A laser device includes a gain medium including a facet. The laser device includes a metasurface including a plurality of supercells. The metasurface is disposed on a substrate and configured to reflect and focus a first portion of light from the facet back to the gain medium as a feedback beam. The metasurface can be configured to reflect a second portion of the light as an output beam at an angle that is nonzero relative to a direction of the feedback beam. The metasurface can be configured to transmit a second portion of the light as an output beam through the metasurface away from the facet. The emission wavelength of the laser device can be tuned by translating the metasurface. The output beam can be collimated towards a fixed direction while tuning the wavelength.

A laser apparatus may include: a quantum cascade laser outputting, based on a supplied current, laser light at an oscillation start timing when a first delay time elapses from a current rising timing of the supplied current: an amplifier disposed in a laser light optical path, and selectively amplifying light of a predetermined wavelength to output the amplified laser light to a chamber including a plasma generation region into which a target is fed; and a laser controller controlling a third delay time, from an output timing of a laser output instruction to the current rising timing, to cause a laser light wavelength to be equal to the predetermined wavelength at an aimed timing when a second delay time elapses from the oscillation start timing, based on oscillation parameters including the first delay time, a supplied current waveform, and a device temperature of the quantum cascade laser.

An optomechanical laser includes: a basal member; a mechanical transducer; a laser disposed on the mechanical transducer, the laser being displaced along the displacement axis in response to a displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member; a mirror disposed on the armature in optical communication with the laser and opposing the laser; the armature disposed on the basal member and rigidly connecting the mirror to the basal member such that the mirror and the armature move in synchrony with the basal member, and the armature provides a substantially constant distance between the basal member and the mirror; and a cavity comprising: the laser; the mirror; and a cavity length between the laser and the mirror that changes in response to displacement of the laser according to the displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member, the optomechanical laser providing laser light.

An optomechanical laser includes: a basal member; a mechanical transducer; a laser disposed on the mechanical transducer, the laser being displaced along the displacement axis in response to a displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member; a mirror disposed on the armature in optical communication with the laser and opposing the laser; the armature disposed on the basal member and rigidly connecting the mirror to the basal member such that the mirror and the armature move in synchrony with the basal member, and the armature provides a substantially constant distance between the basal member and the mirror; and a cavity comprising: the laser; the mirror; and a cavity length between the laser and the mirror that changes in response to displacement of the laser according to the displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member, the optomechanical laser providing laser light.

An opto-electronic system including a PIC that includes a semiconductor-based tunable laser source that can achieve single-mode lasing thereby emitting optical radiation having a predefined linewidth at a predefined operating wavelength. The PIC also includes an optical measurement unit that can receive the optical radiation emitted by said laser source, and provide a signal representative for the received optical radiation to a control unit of the opto-electronic system that is operatively connected with said laser source and the optical measurement unit. The opto-electronic system enables omitting external optical measurement equipment thereby enabling a faster and cheaper way of locking of the predefined operating wavelength of said laser and achieving the predefined linewidth. A method of improved tuning of a semiconductor-based tunable laser source of an opto-electronic system.

An optical network unit (ONU) comprising a media access controller (MAC) configured to support biasing a laser transmitter to compensate for temperature related wavelength drift receiving a transmission timing instruction from an optical network control node, obtaining transmission power information for the laser transmitter, estimating a burst mode time period for the laser transmitter according to the transmission timing instruction, and calculating a laser phase fine tuning compensation value for the laser transmitter according to the burst mode time period and the transmission power information, and forwarding the laser phase fine tuning compensation value toward a bias controller to support biasing a phase of the laser transmitter.

A tunable laser includes a semiconductor optical amplifier, a waveguide wavelength-tunable filter that forms the tunable laser with the semiconductor optical amplifier, an optical splitting mechanism set on a coupling optical waveguide that couples the wavelength-tunable filter and the semiconductor optical amplifier, a first optical splitter of a waveguide type that splits at least part of a light beam split by the optical splitting mechanism into two light beams, a first optical waveguide coupled to one output end of the first optical splitter, a second optical waveguide that is coupled to another output end of the first optical splitter and includes a delay waveguide, a 90° hybrid waveguide that includes two input ports to which an output light beam from the first optical waveguide and an output light beam from the second optical waveguide are input and four output ports that output four output light beams.

The present invention relates to telecommunication techniques and integrated circuit (IC) devices. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an off-quadrature modulation system. Once an off-quadrature modulation position is determined, a ratio between DC power transfer amplitude and dither tone amplitude for a modulator is as a control loop target to stabilize off-quadrature modulation. DC power transfer amplitude is obtained by measuring and sampling the output of an optical modulator. Dither tone amplitude is obtained by measuring and sampling the modulator output and performing calculation using the optical modulator output values and corresponding dither tone values. There are other embodiments as well.

A semiconductor laser module that includes a package accommodating therein a plurality of optical components, includes: a semiconductor laser device that emits laser light toward one end side in the package; an optical fiber having an incident end of the laser light on another end side in the package, the another end being in an opposite direction of an emission direction in which the semiconductor laser device emits the laser light; and a turn-back unit that turns back the laser light toward the another end side in the package, the another end being in the opposite direction of the emission direction in which the semiconductor laser device emits the laser light, and outputs the laser light to the incident end of the optical fiber.

A photodetector having a small form factor and having high detection efficiency with respect to both visible light and infrared rays may include a first electrode, a collector layer on the first electrode, a tunnel barrier layer on the collector layer, a graphene layer on the tunnel barrier layer, an emitter layer on the graphene layer, and a second electrode on the emitter layer. The photodetector may be included in an image sensor. An image sensor may include a substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate, and a plurality of photodetectors on the insulating layer. The photodetectors may be aligned with each other in a direction extending parallel or perpendicular to a top surface of the insulating layer. The photodetector may be included in a LiDAR system.