阅读说明：本技术 奇点光束收发系统 (Singular point light beam transmitting and receiving system ) 是由 宋俊峰 支自毫 李盈祉 陈柏松 张蓝萱 李雪妍 郜峰利 于 2021-06-23 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种奇点光束收发系统,包括：发射模块和接收模块,发射模块包括：分束器、发射端相位控制单元、环状发射器、第一光波导阵列、第二光波导阵列；接收模块包括：环状接收器、接收端光相位控制单元、合束器、光电探测器、第三光波导阵列。本发明通过将奇点光束的发射模块和接收模块集成到同一系统上简化了整个收发过程,不仅解决了现有技术中元件尺寸过大的问题,还能够实现发射模块产生阶次可调谐的奇点光束。(The invention relates to a singularity light beam receiving and transmitting system, which comprises: the transmitting module comprises: the device comprises a beam splitter, a transmitting end phase control unit, an annular transmitter, a first optical waveguide array and a second optical waveguide array; the receiving module includes: the optical phase control unit comprises an annular receiver, a receiving end optical phase control unit, a beam combiner, a photoelectric detector and a third optical waveguide array. The invention simplifies the whole transceiving process by integrating the emitting module and the receiving module of the odd-point light beam on the same system, not only solves the problem of overlarge element size in the prior art, but also can realize that the emitting module generates order tunable odd-point light beams.)

1. A singular point beam transceiver system comprising: a transmitting module and a receiving module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the transmitting module includes: the optical fiber coupler comprises a beam splitter, a transmitting end phase control unit for modulating phase, an annular transmitter, a first optical waveguide array and a second optical waveguide array;

the receiving module includes: the system comprises a ring receiver, a receiving end phase control unit for demodulating a phase and a third optical waveguide array;

the laser beam is split by the beam splitter and enters the first optical waveguide array, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end phase control unit, the light beam is transmitted by the second optical waveguide array after being phase-modulated and enters the annular transmitter to generate a singular point light beam, and the singular point light beam is transmitted to the receiving module;

and after receiving the odd-point light beam, the annular receiver transmits the odd-point light beam to the receiving end phase control unit, performs phase demodulation and outputs the odd-point light beam through the third optical waveguide array.

2. The singular point beam transceiving system of claim 1,

when the transmitting end phase control unit is a transmitting end phase controller, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end phase controller;

when the transmitting end phase control unit is a transmitting end delayer, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end delayer;

when the transmitting end phase control unit is the transmitting end phase controller and the transmitting end delayer, the first optical waveguide array is sequentially connected with the transmitting end phase controller and the transmitting end delayer;

when the receiving end phase control unit is a receiving end delayer, the annular receiver is connected with the receiving end delayer;

when the receiving end phase control unit is a receiving end light phase controller, the annular receiver is connected with the receiving end light phase controller;

when the receiving end phase control unit is the receiving end time delay unit and the receiving end light phase controller, the annular receiver is sequentially connected with the receiving end time delay unit and the receiving end light phase controller.

3. The singular point optical beam transceiver system according to claim 2, wherein said transmitting end phase controller, said receiving end optical phase controller are thermo-optical effect phase modulators or carrier dispersion effect phase modulators.

4. The singular point beam transceiving system of claim 1,

the receiving module further comprises a beam combiner and a photoelectric detector which are sequentially connected with the third optical waveguide array, and light beams enter the photoelectric detector after being combined by the beam combiner to be subjected to photoelectric detection.

5. The singular point beam transceiver system of claim 2, wherein,

the annular transmitter comprises N transmitters distributed annularly, and the annular receiver comprises N receivers distributed annularly; the number of the transmitters is matched with that of the receivers, and the transmitters and the receivers form a ring shape and are coaxial.

6. The singular point beam transceiver system according to claim 5, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are a grating or an optical phased array, and received beams interfere with each other via said grating or said optical phased array to form singular point beams, and a transmitting end face of the transmitter is disposed in parallel with a receiving end face of said receiver.

7. The singular point beam transceiver system of claim 5, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are horizontally rotated with the end faces held in opposition for producing an angular polarization component.

8. The singular point beam transceiver system of claim 6, wherein said transmitter and said corresponding receiver form a beam path having a total phase and a total delay that is the same.

9. The singular point beam transceiving system of claim 4,

the beam splitter and the beam combiner are cascaded Y-branch optical power splitters, MMI beam splitters or directional coupling beam splitters.

10. The singular point beam transceiver system according to any of claims 1 to 9, wherein said singular point beam transceiver system is integrated on a chip; the method is divided into layered integration of a transmitting layer, a receiving layer and a buried oxide layer in the integration process and is used for preventing the first optical waveguide array, the second optical waveguide array, the third optical waveguide array and the metal layer from being in conflict with each other in wiring.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor chips, in particular to a singularity light beam receiving and transmitting system.

Background

Singularity optics is considered as a new branch of modern optics, and the object of study is the optical field with singularity. The optical field can maintain the existence of optical singularity in the transmission process, and the existence of the optical singularity can cause the zero light intensity of the singularity. An optical singularity is a point in the light field where the physical parameters cannot be defined, and therefore the intensity or amplitude of this point must be equal to zero in order to be physically present. Singularity optics include a Phase vortex beam carrying a Phase Singularity (Phase singular), commonly referred to as a vortex beam; polarized vortex beams carrying Polarization singularities (Polarization singular) are commonly referred to as vector beams; and a vector vortex beam carrying both simultaneously. The vortex light beam and the vector vortex light beam carry photon Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), which is also called as OAM light beam, and due to the unique characteristics of the vortex light beam and the vector vortex light beam, the OAM light beam has wide application in the fields of optical micro-control, optical capture, super-resolution imaging, large-capacity optical communication and the like; vector Beams (VB) also have important applications in laser processing, single molecule spectroscopy, electron and particle acceleration, etc.

Conventional methods for generating a singular point beam include a fork grating method, a Spiral Phase Plate (SPP) method, a combined lens method, a q-wave Plate method, a liquid crystal Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) method, and the like. The defects of large size, difficult integration, complex test system and the like exist, and the application of the singularity light beam in the small-size field is severely limited. Furthermore, existing systems for transmitting and receiving the singularity beam are separate, and therefore a complicated test system needs to be built to determine the characteristics of the singularity beam after the singularity beam is transmitted, which further increases the difficulty of exploring the characteristics of the singularity beam. How to integrate the transmitting system with the receiving system is an important direction to study the singularity of the light beam.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention overcomes the defects of the prior art and provides a singularity light beam receiving and transmitting system.

Singularity beam transceiver system comprising: a transmitting module and a receiving module; the transmitting module includes: the optical fiber coupler comprises a beam splitter, a transmitting end phase control unit for modulating phase, an annular transmitter, a first optical waveguide array and a second optical waveguide array; the receiving module includes: the optical receiver comprises a ring receiver, a receiving end phase control unit for demodulating the phase and a third optical waveguide array.

The laser beam is split by the beam splitter and enters the first optical waveguide array, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end phase control unit, the light beam is transmitted by the second optical waveguide array after being phase modulated and enters the annular transmitter to generate a singular point light beam, and the singular point light beam is transmitted to the receiving module.

And after receiving the odd-point light beam, the annular receiver transmits the odd-point light beam to the receiving end phase control unit, performs phase demodulation and outputs the odd-point light beam through the third optical waveguide array.

Further, when the transmitting end phase control unit is a transmitting end phase controller, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end phase controller.

When the transmitting end phase control unit is a transmitting end time delay device, the first optical waveguide array is connected with the transmitting end time delay device.

When the transmitting end phase control unit is the transmitting end phase controller and the transmitting end delayer, the first optical waveguide array is sequentially connected with the transmitting end phase controller and the transmitting end delayer.

When the receiving end phase control unit is a receiving end delayer, the annular receiver is connected with the receiving end delayer.

When the receiving end phase control unit is a receiving end light phase controller, the annular receiver is connected with the receiving end light phase controller.

When the receiving end phase control unit is the receiving end time delay unit and the receiving end light phase controller, the annular receiver is sequentially connected with the receiving end time delay unit and the receiving end light phase controller.

Further, the transmitting end phase controller and the receiving end optical phase controller are phase modulators of thermo-optic effect or phase modulators of carrier dispersion effect.

Furthermore, the receiving module further comprises a beam combiner and a photoelectric detector which are sequentially connected with the third optical waveguide array, and light beams enter the photoelectric detector after being combined by the beam combiner to be subjected to photoelectric detection.

Further, the ring-shaped transmitter comprises N transmitters distributed in a ring shape, and the ring-shaped receiver comprises N receivers distributed in a ring shape; the number of the transmitters is matched with that of the receivers, and the transmitters and the receivers form a ring shape and are coaxial.

Furthermore, the transmitter and the receiver are gratings or optical phased arrays, received light beams are interfered with each other through the gratings or the optical phased arrays to form singular point light beams, and the end face of the transmitting end of the transmitter is parallel to the end face of the receiving end of the receiver.

Further, the transmitter and the receiver are horizontally rotated with the end faces kept opposite, for generating an angular polarization component.

Further, the total phase and the total delay of the optical path formed by the transmitter and the corresponding receiver are the same.

Further, the beam splitter and the beam combiner are cascaded Y-branch optical power splitters, MMI beam splitters, or directional coupling beam splitters.

Further, the singular point light beam transmitting and receiving system is integrated on a chip; the method is divided into layered integration of a transmitting layer, a receiving layer and a buried oxide layer in the integration process and is used for preventing the first optical waveguide array, the second optical waveguide array, the third optical waveguide array and the metal layer from being in conflict with each other in wiring.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. the emitting module generates odd point beams with tunable orders;

2. the size of the receiving module is small, and the structure of the receiving module is simple;

3. the transmission module and the receiving module of the singular point light beam are integrated on the same system, so that the whole transceiving process is simplified;

4. the singularity light beam receiving and transmitting system is simple in structure and easy to realize.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a singular point optical beam transceiver system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a ring transmitter and a ring receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3a is a schematic illustration of the absence of phase modulation and delay in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3b is a schematic diagram of phase modulation only in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention in which the transmitter and receiver are rasters having the same beam angle;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention in which the transmitter and receiver produce a vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum for relative rotation of the grating;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of layering of a transmitting layer and a receiving layer in an embodiment of the invention.

Wherein the reference numerals are as follows:

the optical fiber coupler comprises a beam splitter 100, a transmitting end controller 200, a transmitting end delayer 300, a ring-shaped transmitter 400, a transmitter 401, a ring-shaped receiver 500, a receiver 501, a receiving end delayer 600, a receiving end controller 700, a beam combiner 800, a photoelectric detector 900, a first optical waveguide array 101 and a second optical waveguide array 201.

Detailed Description

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and examples. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a singular point optical beam transceiver system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a singular point light beam transceiving system, as shown in fig. 1, including: the device comprises a transmitting module and a receiving module.

The transmitting module includes: the optical fiber coupler comprises a beam splitter 100, a transmitting end time delay unit 200, a transmitting end time delay unit 300, an annular transmitter 400, a first optical waveguide array 101 and a second optical waveguide array 201; the receiving module includes: the optical receiver comprises a ring receiver 500, a receiving end delayer 600, a receiving end controller 700, a beam combiner 800, a photoelectric detector 900 and a third optical waveguide array.

As shown in fig. 3a and fig. 3b, a beam emitted from the laser is split into N paths by the beam splitter 100, and then enters the first optical waveguide array 101 formed by N paths of optical waveguides, where N is a positive integer greater than 1, that is, the beam is split into N paths of beam signals. The first optical waveguide array 101 is connected with the transmitting end phase control unit, and the light beams are transmitted into the annular transmitter 400 through the second optical waveguide array 201 after being phase-modulated to generate singular point light beams and are transmitted to the receiving module; after receiving the odd-point light beam, the ring receiver 500 transmits the odd-point light beam to the receiving end phase control unit, performs phase demodulation, and outputs the odd-point light beam through the third optical waveguide array.

As shown in fig. 3a and fig. 3b, the receiving end phase control unit may be a transmitting end phase controller 200 and a transmitting end time delay 300, which are selectively connected and may be used separately or in combination. It is not particularly limited and may be varied depending upon the particular application. The N optical beam signals generate corresponding phases or phase differences through the transmitting end phase controller 200 or the transmitting end time delay 300. By the precise control and design of the transmit side phase controller 200 or the transmit side delay 300, singularity beams having different orders and being tunable can be generated at the transmit module.

When the first optical waveguide array 101 is connected to only the transmitting end phase controller 200, the wavelength of the input light beam can be fixed, and the phase of each path can be changed by tuning the voltage of the transmitting end phase controller 200 of each path, so as to transmit the odd-point light beams of different orders; when the first optical waveguide array 101 is only connected with the transmitting end delayer 300, the odd-point light beams with different orders are transmitted by changing the light beams with different input wavelengths; when the first optical waveguide array 101 is sequentially connected with the transmitting end phase controller 200 and the transmitting end time delay unit 300, the odd-point light beams with different orders can be transmitted by double tuning of voltage and wavelength.

In a specific example of the present invention, the transmitting end phase controller 200 and the receiving end phase controller 700 may be phase modulators implemented by one or both of thermo-optic effect and carrier dispersion effect, which are not specifically limited herein and may depend on the specific application environment.

The ring transmitter 400 includes N transmitters 401, receives N beam signals output from the transmitting end phase controller 200 or the transmitting end delay 300, and transmits the N beam signals to the ring receiver 500. The ring receiver 500 includes N receivers 501 for receiving the N optical beam signals transmitted by the ring transmitter 400 and transmitting the N optical beam signals into the third optical waveguide array; the light beams emitted from the third optical waveguide array enter the receiving end delayer 600 or the receiving end controller 700 and enter the beam combiner 800, and are combined into one light beam. The beam combiner 800 transmits the light beam to the photodetector 900, and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal, thereby performing photodetection. The optional setting of the receiving-end delayer 600 and the receiving-end controller 700 needs to match the setting of the transmitting-end controller 200 and the transmitting-end delayer 300. When the transmitting end controller 200 is disposed in the transmitting module, the receiving end controller 700 is disposed in the receiving module; when the transmitting module is provided with the transmitting end delayer 300, the receiving end delayer 600 is required to be arranged in the receiving module; when the transmitting end controller 200 and the transmitting end delayer 300 are disposed in the transmitting module, the receiving end controller 700 and the receiving end delayer 600 are disposed in the receiving module. The range and accuracy of the order of the singularity beam can be selected according to the requirement, and is not particularly limited herein and can be determined according to the specific application environment. According to the detection device, the receiving module avoids the construction of a complex detection system, and the device is small in size and simple in structure.

The singularity light beam comprises a spiral phase structure or a spiral polarization structure, the light intensity of the singularity light beam is in a hollow circular ring shape, and the emitter in the emitting module is arranged in a ring shape, so that the singularity light beam is more favorably formed. The receiver in the receiving module is arranged in a ring shape, and one of the receiver comprises: is to match the phase in each optical path in the ring transmitter 400, and the second: the light beam is adapted to the annular light beam emitted by the annular emitter 400, so that the receiving area of the annular receiver 500 is maximized, which is beneficial to obtaining better receiving effect.

The invention integrates the transmitting module and the receiving module on one system, namely, the whole singular point light beam receiving and transmitting system except the laser is integrated together by utilizing the silicon-based photoelectronic technology, thereby realizing the miniaturization of the singular point light beam receiving and transmitting system.

In a specific example of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the ring-shaped transmitters 400 and the ring-shaped receivers 500 are coaxial, the number of the transmitters 401 is matched with the number of the ring-shaped receivers 501, and the transmitters are circumferentially distributed along the ring-shaped transmitters 400 and the ring-shaped receivers 500, and the outgoing ends of the transmitters 401 are in one-to-one correspondence with the receiving ends of the receivers 501, so that all the transmitted signals can be received by the corresponding receivers 501.

In a specific example of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the transmitter 401 and the receiver 501 are any one of a grating or an optical phased array, and a transmitting end surface of the transmitter 401 is arranged in parallel with a receiving end surface of the receiver 501, so as to improve the receiving efficiency of the receiver 501.

In one specific example of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the transmitter 401 and the receiver 501 may be horizontally rotated with the end faces kept opposite for generating angular polarization components. When the rotation angle is greater than 90 or less than-90, the transmitting end is inside the ring and the receiving end is outside the ring. In the technical field of singular point light beams, vortex light beams carrying orbital angular momentum are widely applied and are applied in the fields of surface plasma optics, micro-nano-sized optical processing, quantum mechanical effect of micro particles, optical micro control and the like.

In a specific example of the present invention, the total phase and the total retardation of the optical path formed by the transmitter 401 and the corresponding receiver 501 are the same. The total phase and the total delay amount are the same, so that the phases of the light beam generated by the emitting module and the light beam received by the receiving module are the same, and cancellation caused by interference is avoided, and the setting can maximize the intensity of the light beam received by the photodetector 900.

In a specific example of the present invention, the beam splitter 100 and the beam combiner 800 are any one of a cascade Y-branch optical power splitter, an MMI beam splitter, and a directional coupling beam splitter, which is not specifically limited herein and may be determined according to a specific application environment thereof.

In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, an SOI wafer having a thickness of 220nm and a Box layer having a thickness of 2 μm is used for integration. The grating of the integrally prepared transmitting end is a grating with the size of 6 mu m and 10 periods. The singular point light beam receiving and transmitting system is manufactured by an integrated photoelectronic technology, is divided into a transmitting layer, a receiving layer and a buried oxide layer in the integration process for layered integration, and is used for preventing wiring conflicts of the first optical waveguide array, the second optical waveguide array, the third optical waveguide array and the metal layer. The preparation method of the chip can be compatible with the CMOS technology of the integrated chip, can be produced in large scale and can also realize monolithic integration with other control circuits.

The invention simplifies the whole receiving and transmitting process by integrating the transmitting module and the receiving module of the singular point light beam on the same chip, not only solves the problem of overlarge element size in the prior art, but also can realize tunable order of the singular point light beam generated in the transmitting module.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it should be understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be taken as limiting the invention. Variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations of the above-described embodiments may be made by those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention.

The above embodiments of the present invention should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Any other corresponding changes and modifications made according to the technical idea of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.