1001 results about "Optical modulator" patented technology

The invention discloses a signal-to-noise ratio improvement method based on a multi-core optical fiber dual-channel distributed acoustic sensing system, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the light splitting of light emitted by a narrow linewidth laser through a first coupler C1, enabling one path of light to generate a pulse signal through an acoustic optical modulator (AOM), enabling the other path of light to pass through a second coupler C2, and enabling the other path of light to pass through a second coupler C1; the pulse light is divided into two beams of transmission light, the two beams of transmission light are injected into a connected sensing optical fiber through two groups of erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers (EDFA), two groups of filters, two groups of circulators and a fan-in coupler Fan-in Coupler, and the pulse light is subjected to backward Rayleigh scattering in the sensing optical fiber; based on a dual-channel DAS system, a multi-core optical fiber is used as a sensing optical fiber, three cores and four cores of the multi-core optical fiber are connected in series to form two sensing channels, seven-core space division signals are multiplexed, the equivalent self-noise pressure suppression effect of the seven-core space division signals is analyzed, after noise correlation is removed through a time domain dislocation-frequency domain phase shift method, the signal-to-noise ratio gain can be increased to 8.65 dB, and the signal-to-noise ratio gain can be increased to 8.65 dB. And the detection capability of the system on low-frequency weak signals can be improved.

The invention discloses an equivalent self-noise pressure suppression method and device based on a multi-core optical fiber space division multiplexing signal, light emitted by a narrow linewidth laser is split through a first coupler C1, one path of light passes through an acousto-optic modulator AOM to generate a pulse signal, and then the pulse signal passes through a second coupler C2 to generate a pulse signal; the pulse light is divided into two beams of transmission light, the two beams of transmission light are injected into a connected sensing optical fiber through two groups of erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers (EDFA), two groups of filters, two groups of circulators and a fan-in coupler Fan-in Coupler, and the pulse light is subjected to backward Rayleigh scattering in the sensing optical fiber; based on the dual-channel DAS system, the multi-core optical fiber serves as the sensing optical fiber, three cores and four cores of the multi-core optical fiber are connected in series to form two sensing channels, seven-core space division signals are multiplexed, the equivalent self-noise suppression effect of the seven-core space division signals is analyzed, and the detection capacity of the system for low-frequency weak signals can be improved.

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.

The invention discloses an MZ silicon optical modulator phase bias point adjusting method, electronic equipment, a medium and a program product thereof, and belongs to the technical field of optical communication. The minimum value and the maximum value of the sampling voltage of a photoelectric detector in any period and the current value range of a Heater corresponding to a monotone increasing interval or a monotone decreasing interval are searched; and then a set phase offset point is indexed in the current value range of the Heater. According to the invention, ADC sampling I / O port resources of a pair of differential photoelectric detectors and a micro control unit (MCU) of an MZ silicon optical chip are utilized, and the detection voltage of a photoelectric detector (MPD) of the MZ modulator is periodically changed in a sine rule along with the current change of a thermo-optic phase shifter (Heater); and the phase offset point locking value only needs to select one working point of any period as the modulation locking point of the optical module.

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.

A system for optically modulating a plurality of optical channels includes a power delivery module adapted to convert a coherent light beam into a plurality of optical channels, at least one optical modulator, optically coupled to the power delivery module, the at least one optical modulator adapted to optically modulate each of the plurality of the optical channels, and a vacuum chamber having a trapping plane therein, the vacuum chamber adapted to generate an addressable array of trapped particles at the trapping plane, wherein each of the plurality of optical channels is optically coupled to at least one of the trapped particles of the addressable array.

The invention relates to the technical field of measurement and detection, and discloses an endoscopic imaging and temperature sensing integrated system, which comprises an optical imaging and temperature measuring device, a signal detection device and a control terminal, and is characterized in that the optical imaging and temperature measuring device comprises an excitation light path module, a grating fiber module and a sample control module; the signal detection device comprises a fluorescence detection module and a spectral measurement module, and the control terminal is used for calculating a hologram according to the light field information, sending the hologram to the light modulator to enable the light modulator to carry out wavefront shaping on the first laser based on the hologram, generating a fluorescence imaging graph according to a fluorescence signal, and sending the fluorescence imaging graph to the spectral measurement module. And determining the temperature of the to-be-measured sample according to the spectral information. By utilizing the wavefront shaping technology, the influence of the Bragg grating engraved in the multimode fiber on the light spot output by the multimode fiber can be reduced, the endoscopic imaging quality is improved, and high-quality images can be obtained while the temperature is measured based on the single multimode fiber.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating, transmitting, directing, receiving, and processing optical subcarriers. In some implementations, a system includes a Tier 1 switch that supplies a plurality of data channels; a transmitter that receives the plurality of data channels, the transmitter including an optical modulator that supplies a plurality of optical subcarriers based on the plurality of data channels; an optical platform that receives the plurality of optical subcarriers, the optical platform having a plurality of outputs, each of which supplying at least one of the plurality of subcarriers; a plurality of receivers, each receiving one or more of the plurality of optical subcarriers and supplying one or more of the plurality of data channels; and a plurality of servers, each of which receiving one or more of the plurality of data channels.

The invention relates to a construction method of a photon neural network, an image processing method, equipment and a medium, and the construction method comprises the steps: forming a silicon waveguide on a silicon-based substrate, periodically arranging phase change units on the surface of the silicon waveguide to form a two-dimensional array, and constructing a phase change metasurface with a beam splitting function by regulating and controlling the state of the phase change units. An input port and an output port are connected through a tapered waveguide to form an optical power beam splitter; output optical signals pass through a crossed waveguide and a directional coupler and are arranged according to a convolution kernel matrix structure, and a photon convolution kernel is constructed. A multi-wavelength laser source, an optical modulator and a photoelectric detector are integrated, the state of a phase change unit is dynamically regulated and controlled, and a photon neural network is established. And after matrix operation, the optical signal is converted into an electric signal by the photoelectric detector and is output to the processing module, so that the network performance is remarkably improved, and an efficient and low-energy-consumption scheme is provided for deep learning.

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.

According to the optical fiber interference sensor and the application method thereof, an electro-optical frequency comb is introduced to screen out two comb lines to form a photon-assisted millimeter wave light source, interference is carried out in two frequency spectral regions subsequently, common phase fluctuation is counteracted based on inherent phase coherence, and the strict requirement for the line width index of a laser is avoided. Meanwhile, the two acoustic optical modulators connected in parallel are introduced into the reference arm and the interference arm for frequency shift, the problem of co-frequency crosstalk caused by residual zero-order diffraction of the acoustic optical modulators is solved, and the sensing precision is substantially improved.

An optical modulator with which electrical connection between a signal electrode and signal wiring of a wiring substrate can be reliably made even in a case where a width of the signal electrode in an action portion of an optical control substrate is narrow is provided. An optical modulator includes an optical control substrate (1) that includes an optical waveguide (OW) including at least a branched waveguide which branches one light wave into two light waves, and that includes a control electrode for applying an electrical field to the branched waveguide, and a wiring substrate provided with a wiring which relays an electrical signal to be applied to the control electrode or with a wiring which terminates the electrical signal, in which the control electrode is provided with a signal electrode(S), the wiring is provided with signal wiring, and in a part (Sc) in which electrical connection is made between the signal electrode(S) and the signal wiring, a clearance (W1) in which the branched waveguide (OW) sandwiches the signal electrode is wider than a clearance (W2) in which the branched waveguide sandwiches the signal electrode in an action portion in which the control electrode applies the electrical field to the branched waveguide.

The invention discloses an equivalent self-noise pressure suppression method based on a dual-channel distributed acoustic sensing system, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the light splitting of light emitted by a narrow-linewidth laser through a first coupler C1, enabling one path of light to generate a pulse signal through an acoustic optical modulator (AOM), enabling the other path of light to pass through a second coupler C2, and enabling the other path of light to pass through a second coupler C1; the pulse light is divided into two beams of transmission light, the two beams of transmission light are injected into a connected sensing optical fiber through two groups of erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers (EDFA), two groups of filters, two groups of circulators and a fan-in coupler Fan-in Coupler, and the pulse light is subjected to backward Rayleigh scattering in the sensing optical fiber; according to the invention, based on a dual-channel DAS system, two fiber cores of the multi-core optical fiber are used as sensing optical fibers, and the space division signals of the two cores are multiplexed, so that the performance that the equivalent self-noise pressure drop is 2.54 dB in the frequency band of 100-1000Hz is realized under the condition that the noise correlation coefficient of the dual-core signals is 0.11, and the detection capability of the system on low-frequency weak signals can be improved.

An optical modulator including a driving module, waveguide(s), and differential electrodes is described. The driving module has a first number of differential inputs and a second number of differential outputs. The second number is equal to the first number multiplied by an even integer. The waveguide(s) include a thin film lithium-containing (TFLC) electro-optic material. Each of the waveguide(s) has multiple arms. The differential electrodes are coupled to the second number of differential outputs, each of the plurality of differential electrodes including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, at least a portion of an arm of the plurality of arms between a portion of the positive electrode and a portion of the negative electrode.

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.

Methods, devices, and systems for driving optical modulators. In one aspect, a driver includes a first circuit having a first switch coupled between a first input and a first output and a second circuit having a second switch coupled between a second input and a second output. Each of the first and second switches is configured to receive a control signal adjustable to control a corresponding signal path with a corresponding input electronic signal. The first and second circuits are configured to control a rising edge and a falling edge of an output electronic signal at an output of the driver that is based on a first output electronic signal at the first output and a second output electronic signal at the second output. The output of the driver is electrically coupled to the optical modulator to provide the output electronic signal to modulate an optical signal.

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.

A system for providing information based on a spectral content of an optical signal, comprises: an optical modulator for applying a time-dependent modulation to the optical signal according to at least one sub-optical modulation frequency, to provide a modulated optical signal. The system also comprises an optoelectronic device configured for receiving the modulated optical signal and responsively generate an electrical sensing signal, and a signal processing system configured for processing the electrical sensing signal and to generate output correlative to at least one wavelength of the optical signal based on the modulation.

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.

A silicon-photonic optical modulator includes at least one optical input and at least one optical waveguide that is connected to the at least one optical input. The at least one optical waveguide is configured to propagate quasi-transverse-magnetic (quasi-TM) polarized light, where each of the at least one optical waveguide is configured as a rib waveguide that includes a rib arranged on a slab. The silicon-photonic optical modulator also includes at least one electrode configured to apply at least one electric field to the quasi-TM polarized light in the at least one optical waveguide. In some implementations, a height of the rib waveguide is greater than 0.85 λ / n, where λ is a free-space wavelength of light and n is a refractive index of silicon in the silicon-photonic optical modulator, and a width of the rib waveguide is greater than a thickness of the slab.

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 a cascaded double-ring silicon optical modulator structure based on an Au1ter-Townes effect and a phase change material. The cascaded double-ring silicon optical modulator structure comprises a single-mode bus waveguide and two annular waveguides, a phase-change material is integrated on the surface of the annular waveguide to adjust the initial resonant wavelengths of the two micro-rings; pN junctions are integrated in the annular waveguide, and phase modulation of light is achieved through carrier injection. An Au1ter-Towns effect is utilized to enable a micro-ring transmission spectrum to form two split super-modes, and the extinction ratio corresponding to the two super-modes is changed by adjusting the resonant wavelengths of the double micro-rings; and meanwhile, the cascaded double-micro-ring structure can realize large modulation bandwidth and meet the high-speed transmission requirement. The micro-ring waveguide deposition phase-change material enables resonant wavelength tuning to have non-volatility, and compared with a traditional thermal tuning mode, the micro-ring waveguide deposition phase-change material can greatly reduce regulation and control power consumption. According to the invention, the technical bottleneck of the existing silicon optical modulator is overcome, and the practical application requirements of the fields of optical interconnection, optical communication, optical calculation and the like on the high-extinction-ratio high-speed modulator can be met.

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.