• An optical modulator is a device which is used to modulate a beam of light. The beam may be carried over free space, or propagated through an optical waveguide...
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    electro-optic modulator (EOM) is an optical device in which a signal-controlled element exhibiting an electro-optic effect is used to modulate a beam of light...
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  • systems is the externally modulated laser (EML) which combines a distributed feed back laser diode with an electro-absorption modulator on a single InP based...
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    or by using the superpixel method. The image on an optically addressed spatial light modulator, also known as a light valve, is created and changed...
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  • An optical modulator is an optical device which is used to modulate a beam of light with a perturbation device. It is a kind of transmitter to convert...
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  • the optical element in the photoelastic modulator. PEM was first invented by J. Badoz in the 1960s and originally called a "birefringence modulator." It...
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    continuous wave, and the light modulated by an external device, an optical modulator, such as an electro-absorption modulator or Mach–Zehnder interferometer...
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  • attractive for such application. Optical modulator Electro-optic modulator S. G. Carter, Quantum Coherence in an Optical Modulator, Science 310 (2005) 651 I...
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    TOSLINK (redirect from Digital optical)
    the optical signal appears as a red light, with a peak wavelength of 650 nm. Depending on the type of modulated signal being carried, other optical wavelengths...
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    wavelength with that of the ring modulator while maintaining high-speed ultralow-power modulation of a Si microring modulator. Optical ring, cylindrical, and spherical...
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    method is to take the light from a light source and modulate it in an external optical modulator. An additional topic covered by modulation research is...
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  • temperature controller, this modulator has a broad bandwidth (from 1.3 to 1.6 μm) and small footprint (~25 μm2). A Mach-Zehnder modulator based on a hybrid graphene-silicon...
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    A modulating retro-reflector (MRR) system combines an optical retro-reflector and an optical modulator to allow optical communications and sometimes other...
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    An optical neural network is a physical implementation of an artificial neural network with optical components. Early optical neural networks used a photorefractive...
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    align an optical fiber with another optical fiber or with an optoelectronic device such as a light-emitting diode, a laser diode, or a modulator. This can...
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    electro-optic modulator or a directly modulated laser. An electro-optic modulator can vary the intensity and/or the phase of the optical carrier. In silicon...
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  • Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT), also known as Acousto-Optic Tomography (AOT), is a hybrid imaging modality that combines light and sound;...
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    maximum modulation frequency (or range of modulation frequencies) of an optical modulator the range of frequencies in which some measurement apparatus (e.g...
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    An acousto-optic modulator (AOM), also called a Bragg cell or an acousto-optic deflector (AOD), uses the acousto-optic effect to diffract and shift the...
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    technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, spectroscopy (and its applications...
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    signal can be modulated either by a chopper wheel, acousto-optical modulator, photoelastic modulator at a large enough frequency so that 1/f noise drops off...
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  • transform optically by utilising the natural Fourier transforming property of lenses. The input is encoded using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator and...
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    creating arrays of optical vortices, optical tweezers, and holographic line traps, for example. When implemented with a spatial light modulator, such holographic...
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  • phase control over two dimensions are a type of spatial light modulator (SLM). An optical phased-array transmitter includes a light source (laser), power...
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  • field. The quantum-confined Stark effect is used in QCSE optical modulators, which allow optical communications signals to be switched on and off rapidly...
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  • fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a broadband telecommunications network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been commonly employed globally by cable...
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    the warm period." In 2022, Khan et al. concluded that "low-cost optically modulated" PDRCs are "under development" and "are expected to be commercially...
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    John L. Hall (category American optical physicists)
    JILA U.S. Patent 6201638 Comb generating optical cavity that includes an optical amplifier and an optical modulator (John Lewis Hall) Hall's website Group...
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    improved. Most OEOs utilize the transmission characteristics of an optical modulator together with a fiber-optic delay line to convert light energy into...
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    (modulated) individually from one another using their own acousto-optical modulator (AOM) crystal, each of which is driven by its own AOM driver. The...
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