Monolithically Integrated Transceiver with Novel Y-Branch by Bundle Integrated Waveguide for Fibre Optic Gyroscope

A novel Y-branch based monolithic transceiver with a superluminescent diode and a waveguide photodiode (Y-SDL-PD) is designed and fabricated by the method of bundle integrated waveguide (BIG) as the scheme for monolithic integration and angled Y-branch as the passive bi-directional waveguide. The simulations of BIG and Y-branches show low losses and improved far-field patterns, based on the beam propagation method (BPM). The amplified spontaneous emission of the device is up to 10mW at 120mA with no threshold and saturation. Spectral characteristics of about 30nm width and less than 1dB modulation are achieved using the built-in anti-lasing ability ofY-branch. The beam divergence angles in horizontal and vertical directions are optimized to as small as 12°× 8°, resulting in good fibre coupling.     

全光型硅微机械流量传感器初探

介绍一种新颖的全光型硅微机械流量传感器。给出该传感器结构及工作原理的理论分析，并阐述传感器样品的测试及结果。流量传感器具有带脊型波导的悬臂结构。悬梁用作器件的敏感区，而检测光束可以在脊型波导中传输。     

多线阵半导体激光器的单光纤耦合输出

设计并研制了一种多线阵半导体激光器的高亮度光纤耦合输出模块.激光器芯片采用了分子束外延方法生长的宽波导、双量子阱结构AlGaAs/GaAs激光器外延材料,激光器模块采用6只准直的线阵半导体激光器,器件腔长为1.2 mm,单个发光单元宽度为100 μm,发光单元周期为500 μm,单线阵器件包括19个发光单元,单线阵器件的连续输出功率为50 W,每只单线阵器件的准直输出光束经过空间合束后再通过光束对称化变换实现了多线阵器件输出的高光束质量功率合成,采用平凸柱透镜实现了合束光束与400 μm芯径、数值孔径0.22石英光纤的高效率耦合,整体耦合效率达到65%,最大耦合输出功率达到195 W,光纤端面功率密度达到1.55×105 W/cm2.     

466 mW green light generation using annealed proton-exchanged periodically poled MgO: LiNbO3 ridge waveguides

We report high-power efficient green light generation by frequency doubling from a periodically poled MgO doped LiNbO(3) ridge waveguide. The ridge waveguide is fabricated by the annealed proton-exchanging and precise diamond blade dicing techniques. The ridge structure exhibits a surface roughness of only 3.7 nm, and near-90° vertical sidewall. The total insertion loss of an 8.5 μm wide and 1.4 cm long uncoated waveguide is 3.0 dB under direct fiber coupling. 466 mW of continuous-wave green light with an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 69.7% is obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest green light output power reached to date using a ridge-type LiNbO(3) waveguide device. Phase-matching temperature shift, tuning curve distortion, and waveguide loss increase are observed under high power operation. Our analysis shows that the photorefractive effect and the green induced infrared absorption are responsible for the observed phenomena, which becomes prominent under several megawatt per square centimeter power density.     

低阈值单横模852nm半导体激光器

基于波导理论、等效折射率方法,设计并制备了非对称波导隔离双沟结构脊型边发射激光器,最终获得了低闽值单基侧模852 nm激光器.详细研究了不同脊型台深宽比参数设计对激光器侧向模式特性的影响规律,实现了腔面未镀膜情况下脊型波导边发射激光器的单基侧模稳定输出,同时激射波长可以精确调谐到852 nm;工作电流达到150 mA,工作温度30℃;斜率效率最高可达0.89 nW/mA,光谱半宽小于1 nm.研究结果为进一步实现超窄线宽激光器提供了参考和借鉴,并且为实现激光器稳定输出提供了实验基础.     

Design for broadband high-efficiency grating couplers

In this Letter, we propose general optimization methods to design broadband high-efficiency grating couplers for planar waveguides. We attribute the coupling bandwidth to the mismatch of effective indices between the diffracted beam and the actual grating structure around the operation wavelength for fiber to waveguide excitation. The coupling bandwidth formula is deduced. A simple parameter-separate optimization procedure is proposed for general layered grating couplers for high coupling efficiency. Using our principle, we optimized a grating coupler for a horizontal slot waveguide operating at wavelength 1.55 μm for TM polarization. The grating coupler has 1 dB bandwidth of 60 nm and coupling efficiency of 65% with incident light from single-mode optical fiber (SMF) at 8°.     

Ultra-low-loss inverted taper coupler for silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguide

An ultra-low-loss coupler for interfacing a silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguide and a single-mode fiber in both polarizations is presented. The inverted taper coupler, embedded in a polymer waveguide, is optimized for both the transverse-magnetic and transverse-electric modes through tapering the width of the silicon-on-insulator waveguide from 450 nm down to less than 15 nm applying a thermal oxidation process. Two inverted taper couplers are integrated with a 3-mm long silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguide in the fabricated sample. The measured coupling losses of the inverted taper coupler for transverse-magnetic and transverse-electric modes are ∼ 0.36 dB and ∼ 0.66 dB per connection, respectively.     

Fiber grating couplers for silicon nanophotonic circuits: Design modeling methodology and fabrication tolerances

Silicon nanophotonic circuits can exhibit a very high level of functional integration due to the very small cross sections of the silicon waveguides. However, to be implemented in data transmission networks, such circuits still must be interfaced with optical fibers having much larger dimensions. Due to this mismatch in size, a coupling structure is required in order to minimize the coupling loss. Diffraction grating coupler structures are one of the best candidates to perform this mode size conversion with good performances. However, they are also very sensitive to fabrication tolerances that may require an adaptation of the coupling conditions. In this paper, we present an iterative numerical method to optimize the design of a grating coupler by analyzing the out coupled beam from the waveguide towards the fiber. Using this method we show in details the sensitivity of the grating couplers to the principal fabrication variabilities in order to maximize the robustness of the design. A grating with 53% fiber to waveguide coupling efficiency is designed. Considering the dispersion of the modern CMOS fabrication processing, it appears that the optimal fiber coupling ratio remains rather constant but the optimal coupling angle at a given wavelength may vary by as much as ±10°.     

SOI材料非对称脊型波导结构PDL标准样品研究

通过制备非对称结构SOI脊型波导,设计并优化得到一个偏振相关损耗标准样品,通过与标准单模光纤耦合封装,实现了偏振相关损耗测试仪表的快速校准。该器件偏振相关损耗值为0.58dB,测量重复性相对标准差为0.02,测量不确定度为0.2dB。     

Optical properties of He+-implanted and diamond blade-diced terbium gallium garnet crystal planar and ridge waveguides

Terbium gallium garnet (Tb₃Ga₅O₁₂, TGG) crystal can be used to fabricate various magneto-optical devices due to its optimal Faraday effect. In this work, 400-keV He⁺ ions with a fluence of 6.0×10¹⁶ ions/cm² are irradiated into the TGG crystal for the planar waveguide formation. The precise diamond blade dicing with a rotation speed of 2×10⁴ rpm and a cutting velocity of 0.1 mm/s is performed on the He⁺-implanted TGG planar waveguide for the ridge structure. The dark-mode spectrum of the He⁺-implanted TGG planar waveguide is measured by the prism-coupling method, thereby obtaining the relationship between the reflected light intensity and the effective refractive index. The refractive index profile of the planar waveguide is reconstructed by the reflectivity calculation method. The near-field light intensity distribution of the planar waveguide and the ridge waveguide are recorded by the end-face coupling method. The He⁺-implanted and diamond blade-diced TGG crystal planar and ridge waveguides are promising candidates for integrated magneto-optical devices.     

金属有机化学气相外延生长1310nm偏振无关混合应变量子阱半导体光放大器研究

采用低压金属有机化学气相外延设备进行了1.3μm压应变量子阱材料、张应变量子阱材料和混合应变量子阱材料的生长研究.通过x射线双晶衍射和光致发光谱对生长材料进行测试和分析.基于四个压应变量子阱和三个张应变量子阱交替生长的混合应变量子阱（4CW3TW）结构有源区，并采用7°斜腔脊型波导结构以有效抑制腔面反射，经蒸镀减反膜后，半导体光放大器光纤光纤小信号增益达21.5dB，在1280—1340nm波长范围内偏振灵敏度小于0.6dB. 关键词： 偏振无关 应变量子阱 半导体光放大器 减反膜     

Theoretical analyses on improved beam properties of GaSb-based 2.X-μm quantum-well diode lasers with no degradation in laser parameters

An asymmetric laser heterostructure is developed to improve the beam properties of GaSb-based diode lasers with no degradation in laser parameters.Employing the semivectorial finite difference method,the dependences of beam divergence and optical confinement factor on waveguide width and refractive index step are investigated theoretically.After carefully design,a particular asymmetric laser structure is proposed.Its beam divergence in the fast axis is reduced from 61° to 34° compared with that of the broad-waveguide structure.The optical confinement factor is approximately equal to 0.0362 and comparable to that of the conventional broad-waveguide structure.     

稳定耦合效率的沟槽结构半导体激光器

为了稳定半导体激光器激射光束在光纤传输过程的耦合效率,提出一种沟槽结构的半导体激光器,并对该结构激光器的光束、耦合效率及P-I特性进行研究。在普通条形半导体激光器的脊形区刻蚀了周期性的沟槽结构,来改善半导体激光器有源区的增益分布。通过对比普通结构与沟槽结构半导体激光器的光束分析,测试其耦合效率以及P-I特性。结果表明:沟槽结构的半导体激光器能够使光腔内模式更加稳定,输出光束更加集中,并避免了"Kink"效应的发生;与此同时,耦合效率提高至97.7%,并且较普通结构激光器更为稳定。沟槽结构半导体激光器有效地解决了光斑跳动问题,稳定了激光器的耦和效率。     

Design of hybrid optical waveguide with a 90° bend structure for high density photonics integrated circuits

A hybrid optical waveguide having a 90° sharp bend structure, composed of a dielectric straight waveguide, tapered dielectric strip waveguide, and microscale metal gap waveguide, is proposed and simulated to improve the efficiency of light coupling between dielectric and plasmonic waveguides. Our simulation result is a critical step for the hybrid integration of plasmonic components with conventional dielectric components.     

脊加载曲折波导行波管注波互作用的线性理论研究

提出了一类新型毫米波大功率微波器件——脊加载曲折波导行波管,推导出了引入电子注后的"热"色散方程.通过数值求解此方程,研究了加脊尺寸和电子注参数对小信号增益影响.计算结果表明:通过适当的尺寸设计和工作参数的选择,此结构在Kα波段具有18.51%的3 dB增益带宽和1.15 dB/周期的增益;相比于常规曲折波导结构,脊加载结构在保证一定带宽的情况下,具有更高的增益和电子效率;为了进一步提高增益,可以适当增加脊宽度和高度,也可在一定范围内增加电子注电流. 关键词： 毫米波 曲折波导 脊加载 小信号增益     

聚合物脊波导偏振特性

以有机聚合物脊波导为研究对象,采用半矢量有限差分光束传输法,系统地分析了不同脊高、脊宽和芯层厚度条件下对称脊波导的偏振特性,并在此基础上分析了非对称脊波导的偏振特性,研究了平板芯层短边宽度对偏振特性的影响。结果表明:非对称脊波导结构的引入对偏振特性影响较小,其双折射随平板芯层短边宽度的减小而减小。当脊高为1.3 m、平板芯层短边宽度为2.0 m时,非对称脊波导双折射能控制在可接受范围。     

A horn ridge waveguide DFB laser with reduced spatial hole burning for high-speed modulation

In this paper, we propose a DFB laser with a horn ridge waveguide (HRW) to suppress the longitudinal spatial hole burning (LSHB) effect in the lasers cavity, thus to reduce the rolloff at low frequency. The simulation result shows that HRW DFB lasers could significantly suppress the LSHB effect and its modulation bandwidth is increased by 14% comparing with the conventional straight ridge waveguide (RW) DFB lasers when the normalized coupling coefficient (κL) is 3.0. The calculated eye diagrams of HRW DFB lasers under direct 25 Gbps modulation have clearer opening than that of the conventional RW DFB lasers. These superior properties are due to the suppression of the LSHB effect by the HRW structure.     

基于非对称脊波导的多种聚合物弯波导性能分析

以缩短马赫-曾德尔(M-Z)电光调制器分支波导为目的,将有机聚合物非对称结构的脊波导应用于S弯波导中。采用半矢量有限差分光束传输分析法,系统地分析了不同参数下采用非对称脊波导的三种常见弯波导,即正弦弯、圆弧弯和余弦弯分支波导的TM00光场传输损耗,并与采用对称脊波导的结构相比较。研究表明,在芯层厚度h=1.5μm、脊高为0.3μm、脊宽w=4μm、分支高度G=11μm的情况下,当脊波导短边芯层平板宽度s≥2μm时,在相同传输损耗条件下,正弦弯、圆弧弯和余弦弯分支波导长度分别可减少40%、30%和25%,该结果对有机聚合物M-Z调制器中分支波导的设计具有一定的参考价值。     

基于单发光区芯片的大功率光纤耦合激光器的输出远场特征分析

为研究光纤耦合激光器的输出远场特征,基于ZEMAX光学设计软件,模拟了基于单发光区激光器芯片的多种光纤耦合结构,分析了不同耦合结构的输出远场特征。模拟结果表明:单管耦合输出远场分布通常为中间亮、边缘暗的圆形光斑。当准直后的光束快慢轴光束尺寸基本一致时,远场输出光斑均匀性会得到极大改善;当存在光纤轴心角向误差(大于1°)时,远场输出光斑的均匀性会明显降低。多单管耦合时,单管之间的台阶高度若大于准直后的快轴光斑尺寸,则对应的远场输出为有暗区的同心圆环,单管的数量对应圆环的数量。为了提高输出远场分布的均匀度,应严格控制合束单管之间的台阶高度。     

条形半导体激光器光束质量因子M2的理论计算

通过一个二维半矢量模型求得纯折射率导引脊形波导和掩埋波导这两种常见平面条形半导体激光器波导结构的模式光场分布，现通过描述光束传播的非傍轴矢量二阶矩，通过平面波谱的方法获得激光器出射光束在横向和侧向上的束腰、远场发散角和M^2因子。讨论了波导结构参量变化对M^2因子的影响，并对两种波导结构光束的性质与波导参量的关系进行了比较。