Stmicroelectronics S.a.

Denis Pache

Didier Belot

Stéphane Le Tual

Stephane Le Tual

Hanae Zegmout

Valerie Danelon

Christophe Arricastres

Vincent Le Goascoz

Nejdat Demirel

Corinne Berland

Jean-François Roux

Floria Blanchet

Jean-François Bercher

Jean-Louis Coutaz

Isabelle Hibon

Martine Villegas

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an optical switch includes a photoconductor body including a first edge and an opposite second edge, a first end and an opposite second end. The first edge is configured to receive an electrical input signal and the second edge is configured to deliver an electrical output signal. The photoconductor body is configured to have an electrically ON state that is activated by an optical signal and an electrically OFF state that is activated by an absence of the optical signal. A direction from the first end to the second end defines a longitudinal direction. The direction from the first edge to the second edge defines a first direction that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. A first dimension between the first edge and the second edge along the first direction decreases from the first end to the second end.

Integrated optical switch

The present disclosure relates to a device for generating a clock signal including a first photoresistor coupling a capacitive output node to a node receiving a first potential. A second photoresistor couples the capacitive node to a node receiving a second potential. The first and second photoresistors receive the same optical pulses of a mode-locked laser at instants in time offset by a first delay.

Clock signal generator

The present disclosure relates to a device for converting an optical pulse to an electronic pulse includes a photoresistor having first and second terminals and being capable of receiving a pulsed laser signal arising from a mode-locked laser source The first terminal is linked to a node for applying a reference potential via a resistive element and a capacitive element connected in parallel. The second terminal is connected to a node for applying a supply potential.

A Mach-Zehnder ring modulator includes a first optical path having a first diode and a optical path having a second diode. Each of the first and second diodes operates responsive to a voltage signal by modifying a phase of a light signal. A first optical coupler provides first and second light signals to the first and second optical paths, respectively. A second optical coupler couples outputs from the first and second optical paths. A feedback path is coupled between an output of the second optical coupler and an input of the first optical coupler.

Mach-zehnder (MZ) ring optical modulator

A Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) includes a first optical path with a first diode coupled to a first voltage signal node and configured to modify a phase of a first light signal transmitted through the first optical path. A further diode is positioned in the first optical path and configured to introduce a phase shift to the first light signal. A second optical path includes a second diode coupled to a second voltage signal node and configured to modify a phase of a second light signal transmitted through the second optical path. A first voltage signal carried on the first voltage signal node and a second voltage signal carried on the second voltage signal node each vary between a reverse biasing voltage level and a forward biasing voltage level. An optical coupler is coupled to the first and second optical paths.

Optical modulator having Mach-Zehnder diodes of reduced length

An integrated circuit includes an integrated transformer of the balanced-to-unbalanced type with N channels, wherein N is greater than 2. The integrated transformer includes, on a substrate, N inductive circuits that are mutually inductively coupled, and respectively associated with N channels.

Integrated circuit comprising an integrated transformer of the 'BALUN' type with several input and output channels

Method for improving the symmetry of the differential output signals of an integrated transformer of the symmetric-asymmetric type comprising an inductive primary circuit and an inductive secondary circuit, characterized in that the capacitive coupling between the primary and secondary circuits is reduced.

Transformer and method for using same

A signal modulation device comprises a delta-sigma modulator disposed for transforming an amplitude-modulation signal in baseband into a pulse signal. It also comprises a phase modulator receiving, at its input, analogue phase-modulation signals in baseband. The pulse signal is mixed with carrier signals upstream of the phase modulator. The modulation device is designed to form an input stage of a transmitter.

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Denis Pache