快速可调谐电光聚合物波导光栅

提出并设计了快速可调谐电光聚合物波导光栅.该波导光栅通过极化聚合物的线性电光效应 可实现谐振波长的纳秒级快速调谐，调谐灵敏度为61pm/V.研究了该波导光栅的反射谱和透 射谱特性与光栅周期,周期数,折射率调制函数及其调制大小的关系.讨论了波导光栅的材料 选择,制备工艺,快速可调谐性和偏振相关性.该波导光栅不仅克服了光纤光栅调谐速度慢和不利于大规模集成的不足，而且具有调谐灵敏度高,制备工艺与半导体工艺兼容和偏振无关 等优点. 关键词： 光通信器件 光波导 电光效应 聚合物 波导光栅 光纤光栅     

Measurement of small chirp-parameter for Mach-Zehnder-type optical modulator

A new measurement method of chirp-parameters is proposed for electro-optic (EO) intensity modulators with the Mach-Zehnder (MZ) waveguide interferometer. This method is suitably applied for the measurement of the small chirp with operation at a specific RF-frequency. To determine the chirp-parameter, optical spectrum components of the modulated light are observed with varying the relative optical phase difference between the two arms of the MZ waveguide interferometer. The chirp-parameter of 0.17, which is a value small enough for EO intensity modulation, was successfully measured by the experiment.     

Wave-coupling theory of linear electro-optic effect for ultrashort laser pulses

A wave-coupling theory of linear electro-optic (EO) effect for ultrashort laser pulses has been developed. As one of its applications, the linear EO effect of ultrashort Gaussian pulses propagating in LiNbO₃ crystal is demonstrated, with the intensity lower than the damage threshold. It is found that the EO effect is sensitive to both the azimuth angle and the polar angle of wave vector of light. And the larger the applied electric field, the shorter the crystal used for optimization of EO coupling is. The numerical results show that, with the duration of input pulse changing from 150 fs to 5 fs, the durations of output pulses are broadened due to the group-velocity dispersion, as well as the first- and second-order refractive dispersion. In addition, when input pulse duration is larger than 20 fs, in contrast with zero chirp, the output durations can be slightly compressed if a positive chirp input pulse is used. The validities of slowly varying amplitude approximation and continuous wave approximation are also discussed. The influence of self-phase modulation and cross-phase modulation on the EO effect is also discussed briefly.     

Integration of electro-optic polymer modulators with low-loss fluorinated polymer waveguides

We have demonstrated a hybrid Mach-Zehnder optical modulator consisting of a large-core, low-loss fluorinated passive polymer waveguide and an electro-optic (EO) polymer waveguide. The combination exhibits low fiber coupling loss to the passive waveguide and reduced transmission loss because the EO polymer waveguide is used only in the active region. The two waveguides are connected by vertical tapers that permit low-loss adiabatic coupling between the two modes. The half-wave voltage and the insertion loss of the fabricated modulator are 3.6 V and 6 dB, respectively, at a wavelength of 1.55 microm . The estimated coupling loss with the standard single-mode fiber is ~0.5 dB.     

Influence of the tilt of electro-optical crystal in an intracavity modulation laser on the light intensity

When an electro-optical (EO) crystal is used in an intracavity modulation laser, one can find that a slight tilt of the EO crystal could even result in a great influence on the output intensity of the laser. With the theories of light propagation in an EO crystal and the Jones matrix formalism, the above mentioned phenomenon is explained and an optimal configuration of the EO crystal for the intracavity modulation laser is suggested in this paper. To confirm the validity of the theoretical analysis, experiments are also performed. Their results are found to be in good agreement with those of the theoretical prediction.     

光纤马赫-曾德尔干涉法测量极化聚合物的电光系数

报道了用光纤马赫曾德尔干涉法测量极化聚合物电光系数的方法和原理。该方法不仅可以测量聚合物薄膜的电光系数而且可以测量聚合物波导的电光系数,并且该方法可以同时测量聚合物的电光系数张量元r13和r33。该方法最突出的优点是不必在聚合物薄膜的表面制备第二个电极,因此尤其适合于在电光聚合物试制阶段测试聚合物的电光系数。干涉仪的输出被反馈到参考臂中控制相位偏置点的压电陶瓷,从而实现对干涉仪相位偏置点的闭环控制,因此降低了对环境稳定性的要求并且提高了测量精度。实际测试了极化聚合物薄膜PMMA-DR1的电光系数张量,其测量值r13=8.3 pm/V,r33=25.7 pm/V。     

Polarisation-insensitive strip-loaded waveguide for electro-optic modulators and switches

A polarisation-insensitive electro-optic (EO) waveguide consisting of a dye-doped TiO₂/SiO₂ slab and a SU-8 strip-loaded rib is designed and fabricated. By optimizing the refractive index and size of waveguide, a trade-off between polarisation-insensitive condition and large EO efficiency (optical field interaction with the EO material) is obtained. The average transmission loss of the waveguide is less than 2.0 dB/cm. A Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer intensity modulator based on this waveguide with excellent poling stability is fabricated and measured, exhibiting 7 V half-wave voltage with 1.8 cm EO interaction length and 2.7 cm total length. This strip-loaded structure is proved to be a valuable application in EO modulators and switches.     

A wide-band polymeric electro-optic modulator array based on unidirectional coupling between multi-mode waveguide array and a vertical configured dumping planar waveguide

A polymeric wide-band electro-optic (EO) modulator array based on unidirectional mode-coupling between the guiding multi-mode waveguide array and a vertical configured planar dumping waveguide was developed. A low insertion loss of <1.7 dB was obtained due to asymmetrically designed guiding waveguide and the dumping waveguide. A modulation depth of 91% was achieved with the device length of 3.5 cm at a low driving voltage of 3.2 V. The employment of the dumping planar waveguide not only provides an efficient way to achieve the unidirectional coupling mechanism, but also effectively confines the light coupled from the guiding waveguides within the planar dumping waveguide. The combination of unidirectional coupling and light confinement effects ensures low cross talk of <22 dB between adjacent guiding waveguides. Since the proposed modulator is based on the unidirectional coupling mechanism, it is intrinsically wide-band. A wide-band operation from 1308 to 1324 nm was experimentally obtained. The unidirectional mode-coupling-based wide-band modulation principle can be readily applied to other wavelengths, such as 1330 and 1550 nm ranges.     

包层调制的聚合物电光调制器及其理论分析

器件损耗偏高是当前聚合物电光调制器的研究中需要解决的问题之一。在调制器的插损之中,波导传播损耗(包括吸收和散射损耗)的贡献举足轻重。特别是在追求高电光系数的材料同时,传播损耗也将会不可避免地增加。如何改善器件的损耗是聚合物调制器实用化的一个重要课题。为此提出了一种在波导包层中调制光波的设想。理论分析表明,这种方法能够大幅度降低波导传播性能,因而有助于改善器件损耗。由于包层中光波强度比芯层中要弱,因此在包层中调制光波会引起场—模交叠因子的弱化,但是优化计算发现,通过调节波导的尺寸尤其是芯层厚度可以控制交叠因子使其弱化程度降低到最小,在最优的情况下,场一模交叠因子可达0．89。随着波导传播损耗的降低,器件调制区的长度可以做得更长,有助于进一步降低器件的半波电压。     

Dual-frequency division de-multiplexer based on cascaded photonic crystal waveguides

A dual-frequency division de-multiplexing mechanism is demonstrated using cascaded photonic crystal waveguides with unequal waveguide widths. The de-multiplexing mechanism is based on the frequency shift of the waveguide bands for the unequal widths of the photonic crystal waveguides. The modulation in the waveguide bands is used for providing frequency selectivity to the system. The slow light regime of the waveguide bands is utilized for extracting the desired frequency bands from a wider photonic crystal waveguide that has a relatively larger group velocity than the main waveguide for the de-multiplexed frequencies. In other words, the wider spatial distribution of the electric fields in the transverse direction of the waveguide for slow light modes is utilized in order to achieve the dropping of the modes to the output channels. The spectral and spatial de-multiplexing features are numerically verified. It can be stated that the presented mechanism can be used to de-multiplex more than two frequency intervals by cascading new photonic crystal waveguides with properly selected widths.     

Optical modulator using metal-oxide-semiconductor type Si ring resonator

Electric-field drive optical modulators using a Si ring resonator were fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. The fabricated resonators consisted of Si waveguides with width and thickness of 1.0 and 0.3 μm, respectively. In order to induce the linear electro-optic (EO) effect in the Si core layer, the strain was applied by covering the layer with Si₃N₄ film (0.26 μm thick) deposited by low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) at 750 °C. The vertical electric-field was applied to the Si waveguide through the top and bottom cladding layers, and the optical output from the drop port at the resonance wavelength was measured. At a wavelength of 1501.6 nm, the optical modulation of 33% was obtained at 200V (electric-field at the silicon surface ∼3 × 10⁵ V/cm, nearly the breakdown field). The resonance wavelength was shifted toward the short wavelength side by applying both positive and negative voltages, this shift was explained by carrier concentration modulation. The linear EO effect in the Si core layer was not observed, presumably because the strain in the Si core layer was too small.     

Multiplication of optical frequency shift by cascaded electro-optic traveling phase gratings operating above 10 GHz

We propose and demonstrate an electro-optic (EO) multiplication of a frequency shift using 10 GHz order electrical signal. The principle is based on a successive Bragg diffraction from cascaded EO traveling phase gratings in a traveling wave EO phase modulator. We fabricate a shift frequency doubler using simple domain engineering processes in a LiTaO? crystal. Frequency shifting of ±32.5 GHz with an efficiency of 60% is demonstrated using a 16.25 GHz modulation signal.     

Electro‐optic polymer/titanium dioxide hybrid core ring resonator modulators

Compact electro‐optic (EO) modulators are desirable for a number of applications. In this study, a ring modulator has been fabricated in the titanium dioxide (TiO₂) core and EO polymer cladding waveguide structure. A 250‐nm thick TiO₂ core was utilized to minimize the ring radius down to 100 μm, to avoid using the top cladding between the EO polymer and the electrode, and to improve the poling efficiency. The resonance obtained by the ring modulator was observed to shift by 0.02 nm/V due to the enhanced in‐device EO coefficient of 105 pm/V. A modulation depth of 3 dB was observed at the frequency response function at 20 kHz using 2‐V V_p–p clock signal.     

Design of a spectrum-expanded polymer Mach�CZehnder interferometer electro-optic switch using two-phase generating couplers

A novel structure, thorough analysis and design technique are presented for a kind of polymer Mach?CZehnder Interferometer (MZI) electro-optic (EO) switch consisting of two-phase generating couplers (PGCs). By optimizing the PGCs structure, the output spectrum of the two PGCs based MZI EO switch is greatly expanded to almost six times of that of the traditional MZI EO switch with two 3?dB directional couplers. Under a central wavelength of 1550 nm, the driving voltages of the designed switch are as low as about 0 (ON state) and ±0.925?V (OFF state) with an EO region length of 5000???m. A wide spectrum more than 350 nm (1380??1730?nm) is achieved, and within this wavelength range, the crosstalk is less than ?30?dB, and the insertion loss is less than 5.91?dB which is larger than that of the traditional MZI EO switch due to the longer waveguide length by introducing two PGCs. The design technique on the two PGCs based MZI EO switch is supported to be reasonable compared with the beam propagation method (BPM). The proposed structure shows potential wide applications especially in optical cross-connect (OXC) and optical add-drop multiplexing (OADM) systems.     

紫外胶在聚合物准矩形电光波导中的应用

基于聚合物材料的波导型电光器件对提升光通信网络的带宽容量具有重要的意义。设计并制备了一种基于有机/无机杂化非线性材料的准矩形聚合物电光波导,采用SiO2作为下包层,紫外胶SU-8作为引导芯层,掺有生色团DR1的有机/无机杂化非线性材料DR1/SiO2-TiO2作为电光层,通过优化感应耦合等离子体刻蚀工艺的天线功率、偏置功率和氧气流量,将SU-8同时作为引导芯层和刻蚀工艺的掩模,制备了准矩形电光波导。实验测得波导传输损耗为-3.5 dB/cm。     

电光调制对外部光注入垂直腔表面发射激光器的偏振转换及其非线性动力学行为的操控性研究

针对主和副垂直腔表面发射激光器构成的外部注入激光器系统的偏振转换及其非线性动力学行为, 利用周期性极化铌酸锂晶体中准相位匹配线性电光调制, 本文提出了一种新的操控方案并且探索了其控制规律. 研究结果发现, 受到平行光注入或正交光注入的副激光器输出偏振度随外加电场成周期性振荡变化, 其振荡波峰轨迹包络曲线为正弦曲线, 而振荡波谷轨迹包络曲线为余弦曲线; 选取一定的主激光器偏置电流, 通过对来自主激光器的光进行电光调制, 受到两种方式注入的副激光器可以输出任意偏振模, 并且其非线性动力行为经历不同的演变. 另外, 副激光器的偏振度仅依赖于外加电场, 与副激光器的偏置电流无关.     

采用接触式极化法研制有机聚合物电光光波导调制器

结合器件的整体结构考虑，对接触式极化方法和工艺进行了研究，基于接触式极化法，设计并制作了聚合物电光光波导相位和偏振调制器。通过测量器件的偏振调制特性，在1550nm光波波长下，获得了最大电光系数为llpm／V，电光相位调制器的半波电压为45V。     

集成光波导静态傅里叶变换微光谱仪分辨率倍增方法

研究了铌酸锂波导静态傅里叶变换微光谱仪分辨率的影响因素, 并在此基础上提出了一种采用端面反射铌酸锂波导结构提高微光谱仪光谱分辨率的方法. 该方法容许在减小铌酸锂波导静态傅里叶变换微光谱仪尺寸的同时, 使两干涉臂间最大光程差增大1倍, 从而使其光谱分辨率实现倍增. 采用商业化铌酸锂波导电光调制器构建了一个傅里叶变换光谱仪原理样机, 并对样机在不同波长下的光谱分辨率进行了测量, 结果指出对调制器加载端面反射结构后获得的光谱分辨率是加载端面反射结构前的2倍, 与理论分析结果完全一致. 这种光波导端面反射结构制作工艺简单, 易于实现, 是一种提高集成光波导静态傅里叶微光谱仪分辨率的有效手段.     

Dynamic characteristics of AlGaInAs/InP octagonal resonator microlaser

The static and dynamic characteristics are investigated for an AlGaInAs/InP octagonal resonator microlaser with a side length of 10.8 μm and a 2-μm-wide vertex output waveguide. The scattered light is observed by top-view infrared microscopic image and compared with simulated mode field pattern. Single-mode operation with the side-mode suppression ratio of 42 dB is achieved. Small-signal modulation responses with a 3-dB bandwidth of 15.7 GHz are reached at 287 K, and a clear eye diagram is demonstrated at 15 Gbit/s.     

Direct time-response measurement of high-speed optical modulators based on stretched-pulse interferometry

A simple technique for the direct measurement of the complex temporal response of a high-speed electro-optic (EO) modulator is proposed. This technique recovers the amplitude and phase temporal profiles of an instantaneous modulation over the duration of a chirped pulse (obtained by linear dispersion) using Fourier-transform interferometry, and it exploits the time-to-frequency mapping induced by the pulse dispersion process. The method can be implemented by using either time- or frequency-domain interferometric detection, allowing the characterization of modulation bandwidths in the tens-of-gigahertz range. The concept is demonstrated by accurately measuring the complex temporal response of a 2.5 Gbps intensity EO modulator.