Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Munehisa Tamura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Masahiro Yanagisawa

Toshikazu Hashimoto

Takashi Saida

Motohaya Ishii

Tsutomu Kitoh

Yohei Sakamaki

Yasuhiro Hida

Senichi Suzuki

Yuichi Akage

Hideki Fukano

Tadashi Saitoh

Hiroki Nakajima

Takayuki Yamanaka

A planar lightwave circuit is provided which can be easily fabricated by an existing planar-lightwave-circuit fabrication process, which can lower the propagation loss of signal light and which can convert inputted signal light so as to derive desired signal light. A planar lightwave circuit having a core and a clad which are formed on a substrate, has input optical waveguide(s) () which inputs signal light, mode coupling part () for coupling a fundamental mode of the inputted signal light to a higher-order mode and/or a radiation mode, or mode re-coupling part () for re-coupling the higher-order mode and/or the radiation mode to the fundamental mode, and output optical waveguide(s) () which outputs signal light. The mode coupling part or the mode re-coupling part is an optical waveguide which has core width and/or height varied continuously.

Planar lightwave circuit, design method for wave propagation circuit, and computer program

In an optical modulation device () having an electrical/optical interaction region (), an electrical signal line () is connected to an electrical signal input terminal (), another electrical signal line () is connected to an electrical signal output terminal (), and a reflection control circuit () is connected to the other electrical signal line (). This reflection control circuit () is an impedance element which positively reflects an output electrical signal from the interaction region () of the optical modulation device (). This makes it possible to raise the upper-limiting frequency at which the E/O (Electrical-to-Optical) response characteristic can be improved, and improve the flatness of the frequency characteristic of the E/O response without deteriorating the absolute value of the E/O response.

Optical modulator and optical modulating method

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