基于绝缘硅的微环谐振可调谐滤波器

采用电子束光刻和感应耦合等离子刻蚀等工艺,研制了一种基于绝缘硅材料的的微环谐振可调谐滤波器.滤波器微环半径为5 μm左右,波导截面尺寸为(350～500 nm)×220 nm不等.测试结果表明,波导宽度为450 nm时器件性能最为理想,其自由频谱宽度为16.8 nm,1.55 μm波长附近的消光比为22.1 dB.通过对微环滤波器进行热光调制,在21.4 ℃～60 ℃温度范围内实现了4.8 nm波长范围的可调谐滤波特性,热光调谐效率达到0.12 nm/℃.研究了基于单环和双环的多通道上下载滤波器,实验结果表明多通道滤波器的信号传输存在串扰,主要是不同信道之间的串扰,尤其在信号上载时,会在相邻信道产生较大串扰.     

MEMS-based tunable terahertz wire-laser over 330 GHz

We demonstrate continuous tuning of a terahertz quantum cascade wire laser over a broad range of ～330?GHz (～8.6% of the 3.85?THz center frequency) with single-mode operation. Tuning is achieved with a narrow laser ridge (～λ(o)/8) and a moveable MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) side object (plunger) to manipulate the transverse optical mode. The frictionless MEMS plunger enables continuous and reversible tuning. We demonstrate ～30?GHz redshift tuning using a silicon plunger and ～300?GHz blueshift tuning using a metal plunger. The blueshift tuning range is limited by the bandwidth of the gain medium rather than the tuning mechanism.     

Tunable all-optical negative multitap microwave filters based on uniform fiber Bragg gratings

We present a novel and simple technique for obtaining transversal filters with negative coefficients by using uniform fiber Bragg gratings. We demonstrate a wide tuning range, good performance, low cost, and easy implementation of multitap filters in an all-optical passive configuration in which negative taps are obtained by use of the transmission of a broadband source through uniform Bragg gratings.     

Use of a birefringent filter for tuning a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator

Design considerations are presented for birefringent filters suitable for use as tuning elements in synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators. A particular design aspect that is important, since typical gains are rather high, is the adequate suppression of subsidiary transmission maxima, in order to maximize the tuning range. Results are presented on the performance of a picosecond synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate with an appropriately designed four-plate birefringent filter. PACS 42.65.Yj; 42.72.Ai     

超导滤波器专用设计软件

开发了一套适用于高温超导滤波器设计的专用软件。利用该软件可快速得出高达20阶的任意结构的任意类型滤波器的传输方程、原型电路,并提取出其耦合系数矩阵。该软件可分析寄生耦合、基片厚度,介电常数误差等对滤波器的性能影响,并能由蒙特卡罗(Monte Carlo)法预测超导滤波器的产品合格率。此外,该软件提供了一个基于神经网络模型的计算机辅助调谐工具包。因而可解决超导滤波器设计、调谐的几乎所有问题,大大降低了其研制的难度和产业化的门槛。     

Wide tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding

Wide electrical tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators is demonstrated using a top cladding layer of nematic liquid crystals. A tuning range of 31?nm is demonstrated for ring resonators guiding the TM mode, covering nearly the entire C-band of optical communications. Ring resonators guiding the TE mode can be tuned over 4.5?nm. The combination of a liquid crystal director calculation and a fully anisotropic mode solver confirms the interpretation of these experimental results. The realization of broad and low-power tuning in silicon-on-insulator opens up new opportunities in the field of tunable lasers, filters, and detectors.     

500 GHz mode-hop-free idler tuning range with a frequency-stabilized singly resonant optical parametric oscillator

A 1064 nm pumped continuous-wave, mid-IR (3-4 μm), signal-wave resonant optical parametric oscillator is frequency stabilized at the kilohertz jitter level to the transmission peak of an external high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. Owing to the high stability of the resonator length against acoustical perturbation, fine pump tuning of the idler wave around 3.3 μm results in an unprecedented mode-hop-free continuous scan over 500 GHz (17 cm?1).     

Microdisk resonator filters made of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides

Microdisk resonator filters, an alternative to microring resonator filters, are studied by means of vectorial three dimensional finite element method simulations. Their performance characteristics are highlighted for different microdisk radii, and compared with those of the respective, footprint-wise, microring filters. We show that microdisk filters are advantageous, as the resonator involved exhibits smaller radiation losses. Extinction ratios as high as 30 dB are possible by properly tuning the gap separating the waveguide from the microdisk in each case. Transmission dips due to higher-radial-order modes that drastically change the transmission picture appear only for very large microdisk radii.     

All-fiber polarization interference filters based on 45°-tilted fiber gratings

We report all-fiber polarization interference filters, known as Lyot and Lyot-?hman filters, based on alternative concatenation of UV-inscribed fiber gratings with structure tilted at 45° and polarization maintaining (PM) fiber cavities. Such filters generate comb-like transmission of linear polarization output. The free spectral range (FSR) of a single-stage (Lyot) filter is PM fiber cavity length dependent, as a 20 cm long cavity showed a 26.6 nm FSR while the 40 cm one exhibited a 14.8 nm FSR. Furthermore, we have theoretically and experimentally demonstrated all-fiber 2-stage and 3-stage Lyot-?hman filters, giving more freedom in tailoring the transmission characteristics.     

Multiple-element photonic microwave true-time-delay beamforming incorporating a tunable chirped fiber Bragg grating with symmetrical bending technique

We experimentally demonstrate a novel scheme for a multiple-element photonic microwave true-time-delay device with high tunability based on a tunable chirped fiber Bragg grating without center wavelength shift. We achieve the different true time delay by controlling the grating period of a chirped fiber Bragg grating based on the symmetrical bending technique as a multiwavelength signal source is applied to carry microwave signals. The proposed method does not require the complex structure of systems, wavelength tuning, and synchronization of optical devices such as tunable bandpass filters and optical input signals. We achieve the tunabilty of the time delay for a microwave signal carried over an optical signal in a range from 1 to 230 ps.     

包含源与负载耦合的滤波器诊断与调试方法

柯西法目前仅适用于诊断不包含源与负载耦合的带通滤波器。为解决这一问题,提出了一种能够诊断包含源与负载耦合的带通、带阻谐振腔滤波器的方法。利用遗传算法优化获得源与负载耦合系数并移除滤波器输入/输出端口处传输线引起的S参数的相位加载效应;使用柯西法一步确定仿真S参数对应的特征多项式;从获得的源与负载耦合系数和特征多项式中,利用已有的技术诊断出N+2阶耦合矩阵。此方法可用于指导滤波器的调试,通过对比理想的耦合矩阵与提取的耦合矩阵之间的差异,可确定滤波器问题出自何处以及调试的方向,从而加快滤波器的设计与实现。     

Thermally tunable narrow-bandpass filter based on a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating

We propose a new method for the development of a tunable optical bandpass filter (TOBF) based on a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG). A NiCr wire heater is used to heat the LCFBG at a small point to introduce a narrow passband within the stop band of the LCFBG. The central wavelength of the passband is tuned by scanning the wire heater along the LCFBG. As an example demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method, we demonstrate a TOBF with a very small 3-dB bandwidth of approximately 7 pm, a tuning range of 16.4 nm, and a rejection ratio of more than 25 dB. Compared with previously reported tunable-fiber-based bandpass filters, this method provides the advantages of a large tuning range, continuous tunability, a switchable passband, a simple tuning mechanism, low cost, and narrow bandwidth.     

Tunable filter based on a pair of special long-period fiber gratings and its application in fiber ring laser

A filter based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) formed by cascading a pair of longperiod fiber gratings (LPFGs) written by CO₂ laser in a twisted single-mode fiber is proposed. The transmission spectrum of the filter is tuned by modifying the bending curvature of the MZI, and thus wavelength tuning is achieved. And a tunable erbium-doped fiber (EDF) ring laser employing the filter as a wavelengthselection component is experimentally demonstrated. The laser can be tuned continuously from 1573.05 to 1595.75 nm with a side-mode suppression ration of ∼50 dB over the total tuning range.     

Tunable optical switch for DWDM systems

Characteristics of optical gratings on Si/SiGe heterostructures for switchable optical band-pass filters will be discussed. The grooves of the gratings have an angle of 45° to the propagation of light. The bandwidth can be as low as 0.2 nm. By reducing the refractive index of the SiGe layer due to injected free carriers it is possible to move the transmission band to lower wavelengths. In dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems transmission channels can be selected by tuning the current. Therefore, the structure can be used as an electronic adjustable switch.     

可调谐液晶滤波器的调谐性能研究

在电调谐液晶法布里一珀罗腔滤波器的连续调谐过程中,存在“透射峰跳跃”现象,影响器件的单调调谐性。为了改善器件的单调调谐性能,对此现象进行了分析,表明这是由于法布里—珀罗腔干涉级次在调谐过程中发生改变引起的;进而给出了法布里一珀罗腔透射波长λ,干涉级次m与腔内介质折射率n的关系,以及器件实际的有效调谐范围。当腔长为10μm、折射率差为0．05时,就可以使器件的单调调谐范围达到整个C波段。数值模拟与实验结果相吻合。并针对改善器件的单调调谐性能,提出了几种可行的方案。     

Potential for micromachined actuation of ultra-wide continuously tunable optoelectronic devices

Tailored scaling represents a principle of success that, both in nature and in technology, allows the effectiveness of physical effects to be enhanced. Mutation and selection in nature are imitated in technology, e.g. by model calculation and design. Proper scaling of dimensions in natural photonic crystals and our fabricated artificial 1D photonic crystals (DBRs, distributed Bragg reflectors) enable efficient diffractive interaction in a specific spectral range. For our optical microsystems we illustrate that tailored miniaturization may also increase the mechanical stability and the effectiveness of spectral tuning by thermal and electrostatic actuation, since the relative significance of the fundamental physical forces involved considerably changes with scaling. These basic physical principles are rigorously applied in micromachined 1.55-μm vertical-resonator-based devices. We modeled, implemented and characterized 1.55-μm micromachined optical filters and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices capable of wide, monotonic and kink-free tuning by a single control parameter. Tuning is achieved by mechanical actuation of one or several air-gaps that are part of the vertical resonator including two ultra-highly reflective DBR mirrors of strong refractive index contrast: (i) Δn=2.17 for InP/air-gap DBRs (3.5 periods) using GaInAs sacrificial layers and (ii) Δn=0.5 for Si₃N₄/SiO₂ DBRs (12 periods) with a polymer sacrificial layer to implement the air-cavity. In semiconductor multiple air-gap filters, a continuous tuning of >8% of the absolute wavelength is obtained. Varying the reverse voltage (U=0–5 V) between the membranes (electrostatic actuation), a tuning range of >110 nm was obtained for a large number of devices. The correlation of the wavelength and the applied voltage is accurately reproducible without any hysteresis. In two filters, tuning of 127 and 130 nm was observed for about ΔU=7 V. The extremely wide tuning range and the very small voltage required are record values to the best of our knowledge. For thermally actuated dielectric filters based on polymer sacrificial layers, Δλ/ΔU=-7 nm/V is found. Received: 10 May 2002 / Published online: 8 August 2002     

Analysis of pyrheliometric measurements at Modena (Italy) from 1990 to 1991

Summary During the last few years continuous measurements of direct solar irradiance have been taken in Modena (37 m. a.s.l.) using pyrheliometers with three filters (quartz filters, OG51, RG61). The apparent atmospheric transmission calculated using the so-called rationing technique can be utilised as a useful parameter to monitor the atmosphere. Preliminary results suggest that the atmospheric transmission seems be able to highlight meteorological events such as the transport of dust.     

The conductance of the asymmetric Aharonov-Bohm ring with a delta-potential barrier in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction

This Letter deals with the effect of a delta-potential barrier on the one-dimensional and asymmetric Aharonov-Bohm ring with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The analytic expressions of the transmission amplitude and conductance are derived by applying the transfer matrix method in the one-electron scattering formalism. Resorting to an adequate tuning of the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux and Rashba coupling strength, a control of the conductance can be done by varying the strength and the location of the barrier. This may be useful in the design of further mesoscopic spin filters by using suitable asymmetry configurations.     

Comb-like optical transmission spectrum resulting from a four-cornered two-waveguide-connected network

In this Letter a four-cornered two-waveguide-connected network (FCTWCN) is proposed to generate comb-like optical transmission spectrum, where nearest-neighbor nodes are connected by two segments of one-dimensional waveguides. We investigate the band structure and transmission spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating through FCTWCNs and find that the transmission through a FCTWCN exhibits periodic comb-like characteristic and the range, number and width of continuous equidistant frequency bands can be controlled by adjusting the lengths of the two types of segments. The comb-like frequency bands may be useful for the designing of optical switches, optical narrowband filters, high capacity telecommunications, and multichannel filters, etc.     

A new mixed birefringent filter

Birefringent filters can be used for tuning lasers, with some advantages over prisms, gratings and tilted etalons. In this paper the transmission characteristics of a new mixed birefringent filter are investigated. The term ‘mixed’ is used because both circular birefringence and linear birefringence have been utilized in the fabrication of this filter.It has a loss-less core, formed by a cascaded system of alternate rotators and retarders, and a linear polarizer at each end. The performance of this filter is better because of the more effective suppression of side peaks. Unlike previous birefringent filters, this one may be used inside a linear resonator.