A packaged transmitter device includes a base member comprising a planar part mounted with a thermoelectric cooler, a transmitter, and a coupling lens assembly, and an assembling part connected to one side of the planar part. The device further includes a circuit board bended to have a first end region and a second end region being raised to a higher level. The first end region disposed on a top surface of the planar part includes multiple electrical connection patches respectively connected to the thermoelectric and the transmitter. The second end region includes an electrical port for external connection. Additionally, the device includes a cover member disposed over the planar part. Furthermore, the device includes a cylindrical member installed to the assembling part for enclosing an isolator aligned to the coupling lens assembly along its axis and connected to a fiber to couple optical signal from the transmitter to the fiber.

Various embodiments of a micro-disc modulator as well as a silicon photonic device and an optoelectronic communication apparatus using the micro-disc modulator are described. In one aspect, a device includes a SOI substrate and a silicon photonic structure formed on a primary surface of the SOI substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a silicon waveguide and a micro-disc modulator. The micro-disc modulator is adjacent to the silicon waveguide and has a top surface substantially parallel to the primary surface of the SOI substrate. The top surface of the micro-disc modulator includes one or more discontinuities therein. The micro-disc modulator may be a multi junction micro-disc modulator having two vertical p-n junctions with a single resonance frequency to achieve high-speed modulation and low-power consumption.

An optical transmission system includes: a terminal station device that transmits a wavelength multiplexed optical signal resulting from multiplexing an optical signal and dummy light; and an optical add-drop multiplexer that receives respective wavelength multiplexed optical signals transmitted from a plurality of the terminal station devices and performs add-drop processing on the wavelength multiplexed optical signals. The dummy light has a wavelength arrangement in which adjacent wavelengths are arranged with equal spacing, and the wavelength arrangement of the dummy light differs between the terminal station devices.

An optical communication transmitting device, an optical communication receiving device, a method, and a system are provided. The optical communication transmitting device includes: a light-emitting display screen, a liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit; the liquid crystal panel is located at a light emission side of the light-emitting display screen; the control circuit is configured to generate, according to a presetting encoding rule, a driving voltage that controls liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal panel to be twisted, and the presetting encoding rule is related to a target deflection angle, wherein a polarized light beam emitted from the light-emitting display screen passes through the liquid crystal panel driven by the driving voltage, and then is deflected according to the target deflection angle, and then is transmitted to an optical communication receiving device.

A high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) array terahertz wave modulator loaded in a waveguide is provided, which belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic functional devices and focuses on fast dynamic functional devices in the terahertz band. The device comprises a waveguide cavity and a modulation chip. The modulation chip comprises a semiconductor material substrate, a heterostructure material epitaxial layer, an artificial microstructure, and a socket circuit. The applied voltage controls the distribution change of the two-dimensional electron gas in the HEMT, which in turn controls the resonance mode conversion in the artificial microstructure, thereby control the transmission of electromagnetic waves in the waveguide. The modulator has a modulation depth of up to 96% and a modulation rate above 2 GHz.

An object to provide a submarine optical transmission apparatus capable of efficiently housing optical components and electric components. A submarine optical transmission apparatus includes a case, an electric component housing unit, and an optical component housing unit. The electric component housing unit and the optical component housing unit can house either or both of an optical component and an electric component and are stacked in a Z-direction. The case can house the electric component housing unit and the optical component housing unit that are stacked, and a longitudinal direction thereof is an X-direction.

This application provides an example light source switching apparatus. The apparatus includes first and second multi-mode interference (MMI) couplers, and a phase modulator. The first MMI coupler includes four ports, where first and second ports are located on one side, and third and fourth ports are located on the other side. The second MMI coupler includes three ports, where fifth and sixth ports are located on one side, and a seventh port is located on the other side. The first and the second ports connect to the fifth and the sixth ports, respectively, to form two connections. The phase modulator is disposed on one of the two connections, and the seventh port connects to an optical modulator. Both the third and the fourth ports connect to a light source emitting continuous light, and the phase modulator selects one of the two light sources for output from the seventh port.

An isolator includes a first core, a second core, a nonreciprocal member, and a magnetic body. The first core and the second core extend in a first direction and are positioned side by side with a cladding therebetween in a second direction that intersects the first direction. The nonreciprocal member is in contact with at least a part of the second core while being positioned side by side with the second core in the second direction. In a magnetic field generated by the magnetic body in a portion where the nonreciprocal member is positioned, a component in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction is greater than any component other than the component in the third direction.

An optical device includes an optical waveguide that is a projected section and that is disposed at a predetermined portion on a thin film substrate, a buffer layer that is formed on the thin film substrate and the optical waveguide, and an electrode that is formed on the buffer layer and that applies a voltage to the optical waveguide. The electrode covers a step portion of the buffer layer formed on side walls of the optical waveguide.

An optical waveguide is provided and includes: a core forming layer with a high refractive index; and a first clad layer with a low refractive index, bonded to a first main surface of the core forming layer. The core forming layer is provided in its plane direction with a core portion, lateral clad portions each having one side adjacent to a corresponding side of the core portion, and high refractive index portions each adjacent to the other side of a corresponding one of the lateral clad portions. The core portion is provided in its plane direction with a central region, and GI regions in each of which a refractive index continuously decreases from the central region toward an interface with the corresponding one of the lateral clad portions. The lateral clad portions each include a region having a constant refractive index.