Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Ulrich Wolff

Eckhard Storck

Gerhard Winzer

Hans F Mahlein

Lothar Stoll

Gustav Mueller

Jochen Heinen

Bruno Acklin

Markus-Christian Amann

Wolfgang Thulke

Bernhard Stegmueller

Reinhard Marz

Manfred Plihal

Heinrich Schlotterer

An integrated optical arrangement operated as a switch composed of at least three ridge waveguides on a substrate, the third ridge waveguide is utilized for an infeed of an optical waveguide proceeding between two parallel ridge waveguides forming the first and second waveguides having either a contacted pn-junction or a contacted pin-junction. As a result of asymmetrical switching of the junctions, the optical wave is coupled over into one or the other of the first and second waveguides. The advantage over traditional directional coupler switch structures are complete symmetry of the two switch conditions, 'digital switching behavior', enhanced separation of the output waveguide, low switching losses and greater manufacturing tolerances, reduced polarization sensitivity and increased optical bandwidth.

Integrated optical arrangement of ridge waveguides on a substrate

An integrated optical arrangement having at least one optical waveguide integrated a substrate of semiconductor material, characterized by the waveguide being a rib waveguide comprising the p-doped material disposed on a substrate which contains a waveguiding layer which is either an n-doped or an undoped material, said arrangement having either a pn or a pin junction between the p-doped material of the rib and the n-doped or undoped material of the waveguiding layer. In addition, a method for forming the various layer is disclosed.

Integrated optical arrangement having at least one optical waveguide

A monolithically integrated WDM demultiplex module has a film wave guide of InGaAsP fashioned on a substrate, a photodiode of InGaAs being applied to the film wave guide. The photodiode is optically coupled to the film wave guide by a leakage coupling. A wavelength selection element in the form of a grating is provided in the surface of the film wave guide. The module can be manufactured with a single epitaxial step. Structures for increasing the crosstalk attenuation of the module and for a better coupling-in of radiation into the module are provided.

Monolithically integrated WDM demultiplex module and method of

A method for integrating a DFB laser and a passive strip waveguide on a substrate. A layer stack is produced in a first epitaxy step, the layer stack having a laser-active layer and a surface-wide grating on the uppermost layer, and eroding the stack area-wise, but only down to a layer under the laser-active layer, not down to the substrate, by means of etching to create a step separating the laser region from the passive strip waveguide region. By employing an etching stop layer, the etching can ensue self-adjustingly, and the coupling between the laser-active layer and the passive strip waveguide region occurs not by end coupling, but by surface coupling. Only two epitaxy steps are required for the complete manufacture of the structure, and a strip required for the definition of the laser and of the waveguide can be produced in the same single method step.

Method for manufacturing of integrated DFB laser with coupled strip

A window function optimum for apodization of diffraction at an aperture of a Bragg Cell spectral analyzer. A window function is derived which is simpler to realize and which comes very close to an optimum window function.

Window function for an aperture window

A Bragg cell spectral analyzer with a prism expansion system for a laser beam, which has a Gaussian cross-sectional distribution of light intensity, is generally superimposed with stray light, and is conducted along a path through the system to a Bragg cell characterized by an aperture diaphragm being positioned in the path before the prism expansion system with the diameter of the aperture being selected to be larger than the half-width value of the Gaussian cross-sectional distribution. The prism expansion system only expands the laser beam to such a degree that the half-width value of the Gaussian cross-sectional distribution is smaller than the diameter of an aperture of the Bragg cell. As a result thereof, the diffraction side lobes of the spectrum can be reduced by apodization relative to the principal maximum of the spectrum and stray light contained in the laser beam can be blanked out.

Bragg cell spectral analyzer with a prism expansion system

The aim of the present disclosure is to provide an arrangement for the production of x-ray sectional pictures by means of which the layergram can be filtered in a rapid and simple manner. The recording medium possesses a modulation transmission function having high-pass or band-pass filter characteristics.

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Ulrich Wolff