Abstract: The aim of the invention is to adjust the operating point of a laser that can be modulated by a data signal. The operating point of the laser is adjusted by regulating a direct current flowing through the laser; whereby said direct current correlates with the optical characteristics of the laser. In order to carry out said adjustment, the direct current is controlled above an alterable threshold current. A differential current defined from the difference between the direct current and the threshold current or a variable correlating with the differential current is adjusted to a constant value or one that is solely dependent on temperature for the adjustment of said operating point.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic assembly having an optoelectronic or passive optical component and a cooling element for cooling the optoelectronic or passive optical component. According to the invention, the cooling element is a micropeltier cooler, wherein the component is arranged either directly thereon or a carrier substrate is arranged therebetween.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to adjust the operating point of a laser that can be modulated by a data signal. The operating point of the laser is adjusted by regulating a direct current flowing through the laser; whereby said direct current correlates with the optical characteristics of the laser. In order to carry out said adjustment, the direct current is controlled above an alterable threshold current. A differential current defined from the difference between the direct current and the threshold current or a variable correlating with the differential current is adjusted to a constant value or one that is solely dependent on temperature for the adjustment of said operating point.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for operating an optical transmission or reception module at high data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s, having a TO package with electrical connections, an optical transmission or reception module arranged in the TO package, and a circuit board for making electrical contact with the electrical connections of the TO package. According to the invention, the circuit board (6) has RF lines (81, 82) and the electrical connections (41, 42) are connected to the RF lines (81, 82) in an arrangement parallel to the plane of the board. Preferably, provision is also made for an RF matching circuit to be produced on the board and for SMD components to be fitted directly and without further solder pads onto planar RF lines on the RF board. The cited measures serve to improve the RF properties of a TO module.

Abstract: An optoelectronic micromodule (201) comprises an optoelectronic component (204), which is fixed on a main carrier (202) and can emit light in an emission direction (206) directed parallel to a main carrier surface (203) of the main carrier (202), and a radiation variation unit (208), which is arranged in the emission direction (206) and fixed to an auxiliary carrier (209), which has an auxiliary carrier surface (210) which is oriented plane-parallel to the main carrier surface (203) and is in touching contact with the latter. The auxiliary carrier (209) is arranged such that it is shiftable plane-parallel to the auxiliary carrier surface (210) relative to the emission direction (206), thereby enabling a two-dimensional adjustment of the radiation variation unit (208). The radiation variation unit (208) can be adjusted both parallel and perpendicularly to the emission direction (206).

Abstract: An adjusting apparatus is provided, in particular, for the adjustment of a lens in an optoelectronic transmitting/receiving device, has a number of actuating elements or actuators, whose form or whose length can be altered by local application of radiation energy, preferably as laser radiation. The actuating elements are connected to a stationary base plate at one of their ends and connected to a movable carrier plate at their other end. The actuating elements can be disposed in such a way that they enable coarse adjustment and subsequent fine adjustment by the laser beam.

Abstract: A radio-frequency laser module has a substrate and a semiconductor laser disposed on the substrate. An electrical RF conductive path is provided on the substrate, to a first end of which path an external RF driver signal can be applied and which is electrically connected at a second end to an RF connection of the semiconductor laser. The RF conductive path contains a series-connected RF matching resistor, RA.

Abstract: A device for holding a part comprises a retainer member provided for applying and holding the part and having a convexly spherical surface section which is received in a concavely spherical surface section of a receptacle member. To enable movement of the spherical surface sections relative to one another, the device includes an arrangement for forming a temporary friction-free air bearing between the two surface sections, which can be removed once the surfaces of the two parts have been brought into the desired alignment and engagement to fix the receptacle and retainer members in position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a module for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing optical signals, having at least one wavelength-selective filter for multiplexing or demultiplexing into the module optical signals which have been coupled in or out, light beams of at least one optical channel respectively striking a wavelength-selective filter at a specific angle of incidence and, in the process, being separated from the light beams of other optical channels or being combined therewith. According to the invention, at least one wavelength-selective filter (Fi) can be set with reference to the angle of incidence of the light beams. The invention makes available a module in the case of which the center wavelength of a filter can be set precisely on the basis of the adjustability of the angle of incidence and, moreover, a specific filter (Fi) can also be used for several wavelengths.

Abstract: An optoelectronic micromodule (201) comprises an optoelectronic component (204), which is fixed on a main carrier (202) and can emit light in an emission direction (206) directed parallel to a main carrier surface (203) of the main carrier (202), and a radiation variation unit (208), which is arranged in the emission direction (206) and fixed to an auxiliary carrier (209), which has an auxiliary carrier surface (210) which is oriented plane-parallel to the main carrier surface (203) and is in touching contact with the latter. The auxiliary carrier (209) is arranged such that it is shiftable plane-parallel to the auxiliary carrier surface (210) relative to the emission direction (206), thereby enabling a two-dimensional adjustment of the radiation variation unit (208). The radiation variation unit (208) can be adjusted both parallel and perpendicularly to the emission direction (206).

Abstract: A housing configuration for a laser module includes a hermetically sealed module housing, which contains the laser module and has at least one laser-light-transparent exit wall portion. A carrier plate, which either forms the base of the module housing or carries a housing base of the module housing, and a device for coupling a wave guide to the housing are also provided. The carrier plate includes an RF conductor track carrier formed of a dielectric material. For the electrical RF contacting of the laser module, an RF conductor track section, which is guided on the RF conductor track carrier, is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for operating an optical transmission or reception module at high data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s, having a TO package with electrical connections, an optical transmission or reception module arranged in the TO package, and a circuit board for making electrical contact with the electrical connections of the TO package. According to the invention, the circuit board (6) has RF lines (81, 82) and the electrical connections (41, 42) are connected to the RF lines (81, 82) in an arrangement parallel to the plane of the board. Preferably, provision is also made for an RF matching circuit to be produced on the board and for SMD components to be fitted directly and without further solder pads onto planar RF lines on the RF board. The cited measures serve to improve the RF properties of a TO module.

Abstract: A wavelength-stabilized laser configuration has a semiconductor laser and a wavelength regulating device. The regulating device contains an optical isolator, an optical filter, two detectors and a signal processing device. According to the invention, partial beams required for the detectors are coupled out by polarization filters that are contained in the optical isolator and are simultaneously used as beam splitters.

Abstract: In the method and the arrangement, a ratio (p2/P3)—which is independent of the total optical power of the laser (1)—between a power (p2) essentially containing only the wavelength (&lgr;) to be stabilized, which power is filtered out from a portion (P2) of the total power (P0), and an additional portion (P3) is measured and compared to a desired value (S0), and, given a deviation from the desired value (S0), the temperature of the laser (1) is controlled to the desired value (S0).

Abstract: The transmission module is composed of a housing that hermetically tightly surrounds a cavity containing a plurality of semiconductor lasers and comprises a plurality of optical connecting waveguides secured hermetically tight in the housing, each of which optically connecting a respective laser in the cavity to a respective fiber leading away from the outside of the housing.

Abstract: An adjusting apparatus is provided, in particular, for the adjustment of a lens in an optoelectronic transmitting/receiving device, has a number of actuating elements or actuators, whose form or whose length can be altered by local application of radiation energy, preferably as laser radiation. The actuating elements are connected to a stationary base plate at one of their ends and connected to a movable carrier plate at their other end. The actuating elements can be disposed in such a way that they enable coarse adjustment and subsequent fine adjustment by the laser beam.

Abstract: In a method for producing an optoelectronic component, a laser chip is secured to a semiconductor wafer that is provided with metal structures. Thereafter, for each laser chip, one lens-coupling optical element that deflects the beam path of the laser chip is positioned on the semiconductor wafer. The laser chip is driven, and the space between the laser chip and the lens-coupling optical element is varied and set such that a predetermined beam condition with respect to the location of the optical image plane is met.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for readjusting a modulation shift of a transmission light modulated optical signal. In these systems and methods, a first modulated portion of the modulated transmission light is removed to obtain a first modulated signal which is divided into first and second light beams. The first light beam is delayed by a specific delay time and the first and second light beams are coherently superimposed to obtain an optical superposition signal which is detected to produce a detector signal that is proportional to a power of the superposition signal. An error signal is subsequently generated from the detector signal which is representative of a modulation shift from a desired shift value which is used for substantially correcting a modulation of the transmission light.

Abstract: An optical transmission system for the transmission of optical signals in a wave-division multiplex on a plurality of neighboring optical carrier wavelengths is characterized by the fiber being doped to form a continuously distributed waveguide amplifier over the entire length of the transmission waveguide. To pump the waveguide amplifier, which is continuously distributed along the transmission waveguide, several arrangements are provided. This system can be operated as a unidirectional system or a bidirectional system.

Abstract: A device, which provides a high positioning precision and good coupling efficiency for producing an optical coupling between a plurality of first optical waveguides having one spot diameter and a plurality of second optical waveguides having a different spot diameter, comprises optical lenses and a plate arranged between the end faces of the first and second waveguides lying opposite to one another, the plate has one flat surface facing toward the first waveguides and a second flat surface facing toward the second waveguides, the plate having an arrangement for positioning an optical lens between each pair of waveguides. The optical lenses may be planar lenses formed on a flat surface of the plate or may be spherical lenses held in conical depressions on one of the surfaces of the plate. In one embodiment, the plate has depressions on both sides, which may receive spherical lenses.