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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
May. 18, 1998
Masaru Fuse, Toyonaka, JP;
Kuniaki Utsumi, Sanda, JP;
Seiichiro Kawashima, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Kikushima, Ichikawa, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A branch portion 107 branches a modulating signal into two signals in opposite phases. One of them is inputted to an FM laser element 102. The other one is adjusted in propagation delay and in amplitude and then is inputted to an IM suppressing laser element 110. The FM laser element 102 outputs an optical-frequency-modulated signal around a wavelength .lambda.1, whose optical intensity is also modulated. A local light source 104 outputs light at a wavelength .lambda.0, which is different from the oscillation wavelength .lambda.1 of the FM laser element 102 by .DELTA..lambda.. The IM suppressing laser element 110 outputs an optical-intensity-modulated signal. The three lights are combined and inputted to a photodetection portion 106. The photodetection portion 106 applies a heterodyne detection to inputted lights to output an FM modulated signal corresponding to a beat signal of the outputted optical signal from the FM laser element 102 and the outputted light from the local light source 104 at frequency corresponding to the difference .DELTA..lambda. between the original two wavelengths, and also cancels the average-value variation component in the FM modulated signal with an electrical signal produced by square-law detecting the optical-intensity-modulated signal from the IM suppressing laser element 110, thereby producing an ideal FM modulated signal.