A 2 by 2 wavelength tunable Fabry-Perot filter by using an electro-optic polymer film

A tunable Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter by using electro-optic polymer film is proposed. The electro-optic polymer is alkoxysilane dye (ASD)/SiO2-TiO2 hybrid material, whose electro-optic coefficient 733 is about 5 pm/V, The wavelength tuning range of 3.8 nm under 400-V DC voltage and the nonlinear characteristic with the electric field have been obtained via electro-optical properties of polymer. Both of polymer film fabrication and F-P filter design have been introduced. The tunable F-P filter is designed for the application of two-input/two-output port wavelength-selective optical switch. Also, some problems have been discussed in this letter.     

基于压电聚合物薄膜可调谐Fabry-Perot滤波器的研究

采用DBR/电极/间隔层/电极/DBR的结构形式制作滤波器,器件透光部分刻蚀以消除电光效应.测试滤波器透过率光谱,并通过加电压对滤波器中心波长进行调制.据实际结果得到腔的光学厚度为8.04μm,腔长在电场作用下收缩.在140V电压下,腔长收缩量约为0.757%.实验证明电致伸缩效应在调制中起作用.     

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     

ICF中可调法布里-珀罗滤波器间距稳定度研究

 在神光Ⅱ第9路ICF高功率激光装置中,采用可调法布里-珀罗(F-P)滤波器对幅度调制效应进行补偿,根据补偿装置的技术要求,提出一种应用nm量级精度的电容式位移传感器对可调F-P滤波器间距稳定度进行监控的系统,详细论述了监控系统的结构与工作原理。给出了电容式位移传感器的驱动电路及数据处理与控制软件的设计方案,并对电容式位移传感器的精度进行了标定。实验结果表明,该位移监控系统能够使可调F-P滤波器的间距稳定度保持在15 nm/h以内,使幅度调制效应的调制深度优于4%。     

ICF中可调法布里-珀罗滤波器间距稳定度研究

在神光Ⅱ第9路ICF高功率激光装置中,采用可调法布里-珀罗(F-P)滤波器对幅度调制效应进行补偿,根据补偿装置的技术要求,提出一种应用nm量级精度的电容式位移传感器对可调F-P滤波器间距稳定度进行监控的系统,详细论述了监控系统的结构与工作原理。给出了电容式位移传感器的驱动电路及数据处理与控制软件的设计方案,并对电容式位移传感器的精度进行了标定。实验结果表明,该位移监控系统能够使可调F-P滤波器的间距稳定度保持在15 nm/h以内,使幅度调制效应的调制深度优于4%。     

High accuracy wavelength locking of a DFB laser using tunable polarization interference filter

A temperature-tunable polarization interference filter (PIF) made of YVO4 crystal has been presented and applied for wavelength locking of a distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser in dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) optical communication systems. This new design offers a flexible way to monitor and then lock an operating wavelength of DFB laser to any preselected point without dead spots. The results show that the laser wavelength can be locked with accuracy better than ±0.01 nm with much relaxed requirement on temperature stability of the filter.     

Free-spectral range tunable Fabry-Perot filter with superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

A novel free-spectral range (FSR) tunable Fabry-Perot filter (FPF) with two superimposed fiber Bragg gratings (SFBGs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The SFBGs, initially uniform in period with slightly different Bragg wavelengths, were glued onto the lateral surface of a specially-designed cantilever beam and linearly chirped by beam bending-induced strain gradient. As a result, their reflection bands overlap and a grating-based FPF with a tunable FSR is formed. A continuously tunable FSR of 0.1-0.5 nm has been achieved in the experiment.     

Piezospectroscopic imaging with a tunable Fabry-Perot filter and Tikhonov reconstruction

By combining two well-established techniques--multispectral imaging with a tunable filter and regularized data inversion--a fast and accurate method for measuring, at each pixel of a CCD array, the spectrum emitted by a radiating object is obtained. The method is demonstrated with ruby R(1)- and R(2)-line fluorescence, using a narrowband tilt-tunable Fabry-Perot interference filter for data acquisition. Since the data inversion problem is badly ill conditioned, regularization is essential to obtain meaningful results. The reconstruction is capable of a peak wavelength accuracy of 0.01 nm, sufficient to measure the small wavelength shifts encountered in rubylike materials due to changes in the local crystal lattice stress. Thus, the technique presents a novel approach to piezospectroscopic imaging and offers 2 to 3 orders of magnitude faster mapping of local stress than current techniques.     

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.     

Compact tunable three-dimensional polymer optical waveguide comb filter

A compact channel spacing tunable polymeric three-dimensional (3D) comb filter has been designed and fabricated. This comb filter is made of three waveguides laid in two different but parallel layers: one is in the lower layer and the other two are in the upper layer. These two waveguides in upper layer do not cross each other but instead each twice cross over the waveguide in the lower layer. At each crossing point an electrode heater is deposited on the top surface to adjust the coupling ratio between these guides. By supplying power to each heater pair, respectively, the channel spacing can be selected to be either 1.6 nm or 0.8 nm; in addition a flat-top spectral response may be obtained at the 1.6 nm channel spacing if power is supplied to both the heater pairs simultaneously.     

基于法布里-珀罗调谐滤波器的傅里叶域锁模扫频激光光源

报道了一个光纤型1300 nm波段的傅里叶域锁模(Fourier domain mode locking, FDML)扫频激光光源, 用于扫频光学相干层析成像技术 (optical coherence tomography, OCT) 成像. 本实验扫频激光光源采用包含增益介质、调谐滤波器和延迟线组成的长腔激光谐振腔以及光功率增强单元. FDML扫频激光光源具有快速和高度稳定运转模式, 相位稳定性好. 基于法布里-珀罗调谐滤波器(fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter, FFP-TF)的FDML扫频激光光源扫频范围为130 nm, 半高全宽为70 nm, 输出平均功率是11 mW. 与基于FFP-TF的短腔的扫频光源做了对比研究, FDML扫频光源速度从短腔的8 kHz提高到了48.12 kHz, 对应生物组织OCT成像轴向分辨率为7.8 μm, 比短腔的减小了1.9 μm. 关键词： 光学相干层析技术 扫频激光光源 傅里叶域锁模 法布里-珀罗调谐滤波器     

Comb filter with independently tunable wavelength spacing and bandwidth using cascaded variable differential group delay elements

An all-optical comb filter with independently tunable wavelength spacing and bandwidth (BW) is proposed. Using three cascaded variable differential-group-delay elements, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the tunability of the comb filter with >10 dB sidelobe reduction by adjusting three elements. The wavelength spacing is determined by the first filter module, while the sidelobe suppression ratio and the BW are defined by the middle and the last one, respectively.     

可调谐超导滤波器技术的研究

通过研究可调谐滤波器的基本原理,利用钛酸锶铁电薄膜介电常数随外加电场变化的特性,以铝酸镧为基片,采用多层薄膜和三次套刻两种方法设计出可调谐超导滤波器,通过外加电压实现滤波器频率的调谐。     

A tunable waveguide CO2 laser using Fabry-Perot modulator and fox-smith type mode selector

A tunable waveguide CO₂ laser was constructed and tested. Efficient output was obtained over expanded tuning range making use of the coupling modulation through the F-P modulator. A fox-smith type mode selector was used to obtain the tuning range wider than the longitudinal mode spacing.A continuous tuning range of 2.2GHz was experimentally obtained.     

Semiconductor optical amplifier based swept wavelength source at 1060 nm using a scanning Fabry-Perot filter and an YDFA-based booster amplifier

We demonstrate a tuneable laser operating in the 1-1.1 μm wavelength region with a tuning range of 43 nm (FWHM), an output power of 19 mW and coherence length of 14 mm. The source is based on a master laser consisting of a cavity tuned ring configuration with a fibre Fabry-Perot filter used as a tuning element and a semiconductor amplifier as gain medium. The output of the master laser is subsequently power boosted using an Ytterbium doped fibre amplifier (YDFA). In addition to providing a power boost, we demonstrate that by tailoring the gain spectrum of the YDFA it is possible to increase the FWHM scanning range by 7 nm compared to that of the master laser.     

Optical filter with tunable wavelength and bandwidth based on cholesteric liquid crystals

An optical filter with tunable wavelength and bandwidth has been demonstrated using two cholesteric liquid crystals configured in a reflection mode, in which the incident light is first reflected by one cholesteric liquid crystal and then by the other one. The central wavelength can be tuned from 527 nm to 574 nm and the bandwidth can be changed from 10 nm to 80 nm. It has potential applications in many fields, especially in optical communications and multispectral and hyperspectral imaging systems.     

基于Fabry-Perot半导体激光器实现全光波长转换及其最优纵模选择

采用Fabry-Perot半导体激光器作为波长转换器件,利用半导体激光器内部的交叉增益调制效应,通过同时将脉冲信号光与连续探测光耦合到半导体激光器,实现了对波长为1552.62nm、重复速率为2.7GHz的光脉冲信号转换到波长为1548.23nm的连续激光,同时实现了脉冲时间抖动的抑制.实验发现,对于确定的半导体激光器及其工作参数,总存在一个固定的纵模,当探测光的波长与该纵模波长一致时可获得最高的波长转换效率和最大的消光比.理论分析了探测光与Fabry-Perot半导体激光器多纵模间的模式选择对波长转换效 关键词： 纵模选择 波长转换 注入锁定 交叉增益调制     

A tunable dual-narrowband band-pass filter using plasma quantum well structure

A tunable dual-narrowband pass-band filter is designed. A one-dimensional photonic crystal(1D PC) is comprised of alternate dielectric layer and vacuum layer. Two quantum wells(QWs) as defects can be constructed by sandwiching two plasma slabs symmetrically in the 1D PC, and a dual-narrowband pass-band filter is formed. The conventional finitedifference time-domain(FDTD) method and piecewise linear current density recursive convolution(PLCDRC)–FDTD method are applied to the dielectric and plasma, respectively. The simulation results illustrate that the dual-narrowband frequencies can be tuned by changing the plasma frequency. The pass band interval and the half-power bandwidths(-3-dB band widths) are related to the space interval between two QWs.     

Multifunctional spectrum-periodic polymer MZI electro-optic switch/filter using serial-cascaded phase-generating couplers: theory, design and analysis

A multifunctional polymer asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer electro-optic switch/filter comprising two serial-cascaded phase-generating couplers and a pair of microstrip electrodes is proposed. Due to the optimization on PGC structure with the given nonlinear least square approximation method, the phase compensation condition and extinction ratio (ER) compensation condition are both realized for achieving periodic frequency response. The ON- and OFF-states voltages are 0 and 8.06 V, respectively. The device has two input ports (A1 and B1) and two output ports (A2 and B2), port A2 contains 10 channels numbered from #?7 to #2, and port B2 contains 9 channels numbered from #?7 to #1. As an optical filter (ON-state), the wavelength space of each channel is within 19.2–21?nm (standard value 20?nm) with the maximum period variation less than 1?nm. The insertion loss for channels #?7 to #2 of port A2 is within 2.69–19.3 dB, and that for channels #?7 to #1 of port B2 is within 2.09–20.2 dB. As an EO switch, the ER of each channel between ON-state and OFF-state for port A2 is more than 15.7 dB, and that for port B2 is more than 12.6 dB. Besides, as required in CWDM networks, the device also exhibits favorable thermal stability under the case of large temperature variation.