Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080304828 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING WDMA AND CDMA - In a PON system, an OLT periodically transmits a channel resource information block specifying a carrier wavelength and a spreading code on a first downstream channel to which a spread-spectrum spreader having a first spreading code is applied; one of ONUs receives the channel resource information block with a spread-spectrum despreader having the first spreading code and transmits a connection request to the OLT, using the carrier wavelength and the spreading code specified by the channel resource information block; the OLT having received the connection request transmits a new channel resource information block specifying a carrier wavelength and a spreading code to be used on an upstream data channel to the requester ONU through the first channel; and the requester ONU transmits data, using the carrier wavelength and the spreading code specified by the new channel resource information block. | 12-11-2008 |
20090080888 | Optical line terminating apparatus and optical communication system - An optical access communication apparatus and an optical access communication system for the coexistence of two wideband PON systems without using an expensive optical device or module. A low-speed PON and a high-speed PON have a same upstream wavelength, and an OLT receives optical signals by a same optical receiver in the two systems, converts the optical signals into electric signals, amplifies the electric signals, branches the amplified electric signals, and processes the branched signals by clock and data recovery sections of bit rates corresponding to the two PON systems, thereby achieving an optical communication apparatus and an optical communication system for constructing a simple and low-cost triple-play service system of excellent transmission quality. | 03-26-2009 |
20090097847 | OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module comprising: a submount provided on a CAN stem; light-emitting device and a light-receiving device; a CAN cap or package; and an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having a wavelength selective filter on a substrate that has transmissivity to passing light and a mirror, where an extending direction of the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is fixed in the CAN cap or the package being tilted by an angle θ (θ≠2Nπ, N=0, 1, 2, . . . ) in a two-dimensional cross section with respect to one surface of an optical device mounting board, outgoing light from the light-emitting device passes through the wavelength selective filter and the substrate and enters an optical fiber outside the cap, and outgoing light from the optical fiber enters the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and is reflected by the wavelength selective filter and further reflected by the mirror, and then exits the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer to enter the light-receiving device. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097861 | Passive optical network system and optical line terminating apparatus - A passive optical network (PON) system which enables plural types of ONUs having different signal transmission speeds to be connected to one OLT. An optical line terminating apparatus (OLT) connected to plural types of ONUs having different signal transmission speeds through an optical distribution network includes an optical transmitter-receiver connected to the optical distribution network, a transmission/reception line interface connected to a wide area network, a downstream frame processing section for converting a packet received by the transmission/reception line interface from the wide area network into a downstream frame containing identification information on a destination ONU in a header, and a downstream transmission controller for modulating the downstream frame at a speed corresponding to a signal transmission speed of the destination ONU and outputting the modulated frame to an electrical/optical converter connected to the optical transmitter-receiver. | 04-16-2009 |
20090103923 | Optical Transmitter/Receiver Module - An optical element mounting substrate where a plurality of light emitting elements have been mounted on the same plane, a lens array for collimating a plurality of light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements, and a wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing device are prepared. The wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing device has typically mounted both a wavelength selecting filter and a mirror on front and rear planes of a transparent substrate. These three components are mounted within a package at a desirable angle position. Optical axes of respective wavelengths of the wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing device are determined based upon a thickness and an angle of the light emitting element mounting substrate, and are arrayed on a straight line of a horizontal plane. As a consequence, if the respective light emitting elements are arranged on the optical axes which are exclusively determined by a design work, then optical multiplexing/demultiplexing operations can be carried out. | 04-23-2009 |
20090162053 | PON system method for receiving optical signal and OLT - When a signal of weak optical power is received immediately after a signal of intense optical power, input of the signal of intense optical power readily causes saturation, and the influence interferes in the signal of weak optical power to deteriorate receiver sensitivity. Moreover, when a reverse-bias voltage of APD is changed, if a difference between the voltages is large, a next optical signal is received until the receiver sensitivity of the APD becomes stable, so that receiver sensitivity deteriorates. A DBA order is determined so that a difference in reverse-bias voltage is small, and reverse-bias voltage is controlled in line with reception timing from ONU. | 06-25-2009 |
20090162064 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL - It is necessary to completely remove overlapping of signals between plural PONs in order to make the PONs coexist. Accordingly, it is required to share or intensively manage bandwidth use conditions over an optical fiber that serves as a common band between plural systems. Therefore, transmission clocks should be synchronized with high accuracy between plural systems. A reference clock is provided from an external device or a representative OLT to the entire systems to perform clock synchronization between plural systems, so that the overall systems are synchronized by synchronizing each OLT with the reference clock. A hierarchical management method is selected that manages ONUs under the control of each OLT by managing band use information arranged for each OLT with respect to an external device or a representative OLT for sharing of bandwidth use conditions between plural systems. | 06-25-2009 |
20090162065 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL - It is necessary to completely remove overlapping of signals between plural PONs in order to make the PONs coexist. Accordingly, it is required to share or intensively manage bandwidth use conditions over an optical fiber that serves as a common band between plural systems. Therefore, transmission clocks should be synchronized with high accuracy between plural systems. A reference clock is provided from an external device or a representative OLT to the entire systems to perform clock synchronization between plural systems, so that the overall systems are synchronized by synchronizing each OLT with the reference clock. A hierarchical management method is selected that manages ONUs under the control of each OLT by managing band use information arranged for each OLT with respect to an external device or a representative OLT for sharing of bandwidth use conditions between plural systems. | 06-25-2009 |
20090169209 | Network system, optical line terminating apparatus, and optical network apparatus - A general object of the present invention is to provide an optical communication system in which an optical transmission power of an optical communication apparatus is controlled to be a required minimum power that apparatuses of all subscribers in the optical communication system meet a prescribed error rate. An optical line terminating apparatus (OLT) transmits data to multiple optical network apparatuses (ONUs) at an optical intensity calculated based on information acquired from the multiple ONUs, which is related to optical intensities of signals that the multiple ONUs receive from the OLT, the optical intensity being calculated so that a minimum optical intensity of the optical intensities of the signals is greater than a predetermined value. | 07-02-2009 |
20090263078 | Optical device - Plural p-n junctions are formed in a waveguide such that they have junction interfaces in a normal direction to a surface of a substrate (to an extending direction of the substrate). Accordingly, a doping concentration changes in only a horizontal direction in the substrate, and it is possible to fabricate using the same processes as those for silicon electronic devices and to perform device fabricating at a low cost. Moreover, two or more junction interfaces are formed in the waveguide and thus an occupied area of the waveguide in a refractive index modulation region expands. Therefore, the efficiency of the refractive index modulation can be improved and a low-voltage operation is possible. | 10-22-2009 |
20090304388 | Optical Branching Apparatus and Passive Optical Network System - In the case where, in a WDM-PON system, a high-output optical signal or a pseudo signal for illegal access by a hostile user, or an optical signal with a wavelength which is not assigned from an OLT is input to an ONU-side optical fiber, the quality of communications for other users is possibly affected and a receiver on the station side is possibly destroyed. By providing an optical blocking unit at a position near an ONU-side optical splitter of an optical branching unit, in the case where input of an extraordinary optical signal is detected, an optical route into which the extraordinary optical signal is input is blocked, so that the input of the extraordinary optical signal to an OLT and optical lines shared by plural users can be preliminarily blocked. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310964 | Optical communication system and optical line terminating apparatus - There is provided an abnormal light cut-off system in which even when a high power light is inputted from an optical fiber connected to a user side apparatus by a malicious user or an accident, a trouble rate is low, the abnormal light is cut off at high sensitivity, and security is high. In a network system in which an optical line terminating apparatus and plural optical network apparatuses are connected together via plural optical connection sections and an optical branching section, the optical branching section includes one optical line terminating apparatus side port and plural optical network apparatus side branch ports, an optical line terminating apparatus side optical fiber connects the optical line terminating apparatus and the one optical line terminating apparatus side port, an optical branching section side optical fiber connects the optical network apparatus side branch port and a light cut-off section, and an optical network apparatus side optical fiber connects the light cut-off section and the optical network apparatus. When an abnormal light is inputted from the optical network apparatus side, it is cut off by the light cut-off section. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316745 | OPTICAL MODULE - A laser diode has a horizontal cavity and a mirror attached to the horizontal cavity at an angle of substantially 45° or substantially 135°. The laser diode is mounted on a stem substantially horizontally with taking light vertically emitted to the horizontal cavity as an optical signal, and light horizontally emitted as an optical signal for monitoring, respectively. A photodetector is mounted on the stem substantially orthogonally and so as to let in the optical signal for monitoring. | 12-24-2009 |
20100158527 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING WDMA AND CDMA - In a PON system, an OLT periodically transmits a channel resource information block specifying a carrier wavelength and a spreading code on a first downstream channel to which a spread-spectrum spreader having a first spreading code is applied; one of ONUs receives the channel resource information block with a spread-spectrum despreader having the first spreading code and transmits a connection request to the OLT, using the carrier wavelength and the spreading code specified by the channel resource information block; the OLT having received the connection request transmits a new channel resource information block specifying a carrier wavelength and a spreading code to be used on an upstream data channel to the requester ONU through the first channel; and the requester ONU transmits data, using the carrier wavelength and the spreading code specified by the new channel resource information block. | 06-24-2010 |
20100178053 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINALS - In an optical communications system in which an OLT transceiver and a plurality of ONU transceivers are connected to each other via an optical fiber and a TDMA system in which a signal from each of the ONU transceivers is issued at a timing assigned by the OLT transceiver is used, each of the ONU transceivers includes a light source which has modulation function of a Fabry-Perot laser that oscillates multi-mode lights of different wavelengths, the OLT transceiver includes a single-longitudinal-mode light source which has modulation function of a DFB laser that oscillates a single-longitudinal-mode light, and the light source which has modulation function included in each of the ONU transceivers and the single-longitudinal-mode light source which has modulation function included in the OLT transceiver are optically connected to each other via an optical fiber. | 07-15-2010 |
20100209041 | PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSITE WIRING MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A photoelectric composite wiring module includes a circuit substrate, an optical device, an LSI having a driver and an amplifier for the optical device, and a thin film wiring layer having an electrical wiring. The optical device is connected with the LSI by means of the electrical wiring. The optical device is formed on the circuit substrate and optically coupled to an optical waveguide formed in the circuit substrate. The thin film wiring layer is formed on the optical device to ensure that the optical device is electrically connected with the electrical wiring of the thin film wiring layer. The LSI is mounted on and electrically connected with the thin film wiring layer. | 08-19-2010 |
20100215313 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION ASSEMBLED CIRCUIT - An optical interconnection assembled circuit capable of reducing the number of parts and components, as well as the number of manufacturing processes and capable of mounting those parts and components at a high density in an optical module, thereby realizing a low price. The optical interconnection assembled circuit includes a substrate including plural optical waveguides having partial tapered surfaces respectively, as well as an optical element array facing each of the tapered surfaces. In the optical interconnection assembled circuit, the tapered surfaces and the optical element array are fastened so that they face each other and the optical elements of the optical element array are staggered in disposition. | 08-26-2010 |
20100247043 | OPTICAL MODULE AND WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module is formed by sticking the optical element mounting substrate and the sealing substrate together, then by sealing the stuck body. The optical mounting substrate includes an optical element on its top surface and it is used to guide electrical signals to its back side through a through-via hole provided in itself. The sealing substrate includes a lens at its back side and a recessed part used to hold an optical fiber at its front side. | 09-30-2010 |
20100265983 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER MODULE AND VERTICAL ILLUMINATED PHOTODIODE MODULE - In order to provide a compact optical module permitting highly efficient optical coupling and having components thereof highly densely packaged, a light emitting diode that is included in the optical module and emits light in a vertical direction with respect to a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate is provided with a lens integrated into a light emitting region, and a retaining section integrated to surround the light emitting region. Accordingly, readiness in alignment of the light emitting diode and an optical fiber, which guides light emitted from the light emitting diode, with each other is upgraded. Eventually, the compact optical module permitting highly efficient optical coupling and having components thereof highly densely packaged can be provided. | 10-21-2010 |
20100278482 | Optical Transceiver Module - The optical module includes an optical device mounting substrate | 11-04-2010 |
20110026878 | Optical I/O Array Module and Its Fabrication Method - In fabricating an optical I/O array module, an optical waveguide provided with mirror parts, each having a tapered face, is formed on a substrate, a convex shaped member or a concave shaped member is placed at spots above the respective mirror parts of the optical waveguide, and laser diode arrays and photo diode arrays, provided with either a concave shape, or a convex shape, are mated with, or into the convex shaped member or the concave shaped member before being mounted. Further, there are formed multiple filmy layers, on which an LSI where a driver IC LSI of optical elements, and an amplifier LSI of the optical elements are integrated. | 02-03-2011 |
20110096383 | LIGHT BEAM SCANNING IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS - The object of the invention included in the present application is to automatically prevent the deterioration of the image even when the image quality of the projected image is deteriorated due to the replacement of the light source or the like. The following light beam scanning image projection apparatus is one means for achieving the object. In the light beam scanning image projection apparatus including a plurality of light sources which emit the light beams of respectively different wavelengths, a driving section which modulates the intensity of each light beam in accordance with the image signal, the light axis alignment means which aligns the light axes of each light beam, and scanning means which scans the light beams, the light axis alignment means includes: a plurality of optical elements; and an adjusting section which adjusts at least one of a position and a gradient of at least one of the optical elements, and the light beam scanning image projection apparatus further includes: detecting means which detects a shift between a spot center of each light beam and a center reference point; and position correction means which controls the adjusting section based on a detection result in the detecting means to adjust at least one of the position and the gradient of at least one of the optical elements of the light axis alignment means, thereby aligning the light axes of each light beam. | 04-28-2011 |
20110299808 | Optical Waveguide and Optical Waveguide Module - An optical waveguide module which satisfies highly-accurate and stable optical connection between optical elements and optical waveguides and can be easily fabricated is provided. As means for it, in an optical waveguide module having: an optical waveguide surrounded by a cladding layer and provided with a mirror part formed of a tapered surface on a first end side; an optical element having a concave part in a first surface of a semiconductor substrate; and a convex member provided on the cladding layer so as to be planarly overlapped with the mirror part, the convex member is mated with the concave part of the optical element. | 12-08-2011 |
20120183009 | HORIZONTAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER DIODES, VERTICAL ILLUMINATED PHOTODIODES, AND METHODS OF THEIR FABRICATION - The horizontal cavity surface emitting laser includes a cavity structure portion including a stacked structure of a first conduction type clad layer, an active layer and a second conduction type clad layer stacked over a semiconductor substrate and causing light generated by the active layer to be reflected or resonated, an optical waveguide layer provided at part of the semiconductor substrate and guiding the light, a reflector provided in the optical waveguide layer, for reflecting the light and emitting the light from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a condensing lens provided at the back surface thereof and focusing the reflected light. The back surface thereof has a groove provided with the condensing lens and a terrace-like portion disposed below the cavity structure portion and has a terrace shape with the cleavage direction along a longitudinal direction thereof provided along a cleavage direction of the semiconductor substrate. | 07-19-2012 |
20120213470 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE SUBSTRATE HAVING POSITIONING STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID SUBSTRATE - In the optical waveguide board, simultaneously with pattern formation of mirror members at arbitrary positions on a clad layer | 08-23-2012 |
20120230361 | SURFACE EMISSION LASER - Specifically, provided is a horizontal-cavity surface-emitting laser including, on a semiconductor substrate: a cavity structure; a waveguide layer; and a reflecting part, wherein a first electrode provided on the semiconductor substrate along side regions of the cavity structure and the reflecting part and a second electrode provided on the main surface of the cavity structure are provided, the first electrode includes an electrode (1) that is provided around one side region of the reflecting part located in the direction intersecting with the traveling direction of light guided through the waveguide layer and an electrode (2) provided around one side region of the cavity structure and the other side region of the reflecting part that are located in the direction parallel with the traveling direction of light guided through the waveguide layer, and the shape of the electrode (2) has different widths at at least two positions. | 09-13-2012 |
20120250711 | Optical Module - An optical module providing higher reliability during high-speed light modulation and a lower bit error rate when built into a transmitter (transceiver). An optical module contains a taper mirror for surface emission of output light, an optical modulator device, and an optical modulation drive circuit, and the optical modulator device and the optical modulation drive circuit are mounted at positions so as to enclose the taper mirror. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251033 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION MODULE AND OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL HYBRID BOARD - There are provided an optical interconnection module and an optical-electrical hybrid board using the same to process optical and electric signals on a board at a low transmission loss at high speed in transmitting high-speed optical signals sent and received between chips or between boards in a data processing apparatus. An optical interconnection module has a structure in which an optical signal is emitted from a laser optical source device, propagates the inside of a modulator device, and is deflected by a beam turning structure in the vertical direction of a substrate, an optical signal is incident from the outside of a semiconductor substrate, and transmitted and received at a photo diode provided on the semiconductor substrate, and the optical signals are optically connected to each other through the inside of the semiconductor substrate in the vertical direction of the substrate with the outside of the semiconductor substrate. | 10-04-2012 |
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20120288228 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - Disclosed is a silicon optical waveguide having a small optical loss and no polarization dependency. The silicon optical waveguide is formed on a silicon substrate with an embedded oxide film therebetween, the plane orientation of the surface of the silicon optical waveguide is the (110) plane, the plane orientation of the side wall is the (111) plane, and the recesses and projections of the side wall are planarized at an atomic level. | 11-15-2012 |
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20130322478 | Semiconductor Laser Device - Beams of light having wavelengths different from each other are generated in a plurality of light generation portions, the beams of light each generated in the plurality of light generation portions are reflected by a monolithic integrated mirror and are incident to a condenser lens, and emission positions on the condenser lens of the beams of light each generated in the plurality of light generation portions deviate from a central position of the condenser lens by a predetermined amount. | 12-05-2013 |