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.     

基于三环辅助Mach-Zehnder干涉仪的带宽可调滤波器设计（英文）

设计了一种基于绝缘体上硅的具有大带宽调谐能力的紧凑型可重构光滤波器。该装置由三个微环辅助马赫-曾德尔干涉仪构成,利用硅的热光效应可以控制微环谐振器的相位,进而同时调节滤波器的带宽和中心波长。用时域有限差分法对器件的性能进行了仿真,仿真结果表明,带宽的调谐范围为1.4～10.6 nm,占自由光谱范围的11.5%～85%;阻带消光比大于20 dB,通带损耗为0.4～0.7 dB,器件尺寸为40μm×60μm。     

可调谐光子晶体微环腔型光分叉复用器的设计*

提出了一种基于二维光子晶体微环腔的新型光分叉复用器,并可以通过改变环区的硅介质柱的折射率实现波长调谐.运用经典的微环自由光谱范围FSR和微环半径R的关系,证实新型的光子晶体微环腔也满足该关系.利用二维时域有限差分法系统分析了下路信号波长及相应效率随折射率的变化关系.结果表明,只需改变环区折射率0.005,下路波长就可以漂移1 nm,而有效微环半径还不足1.4 μm.     

一种可调谐的单微环三耦合点的SOI微环滤波器

依据耦合模和传输矩阵理论,设计了一个新型单微环三耦合点的可调谐微环滤波器模型,并模拟仿真了输出端口的光谱特性。模型结构中,采用热光性质稳定的绝缘硅材料,通过改变反馈波导的长度和温度实现对输出光谱的分析与调制。仿真结果表明,当耦合系数k=0.018时,模型结构的自由光谱范围可近似认为达到43.8nm,品质因子可达1.25×105,作为滤波器保持了很窄的带宽,很高的品质因子和较大的自由光谱范围,得出通过改变反馈波导的温度或长度可实现特定谐振波长处滤波效果显著改善的结论,最后给出了相应的光谱曲线。     

SOI多环级联光学谐振腔滤波器

利用MEMS工艺制备了基于SOI的小尺寸、高集成光波导多环级联谐振腔滤波器,理论分析了多环级联微环腔的光场传输特性与光谱响应特性,实验验证并得到了不同级联环数与谐振谱线滚降垂直度的关系。研究表明:当波导宽度为450 nm、半径为5μm时,单环、双环和十环滤波器响应谱线的-3 dB带宽分别为0.313,0.279,0.239 nm,相应结果与理论吻合,即随着级联环数的增多,谐振谱线顶端趋于平坦,滚降垂直度增高。设计制备了环形与跑道形两种级联谐振腔滤波器,研究了相应的透射谱特性。     

基于微环谐振腔的可调谐滤波器的研究

采用深紫外光刻及等离子体刻蚀等工艺制备基于绝缘体上硅材料的环形滤波器,且微环半径仅为5μm。制备基于单微环的4通道光分插复用器,器件尺寸仅为3000μm×500μm。测试结果表明,该器件可以很好地实现上下载功能。其自由频谱宽度约为19.6 nm,最大消光比为19.76 d B。同时优化设计制备基于跑道型双微环可调谐光分插复用器。对这两种结构的光分插复用器的相邻信道间串扰进行测试,基于单微环滤波器和跑道型双微环滤波器的信道间最大串扰分别为-11.94 d B和-20.04 d B。所设计的基于双微环光分插复用器上下载通道与主信道间没有交叉波导结构,因此相邻通道串扰明显低于单环型的光分插复用器。同时设计并制备基于双微环PIN结型电光调制器。当偏置电压增加到1.6 V时,谐振峰发生0.78 nm的蓝移,并对测试结果进行分析。     

可调谐光子晶体微环腔型光分叉复用器的设计

提出了一种基于二维光子晶体微环腔的新型光分叉复用器,并可以通过改变环区的硅介质柱的折射率实现波长调谐.运用经典的微环自由光谱范围FSR和微环半径R的关系,证实新型的光子晶体微环腔也满足该关系.利用二维时域有限差分法系统分析了下路信号波长及相应效率随折射率的变化关系.结果表明,只需改变环区折射率0.005,下路波长就可以漂移1 nm,而有效微环半径还不足1.4 μm.     

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5μm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,1.55μm波长附近的消光比为22.1 dB.通过对微...     

基于Sagnac环可调谐光梳状滤波器特性研究

提出了一种基于Sagnac环干涉结构的光梳状滤波器。该结构利用保偏光纤双折射效应产生梳状滤波响应,通过控制Sagnac环内相位调制器的驱动信号实现光学滤波器陷波深度与滤波波长的独立调谐。利用Jones矩阵对所提出的Sagnac环光滤波器的滤波响应函数进行研究,通过分析得到光滤波器的陷波深度和滤波波长分别与射频信号和直流偏压之间的关系。在此基础上构建实验链路,验证了系统的理论分析,实现了光滤波器陷波深度在0dB~30dB范围内的灵活控制;通过设置直流偏压在0~12V范围内变化,实现了光滤波器滤波波长在一个自由光谱范围(0.5nm)内的连续可调,波长调谐效率为0.043nm/V。     

串联双微环湿度传感器光谱特性研究

提出了一种基于串联双微环谐振器的新型聚酰亚胺(Polyimide,PI)湿度传感器,采用传输矩阵法和耦合模的理论计算微环谐振器的传递函数,并对比了传统单微环与串联不同半径的双微环的输出光谱特性。外界湿度变化使得聚酰亚胺SOI波导吸收水汽后折射率发生变化,从而引起微环输出光谱发生漂移,通过探测光谱漂移量来测湿度值,得到了串联双微环传感器的灵敏度和测量范围,并且分析了感湿部位不同时谐振器输出光谱特性。理论结果表明：串联不同半径的微环谐振器的自由光谱范围（FSR）要比单微环有所提高,而且串联双微环谐振器整体感湿比单个微环单独感湿的传感性能更优良,可作为最佳的湿敏元件。与传统的单微环传感器相比,串联不同半径的微环结构可提高系统的测量范围和灵敏度,半径为30和50 μm的串联微环谐振器的FSR可达到0.15 μm,传感器测量湿度范围为10%RH～80%RH,灵敏度可达到0.001 7 μm·(%RH)-1。因此串联不同半径的双微环谐振器为制备成本低、结构简单、高灵敏度、可集成的微型湿度传感器件提供一定理论基础。     

Wavelength Tuning of Double-Cavity Micromachined Filter with Electrical and Thermal Actuations

We demonstrate double-cavity micromachined tunable filters with electrical actuations for both blue and red wavelength tuning. Electrical actuations for both shifts can be achieved by combining electrostatic and electro-thermal actuations below and above the breakdown voltage of p-n junctions in the micromachined cantilevers. The measured tuning range with the actuation is 8 nm for both tuning sides and the micromachined filter with a cantilever length of 80 μm exhibits a switching time of less than 115 μs for both turn-on and turn-off states. We also present the theoretical and measured temperature dependence of fabricated micromachined filters at various cantilever lengths, which experimentally gives us a temperature dependence of 0.14 nm/K for a cantilever length of 100 μm.     

Theoretical and experimental investigations of the Mid-IR DFG tuning property based on fiber laser fundamental lights

The tuning properties for the mid-IR DFG laser based on uniform grating PPLN have been investigated with tunable YDFL and EDFL fundamental lights. Our results show that, for a fixed crystal temperature, the idler tunable range is less than 10 nm when the EDFL is tuned. Although the pump may be allowed to be tuned in its two QPM acceptance bands, the idler tunable range is still narrow for a fixed temperature. By optimizing the crystal temperature, however, the two pump QPM acceptance bands may be overlapped to form one broadband QPM band, which may be used to increase the idler tunable range to 175 nm near 3.4 μm region. The positions of the single signal and the two separate pump QPM acceptance bands can be continuously moved by adjusting the temperature, which may also be used for enhancing the idler tuning range. By tuning the EDFL while adjusting the temperature, a whole combined idler tuning range between 2.98 and 3.78 μm was experimentally obtained with three fixed pump wavelengths of 1.05, 1.08 and 1.11 μm. By tuning the YDFL in the two separate QPM acceptance bands, a tuning range of 690 nm has been demonstrated with only one fixed signal wavelength of 1.58 μm.     

Characterization of single micro-ring resonator filter with doubled free-spectral range

The study proposes a new structure to double the free-spectral range (FSR) of a micro-ring resonator filter using optical interference. The proposed structure adds an input light to the Add port of the conventional two-bus one-ring (TBOR) filter and adds a phase shifter to tuning the light. The FSR of the conventional TBOR filter can be doubled by the interference from the light field of the new input port. In the study, the effects of the output spectrum depending on the phase shift, coupling coefficient, and loss are discussed. The results show that the resonance wavelength changes by tuning of the phase shifter which increases the choice of wavelength. Meanwhile a flat pass band, a sharpness degree of edge rolloff, a high quality factor as high as 10⁵ and a perfect extinction effect can be obtained by selecting a proper coupling coefficient. However loss can bring more crosstalk which should be decreased as more as possible.     

Optical characterization of mechanically tunable microwire based resonators by changing ring radius and wire diameter

Three tunable microring resonators were assembled using 3.5, 2.5, and 2 μm diameter of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT) wires, respectively. Their free spectral ranges (FSRs) and quality (Q) factors were measured by reducing ring radius of the microrings. For specific wire diameter and operating wavelength, the FSR increases continuously while the Q increases to a maximum value firstly and then decreases with a reduction of the ring radius. For specific ring radius and operating wavelength, the FSR increases a little and the Q decreases with a decrease of the wire diameter.     

Design theory and experiment of acousto-optical tunable filter by use of flexural waves applied to thin optical fiber

Spectral response of acoustically induced microbending through thin optical fiber is discussed from mode-coupling of core and cladding modes. The thin fiber is analyzed in three-layered structure (core-cladding-air) to gain insights into acousto-optic modulation. We explained the dependence of core and/or cladding diameters on acoustic source parameters from numerical calculations. According to the calculations, we successfully fabricated all-optical tunable filter using this thin fiber that yields an efficient mode-coupling at flexural wave frequencies less than 1MHz. To increase the acousto-optic effect, we used a specially designed thin optical fiber (80 μm of cladding diameter) in the section where flexural wave is produced, and spliced both ends of the thin fiber to the tapered 125 μm fibers. The frequency and voltage tuning of fabricated filter is also confirmed by changing the driven frequency and applied voltage of the PZT, respectively. This result suggests a possibility of fiber-optic device application as all-optical tunable filter at 1.55 μm.     

全光纤型微环谐振器的研制

环形谐振器因体积小、功能强、结构简洁等优点长期以来一直在光无源、有源器件的设计和制作中发挥着重要的作用。对光纤的弯曲损耗特性进行了深入分析,指出只有采用微细光纤才能降低全光纤法所制作的环形谐振器的尺寸,加宽器件的自由光谱范围(FSR)获得更好的精细度和品质因子。然后,在改进熔融拉锥技术的同时,保持慢变、绝热条件拉制出在80 mm长度范围内具有良好均匀性、半径为5μm的高质量微细光纤,在此基础上采用自缠绕法研制出半径仅为500μm,谐振效果明显加强的全光纤型微环谐振器,从而很好地解决了集成型微环谐振器较高的弯曲损耗和连接损耗问题。     

A compact plasmonic tunable filter using elasto-optic effects

We report on the theoretical concept of the design of a compact plasmonic tunable filter made of a metal–dielectric–metal waveguide and using elasto-optic effects. The proposed device is designed in a nanoring resonator structure and numerically studied by means of 3D-FEM simulations. We obtained an optimized nanoring resonator that has a radius R=390 nm and resonances at the telecommunication wavelength of 1.58 μm. Simulations using elasto-optic material as the dielectric layer and top and bottom Ag layers as electrodes indicate that the output can be tuned in the telecommunication wavelength range with an applied field. Further, using the proposed device, optical switching phenomenon is also found to be possible. This tunable ring resonator filter with ultra-small radii is considered valuable for photonic integrated systems.     

Fast wavelength-switching of a diode-pumped solid-state disk laser

The functionality of two experimental setups for fast wavelength-switching of an Yb:YAG disk laser is tested and characterized. The first setup consists of two resonators sharing one disk. Both resonators are alternately opened by a chopper disk. Each resonator is tuned independently by a set of a two-stage Lyot filter and an etalon. Up to 1500 Hz the setup can switch between two freely selectable wavelengths (linewidth (fwhm) ≪1 pm) within the complete Yb:YAG tuning range (from 1020 nm to 1055 nm) emitting a maximum average power of 105 mW. The power of both resonators differs by a factor of 0.7. Their pointing stability amounts to 20 μrad. The second setup consists of a single tunable resonator (two-stage Lyot filter, etalon) additionally equipped with an electro-optical device (Faraday rotator or Pockels cell) providing a high pointing stability of better than 1 μrad. The wavelength switches occur stepwise and are predetermined by the etalon (about 90 pm or multiples thereof). The Faraday rotator suffers from its high thermal load and operates for some few 10 s only at 0.5 Hz. The resonator with the Pockels cell provides long term stability at 1000 Hz, switching steps up to 1.1 nm and a power ratio of 0.83 for the selected wavelengths.     

Widely tunable diffraction limited 1000 mW external cavity diode laser in Littman/Metcalf configuration for cavity ring-down spectroscopy

We report on recent progress on external cavity diode lasers (ECDL) using a new concept of a Littman/Metcalf configuration. Within this concept one facet of the diode laser chip is used for coupling to a high quality Littman/Metcalf resonator whereas the other side of the diode laser chip emits the output beam. The alignment of the external resonator is independent from the alignment of the output beam and there is no need for any compromise in the alignment. This results in an improved behavior of the external resonator with the benefit of a drastic increase in power and single mode tuning.We investigated this light source for high resolution spectroscopy in the field of cw-cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS). The monitoring of environmental and medical gases from vehicles or human breath requires a suitable radiation source in the mid-infrared (MIR) between 3 and 5 μm that is frequency stable and can be widely tuned. Since this wavelength cannot be reached via direct emitting room temperature semiconductor lasers, additional techniques like difference frequency generation (DFG) are essential. Tunable difference frequency generation relies on high power, small linewidth, fast tunable, robust laser diode sources with excellent beam quality.With our new compact, alignment-insensitive and robust ECDL concept, we achieved an output power of 1000 mW and an almost Gaussian shaped beam quality (M²<1.2). The coupling efficiency for optical waveguides as well as single mode fibers exceeds 70%. The wavelength is widely tunable within the tuning range of 20 nm via remote control. This laser system operates longitudinally in single mode with a mode-hop free tuning range of more than 150 GHz without current compensation and a side-mode-suppression better than 50 dB. This concept is currently realized within the wavelength regime between 750 and 1080 nm.Our high powered Littman/Metcalf laser system was part of a MIR-light source which utilizes DFG in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystals. At the wavelength of 3.3 μm we were able to achieve a high-resolution absorption spectrum of water with four different isotoplogues of H₂O components. This application clearly demonstrates the suitability of this laser for high-precision measurements. PACS 07.57.Ty; 42.55.Px; 42.62.Fi     

Electro-optically tunable microring resonators on lithium niobate

Electro-optical tuning of a microring resonator fabricated on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) is presented. The device structure, including microring resonator and couplers, is designed in detail and is produced by titanium diffusion on the wet-etched LiNbO3 ridge surface. The resonance wavelengths for TM and TE polarizations can be tuned by electro-optic effect. The output characteristics of through port and drop port in the microring resonators are measured, and the effect of applied voltage on the shift of resonant wavelength is discussed. The presented microring resonators have the features of fast tuning speed, high material stability, bidirection wavelength shift, and no heating interference. Realization of such a microring resonator on LiNbO3 makes the utilization of electro-optic tuning and nonlinear effects in the versatile photonic applications of microring resonators achievable.