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Optical modulator and optical transmitter

US9316887B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 2013
Grant dateApr 19, 2016
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Expiry dateMar 28, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F2201/126
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An optical modulator includes a package that accommodates therein a first substrate and a second substrate different from the first substrate, and outside the package, a flexible circuit board. The first substrate has plural optical modulating units disposed thereon in parallel and each including a Mach-Zehnder optical waveguide. Plural first signal line paths corresponding to the optical modulating units are disposed on the second substrate. Plural second signal line paths corresponding to the optical modulating units are disposed on the flexible circuit board. Electrical lengths of the second signal line paths are different from one another. Electrical lengths of signal paths that span from input ends of the second signal line paths corresponding to the optical modulating units to base points on signal electrodes, via the first signal line paths, are equal to one another.

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