H04B10/50577

Optical transmitter

There is provided an optical transmitter including a memory, a processor coupled to the memory and the processor to generate an electric signal, an optical generator to generate light, an optical modulator to modulate the light with the electric signal to create an optical signal, a first voltage electrode to apply a first voltage to the optical signal, a second voltage electrode to apply a second voltage to the optical signal to which the first voltage is applied, and a detector to detect an optical power of the optical signal to which the second voltage is applied, wherein the processor stops generating the electric signal, controls the first voltage electrode to change the first voltage after the stop of generating the electric signal, and controls the second voltage electrode to change the second voltage according to the detected optical power after the change of the first voltage.

COMMUNICATION DEVICE INCLUDING NESTED MODULATOR AND BIAS CONTROL METHOD FOR NESTED MODULATOR
20240129042 · 2024-04-18 · ·

A communication device includes a nested modulator composed of sub modulators and a phase shifter. The nested modulator is controlled by: modulating a double pulse by phase and intensity modulation according to transmission information, wherein the double pulse thus modulated is transmitted to another communication device; controlling bias voltages applied respectively to the sub modulators so that a first error rate on the intensity modulation is minimized; and controlling a bias voltage applied to the phase shifter so that a second error rate on the phase modulation is minimized.

OPTICAL MODULATOR
20190326996 · 2019-10-24 · ·

An optical modulator includes an optical wave guide that passes light, a first phase shifter that adjusts a phase of the light passing through the optical waveguide by passing an electric current through a diode formed in the optical waveguide, a second phase shifter that adjusts a phase of the light passing through the optical waveguide by adjusting a temperature of the optical waveguide, and a controller that corrects a phase shift of the light passing through the optical waveguide based on a result of detection of power of the light that passed through the optical waveguide, the controller controls the first phase shifter to correct the phase shift when the magnitude of the phase shift of the light passing through the optical waveguide is less than a predetermined magnitude, and the controller controls the second shifter to correct the phase shift.

Device and method for free space coherent optical communication by means of automatic compensation for phase noise in atmosphere using femtosecond laser optical comb

Provided are a device and method for free space coherent optical communications by means of an automatic compensation for phase noise in atmosphere using a femtosecond laser optical comb, and more particularly, a device and method for free space coherent optical communications by means of an automatic compensation for phase noise in atmosphere using a femtosecond laser optical comb, in which a phase shift value due to atmospheric turbulence is obtained from reflected light of transmission light generated from a femtosecond laser optical comb and the transmission light is pre-distorted on the basis of the phase shift value, thereby pre-compensating, in a transmission end, for phase noise due to atmospheric turbulence.

Downhole telemetry using adaptive feedback

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing adaptive feedback in downhole telemetry in a wellbore. A feedback system includes a source assembly, which can be located on the surface or downhole, and a receiving assembly, which can likewise be located on the surface or downhole. The source assembly includes a source device that transmits a light signal having a first phase, and an encoder coupled to the source device. The receiving assembly comprising an oscillator that transmits an oscillator having a second phase, a coupler that couples the light signal with the oscillator signal, a detector and difference amplifier that detect and determine the difference between the first phase and second phase and a processor that receives the difference between the phases and provides the difference to an encoder so that the encoder can adjust the oscillator phase.

Opto-electronic oscillator with stimulated Brillouin scattering feedback

An architecture for an optoelectronic oscillator uses Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) to seed, filter and amplify the oscillation signal in an overlapped oscillator loop for both a RF modulated optical sideband and a SBS signal. By phase matching the RF modulated optical sideband generated by SBS with the SBS signal, the feedback will collapse the bandwidth of the SBS signal and in turn the bandwidth of the Brillouin frequency signal, which also serves as a filter to filter out multiple undesired OEO loop modes. The embodiments herein result in reduced phase noise and increased stability.

Optical communication apparatus and optical communication system
10404379 · 2019-09-03 · ·

An optical communication apparatus includes: a light-receiving device that receives an optical signal transmitted from another optical communication apparatus through an optical fiber and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal; a first measurement circuit that measures an average power and a modulation power of the optical signal based on the electrical signal; a light-emitting device that transmits the optical signal to the another optical communication apparatus by emitting light in accordance with a driving current; a driver that causes the light-emitting device to transmit the optical signal according to a transmission signal by controlling the driving current based on the transmission signal; and a processor that adjusts the driving current based on the average power and the modulation power.

Apparatus and methods for power efficient multi-format optical transmission

An apparatus for generating a processed optical signal includes a first laser configured to emit a first optical signal in response to a first drive signal. The first optical signal has a first phase shift depending on a first integrated amplitude of the first drive signal. The apparatus also includes a spectral-temporal filter, in optical communication with the first laser, to change a first spectral profile and a first temporal profile of the first optical pulse so as to generate the processed optical signal. Replacing a conventional continuous-wave (CW) laser and external modulation with filter-based modulation can achieve the same or better performance without high-fidelity low-noise input signals.

LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE, AND TIMING ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE

An optical modulation apparatus that can adjust modulation timing. A timing adjuster adjusts the modulation timing on the basis of an intensity detected by a light intensity detector, after a data generator respectively generates, as a first data signal and a second data signal, a first test data signal and a second test data signal each having a data string containing a test pattern in which a plurality of continuous marks and a plurality of continuous spaces are alternately repeated, and after a phase adjuster adjusts a phase difference to zero or .

APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR POWER EFFICIENT MULTI-FORMAT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION
20180343066 · 2018-11-29 ·

An apparatus for generating a processed optical signal includes a first laser configured to emit a first optical signal in response to a first drive signal. The first optical signal has a first phase shift depending on a first integrated amplitude of the first drive signal. The apparatus also includes a spectral-temporal filter, in optical communication with the first laser, to change a first spectral profile and a first temporal profile of the first optical pulse so as to generate the processed optical signal. Replacing a conventional continuous-wave (CW) laser and external modulation with filter-based modulation can achieve the same or better performance without high-fidelity low-noise input signals.