741 results about "Optical modulator" patented technology

The invention discloses a rapid polarized light acoustic imaging device which comprises an excitation source, a light beam shaping module, a rapid polarization modulation module, an energy feedback module, a rapid scanning module and an acquisition processing module. And receiving photoacoustic signals corresponding to the exciting light in four different polarization states for calculation, and extracting anisotropy information of the sample. Compared with multiple times of scanning a sample or modulating the polarization state by rotating a half-wave plate, the problems of dislocation of multiple times of polarization acquisition points and false positive calculation are avoided, meanwhile, the time interval generated by continuously modulating the laser pulses is short, and energy fluctuation among the four pulses and errors caused by fluctuation are reduced. According to the invention, the limitation of the precision and speed of polarized light acoustic microscopic imaging is overcome, the microstructure characteristics in the target sample can be rapidly, accurately and highly sensitively detected, and the method has great application prospects in biomedical imaging and high-precision material detection.

An optical device includes: a first optical system; and a second optical system. The first optical system includes a first light splitting device configured to split measurement light emitted from a first light source into a first measurement light and a second measurement light and then mix the split measurement light, a first mirror configured to add a first modulation signal by being moved in an entering direction of the first measurement light and reflecting the first measurement light, a second mirror configured to reflect the second measurement light, and a first light receiving device configured to receive the measurement light including a sample-derived signal and the first modulation signal and output a first light receiving signal. The second optical system includes a second light source configured to emit laser light, an optical modulator configured to add a second modulation signal to the laser light, and a second light receiving device configured to receive the laser light including a displacement signal generated by reflection on the first mirror and the second modulation signal and output a second light receiving signal.

The invention relates to a packaging structure and packaging method for an optical module and an optical chip, and the packaging structure comprises a receiving end assembly, a stepped metal heat sink, and a silicon-based optical interconnection assembly which is pasted on the stepped metal heat sink. The silicon-based optical interconnection assembly comprises a laser, a silicon light beam splitter, a lens group, a light transmission compensation gasket, a silicon light modulator and an optical fiber array; coplanar coupling is formed between the laser and the silicon light beam splitter. The silicon light beam splitter and at least part of the collimating lens in the lens group are fixed on the light transmission compensation gasket; the optical fiber array and the silicon light modulator realize waveguide matching in an active coupling mode; the silicon light modulator and the receiving end assembly are separately arranged at least at a preset interval, and the optical fiber array and / or the receiving end assembly are / is covered with a metal isolation cover. According to the invention, the problems of high cost of multiple light sources, easy pollution of an open light path and yield bottleneck caused by low-reliability glue in the prior art are solved, and finally, a packaging scheme which is compact in structure, stable in process and high in mass production is formed.

Disclosed herein is an optical frequency comb generator for a distributed acoustic anomaly detection system. The system can include a continuous wave frequency modulated laser source configured to generate a laser signal. The system can include an acousto-optical modulator configured to modulate the laser signal by altering an amplitude and / or frequency of the laser signal based on an RF drive signal applied to the AOM, and to output an optical pulse with multiple frequency sidebands based on the modulation. The output can form an optical frequency comb usable detecting and locating acoustic anomalies within a structure under observation.

An optical computation system includes a light source configured to produce a pump beam, an optical modulator configured to modulate the pump beam based on the modulation mask to generate a modulated beam, a non-linear medium configured to convert a portion of the modulated beam to a second harmonic (SH) beam and to produce an output including the SH beam and an unconverted portion of the pump beam, and a dichroic mirror configured to receive the output of the non-linear medium and to decouple the SH beam and the unconverted portion of the pump beam, a detector configured to detect a first optical power of the unconverted portion of the pump beam and to detect a second optical power of the SH beam, and a controller configured to generate an updated modulation mask based on the first and second optical powers for transmission to the optical modulator.

Provided are a laser interferometer capable of reducing the frequency of a signal calculated and processed in a demodulation circuit and reducing the cost of the demodulation circuit, and a spectroscopic device provided with the laser interferometer. A laser interferometer is provided with: an optical modulator that adds a modulation signal to laser light using a resonator element; a light receiving element that detects a change in the intensity of the laser light including the sampled signal and the modulated signal, and outputs a laser reception signal; a signal oscillation unit that generates a reference signal of a first frequency with the vibration element as a source vibration; and a demodulation circuit that demodulates the sampled signal from the laser reception signal on the basis of the reference signal, the demodulation circuit comprising: a DC offset removal unit that removes the offset; a first phase regulator that regulates the phase of the reference signal; a first multiplier that multiplies the laser reception signal by a reference signal; a first filter; a second multiplier multiplying the first multiplication signal by a reference signal; a second filter; and a phase calculator that calculates a phase.

The invention provides a dual-mode gravitational acceleration precision measurement system and method based on a light floating effect. According to the system, a 1064nm laser double-beam correlation structure is adopted, a strong focusing light trap is formed in a gravity orthogonal direction, and micron-sized silicon dioxide particles are stably captured. In the absolute measurement mode, the acousto-optic modulator is used for controlling the on-off of the laser, the high-speed position detection module is used for detecting and recording the free falling motion trail of the particles and the displacement amplitude showing the resonance state after re-capturing, and the absolute gravitational acceleration parameter is inverted. In a relative measurement mode, weak focusing 532nm laser is configured along the gravity direction to construct a gravity compensation light trap, and after absolute gravitational acceleration reference measurement is completed, the laser is modulated by an acoustic optical modulator to accurately balance the gravity of particles, so that the particles enter a quasi-balance state. When the external gravitational field changes slightly, the characteristic displacement of the particles in the gravity direction is extracted, and the change of the relative gravitational acceleration can be monitored continuously.

The invention relates to the field of performance testing of high-precision fiber-optic gyroscopes, and discloses an automatic testing method and system for the extinction ratio of a high-precision fiber-optic gyroscope, and the method comprises the following steps: constructing a signal light path and a reference light path, and combining the output light of the signal light path and the reference light path into a combined light signal in an orthogonal polarization state; integrally measuring the extinction ratio of the combined optical signal by using an extinction ratio tester to obtain a measured value; the control unit compares the measured value with a target value of 0dB and generates a control instruction based on a difference value; the voltage controller automatically adjusts the voltage of the integrated optical modulator in the signal light path according to the instruction, and iterative optimization is carried out through closed-loop feedback until the actually measured extinction ratio reaches a target value; and finally recording and solidifying the optimal voltage value. According to the invention, single and accurate extinction ratio overall measurement is used for replacing two times of error-prone independent optical power measurement, full-automatic closed-loop control is realized, the precision, efficiency and consistency of optical power balance are remarkably improved, and the skill requirements on operators are reduced.

The invention discloses an ODAC implementation system and method based on a five-segment thermo-optical phase modulator, and relates to the technical field of optical communication, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining single-mode laser input, dividing the single-mode laser input into two paths through a multi-mode interference device beam splitter, and transmitting the single-mode laser input into an upper arm and a lower arm of a Mach-Zehnder modulator; the current is adjusted through the thermo-optic phase modulator to control the temperature, the refractive index is changed to introduce phase delay, and the phase difference of two arms of the Mach-Zehnder modulator is calibrated; on the basis of a five-segment thermo-optical modulator, hierarchical amplitude modulation is carried out on beam splitting light according to digital input, a phase space is constructed by utilizing weight combination, and a linear optimal discrete state is screened; the modulated light is combined by a multi-mode interference device beam combiner, and digital-analog mapping output of light intensity is carried out; a detector installed at an output port of the five-segment thermo-optical phase modulator is used for monitoring output optical power in real time, the output optical power is fed back to a control circuit to calculate errors, thermo-optical modulation current is dynamically adjusted to compensate offset point drift, and optical digital analog conversion is achieved.

An interface for an optical modulator and the optical modulator are described. The interface includes first and second differential line pairs. The first differential line pair has a first negative line and a first positive line arranged on opposing sides of a first waveguide. The first negative line is on a distal side of the first waveguide relative to a second waveguide. The first positive line is on a proximal side of the first waveguide relative to the second waveguide. The second differential line pair has a second negative line and a second positive line arranged on opposing sides of the second waveguide. The second negative line is on a distal side of the second waveguide relative to the first waveguide. The second positive line is on a proximal side of the second waveguide relative to the first waveguide. The first and second waveguides each include lithium niobate and / or lithium tantalate.

The invention relates to the technical field of laser light source measurement, and discloses a wide-range narrow-linewidth laser wavelength and linewidth measurement system, which can be flexibly matched with the center frequency of laser to be measured through the arrangement of a tunable laser, breaks through the strict limitation of the existing beat frequency method on the center frequency, effectively expands the measurement range, and improves the measurement accuracy. By combining the synergistic effect of the absorption cell and the locking loop, the system stability is improved, the measurement precision of narrow linewidth laser is guaranteed, the integration time can be flexibly adapted without tedious adjustment of a delay optical path or change of parameters of acquisition equipment through the cooperation of the optical modulator and the delay optical fiber, the problem of inconsistent measurement resolution under different integration time is avoided, and the measurement accuracy is improved. And the accuracy of short-time measurement is obviously improved. The system integrates wavelength and line width measurement functions, can measure line width, center wavelength and long-time frequency stability of to-be-measured laser, is reasonable in structural design, retains the advantage of high precision of a beat frequency method, overcomes the defects that an existing method is narrow in measurement range and inconvenient to adjust integral time, and improves the measurement accuracy of the to-be-measured laser. And the measurement requirements of wide-range and narrow-linewidth laser are met.

A calculation device of the present disclosure is characterized by implementing an item, which expresses a magnetic field, at each site by adding, to the conventional coherent Ising machine, a function for simulating the magnetic field item. Specifically, light having the amplitude of a predetermined sign is input in the conventional coherent Ising machine by dislocating an operation point of the push-pull-type optical modulator. When the operation point is dislocated to a + direction, DOPO (Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillator) having the same wavelength as that of DOPO of an optical resonator and having a fixed initial phase difference from pump light into which the light is injected considerably tends to oscillate at 0 phase, and becomes reversed when the operation point is dislocated to a minus direction.

Improvements in and relating to Photonics An optical switch for receiving an optical signal from an optical signal source and for outputting the optical signal comprises an optical router configured for routing the optical signal conditional on the detection of a single photon. The optical router comprises and optical resonator, a first optical pathway part comprising the optical resonator, and a second optical pathway part. An optical input coupling part receives the optical signal for coupling the received optical signal into the first optical pathway part and into the second optical pathway part. An optical modulator coupled to a single-photon detector unit outputs a detection signal in response to the detection of a single photon. The optical modulator is configured, in response to the detection signal, to modulate the refractive index of the optical resonator to change an optical phase shift incurred by the optical signal upon passage through the optical resonator such that an optical interference results in a routing of the output optical signal to one of the first and second optical pathway parts selected conditional on the detection of a single photon.

The invention discloses an etching device for optical modulator chip processing, and belongs to the field of chip processing, the etching device comprises an etching machine body, the top of the inner surface of the etching machine body is fixedly provided with a conveyor, the left side of the conveyor is provided with a containing bin, and the inner surface of the containing bin is slidably connected with a rotating disc; a driving part used for driving the rotating disc to rotate is assembled below the rotating disc, a pushing part used for pushing out chips is assembled above the rotating disc, a drainage part used for discharging waste water is assembled below the containing bin, and a water inlet assembly used for washing and drying the chips is assembled on the outer surface of the conveyor. The driving part is arranged to drive the rotating disc to rotate in the containing bin so as to convey the chips in sequence, hot water of the water inlet assembly is cooled through the cooling assembly and then sprayed to the chips in the rotating disc so that the chips can be washed, and the cleaned chips are dried through heat generated by the hot water of the water inlet assembly; the cleaning and drying effects are convenient.

The invention discloses a femtosecond optical comb large-size precision absolute distance measurement system in a complex environment. Comprising a source module, a beam splitter, a third dichroic mirror, a fundamental frequency femtosecond optical comb reference detector, a frequency doubling femtosecond optical comb reference detector, a fourth dichroic mirror, a frequency doubling femtosecond optical comb measurement detector, a fundamental frequency femtosecond optical comb measurement detector, a phase discriminator, a ranging zero point mirror and a corner reflector. The source module comprises an atomic clock, a femtosecond optical comb, an optical fiber beam splitter, a signal generator, an electro-optical modulator, a lens, a frequency multiplication module, a first collimation beam expander, a second collimation beam expander, a first dichroic mirror and a second dichroic mirror. According to the scheme, the defects that in the prior art, the measurement range is insufficient, complex industrial sites are difficult to adapt, and the real-time performance is poor are overcome, and a new way is provided for breaking through the technical bottleneck of large-range, high-precision, dead-zone-free, rapid and real-time measurement in a complex environment; and a technical support is provided for engineering application of a femtosecond optical comb precision distance measurement technology and development of a subsequent measurement prototype.

The present disclosure provides semiconductor devices and photonic circuits. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and an optical modulator disposed on the substrate. The optical modulator includes a first PIN portion and a second PIN portion apart from the first PIN portion. The optical modulator is configured to receive a voltage from a driver to decrease a resonant wavelength of the optical modulator.

The utility model relates to the technical field of optical fiber communication, and discloses a polarization equalization transmitting assembly based on a coherent light silicon optical chip, which adopts a second optical splitter with an adjustable splitting ratio to split input continuous light and equalizes output light power of two paths of coherent light of X polarized light and Y polarized light. The two paths of coherent light of X polarized light and Y polarized light can be pre-adjusted only by adjusting the splitting ratio of the second optical splitter, optical power balance is achieved, high-speed electro-optical modulators in the two paths of coherent light do not need to be adjusted, the high-speed electro-optical modulators can be kept in the optimal state, an adjustable optical attenuator does not need to be additionally arranged in the two paths of coherent light, and the optical power balance is achieved. The utility model has the effects of improving the output power of the transmitting assembly, reducing the self power consumption of the transmitting assembly and improving the utilization efficiency of the high-speed photoelectric driver, and is more suitable for a small-sized packaged coherent optical module based on a coherent optical silicon optical chip.

An optical modulator includes a substrate defining a plane and first, second, and third PN junctions formed on the substrate. The first PN junction is formed on the substrate by a first region doped with a p-type doping abutting a second region doped with an n-type doping. The second PN junction is formed on the substrate adjacent to the second region of the first PN junction. The third PN junction is formed on the substrate adjacent to the first region of the first PN junction.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a composition and a polymer compound which are each capable of suppressing aggregation of a dye that has a nonlinear optical effect in a nonlinear optical material, and exhibiting a higher electro-optic effect with respect to the absorbance after poling; a nonlinear optical element which is obtained using the composition; and an optical modulator which comprises the nonlinear optical element and operates on the basis of an electro-optic effect. The present invention pertains to a composition which contains a compound represented by formula (1) and a compound represented by formula (3), wherein the content of the compound represented by formula (3) is 0.0001 mol% to 25 mol% inclusive relative to the total content of the compound represented by formula (1) and the compound represented by formula (3).　(Definitions of groups are as set forth in the description.)

An optical module includes: an optical modulation chip having an optical modulator, the optical modulator including a phase converter, a first optical power detection assembly and a second optical power detection assembly arranged at light input and light output sides of the optical modulator, a comparison circuit configured to receive a second detection voltage and a first detection voltage from the second and first optical power detection assemblies and output a comparison voltage; and an MCU configured to monitor the comparison voltage and output a bias voltage to the phase converter, adjust the bias voltage to the phase converter in case of monitoring the comparison voltage not equal to a preset voltage while the optical module is in a preset state, such that a difference between the first detection voltage and the second detection voltage is a preset difference, thereby adjusting the comparison voltage to a preset voltage.

The application relates to a packaging structure and a packaging method of an optical module and an optical chip, wherein the packaging structure comprises a receiving end assembly, a stepped metal heat sink and a silicon-based optical interconnection assembly attached to the stepped metal heat sink; the silicon-based optical interconnection assembly comprises a laser, a silicon optical beam splitter, a lens group, a light-transmitting compensation gasket, a silicon optical modulator and a fiber array; the laser and the silicon optical beam splitter form a coplanar coupling; the silicon optical beam splitter and at least part of the collimating lenses in the lens group are fixed on the light-transmitting compensation gasket; the fiber array and the silicon optical modulator realize waveguide matching through an active coupling mode; the silicon optical modulator and the receiving end assembly are arranged at a distance of at least a preset interval, and the fiber array and / or the receiving end assembly are covered with a metal isolation cover. The application solves the yield bottleneck caused by high cost of multiple light sources, pollution of an open light path and low reliability of glue in the prior art, and finally forms a packaging scheme with compact structure, stable process and high productivity.

A semiconductor device includes: a first section in a semiconductor substrate and configured to allow an optical signal to propagate; a second section including a first doped region and a third doped region, and configured as a first end to receive a modulating signal; a third section including the second doped region and a fourth doped region, and configured as a second end to receive the modulating signal; a fourth section, including a first height less than that of the first section and the second section, and arranged between the first section and the second section, the fourth section being an undoped region; and a fifth section immediately adjacent to the fourth section, the fifth section including a second height less than that of the first section and the second section, the fifth section arranged between the first section and the second section.

Provided is a time-stretch spectroscopy device capable of restoring an original spectrum without using a high-speed modulation system or reception system even if temporally adjacent pulses overlap after stretching. This time-stretch spectroscopy device comprises: an optical modulator that performs intensity modulation in pulse units on a group of measurement light pulses, which are obtained by irradiating a measurement object having characteristics relating to light transmittance or reflectance with a group of light pulses; a pulse stretcher that performs time stretching on the group of measurement light pulses; and a signal processing device that, with the assumption that the measurement light pulses are sparse as data, performs a reconfiguration estimating pulse signal wavelength components corresponding to the stretched light pulses, which are obtained by individually time stretching the group of measurement light pulses, in light of a superimposition signal synthesized such that a temporal overlap occurs after the time stretching.

The utility model provides a laser ablation device which comprises a first laser light source used for emitting treatment laser; the optical splitter is arranged at the output end of the first laser light source and is used for splitting the treatment laser into multiple paths of split laser; wherein the branch lasers are arranged in rows and columns; the optical modulator is arranged at the output end of the optical splitter and is used for performing independent power regulation and control on each branch laser; the optical fiber coupler is arranged at the output end of the optical modulator and is used for coupling the branch lasers into the optical fiber branches of the optical fiber array one by one; the optical fiber array is connected between the optical fiber coupler and the focusing micro-lens array, and each optical fiber branch corresponds to one focusing micro-lens of the focusing micro-lens array; and the focusing microlens array is used for focusing the split laser onto the diseased tissue in space through focusing microlenses for ablation treatment. The technical scheme can be used for ablation treatment of various irregular pathological tissues, and damage to surrounding healthy tissues is avoided.

The invention relates to a lithium niobate electro-optical modulator and a preparation method and application thereof. The lithium niobate electro-optical modulator sequentially comprises a ground electrode, a substrate layer, a buried oxide layer, a lithium niobate waveguide and a high-dielectric-constant cladding from bottom to top. Optical isolation grooves which are symmetrically distributed are formed in two sides of the lithium niobate waveguide; the high-dielectric-constant wrapping layer comprises a first wrapping layer and a second wrapping layer from inside to outside, and the dielectric constant of the first wrapping layer is smaller than that of the second wrapping layer; the number of the high-dielectric-constant claddings is greater than or equal to 2; the lithium niobate electro-optical modulator further comprises a signal electrode, and the signal electrode is embedded in the high-dielectric-constant cladding and located above the optical isolation groove. Due to the synergistic effect of the optical isolation groove and the high-dielectric-constant cladding, the lithium niobate electro-optical modulator not only has high modulation efficiency, but also has high bandwidth. In addition, the lithium niobate electro-optical modulator disclosed by the invention has excellent power tolerance.

The present disclosure provides an optical modulating structure. The optical modulating structure includes a lower member extending along an insulating layer, a first protrusion over the lower member, and a second protrusion over the lower member and separated from the first protrusion. A first mask layer is formed over the optical modulating structure, wherein the first mask layer covers the second protrusion and a first portion of the lower member between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. A first doping region is formed in an exposed portion of the lower member and at least a portion of an exposed sidewall of the first protrusion. A dielectric layer is formed between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. A method for manufacturing the optical modulating structure is also provided.

An optical modulator, including: a substrate; a plurality of electro-optic material layers formed on the substrate; and an electrode formed on the electro-optic material layer; wherein the electro-optic material layer has a patterned RF portion waveguide that applies a modulated signal and a patterned DC portion waveguide that applies a direct current bias signal; and on a section perpendicular to a light propagation direction, the sectional area of the DC portion waveguide is greater than the sectional area of the RF portion waveguide.

The embodiment of the invention provides an optical module and an optical modulator. A hybrid integrated optical chip comprises the optical modulator, a wave separator and a wave combiner. The optical modulator comprises a silicon waveguide layer, an N-type InP layer, a quantum well layer and a P-type InP layer from bottom to top. The gradual change structures are formed at the two ends of the optical modulator respectively, and the silicon waveguide and the InP region waveguide at the same end have opposite gradual change trends, so that mode mutation when light is coupled between the silicon waveguide and the InP waveguide is reduced, and low-loss coupling of the light between the silicon waveguide and the InP waveguide is achieved. In a coupling region at one end of the light modulator, the width of the silicon waveguide is gradually narrowed, and the width of each layer of waveguide in the InP region is gradually widened, so that more light field energy to be modulated is upwards coupled to the InP region for modulation. And in a coupling region at the other end of the optical modulator, the width of the silicon waveguide is gradually increased, and the width of each layer of waveguide in the InP region is gradually reduced, so that more modulation light field energy is downwards coupled into the silicon ridge waveguide to be output.

An optical device includes: a second light source configured to emit laser light having a wavelength different from that of measurement light emitted from a first light source; a light splitter; a first mirror configured to add a first modulation signal to the measurement light and add a displacement signal to the laser light; a second mirror configured to reflect a second beam of the measurement light; a first color separator configured to separate the second beam of the measurement light from a second laser light beam based on a difference in wavelength; an optical modulator driven based on a drive signal and configured to add a second modulation signal to the second laser light beam after the separation; a first photodetector configured to receive the measurement light including a sample-derived signal and the first modulation signal; and a second photodetector configured to receive the laser light including the displacement signal and the second modulation signal.

The invention relates to the technical field of integrated photoelectron and electro-optical modulation, in particular to a thin-film lithium niobate electro-optical modulator structure and a preparation method of the thin-film lithium niobate electro-optical modulator structure. The buried layer is located on the upper surface of the substrate; the partially-etched thin film lithium niobate layer comprises a partially-etched thin film lithium niobate flat plate layer and a thin film lithium niobate ridge waveguide, the partially-etched thin film lithium niobate flat plate layer is located on the upper surface of the buried layer and exposes a part of the buried layer, and the thin film lithium niobate ridge waveguide is located on the partially-etched thin film lithium niobate flat plate layer; the partially-etched buffer layer is located on the partially-etched thin film lithium niobate layer, and the side wall of the partially-etched thin film lithium niobate flat plate layer is exposed; and the metal electrode is in electric contact with the side wall of the partially etched thin film lithium niobate flat plate layer. Therefore, the problems of low-frequency modulation waveform distortion, direct-current bias point drift and the like caused by electro-optical relaxation and electric field shielding of a related thin-film lithium niobate electro-optical modulator are solved.