode is arranged on one of the parallel waveguides in the polarization inversion region and is arranged on the other parallel waveguide in a non-inversion region.

An optical modulator according to the present invention includes an optical waveguide 2a to 2d made of a material with an electro-optic effect and a modulating electrode 3 for applying a modulating electric signal to light propagating through the optical waveguide 2a to 2d. The modulator further includes a periodic structure, of which the equivalent refractive index changes periodically in a light propagation direction and which can reduce the group velocity of the light propagating through the optical waveguide 2a, 2b.