Jds Uniphase Corporation

Santur Corporation

Neophotonics Corporation

Sdl Inc.

Edward C Vail

Mehrdad Ziari

Bardia Pezeshki

Robert J Lang

Gideon W Yoffe

David F Welch

Anthony J Ticknor

Stuart MacCormack

Ilya Vorobeichik

Milind Gokhale

Mark Emanuel

Donald R Scifres

John F Heanue

Robert G Waarts

Vincent G Dominic

Bernard G Fidric

Stephen A O'Brien

Hanmin Zhao

Mats Hagberg

David M Giltner

Jay Kubicky

Scott D DeMars

Jianping Zhang

Vincent E Dominic

Mike Sherback

Optical telecommunication receivers and transmitters are described comprising dispersive elements and adjustable beam steering elements that are combined to provide optical grid tracking to adjust with very low power consumption to variations in the optical grid due to various changes, such as temperature fluctuations, age or other environmental or design changes. Thus, high bandwidth transmitters or receivers can be provides with low power consumption and/or low cost designs.

Adjustable grid tracking transmitters and receivers

A multiple-output laser component is described with a plurality of diode lasers in a common package, each of the diode lasers having distinct electrical control and optically coupled to a distinct output fiber, the component configured such that up to a maximum total output power can be selectively and dynamically partitioned among said diode lasers. The dynamic allocation can be based on demand for laser power in a fiber optic coupled to each diode laser. The multi-output laser component can be used to drive amplifiers associated with a multicast switch in some embodiments.

Dynamically-distributable multiple-output pump for fiber optic amplifier

An optical subassembly (OSA) with components including a microelectromechanical structure (MEMS) is formed with a jig. The jig includes a jig clamp and a jig stencil and allows for the optical components of the OSA to be optically aligned to one another using passive alignment. The jig stencil includes openings for the optical components and have an edge with a retractable portion that urge the optical components into position. The optical components are fixed in position by soldering, and the retractable portions allow for the jig stencil to move relative to the fixed components to avoid misalignment of the OSA components during cooling. The MEMS is then adjusted to maximize optical power directed from a light source, through the optical components, and into an optical transmission medium.

Laser component system assembly

A photonic device including an array of lasers providing light to an array of electro-absorption modulators, both on a common substrate. In some embodiments the lasers are in a closely spaced array and lase at different wavelengths, providing with associated electro-absorption modulators a compact wavelength selectable laser.

Switched laser array modulation with integral electroabsorption modulator

A photonic device and modulating drive circuits. In one aspect the device is an array of lasers with modulator circuits for modulating a single selectable laser of the array of lasers.

High speed modulation of arrayed lasers

One or more single mode waveguide devices are fiber coupled such that signals to an optical element affect the coupling of the waveguide device to one or more on chip modulators and to an optical fiber. The optical element or additional optical elements are controlled to adjust the coupling of the waveguide device to an on chip modulator and to an optical fiber.

Alignment of an on chip modulator

One or more single mode waveguide devices are fiber coupled such that signals to an optical element affect the coupling of the waveguide device to one or more modulators and to an optical fiber. The optical element or additional optical elements are controlled to adjust the coupling of the waveguide device to a modulator and to an optical fiber.

Modulator alignment for laser

A tunable laser module includes a laser operating at a first wavelength. A wavelength locker includes a planar silica waveguide that is coupled to the laser. The wavelength locker provides an error signal that is used to tune the first wavelength of the laser to a desired wavelength. The wavelength locker and one or more detector(s) generate the error signal based on a difference between the first wavelength value and the desired wavelength value. A controller is connected to the waveguide wavelength locker and the laser. The controller generates a laser control signal based on the error signal that adjusts the first wavelength. The waveguide wavelength locker can alternately include first and second spaced gratings, Mach-Zehnder interferometers with different asymmetries, passive waveguide(s), and combinations thereof. The laser is mounted on a first temperature controlled package and the waveguide wavelength locker is mounted on the first temperature controlled package.

Waveguide wavelength locker

A semiconductor pump laser uses a depolarzer to depolarize the pump light entering the fiber amplifier. The depolarized light source is useful for reducing polarization dependent gain of fiber amplifiers. The pump laser includes one or more semiconductor, coherence-collapsed laser sources emitting polarized pump outputs, and one or more depolarizers disposed to depolarize the polarized pump output from the lasers. One or more fiber outputs are coupled to the one or more depolarizers to receive depolarized pump light. The depolarizer may include an N&times;M polarization preserving coupler having N inputs and M outputs, N and M being at least 2, an input to the depolarizer at a first coupler input, an output port from the depolarizer at a first coupler output. A polarization-controlling optical path is coupled between a second coupler output and a second coupler input. A polarization of light exiting the N&times;M coupler through the second coupler output is substantially orthogonal to a polarization of light entering the N&times;M coupler through the second coupler input.

Depolarized semiconductor laser sources

An optical amplifier with a flattened wideband response is obtained by coupling counter-propagating pumping energy into an optical waveguide to cause Raman amplification in the optical waveguide, and by reflecting an amplified signal received from the optical waveguide into an output waveguide using a reflector having a spectral characteristic that is complementary to the spectral gain characteristic of the Raman amplification.

Raman-based utility optical amplifier

Optical pumping arrangements are provided for the broadband or multiple wavelength pumping of optical sources. Sources may be based on Raman gain media for amplification. Broadband amplification is provided by using a laser source operating in coherence collapse. Such a source may make use of an optical generator and an output coupler which are sufficiently far apart from one another as to ensure coherence collapse.

Multiple wavelength optical sources

High power semiconductor lasers for pumping fiber devices, such as fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers, include an optical gain region disposed between a rear end and the output end, the width of the optical gain region being greater at the output end than at the rear end. The optical gain region may include a single mode channel region coupled to a flared amplifier region. The light output from the laser is coupled via a lens system into a fiber for propagating to the fiber device to be pumped. Light is fedback into the laser, for example from a fiber Bragg grating, to induce the laser to operate in coherence collapse. The broad bandwidth output associated with coherence collapse permits the laser to deliver high optical powers into the fiber without the onset of stimulated Billion scattering. Fiber grating feedback improves the quality of the beam output by the laser, thus enhancing coupling efficiency into the fiber. The pump laser may be used to pump multiple fiber devices. Multiple pump lasers may be combined together.

Fiber grating-stabilized, semiconductor pump source

A pump source for a fiber Raman amplifier uses multiple lasers to generate high pump power or to generate a pump beam having a tailored spectrum for producing a desired Raman gain spectral profile. Light from two lasers, in mutually orthogonal polarization states directed to a polarization combiner that produces an output having light mixed at the two orthogonal polarization states. A depolarizer depolarizes the output. The depolarizer defines first and second orthogonal polarization modes oriented so that the light output from the polarization combiner in one polarization state excites the first and second polarization modes of the depolarizer equally and the light output from the polarization combiner in the other polarization state also excites the first and second polarization modes of the depolarizer equally.

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