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A semiconductor laser amplifier chip (110) is provided for direct amplification of signal light beam.
An optical coupling between the semiconductor laser chip (110) and input/output fibers (101, 102) is taken with a remote coupling using a parallel light beam. Collimator lenses (111, 112, 113, 114, 115) are provided for converting the lightwave signal into parallel light beam.
Two optical isolators (121, 122) are provided for preventing self-lasing of the semiconductor laser chip (110). One of the isolators (121, 122) is inserted in an input side of the semiconductor laser chip (110), and the other is in an output side of the chip.
An interference filter (131) and a beam splitter (141) are disposed in the output side of the semiconductor laser chip (110). The beam splitter (141) splits the output signal of the semiconductor laser chip (110) for monitoring an output power of the chip.,下面是Optical amplifier module专利的具体信息内容。
The present invention relates to an optical amplifier for use in a long-haul lightwave communication system, and more specifically to an optical amplifier module capable of direct amlification of a signal light with use of a semiconductor laser.
Recent rapid progress in telecommunication requires more and more improved transmission technology capable for example of transmitting a big volume of information to further remote sites. To satisfy such requirements a fiber optic transmission system has been proposed hitherto. An optical fiber, a low loss medium enjoys long-distance transmission. To extend the transmission distance, the fiber optic transmission system includes an optical repeater inserted into an optical fiber transmission line. For such an optical repeater, a system is known until now which converts an optical signal to an electrical one and after some electrical processings renders the resulting electric signal to electrooptic conversion to reproduce an optical signal. Additionally, recent development in this field finds another example of such an optical repeater capable of directly amplifying an optical signal without conversion of the signal to an electric one. The latter optical repeater has an advantage of its being miniaturized and simplified, compared with the former optical repeater to effect the electrooptic conversion. Such an optical amplifier may include a semiconductor laser, for example. An example of the optical fiber with use of a semiconductor laser is disclosed in "Low Loss Coupling between Semiconductor Lasers and Single-mode Fiber Using Tapered Lensed Fibers" British Telecom. Techol J. Vol. 4, No. 2, Apr. 1986. Fig. 1 illustrates the configuration, where a semiconductor laser amplifier chip 21 is directly coupled with tapered fibers 22. Fig. 2 illustrates the configuration of the optical amplifier of Fig. 1 being disposed in a fiber optical transmission sytem. Such a configuration is disclosed in "400 Mbit/s, 372 km Coherent Transmission Experiment Using In-Line Optical Amplifiers", Electronics Letters Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan. 1988. That is, the optical amplifier device in practical application is comprised of an optical amplifier 31, an isolator 32, a filter 33, a coupling 34, and an output power monitor 35, all members connected in series, and further connected with an optical fiber 36 and an optical coupler 37.
However, the conventional optical amplifier devices of the type described above suffer from the following difficulties: The conventional optical amplifier with use of the semiconductor laser as illustrated in Fig. 1 is unstable in optical coupling between input and output sides through the semiconductor laser because of the optical coupling being done directly. The optical amplifier device of the type as illustrated in Fig. 2 because of alignment among constituent optical members being difficult.
In view of the drawbacks of the prior arts, it is an object of the present invention to provide an optical amplifier module providing stable optical coupling.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an optical amplifier module comprised of a reduced number of parts.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide an otpical amplifier module capable of adjusting optical coupling with ease.
To achieve the above objects, an optical amplifier module according to the present invention comprises, in one aspect, a package, an input fiber, an output fiber, and a semiconductor laser chip for amplifying an input optical signal, first collimator means disposed on the input side of the semiconductor laser chip for collimating the input optical signal to couple the input fiber with the semiconductor laser chip, second collimator means disposed on the output side of the semiconductor laser chip for collimating an output amplified optical signal to couple the semiconductor laser chip with the ouput fiber, first isolator means disposed on the input side of the semiconductor laser chip and second isolator means disposed on the output side of the semiconductor laser chip.
An optical amplifer module according to the present invention comprises, in the other aspect, a package, an input fiber, an output fiber, a semiconductor laser chip for amplifying an input optical signal, first collimator means disposed between the input optical fiber and the semiconductor laser chip for collimating the input optical signal into an input parallel light beam and for optically coupling the input optical fiber with the semiconductor laser chip, said means including first and second collimating lenses, second collimator means disposed between the semiconductor laser chip and the output optical fiber for collimating the output optical signal into an output parallel light beam and for optically coupling the semiconductor laser chip with the output optical fiber, said collimator means including third and fourth collimating lenses, first mounting means for mounting said input fiber and said first collimating lens, second mounting means for mounting the semiconductor laser chip and said second and third collimating lenses, and third mounting means for mounting the output fiber and said fourth collimating lens.
The above and other objects, featrues and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Referring to Fig. 3, an optical amplifier module according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. The optical amplifier module includes a package 100, an input fiber 101, and an output fiber 102. The optical amplifier module is inserted into and connected with an optical transmission path of an optical communication system via the above input and output fibers 101, 102. That is, an input signal light, which is to be amplified, is introduced into the package 100 through the input fiber 101, and an amplified signal light is coupled to the optical transmission path of the optical communication system through the output fiber 102.
The input signal light introduced into the optical amplifier module exits from the rear facet of the input optical fiber 101 into a space defined in the package 100, and is incident upon the front facet of the output optical fiber 102. Thereupon, the signal light propagates the space in the package 100 without use of any optical fiber. For this, the optical axis of the signal light is aligned to those of the input and output fibers 101, 102.
A semiconductor laser chip 110 is disposed within the package 100 at a proper location on the optical axis of the signal light. An input coupling space (an input side) lies between the rear facet of the input optical fiber 101 and the semiconductor laser chip 110. Likewise, an output coupling space (an output side) lies between the semiconductor laser chip 110 and the frontal end of the ouput optical fiber 102.
The package 100 further houses therein five collimating lenses 111, 112, 113, 114, 115. The lenses 111, 112, 113, 114 are disposed on the optical axis of the signal light. The lenses 111 and 112 are disposed in the input side and the remaining lenses 113, 114 are disposed in the output side.
The collimating lens 111 is disposed at a focusing position, on which any incident light is focused therethrough, located at the rear facet of the input optical fiber 101, for the purpose of converting the incident signal light from the rear facet of the input optical fiber 101 to a parallel light beam. The collimating lens 112 is disposed at a focusing position, on which the incident light is focused therethrough, at the front facet of the semiconductor laser chip 110, for the purpose of allowing the parallel light beam formed by the collimating lens 111 to be incident upon the semiconductor laser chip 110. Thus, the parallel light beam formed as such can optically couple the input optical fiber 101 and the semiconductor laser chip 110 through the collimating lenses 111, 112. Also in the output coupling space, a parallel light beam can realize such optical coupling through the collimating lenses 113, 114.
The package 100 further houses two isolators 121, 122, which are disposed on the optical axis of the signal light, particularly the former isolator 121 being positioned in the input coupling space while the latter isolator 122 beding positioned in the output coupling space.
The package 100 still more houses an interference filter 131 and a beam splitter 141 arranged in this order between the isolator 122 and the collimating lens 114.
The package further houses the foregoing collimating lens 115 and a photo diode 142 as means to monitor the output signal light from the semiconductor laser chip 110.
Both front and rear facets of the semiconductor laser chip 110 are preferably coated thereover with an anti-reflection coating. The residual reflectivity of each facet is approxiamatley less than 0.01%.
The optical coupling through the parallel light beam is more advantageous than that in the conventional direct coupling between a laser chip and a tapered fiber, as described below.
The application of the optical coupling to the optical amplifier module has advantages described below.
The semiconductor laser chip 110 is mounted on a current/heat converter element, for example on a Peltier element, at need. The bias current and the wavelength of the amplifier, both giving a maximum gain of the same, range around 190 mA and 1.28 µm, respectively. The input fiber 101 and the output fiber 102 are preferably polarizationmaintaining fibers. In addition, the rear facet of the input fiber 101 and the front facet of the output fiber 102 are coated with an anti-reflection coating, respectively, together with the collimating lenses 111, 112, 113, 114, 115. The two isolators 121, 122 are to further reduce the self-lasing of the semiconductor laser chip 110. The insertion loss and the isolation loss of each isolator are of 0.8 dB and 30 dB, respectively. Both surfaces of those isolators are preferably coated with an anti-reflection coating, respectively. An interference filter 131 eliminates the spontaneous emission involved in the output light from the semciconductor laser chip 110. The inteference filter 131 has the central wavelength of 1.28 µm, and full width half mximum (FWHW) of 15nm. The efficiency of the coupling between the facets of the semiconductor laser chip and the input/outut fibers are of approximately - 4 dB for stimulated emission. A beam splitter 141 is included in monitor means for monitoring the output power of the semiconductor laser chip 110. The monitor means further includes a collimating (monitor) lens 116 and a photo diode (monitoring optical detector element) 142. The beam splitter 141 has a splitting ratio (R/T) of for exmaple 1/10. The resulting loss through the beam splitter 141 is of about 0.5 dB. The light splitted in part by the beam splitter 141 enters the photo diode 117, where it is converted to an electric signal. The bias current for the semiconductor laser chip 110 is contolled based upon the intensity of the above electric signal. Another set of such monitor means may be provided frontally of the isolator 121. Hereby, power levels on both input and ouput sides of the semiconductor laser chip 110 can be measured. By comparing between the outputs of these sets of the monitor means, the output gain of the semiconductor laser chip 110 can be measured.
To ease the adjustment of the optical coupling, it is effective to integrally fix the input fiber 101 and the collimating lens 111, and the output fiber 102 and the collimating lens 114, respectively, together with a set of the semiconductor laser chip 110 and the collimating lenses 112, 113.
Referring to Fig. 5, a mount for fixedly mounting the semiconductor laser chip and the collimating lenses is illustrated. The mount is provided on a base 501, on which a chip holder 502 is fixedly mounted. On both sides of the chip holder 502 sleeve holders 503(a) and lens holdes 504(a) are held. Inside the lens holders 504(a) collimating lenses 505(a) are held in a fitting relation. A semiconductor laser chip 506 is retained on the chip holder 502.
Referring further to Fig. 6, a mount for fixedly mounting thereon the input/output fibers and the collimating lens is illustrated. An optical fiber 601 is retained inside a ferrule 602, which ferrule is fixedly mounted in a sleeve 603 by press fitting. A collimating lens 604 is also retained in the sleeve 603 in a fitting relation. Thus, an optical coupling can be realized between the collimating lens 604 and the optical fiber 601. Such a mounting structure can be applied to the input fiber and the output fiber.
In use of the mount illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, an optical coupling between the semiconductor laser chip and the collimating lens or that between the optical fiber 601 and the collimating lens 604 is effected. Thereafter, housing of these mounts in the package may be realized by the adjustment only of the optical coupling beween those mounts.
Referring finally to Fig. 7, bit error rate (BER) characteristic curves are illustrated as a fucntion of the semiconductor laser input power, including those of a case without the optical amplifier module. As illustrated on the figure, the power penalty of the optical amplifier module increases considerably when the input power to the module is less than -21 dBm. Such characteristics imply that optical amplifier applications are more suitable for situations in which the optical power of the light tranmission through the optical fiber is about -20 dBm.
Although a certain prefered embodiment has been shown and described, it should be understood that many changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the scope of the appended claims.
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