Four layer polymeric mode polarization filter for integrated optics

We report on our systematic study of fabrication and characterization of four-layer polymer waveguides. Various optical properties (such as refractive index, birefringence, and propagation loss) of polycarbonate and polystyrene waveguides are presented. The thin film structure consisting of glass/polycarbonate/polystyrene/air has been used for demonstrating polarization filter action because the two polymers are quite different with respect to their optical anisotropy. Modal electric field plots for both TE and TM are generated to support the observed behavior. It is also observed that the four-layer lightguide exhibits relatively low loss values compared to the monolayer configuration.     

K-resin based multilayer polymeric mode filter for integrated optics

We demonstrate theoretically as well as experimentally a new type of four layer polymeric waveguide structure which can be used as mode filter. Various optical properties such as refractive index, birefringence and propagation constant of SAN and K-resin are presented. The thin film structure consisting of glass/K-resin/SAN/air is used to act as mode filter. Expressions for the electric field intensity spatial distribution for the structure are used to calculate the intensity profiles to support the observed behavior. The experimental values were in good agreement with the one obtained theoretically.     

Surface plasmon resonance-induced tunable polarization filters based on nanoscale gold film-coated photonic crystal fibers

Surface plasmon resonance induced tunable polarization filters based on nanoscale gold film-coated photonic crystal fibers were proposed and analyzed. The characteristics of the polarization filter were calculated by finite element method(FEM). The gold film was selectively coated on the inner wall of one cladding air hole which was located near the fiber core along the y-axis direction. When the phase of core fundamental mode and surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) mode matches,the two modes couple with each other intensely. Numerical results show that the resonance wavelength and strength vary with fiber structural parameters and the index of the infilling liquid. The fiber parameters were optimized to achieve specific functions. Under the optimal structure, we realized a dual channel filter at the communication wavelength of 1.31 μm and1.55 μm for y polarization direction and x polarization direction. Then a single channel polarized filter at the communication wavelength of 1.55 μm is also achieved by adjusting the refractive index of the infilling liquid. The proposed polarization filters realized dual channel filtering and single channel filtering simultaneously under the same structure for the first time to the best of our knowledge.     

TE0导模干涉刻写周期可调亚波长光栅理论研究

通过棱镜耦合激发非对称金属包覆介质波导结构中的TE₀导波模式, 利用两束TE₀模的干涉从理论上实现了周期可调的亚波长光栅刻写. 分析了TE₀模式的色散关系, 刻写亚波长光栅的周期与激发光源、棱镜折射率、光刻胶薄膜厚度及折射率之间的关系. 用有限元方法数值模拟了金属薄膜、光刻胶薄膜和空气多层结构中TE₀导模的干涉场分布. 研究发现, 激发光源波长越短, TE₀ 模干涉刻写的亚波长光栅周期越小; 光刻胶越厚, 刻写的亚波长光栅周期越小; 高折射率光刻胶有利于更小周期亚波长光栅的刻写. 相较于表面等离子体干涉光刻, 基于TE₀ 模的干涉可在厚光刻胶条件下通过改变激发光源、棱镜折射率、光刻胶材料折射率、特别是光刻胶薄膜的厚度等多种方式实现对亚波长光栅周期的有效调控.     

Photonic crystal fiber polarization filter with two large apertures coated with gold layers

A novel photonic crystal fiber(PCF) polarization filter is designed and fabricated; it consists of two large apertures coated with gold. The asymmetric structure separates the resonance position in the vertical direction well. Due to the metal layer covering, loss is greatly improved. Finite element method is applied for numerical simulation. The influences of varying gold thickness and varying the diameters and the center positions of the larger apertures on filtering performance are evaluated. Theory of coupling between surface plasma and core mode is introduced. By modulating the parameters, we realize a single polarization filter at 1.31 μm and 1.55 μm. The basal mode loss in the y direction can reach 1408.80 dB/cm at 1.31 μm and 1911.22 dB/cm at 1.55 μm respectively, but basal mode loss in the x direction is relatively small, 0.82 dB/cm and 1.87 dB/cm. In addition, two kinds of broadband polarization filters are proposed. If the fiber length is set to 200 μm,the extinction ratio is greater than 20 dB with width of 570 nm and 490 nm. The filter has simple structure and excellent performance.     

Evaluation of polycarbonate substrate hologram recording medium regarding implication of birefringence and thermal expansion

In this paper, we evaluate photopolymer media using a polycarbonate (PC) substrate. In holographic data storage medium, substrates that sandwich the photopolymer material are needed to protect the photopolymer material against exogenous shock and open air. An optical glass such as BK-7 is normally used as a substrate, but a PC substrate has a cost advantage and is easy to fabricate compared with optical glass. For holographic recording and reading, however, the high birefringence and high thermal expansion of a PC substrate are significant problems. First, we analyze the degree of degradation of output power by the polarization change and estimate the threshold value of birefringence to record hologram normally. Next, we estimate the temperature tolerance of hologram readout with polycarbonate substrate hologram medium. These analyses results indicate the possible usage of the PC substrate as holographic recording media.     

波长可选择高双折射光纤干涉滤波器

为了实现具有全光纤结构和波长可选择滤波器,设计并从理论上计算和分析了一种基于双折射光纤的干涉滤波器.该滤波器具有很好的选频特性,不同的偏振角自由组合使得该滤波器具有更灵活的调节性.该滤波器提高了双折射光纤的使用效率,用12 m高双折射光纤可以产生等同于在Sagnac环形腔中用16 m同样光纤时的滤波效果.这种高效波长可选择滤波器还具有较好的光频隔离效果,并很容易用光纤或光波导制作出来.     

Design of highly birefringent chalcogenide glass PCF: A simplest design

In this article, a new simplified structure of a highly birefringent chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is designed and analyzed by using fully vectorial finite element method. The effective indices, confinement loss, birefringence, and chromatic dispersion of fundamental polarized mode are calculated in the proposed PCF for a wide wavelength range. To maintain the polarization in chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass PCF, we enlarged two of the central air holes and reduced two transverse air holes for achieving high birefringence. This helps in creating an effective index difference between the two orthogonal polarization modes. It is also shown that As₂Se₃ glass PCF provides lower chromatic dispersion and less confinement loss compared to silica PCF of the same structure in wavelength range 1.3 to 1.8 μm and hence such chalcogenide As₂Se₃ glass PCF have high potential to be used in dispersion compensating and birefringence application in optical communication systems. In addition to this, the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) result of the proposed PCF is also reported.     

基于磁光子晶体的低损耗窄带THz滤波器

本文提出一种采用石榴石型铁氧体磁性材料的太赫兹滤波器,利用波导线缺陷和腔内点缺陷的耦合特性,通过改变腔内介质柱半径及分布,实现对某个波长的耦合,达到了高效率滤波的功能;改变外磁场的大小,影响铁氧体材料的磁导率变化,使谐振频率发生改变,从而对THz波进行滤波.应用平面波展开法(PWM)和时域差分有限法(FDTD)进行仿真分析,研究结果表明,该滤波器其插入损耗为0.0997 d B,3 d B带宽为8.22 GHz,实现了低损耗窄带滤波.     

Near-infrared tunable narrow filter properties in a 1D photonic crystal containing semiconductor metamaterial photonic quantum-well defect

The near-infrared (NIR) narrow filter properties in the transmission spectra of a one-dimensional photonic crystal doped with semiconductor metamaterial photonic quantum-well defect (PQW) were theoretically studied. The behavior of the defect mode as a function of the stack number of the PQW defect structure, the filling factor of semiconductor metamaterial layer, the polarization and the angle of incidence were investigated for Al-doped ZnO (AZO) and ZnO as the semiconductor metamaterial layer. It is found that the frequency of the defect mode can be tuned by variation of the period of the defect structure, polarization, incidence angle, and the filling factor of the semiconductor metamaterial layer. It is also shown that the number of the defect mode is independent of the period of the PQW defect structure and is in sharp contrast with the case where a common dielectric or metamaterial defect are used. The results also show that for both polarizations the defect mode is red-shifted as the number of the defect period and filling factor increase. An opposite trend is observed as the angle of incidence increases. The proposed structure could provide useful information for designing new types of tuneable narrowband filters at NIR region.     

Fabrication and application of imaging holographic gratings (chirped gratings) for integrated optics

Holographic chirped gratings with parallel grating lines have been fabricated by recording the interference structure of a plane wave and a cylindrical wave in a photoresist layer on a monomode glass waveguide. These gratings will be useful elements for the imaging of guided waves in integrated optics. A theoretical approach for treating their imaging properties is presented. The experimental results are described theoretically.     

A tunable infrared plasmonic polarization filter with asymmetrical cross resonator

A tunable infrared plasmonic polarization filter is proposed and investigated in this paper. The filter is based on the sandwich absorption structure which consists of three layers. The top layer is an array of asymmetrical cross resonator.The middle and bottom layers are dielectric spacer and metal film respectively. By absorbing specific wavelength of the incident light perfectly, the reflection spectrum of the structure shows filter performance. The calculated results show that the absorption wavelength is strongly dependent on the length of branch of the asymmetrical cross resonator which is parallel to the light polarization and independent of the length of the vertical one. Therefore, the asymmetrical cross resonator filter structure opens the way for freely tuning the filtering wavelength for a different light polarization. We can fix a resonant wavelength(absorption wavelength) corresponding to one polarization and change the resonant wavelength for the other polarization by adjusting the corresponding branch length of the asymmetrical cross resonator, or change the two resonant wavelengths of both two polarizations at the same time.     

Nonlinear transmission and reflection characteristics of plasma/polystyrene one dimensional photonic crystal

Reflection and transmission properties of one-dimensional plasma/polystyrene nonlinear photonic crystal have been investigated theoretically. Reflectance and transmitted amplitude of electromagnetic waves through these periodic multilayered structures are calculated for different intensities of controlling wave. It is found that the reflectance of the proposed structures depends on the intensity of the controlling wave and this property can be exploited in the design of WDM coupler, filter, optical logic gates, etc.     

基于开口环阵列结构的表面晶格共振产生及二次谐波增强

理论研究了二维周期排列的金开口环谐振器的磁共振模式与周期阵列的衍射模式发生强耦合所需满足的条件及其对二次谐波产生效率的影响.通过控制阵列结构在x和y方向的周期大小,使得衍射模式只在其中一个方向产生,当衍射模式的电场方向与入射光电场偏振方向一致时,衍射模式才会与开口环谐振器的磁共振模式发生强耦合作用,产生表面晶格共振进而实现近场场增强.在此基础上,进一步计算了金开口环谐振器阵列的二次谐波产生效率,随着阵列周期逐渐增大,即开口环谐振器的数密度减小,二次谐波强度呈现先增加后降低的趋势,当开口环谐振器数密度降为原来的1/4左右时,二次谐波强度可以增强2倍以上.本文的研究为金属超表面二次谐波产生效率的提高提供了一种新的可能途径.     

电控径向滤波器的横向超分辨与轴向焦移

提出一种光瞳滤波器来同时实现横向超分辨和轴向焦移效应的电控制.该光瞳滤波器由两偏光镜及包含有径向双折射元件的任意偏振态的电控旋光器组成.利用径向双折射元件对光偏振态的空间调制作用，结合旋光器对任意偏振态光的旋光作用，与两个偏光镜结合，实现了空间偏振态的重新分布.利用庞加莱球及琼斯理论进行了分析，结果表明，借助这种电致位相延迟来实现的偏振态调制效应，可同时实现横向超分辨与轴向焦移效应.对能够同时获得横向超分辨与轴向焦移的情况进行了分析，得到了系统各组成参量及电光调制范围.     

基于高双折射光子晶体光纤环镜的全光纤平顶梳状滤波器(英文)

A novel all-fibre flat-top comb filter based on a high birefringence photonic crystal fibre loop mirror is proposed and demonstrated. We simulate theoretically its output spectra and experimentally realize a flat-top output with a high extinction ratio. Compared to filters consisting of the conventional Panda polarization maintaining fibre, filters based on a high birefringence photonic crystal fibre loop mirror have better temperature stability. This kind of filter can be expected to be used widely in Wave...     

Formation of holographic diffraction gratings in photoresist

The exposure-development process for the fabrication of holographic diffraction gratings for integrated optics in the positive photoresist Shipley AZ-1350 is theoretically and experimentally investigated. An analysis of the light intensity distribution is carried out, taking into account the reflectivity at the photoresist-substrate interface and the attenuation in the photoresist for two holographic exposure arrangements. The influence of the exposure energy, the development time for a fixed concentration of the developer and the initial photoresist thickness are described. Various grating profiles are calculated for photoresist films, coated on matched and reflective substrates. Scanning electron micrographs demonstrate very good agreement between the actual and calculated gratings profiles.     

自成像共焦腔相干合成空间滤波器设计

理论分析了利用自成像共焦腔实现激光列阵相干合成的物理模型,对自成像共焦腔的一维相干合成和二维相干合成进行了模拟仿真计算,得到腔内场的强度分布图样.在此基础上,研究了空间滤波器在相干合成中实现模式选择的机理,并讨论滤波器的设计对相干合成及模式选择的影响,分别对一维相干合成和二维相干合成的情况,仿真计算了输出功率与滤波器位置和宽度的关系,为实验提供了理论依据.     

The Experimental Study on Wide band Tunable All-fiber Acousto-optic Filter Based on Null Coupler

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基于高双折射光子晶体光纤环镜的全光纤平顶梳状滤波器

A novel all-fibre flat-top comb filter based on a high birefringence photonic crystal fibre loop mirror is proposed and demonstrated. We simulate theoretically its output spectra and experimentally realize a flat-top output with a high extinction ratio. Compared to filters consisting of the conventional Panda polarization main- taining fibre, filters based on a high birefringence photonic crystal fibre loop mirror have better temperature stability. This kind of filter can be expected to be used widely in Wavelength-division-multiplexing（WDM） systems in the future.