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Siemens Corporation

Ekkehard Klement

Holger Karstensen

Franz Mayerhofer

Karsten Droegemueller

Hartmut Schneider

Hartwig E Ruell

Gerhard Schiffner

Rudolf Keil

Julius Wittmann

Hans Ludwig Althaus

Ulrich Deserno

Dieter Schuoecker

Dieter Schuocker

Helmut Zrschizky

An optical arrangement for the feedback-free coupling of the laser emission emitted by a semiconductor laser into an optical fiber, characterized by a first optical lens for receiving the output of the semiconductor laser, a first optical isolator composed of a Faraday rotator and a polarizer following in the propagation direction of the laser emission, a second optical isolator being composed of a second Faraday rotator and a second polarizer that has a higher blocking attenuation compared to the blocking attenuation of the first polarizer being arranged between the first lens and the optical isolator. In order to use the optical arrangement in an optical heterodyne system, the blocking attenuation of at least -70 dB is obtainable in this arrangement.

Optical arrangement for a feedback-free coupling of a laser emission

An arrangement for converting diverging polarized laser emission from a semiconductor laser into a convergent beam includes two optical lenses and an optical isolator formed of a Faraday rotator and at least one polarizer arranged in the beam path of the laser emission. The lens which lies farther from the semiconductor layer is a component of the Faraday rotator and is formed by a plano-convex lens having an curved side facing the semiconductor laser.

Feedback-free optical arrangement for converting polarized laser

A birefringent optical waveguide structure comprises at least one or more strip waveguides of a first material embedded in a cladding layer of a second glass with at least one additional layer being applied on the cladding layer. The strip waveguides have a refractive index which is higher than the refractive index of the second glass of the cladding layers and the additional layer applies a mechanical stress to the strip waveguides which has a component extending perpendicular to the strip waveguides. Preferably, the mechanical stress is formed by the material of the additional layers having a different thermal expansion coefficient and a different elasto-optical coefficient than the materials forming the cladding layer and the strip waveguides. The method of forming the device includes rapidly cooling the structure from an elevated temperature to room temperature to create the mechanical stresses.

Birefringent optical waveguide structure having a strip waveguide buried

A device for optically connecting one or several optical emitters with one or several optical detectors of integrated circuits characterized by a substrate, a spacer disposed on the substrate providing recesses for each of the integrated circuits and components and a cover plate with either a light waveguide structure extending between the various emitters and detectors interposed either between the cover plate and spacer or on one of the cover plates and spacers or a distributing element positioned on a surface of the cover plate for distributing light emitted by the optical emitter in one recess to the detectors of the same recess or both. The waveguide system allows interconnecting an optical emitter of one unit or component with a detector of another unit component or components. The distributing element allows connecting the optical emitter to the optical detector of a single unit. Thus, selection of the two types of optical arrangements allows an external connection of one component to another component or internal connections of elements of a single component.

Device for optical connections of one or more optical emitters with one

A transmission and reception module for a bidirectional optical communication network characterized by a housing containing a laser diode, a first spherical lens for focussing the output of the laser diode on a first beam path, a second spherical lens arranged on the first beam path for focussing the light from the first lens at a focal point at which an end face of an optical fiber is positioned, a beam splitter which is at least partially transmissive to light of a first wavelength from the laser diode and partially reflective of light of a second wavelength being emitted from the fiber into a second beam path on which a detector is positioned. To improve the positioning, the first lens and the laser diode are mounted on a carrier member in a fixed relationship which enables assembling the device with less problems with maladjustment.

Transmission and reception module for a bidirectional communication

A method and optical arithmetic apparatus for converting residue numbers into positionally notated numbers utilize linear periodic structures which can be shifted relative to one another, each linear periodic structure being allocated to a prime number module of those prime number modules which are utilized in the residue representation of a decimal number, with the duration of the period for a structure being proportional to the module allocated thereto. The structures may be structures for generating standing light waves. The shift of the phase positions of the light waves is undertaken by respective phase modulators with the waves being shifted out of an original phase position in accord with the allocated residue module or the sum of the modules. The decoded result is obtained by noting the values occurring at positions where the structures coincided before shifting by means of the phase modulators and which coincide after the shift.

Method and optical apparatus for converting residue numbers into

A device for executing a scalar multiplication of vectors is constructed in the form of an interferometric adder for residue numbers. A plurality of series-connected, vector-component-controlled phase modulators are disposed in each of the phase-modulatable light beams existing for such adder. A phase modulator is provided for each component of a vector, and which generates a phase shift as a function of the components of the vectors to be multiplied which are supplied to it. This phase shift is proportional both to the component of the one as well as to the component of the other vector. The phase shift generated by each component amounts to 2.pi. when the numerical value of the component is divisible by the corresponding module without remainder. The result of the scalar multiplication is derivable as a positionally notated number from the interference pattern or interference patterns produced after the radiation through the phase modulators.

Device for the execution of a scalar multiplication of vectors

A method for positioning and fixing optical components relative to one another which comprises the steps of providing a carrier plate having an optical component, securing an optical component on a retainer plate having at least one solderable area, positioning the retainer plate above the carrier plate with a reference mark on said plates being aligned and the solderable area on each of the two plates being disposed in aligned pairs of solderable areas, applying at least one solder piece to each pair of solderable areas as the plates are held in the position, melting the solder pieces, allowing the molten metal to solidify to secure the aligned plates together and then releasing the secured aligned plates.

Method for positioning and fixing optical components relative to one

A device has a waveguide, such as monomode fiber, for receiving a light beam and retransmitting specific portions of the light in a reemitted beam, which reemitted beam can be moved in space. To move the reemitted beam, the device has an arrangement for moving an end portion of the light waveguide adjacent the outlet surface to change the direction of the reemitted beam. The waveguide, such as the cladded optical fiber, can be either provided with a mode stripper or is of a sufficient length so that cladding modes will be eliminated before reaching the outlet surface. To move the end of the waveguide, various arrangements, which can utilize either an electro-magnet, a piezoelectric device or other suitable movement devices, are utilized. The device usually includes outlet optics for the reemitted beam and these optics can either be a gradient lens secured on the outlet surface of the waveguide or a lens which is spaced a distance from the outlet surface.

Device for producing a moving light beam

The fiber optical measuring device contains a fiber optical transmission line into whose input end are directed a first and a second light beam. Both light beams have wavelengths differing from each other. Associated with the output end of the transmission line is a mirror. This mirror passes the transmitted second light beam therethrough and reflects the transmitted first light beam back into the transmission line. Associated with the output end is also a sensor for measuring a physical parameter. This sensor receives the second light beam and returns a portion thereof back into the output end. This portion depends on the parameter to be measured. Arranged at the input end of the transmission line is an optical device which separates the reflected portion of the first light beam from the returned portion of the second light beam. A first optical detector transforms the first light beam portion into a first electric signal, and a second optical detector transforms the second light beam portion into a second electric signal. A signal processor determines the ratio between the second and the first electric signals. This ratio indicates the value of the physical parameter to be measured.

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