Phase Modulation Patents (Class 398/188)
  • Patent number: 8760752
    Abstract: An optical device comprising a tunable optical frequency comb generator. The comb generator includes an interferometer, and an optical feed-back loop waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Long L. Chen, Christopher R. Doerr, Nicolas Dupuis
  • Patent number: 8761612
    Abstract: An optical transmitter includes a dividing optical coupler, a first optical modulator driven by an I component of a first signal and a I component of a second signal for modulating a lightwave, a DC bias of the first optical, a second optical modulator driven by a Q component of the first signal and a Q component of the second signal for modulating a lightwave, a DC bias of the second optical modulator, a phase shifter, and a combining optical coupler for combining the modulated lightwave from the first optical coupler and the phase shifted Q components of the first and second signals for generating a quadrature amplitude modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianjun Yu, Ting Wang, Dayou Qian
  • Patent number: 8737844
    Abstract: A method for implementing Polarization Division Multiplexing Binary Phase Shift Keying (PDM-BPSK) modulation and Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation in a compatible manner includes: dividing a direct current (DC) light into a first channel of light and a second channel of light with the same power; separately performing optoelectrical modulation on the first channel of light and the second channel of light and correspondingly outputting a first optical signal and a second optical signal in a Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) format; performing polarization state control on the first optical signal; performing a phase shift on the first optical signal or the second optical signal; and performing optical signal combination with the polarization state preserved on the first optical signal and the second optical signal after the polarization state control and the phase shift, and outputting a PDM-BPSK modulation optical signal or a QPSK modulation optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Zeng, Lei Liu, Chao Lu, Yanfu Yang, Linghao Cheng, Zhaohui Li
  • Patent number: 8737843
    Abstract: An optical homodyne communication system and method in which a side carrier is transmitted along with data bands in an optical data signal, and upon reception, the side carrier is boosted, shifted to the center of the data bands, and its polarization state is matched to the polarization state of the respective data bands to compensate for polarization mode dispersion during transmission. By shifting a boosted side carrier to the center of the data bands, and by simultaneously compensating for the effects of polarization mode dispersion, the provided system and method simulate the advantages of homodyne reception using a local oscillator. The deleterious effects of chromatic dispersion on the data signals within the data bands are also compensated for by applying a corrective function to the data signals which precisely counteracts the effects of chromatic dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Teradvance Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Marcel F.C. Schemmann, Zoran Maricevic, Antonije R. Djordjevic, Darby Racey
  • Patent number: 8731409
    Abstract: An optical signal transmitter includes: first outer modulator to generate first modulated optical signal, the first outer modulator including a pair of optical paths and a first phase shifter to give phase difference to the pair of optical paths; second outer modulator to generate second modulated optical signal, the second outer modulator including a pair of optical paths and a second phase shifter to give phase difference to the pair of optical paths; combiner to generate polarization multiplexed optical signal by combining the first and second modulated optical signals; phase controller to control the phase difference by the first phase shifter to A??? and control the phase difference by the second phase shifter to A+??; and power controller to control at least one of the first and second outer modulators based on AC component of the polarization multiplexed optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yuichi Akiyama, Noriaki Mizuguchi
  • Publication number: 20140126913
    Abstract: A modulating apparatus includes a branch that branches input light; a first modulating unit that modulates the phase of a first branch obtained by the branch; a second modulating unit that modulates a second branch obtained by the branch; a third modulating unit that is connected in series to the first modulating unit, transmits the first branch without branching the first branch, modulates the phase of light transmitted by controlling a refractive index of the light transmitted; a fourth modulating unit that is connected in series to the second modulating unit, transmits the second branch without branching the second branch, and modulates the phase of a light transmitted by controlling a refractive index of the light transmitted; and a coupler that couples the first branch modulated by the first and the third modulating units and the second branch modulated by the second and the fourth modulating units, at different intensities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
    Inventor: Kenichi NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8718484
    Abstract: An optical transmitter for generating a modulated optical signal for transmission over dispersive fiber optic links in which a first information-containing radio frequency signal input is applied to a modulation circuit for directly modulating a semiconductor laser with the signal input. The output of the laser is applied to a phase modulator to which a second information-containing radio frequency signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Emcore Corporation
    Inventors: John Dallesasse, John Iannelli, Daniel McGlynn
  • Publication number: 20140119745
    Abstract: An optical modulating apparatus includes driver that is mounted on a printed circuit board such that a signal electrode pad and a ground electrode pad of the driver are exposed in an opening of the printed circuit board. An optical modulating device is mounted on the printed circuit board, opposing the driver across the opening. A flexible circuit board is disposed in the opening. An end of a signal terminal of the flexible circuit board is electrically connected to a signal electrode of the optical modulating device. An end of a ground terminal of the flexible circuit board is electrically connected to a ground electrode of the optical modulating device. The other end of the signal terminal is soldered to the signal electrode pad of the driver, and the other end of the ground terminal is soldered to the ground electrode pad of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Opitcal Components Limited
    Inventors: Masaki SUGIYAMA, Norihisa Naganuma, Eiichi Kodera, Yoshinobu Kubota
  • Patent number: 8712251
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide transmitters and receivers for managing multiple optical signals. High order modulation, such as phase and/or amplitude modulation, is used to achieve multiple bits per symbol by transporting multiple asynchronous data streams in an optical transport system. One or more supplemental multiplexing techniques such as time division multiplexing, polarization multiplexing and sub-carrier multiplexing may be used in conjunction with the high order modulation processing. This may be done in various combinations to realize a highly spectrally efficient multi-data stream transport mechanism. The system receives a number of asynchronous signals which are unframed and synchronized, and then reframed and tagged prior to the high order modulation. Differential encoding may also be performed. Upon reception of the multiplexed optical signal, the receiver circuitry may employ either direct detection without a local oscillator or coherent detection with a local oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bikash Koley, Vijayanand Vusirikala, Hong Liu
  • Patent number: 8705981
    Abstract: A drive signal generation unit generates first and second drive signals for driving first and second phase modulators of a DQPSK optical modulator. First and second regeneration circuits regenerate the first and second drive signals with respect to clock signals. The first and second phase modulators are driven by the regenerated first and second drive signals. The amplitude of the first drive signal is adjusted by a first attenuator. The clock signal for the second regeneration circuit is applied after attenuated by a second attenuator. The delay time caused by the first attenuator is the same as the delay time caused by the second attenuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomoo Takahara, Takeshi Hoshida, Hisao Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8705900
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical modulator which substantially lowers loss and has little attenuation in the intensity of an optical signal after modulation. The optical modulator includes a 1×2 RZ pulse carver wherein optical phase shifters used for modulation are arranged along two arm waveguides held between a 1×2 coupler and a 2×2 coupler, two interferometric modulators connected respectively to two output ports of the 2×2 coupler, and a 2×1 coupler for combining the outputs of the interferometric modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Goh, Takashi Yamada, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Doi
  • Patent number: 8705979
    Abstract: An LD driver to generate an asymmetrical driving current with a relatively faster falling edge and an optical transmitter having the LD driver are disclosed. The LD driver includes a primary driver and the sub-driver connected in parallel to the primary driver. The primary driver converts the input signal or the delayed signal delayed from the input signal into the primary current. The sub-driver generates a symmetrical current tracing the input or the delayed signal, and an asymmetrical current formed by the OR operation between the input and delayed signals. The driving current is formed by adding the primary current, the symmetrical current and the asymmetrical current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hayato Fujita
  • Patent number: 8705970
    Abstract: A method for data processing in an optical network includes providing at least one main wavelength and processing a subcarrier modulation for the at least one main wavelength, wherein a portion of the subcarrier modulated signal is suppressed. An optical network component and a communication system having such an optical network component are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Xieon Networks S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Erich Gottwald, Karl Kloppe, Harald Rohde
  • Publication number: 20140105615
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating sub-carriers is disclosed. Coherent optical sub-carriers with sub-carrier spacing are generated for carrying an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Multiple peaks are generated by cascading multiple phase modulators driven by different radio frequency sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hung-Chang Chien, Jianjun Yu
  • Patent number: 8699883
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward a variable spectral phase encoder. The variable spectral phase encoder includes a plurality of switches and at least one encoder. The encoder is coupled between a first switch and second switch among the plurality of switches. The first switch selectively routes an optical signal to some combination of fixed encoders such that their collective product applies one of the Hadamard sequences to the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: TTI Inventions E LLC
    Inventor: Ronald C. Menendez
  • Patent number: 8693893
    Abstract: Optical phase modulators are disposed in separate arms of an optical interferometer for forming short optical pulses. The optical phase modulators are driven by signals from an electrical nonlinear transmission line (NLTL). A time delay (typically on the order of the NLTL fall time) is introduced between the NLTL signals in the two arms of the interferometer. With this arrangement, the interferometer provides short optical pulses at its output. In one experiment, 70 ps switching was demonstrated using discrete LiNbO3 traveling wave electro-optic modulators and commercially available NLTLs capable of delivering a 35 ps falling edge. A preferable approach is to integrate the NLTLs with the phase modulators, to further improve bandwidth. This fast switch can be used for various applications, such as implementing an Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) network architecture, and providing arbitrary waveform generation (AWG) capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: David M. S. Johnson, Jason M. Hogan, Sheng-wey Chiow, Mark A. Kasevich
  • Patent number: 8693890
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to process an optical signal with a pre-processing module to populate a non-linearity compensation look-up table based on a set of predetermined rules in a non-real-time off-line mode; and a transmitter applying said predetermined rules in real-time to multiple channel input data to generate a real-time symbol pattern, searching the look-up table with the real-time symbol pattern to determine a non-linearity compensation output, and modulating the optical signal with the compensation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Dayou Qian, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 8693891
    Abstract: An optical modulation apparatus includes a first modulator, a second modulator, a multiplexer, a calculator and an adjustor. The first modulator configured to modulate light emitted by a light source using a first input signal and output a first modulated signal. The second modulator configured to modulate the light using a second input signal and output a second modulated signal. The multiplexer configured to multiplex the first and second modulated signals and output a multiplexed signal. The calculator configured to calculate a power difference between a higher-side frequency component having a frequency higher than a center frequency of the multiplexed signal and a lower-side frequency component having a frequency lower than the center frequency. The adjustor configured to adjust delays of the first and second input signals based on the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masato Nishihara, Tomoo Takahara, Takeshi Hoshida
  • Patent number: 8693867
    Abstract: A system and method for stabilizing a plurality of output frequencies (wavelengths) of a plurality of lasers (106). The laser beams are combined using optical multiplexer (110) and coupled into length-imbalanced (armlength-mismatched) Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) (114) having an optical modulator (e.g. AOM) (122) in one of its arms. The output of the MZI is divided into corresponding beams via optical demultiplexer (128) and each beam is detected by a respective photo-diode (PD) (134). The individual electric signals, so generated, are demodulated using a corresponding plurality of phase-responsive devices (138) and the resulting phase-signals are directed to a plurality of servo-controllers (148) to control the central frequency of the respective lasers (106) via a corresponding plurality of feedback loop circuits (150). The lasers (106) can have different central frequencies which can also be individually tunned using offset modules (141) in the phase-responsive devices (138).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Australian National University
    Inventors: Ian C. M. Littler, Jong H. Chow, Malcolm B. Gray, David E. McClelland
  • Patent number: 8687970
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising an optoelectronic modulator device and demodulator device for establishing communication between optical communication systems by means of differential modulation with eight phase changes. Said system can increase the information transmission capacity by up to three times that of a system with two phase changes. The modulation formats transmittable by the system are called: NRZ-D8PSK, RZ-D8PSK, D8PSK. The invention also relates to the design of the modulator which is formed by a differential modulation precoder and optical signal phase modulators, in which the signals leaving the precoder control the phase modulators in order to perform differential modulation with eight phase changes in relation to the optical signal originating from a semiconductor laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
    Inventors: Gerardo Antonio Castañon Avila, Ivan Artiz Aldaya Garde
  • Patent number: 8687979
    Abstract: In the field of communications transmission, a method, a device, and a system for generating and receiving a phase polarization modulated signal are disclosed. The device for generating the phase polarization modulated signal includes: a Laser Diode (LD), a time division demultiplexer, a phase precoding module, a phase modulating module, a polarization precoding module and a polarization modulating module. The device for receiving the phase polarization modulated signal includes: an optical splitter, a polarizer, a phase demodulating and receiving unit, a Polarization Beam Splitter (PBS), a balanced receiver, a power divider, an exclusive OR, a delayer and a data interface processing unit. Therefore, problems in the prior art that a Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) signal cannot bear and transmit information at a higher rate and that non-linear effect is strong during transmission are solved, and transmission performance of an optical signal is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaogeng Xu, Lei Liu
  • Patent number: 8687968
    Abstract: A vector sum phase shifter includes a 90° phase shifter (1) which generates an in-phase signal (VINI) and a quadrature signal (VINQ) from an input signal (VIN), a four-quadrant multiplier (2I) which changes the amplitude of the in-phase signal (VINI) based on a control signal (CI), a four-quadrant multiplier (2Q) which changes the amplitude of the quadrature signal (VINQ) based on a control signal (CQ), a combiner (3) which combines the in-phase signal (VINI) and the quadrature signal (VINQ), and a control circuit (4). The control circuit (4) includes a voltage generator which generates a reference voltage, and a differential amplifier which outputs the difference signal between a control voltage (VC) and the reference voltage as the control signal (CI, CQ). The differential amplifier performs an analog operation of converting the control voltage (VC) into the control signal (CI, CQ) similar to a sine wave or a cosine wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nosaka, Munehiko Nagatani, Shogo Yamanaka, Kimikazu Sano, Koichi Murata, Kiyomitsu Onodera, Takatomo Enoki
  • Patent number: 8687973
    Abstract: A voltage generator (400) includes a resistor ladder including resistors (4000-4008) which divide a supplied voltage to generate a plurality of reference voltages, a resistor (4009) provided between a power supply voltage (VCC) and one terminal of the resistor ladder, and a resistor (4010) provided between a power supply voltage (VEE) and the other terminal of the resistor ladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nosaka, Munehiko Nagatani, Shogo Yamanaka, Kimikazu Sano, Koichi Murata, Kiyomitsu Onodera, Takatomo Enoki
  • Patent number: 8682178
    Abstract: A method is provided for setting a timing of phase modulation by a target phase modulator within an optical transmitter which performs 2n order phase shift keying, n being a natural number equal to or more than two. The method is provided with: feeding a specific pattern to the optical transmitter to allow the xPSK transmitter to emit an optical carrier in accordance with the specific pattern; receiving the optical carrier by a delay interferometer; converting a pair of light signals emitted from constructive and destructive outputs of the delay interferometer into an electrical signal; detecting a peak to peak value of the electrical signal; and setting the timing of the phase modulation by the target phase modulator so as to minimize the peak to peak value of the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, Satomi Shioiri
  • Patent number: 8682177
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an optical frequency control device or the like which can quickly carry out control over a wide frequency range. The object is achieved by an optical frequency control device or the like comprised of an optical SSB modulator (2), a bias voltage source (3) for applying a bias voltage to the optical SSB modulator (2), and a modulating signal source (4) for applying a modulating signal to the optical SSB modulator (2), wherein the modulating signal source (4) is provided with an arbitrary waveform generator (5) for generating an electrical signal with an arbitrary waveform, and an electrical signal multiplier (6) for multiplying a frequency of the electrical signal generated by the arbitrary waveform generator (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawanishi, Takahide Sakamoto, Masahiro Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140072313
    Abstract: A first clock modulator branches a light beam, varies a phase difference of the resulting light beams according to a first clock, and causes interference of the light beams. A second clock modulator branches a light beam from the first clock modulator and synchronized with the first clock, varies a phase difference of the resulting light beams according to a second clock, and causes interference of the light beams. A third clock modulator branches a light beam from the first clock modulator and inversely synchronized with the first clock, varies a phase difference of the resulting light beams according to a third clock, and causes interference of the light beams. The second clock and the first clock have identical cycles and differing phases. The third clock and the second clock have phases that differ by a 1/2 cycle. Four data modulators modulate the light beams from the clock modulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
    Inventor: Toru YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 8670678
    Abstract: A digital coherent receiver converts signals and local light respectively detected, as detection results, in signal light from an optical transmission line, into digital signals and that further applies digital processing to the digital signals. The receiver includes a skew detecting unit that detects skew between the digital signals; a skew control unit controls the skew of each of the signals so that the skew to be detected by the skew detecting unit will be reduced; and a demodulating unit that demodulates each signal controlled for skew by the skew control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yuichirou Sakamoto, Kosuke Komaki
  • Patent number: 8649690
    Abstract: A system configured to maintain a consistent local-oscillator-power-to-primary-signal-power ratio (LO/SIG ratio).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Soren Gehrke, Theodor Kupfer, James Whiteaway
  • Patent number: 8649688
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides Radio Frequency (RF) drive level control systems and methods for an Electro-Optic (EO) M-ary Phase-Shift Keying (M-PSK) phase modulator. Specifically, an M-PSK drive waveform is tightly controlled for maximum symmetry in the associated constellation. In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure includes an M-PSK transmitter, an M-PSK electro-optic phase modulator, and phase modulation method that each control RF drive level based upon a carrier suppression ratio defined as a measure of ratio of a modulated time-averaged E-field to the magnitude of the E-field. In an exemplary embodiment, the carrier suppression ratio is measured based on a modulation depth measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas L. McGhan, Ian B. Betty
  • Patent number: 8649687
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in a transmitting node for transmitting a modulated optical carrier signal over an optical channel in an optical communications network to a receiving node. The method enables full use of the polarization domain within a Poincaré sphere when modulating the optical carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Anders Djupsjöbacka
  • Patent number: 8611760
    Abstract: An optical modulation device and method thereof is provided. The optical modulation device includes a decision circuit making a decision with respect to an input data signal in accordance with a timing of a first clock signal, a first modulator modulating light output based on the data signal by the decision circuit; a second modulator modulating the modulated light in accordance with a timing of a second clock signal; and delay controller delaying the first clock signal within a range of a phase margin of a decision circuit, and delaying the second clock signal, thereby controlling a state of a phase difference between the data signal and the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masato Nishihara, Tomoo Takahara
  • Patent number: 8611763
    Abstract: A method (10) of compensating phase noise in a coherent optical communications network. The method comprises: receiving a traffic sample (12); receiving an optical carrier and determining a phase noise estimate for the optical carrier (14); and removing the phase noise estimate from the traffic sample to form a phase noise compensated traffic sample (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Marco Secondini, Tommaso Foggi, Giulio Colavolpe, Gianluca Meloni, Luca Poti, Enrico Forestieri
  • Patent number: 8611751
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and method for modulating digital data onto an optical carrier to produce a modulated optical carrier in which symbol-modulated optical signals of orthogonal polarizations are temporally interleaved and adapted to be processed by electronic time-division demultiplexing to recover the digital data modulated onto the orthogonal polarizations of the optical signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan
  • Publication number: 20130322892
    Abstract: An integrated optical phased array includes an input channel receiving an optical input signal, and a multitude of signal processing channels each adapted to supply an associated optical output signal along a first axis in response to the input signal. Each signal processing channel includes, in part, a phase modulator adapted to modulate the phase of the signal travelling through the channel, thereby to control or steer the output signal of the phased array. Each channel optionally includes first and second photo detection circuits respectively generating first and second detection signals. The first and second detection signals in each channel may be used to modulate the amplitude and/or phase of the output signal of that channel thereby to control and steer the output signal of the phased array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Firooz Aflatouni, Behrooz Abiri, Seyed Ali Hajimiri
  • Patent number: 8600199
    Abstract: An optical modulator includes a modulator that modulates an input light of light by using an input signal. The optical modulator further includes a compensation circuit that compensates the phase of a signal light in accordance with an input current, the signal light being the input light modulated by the modulator. The optical modulator further includes a detector that detects the difference between the phase of the signal light compensated by the compensation circuit and the phase of an input signal that is input to the modulator. The optical modulator further includes an adjustment circuit that adjusts, in accordance with the phase difference detected by the detector, the input current that is input to the compensation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Morishita
  • Patent number: 8594514
    Abstract: A system receives a phase-modulated signal that carries client symbols and a sequence that includes first symbols on which a first tone is to be based and having a first power level, and second symbols on which a second tone is to be based and having a second power level; processes the sequence to generate the first tone and the second tone; determines a power difference based on the first power level and the second power level; retrieves condition information that identifies a threshold for determining whether a condition is associated with the signal; determines whether the power difference is greater than the threshold; and outputs an instruction, to adjust a parameter, used to transmit the signal, based on the determination that the condition is associated with the signal, where adjusting the parameter causes the power difference to decrease to a level that is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Rahn
  • Patent number: 8594515
    Abstract: An optical phase conjugator that can be deployed within a long-haul fiber-optic link of an optical WDM system to improve the system's tolerance to intra- and inter-channel nonlinear effects. In one embodiment, the optical phase conjugator has a digital signal processor configured to perform, in the digital electrical domain, a phase-conjugation transformation for various components of a WDM signal so that certain signal distortions imposed on that signal in the front portion of the fiber-optic link are reduced in the back portion of the link. Advantageously, the optical phase conjugator is flexibly configurable to employ an input-to-output carrier-frequency-mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions. mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan, Robert W. Tkach
  • Patent number: 8582981
    Abstract: The disclosed optical transmitter and control method include performing phase modulation of a light propagating through a corresponding optical path in accordance with a data signal, supplying bias voltages for regulating an operating point of each of phase modulation performed, imparting a predetermined phase difference, supplying bias voltages for phase difference regulation and coupling lights output from the corresponding optical paths. The optical transmitter includes superimposing a pilot signal on either one of bias voltages where the pilot signal has a frequency lower than a frequency of a bit rate of the data signal, and performing a feedback control in accordance with a result of monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Akiyama, Hideyuki Miyata, Toshiki Tanaka, Masato Nishihara
  • Patent number: 8582983
    Abstract: A method and system for generating multi-subcarriers is disclosed. Re-circulating frequency shifters—based on the frequency shifting in two cascading phase modulators—are used to generate 112 subcarriers with stable architecture since there is no direct current bias in phase modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventor: Jianjun Yu
  • Patent number: 8582980
    Abstract: The disclosed device and method include varying phases of two data signals at a first predetermined frequency, performing multi-level phase modulation of a light based on the two data signals whose phases are varied at the first predetermined frequency, extracting a component having the first predetermined frequency from an optical signal subjected to the phase modulation, and controlling the phases of the two data signals based on the component extracted from the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masato Nishihara, Tomoo Takahara, Yuichi Akiyama, Masahiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 8571418
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical waveform shaping device of high resolution. The above-mentioned problem is solved by an optical waveform shaping device (10) comprising a branching filter (11) for dividing the light beam from a light source into light beams of each frequency, a condensing part (12) for condensing a plurality of light beams divided by the branching filter (11), a polarization separation means (13) for adjusting the polarizing planes of the light beams having passed through the condensing part (12), and a spatial light modulator (14) having a phase modulation part and an intensity modulation part where the light beams having passed through the polarizing plate (13) are incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Optoquest Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Wada, Seitetsu Boku, Takuya Yoda
  • Patent number: 8565614
    Abstract: A digital data transmission device is provided comprising optical waveguide architecture, a sideband generator, a modulation controller, an optical filter, a data mapping unit, and a phase controller. The optical waveguide architecture is configured to direct an optical signal through the sideband generator and the optical filter. The sideband generator comprises an electrooptic interferometer comprising first and second waveguide arms. The modulation controller is configured to generate an electrical drive signal to drive the sideband generator at a control voltage that is substantially larger than V? to generate optical frequency sidebands about a carrier frequency of the optical signal. The optical filter is configured to discriminate between the optical frequency sidebands and the optical carrier frequency such that optical sidebands of interest can be directed through the optical waveguide architecture as an optical millimeter wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventor: Richard W. Ridgway
  • Patent number: 8565617
    Abstract: An optical modulation device including waveform shapers that waveform-shape input data signals in synchronism with a rising or falling timing based on comparison with a reference level of an input clock signal, a multi-level phase modulator that generates a multi-level-phase-modulated optical signal based on the data signals waveform-shaped by the plurality of waveform shapers, and outputs the generated optical signal, and a level ratio controller that varies a relative level ratio of the reference level to an amplitude level of the clock signal input to the waveform shapers, based on the optical signal output from the multi-level phase modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masato Nishihara, Tomoo Takahara, Toshiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8554023
    Abstract: There are provided an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a modulator based thereupon. The interferometer comprises a loop comprising a plurality of cascaded segments of polarization-maintaining fibers, into which an input signal is split such that two light portions of the split signal propagate concurrently in mutually opposite directions along the loop; and a first optical arrangement between a first and a second segment of the loop for rearranging the axes of propagation of the two light portions such that, on at least a one segment, the two light portions propagate along mutually orthogonal polarization axes of the polarization-maintaining fiber. The light portions are then recombined to mutually interfere. Birefringence of the segment(s) where the light portions propagate on mutually orthogonal polarization axes then provides a differential path length of the interferometer. An unbalanced Mach-Zehnder modulator is obtained by inserting a phase modulator within the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Exfo Inc.
    Inventor: Bernard Ruchet
  • Patent number: 8526829
    Abstract: A PPM transmitter includes an optical clock generator for generating equally-spaced optical pulses with a sampling period T; an encoder for transforming an incoming waveform U(t) into a linear combination V(t) of U(t) and a delayed output V(t?kT) according to a rule V(t)=U(t)+aV(t?kT), where k is a positive integer, V(t) is voltage generated by the encoder and a is a coefficient; and an optical delay generator for delaying optical pulses generated by the optical clock generator in proportion to the voltage V(t), such that ?tn=bV(t), where b is another coefficient and where ?tn is the amount of delay imposed by the optical delay generator. The PPM transmitter functions with a PPM receiver for communicating data without the need to transmit or otherwise provide a clock signal. The PPM receiver decodes an original series of the delayed optical pulses Q(t) and a second series Q(t?ckT) delayed by ckT where c is a coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Yap, Irina Ionova
  • Patent number: 8526828
    Abstract: The optical transmitter includes a light source; a signal processor; an optical modulator that modulates output light from the light source in accordance with a transmitting signal subjected to digital signal processing in the signal processor and outputs the modulated light as a light signal to a transmission path; and a control circuit that controls a carrier-wave frequency of the light signal output from the optical modulator, the signal processor including a mapping circuit that maps the transmitting signal to electric-field information according to a modulating scheme, and a phase rotating circuit that provides a phase rotation having a constant cycle to an electric-field phase of the electric-field information to which the mapping circuit maps the transmitting signal, the control circuit controlling the cycle of the phase rotation that the phase rotating circuit provides and thereby controlling the carrier-wave frequency of the light signal output from the optical modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisao Nakashima, Takeshi Hoshida
  • Publication number: 20130216220
    Abstract: An optical transmitter implemented with two QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) modulators is disclosed. Each of the QPSK modulators provides a waveguide made of semiconductor material inducing the QCSE (Quantum Confined Stark Effect) by a bias supplied thereto. The optical performance of one of the QPSK modulators is determined by supplying a deep bias to the other of the QPSK modulator to eliminate the optical output therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130209089
    Abstract: A transmitter in an optical communications system includes a digital signal processor for processing a data signal to generate a sample stream encoding successive symbols in accordance with a constrained phase modulation scheme having a constellation of at least two symbols and a modulation phase constrained to a phase range spanning less than 4?. A digital-to-analog converter converts the sample stream into a corresponding analog drive signal. A finite range phase modulator modulates a phase of a continuous wavelength channel light in accordance with the analog drive signal, to generate a modulated channel light for transmission through the optical communications system. A receiver in the optical communications system includes an optical stage for detecting phase and amplitude of the modulated channel light and for generating a corresponding sample stream, and a digital signal processor for processing the sample stream to estimate each successive symbol of the modulated channel light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: CIENA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James HARLEY, Douglas MCGHAN, Shahab OVEIS GHARAN, Kim B. ROBERTS, Mark ROLLINS
  • Patent number: 8503887
    Abstract: A pre-equalized optical transmitter includes, a laser source; a duo-binary pre-coder circuit; a pre-equalization circuit for applying an inverse function of chromatic dispersion; at least two D/A converters; and an optical field modulator comprising at least two input terminals for an electric signal. The pre-equalized optical transmitter: converts, by the duo-binary pre-coder circuit, a digital information signal of a predetermined symbol time to be transmitted into a digital complex signal including one sampling point per symbol; equalizes, by the pre-equalization circuit, degradation in transmission of the digital complex signal; converts, by the D/A converters, the equalized digital complex signal into an analog signal; suppresses an analog signal leaking outside a Nyquist bandwidth by at least 23 dB; modulates, by the optical field modulator, light output from the laser source with the analog signal to generate a modulated optical field signal; and transmits the modulated optical field signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130188969
    Abstract: A multiple resonance interferometer structure includes an input port and a first arm coupled to the input port and including a first resonant structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Skorpios Technologies, Inc