L-band erbium-doped fibre amplifier with clamped- and flattened-gain using FBG

A gain clamped long wavelength band erbium-doped fibre amplifier (L-band EDFA) based on a ring laser cavity is demonstrated using a fibre Bragg grating (FBG) at the output end of the amplifier. This new design provides a good gain clamping as well as a gain flattening. The gain is clamped at 16.9 dB with gain variation of less than 0.1 dB from input signal power of -40 to -18 dBm by setting the VOA=5 dB. Also, the amplifier has the flattest gain spectrum at VOA=5. The gain variation is less than 1.0 dB within the wavelength range from 1570 to 1600 nm. This gain clamped amplifier also can support a 12 channel WDM system.     

全光纤热光型可变光衰减器

根据光纤包层中的倏逝场机制,将具有热光效应的聚合物材料直接覆盖在侧边抛磨光纤上,进行了全光纤热光型可变光衰减器(VOA)的研究.根据理论分析,确定了在侧边抛磨光纤的抛磨区上覆盖材料的折射率与纤芯中光衰减量之间的关系,为选择适当折射率的热光材料提供依据.设计适当的侧边抛磨区,利用先进的轮式侧边抛磨技术,制备了侧边抛磨光纤,以达到最佳可变光衰减效果.采用螺绕电极和优化封装,制作出性能优良的全光纤热光型可变光衰减器.性能测试表明,器件插入损耗小于0.1 dB,衰减范围为0~80 dB,偏振相关损耗小于0.02 dB,背向反射大于70 dB.该方法制作的全光纤热光型可变光衰减器具有可用电驱动调控、可靠性高等优点.     

MOEMS variable optical attenuator with improved dynamic characteristics based on robust design

The design and preliminary data of a novel microoptoelectromechanical systems variable optical attenuator (VOA) driven by a pair of V-beam electrothermal actuators is described. This VOA deploys a face-to-face arranged pair of 45/spl deg/ tilted mirrors in front of two coaxially aligned lensed fibers to form retro-reflection planar light path for attenuation. The initial insertion loss is 0.7 dB at 1550 nm and the maximum dynamic range of attenuation is 50 dB, respectively. The polarization-dependent loss is measured as 0.15 dB at 20-dB attenuation. The dynamic attenuation deviation is less than /spl plusmn/0.36 dB at 20-dB attenuation with respect to 20-G shock of periodical mechanical vibration at 1 K Hz, in which it complies with requirements of the Telcordia GR1221 regulations.     

基于SOI的16通道VMUX器件单片集成

本文制作了基于绝缘体上硅(SOI)材料的16通道的光功率可调波分复用器(VMUX),并且采用了脊形波导结构。该器件是由信道间隔100GHz的阵列波导光栅(AWG)及电光型可调光衰减器(VOA)组成,该VOA采用了侧向p-i-n二极管结构。该VMUX器件的插入损耗为9.1dB,串扰为10dB。VOA在衰减量为20dB时的注入电流为60.74mA。器件的整体尺寸为2.9×1mm2。该VMUX器件具备优异的16通道波分复用及光功率均衡的性能。     

基于3 μm-SOI的波分复用/解复用器与电吸收型VOA的单片集成

波分复用/解复用器与可调光衰减器的是光通信系统中的重要元器件。为了得到制备工艺简单、响应速度快的二者的单片集成芯片,并且考虑到其与其他不同光器件的集成可能性,在绝缘体上硅材料制作了16通道、信道间隔200 GHz的阵列波导光栅复用/解复用器与电吸收型可调光衰减器的单片集成。该器件的片上损耗小于7 dB,串扰小于-22 dB。电吸收型VOA在20 dB的衰减量下的功耗为572 mW （106 mA,5.4 V）。此外,该器件可以实现光功率的快速衰减,在0~5 V的外加方波电压下,VOA上升及下降时间分别为50.5 ns和48 ns。     

A wavelength division multiplexer based on plastic surfacerelief grating applied to local area communication network

A plastic surface-relief grating as a wavelength division multiplexer is designed and fabricated with the conventional mould pressing technique using the transmission-type fused quartz phase grating as mask pattern and polycarbonate as basal material.The experiment results show that in an optimizing process,the plastic surface-relief grating has the highest firstorder diffraction efficiency under adequate groove depth and incident angle,and can be used as the best optical path for wavelength division multiplexing(WDM).We also establish the experiment setup for testing the WDM performance of the plastic surface-relief grating based wavelength division multiplexer.The results show that the proposed wavelength division multiplexer has the high-stability temperature characteristics,the low insertion loss of less than 5 dB,the large isolation of greater than 20 dB,the low polarization-dependent loss(PDL) of less than 0.4 dB and the relatively steep pass-band characteristics.It is a WDM device with good performance,which can be applied in short distance communication.     

基于CRLH的小型化超宽带带通滤波器的研究

提出了基于复合左右手结构传输线(Composite Right/left-handed Structure Transmission Lines.简称CRLH TLs)的小型化超宽带带通滤波器.给出了滤波器的设计结构及其等效电路,仿真表明,该超宽带带通滤波器可在3.2～8.6 GHz的通带范围内插入损耗小于0.7 dB.回损大于17dB.带内群时延小于0.4ns.新的滤波器的尺寸约为中心波导波长的1/3.便于实现结构的小型化.     

Fused taper/filter hybrid single-mode wavelength divisionmulti/demultiplexer

A low loss and low crosstalk single-mode wavelength division multi/demultiplexer was successfully fabricated by embedding an interference filter in each output arm of a fused taper coupler. The insertion loss was around 1.5 dB at the wavelengths of 1.3 μm and 1.55 μm, and both near-end and far-end crosstalks were less than -50 dB     

Dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber with large effective area and low confinement loss

A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) can realize a flat dispersion over a wide wavelength range that cannot be realized with a conventional single-mode fiber. However, the confinement loss tends to increase in a conventional dispersion-flattened PCF (DF-PCF) that has uniform air holes. In this paper, a novel PCF that has two cladding layers with different effective indices is proposed. The authors numerically show that the proposed PCF can achieve an ultralow dispersion variation of less than 0.8 ps/nm/spl middot/km in all telecommunication bands, with both a large effective area greater than 100 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ and a low confinement loss less than 0.01 dB/km.     

Enhancement of clock component in a nonreturn-to-zero signal through beating process

For optical clock recovery of nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) signals of more than 40 Gb/s, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple clock recovery scheme through beating process between the carrier frequency component and one of the clock frequency components in modulated NRZ signals. The proposed scheme consists of a circulator, a variable optical attenuator (VOA), and two fiber Bragg grating (FBG) filters. With FBG filters and a VOA, the proposed scheme can equalize the amplitudes of two extracted frequency components for a maximum clock-to-noise ratio (CNR). Through this scheme, we have squared the adjustment range of the VOA and achieved an enhanced CNR of more than 15 dB before the receiver in experiment. Bit error rate (BER) curves for back-to-back and 80 km transmissions showed that BERs of less than 10⁻¹¹ can be obtained without error floors for both cases. We expect that the proposed scheme can operate as an efficient clock extraction system for high-speed optical communications.     

Fluorinated polyimide waveguides with low polarization-dependentloss and their applications to thermooptic switches

Fluorinated polyimide waveguides with low polarization dependent loss (PDL) and thermooptic (TO) switches made from them were demonstrated. The waveguides showed loss of less than 0.3 dB/cm at the wavelength of 1.3 μm and 0.6 dB/cm at 1.55 μm for both TE and TM polarizations. The PDL's were less than 0.1 dB/cm. Extinction ratios of Y-branching-type TO switches fabricated from these waveguides were larger than 20 dB when over 160 mW of electric power was applied at 1.3 μm, and over 150 mW at 1.55 μm. The switching speed was faster than 8 ms     

Metal-defined polymeric variable optical attenuator

A variable optical attenuator (VOA) based on a metal-defined polymeric optical waveguide has been demonstrated for the first time. The metal film stressor deposited on top of the upper cladding layer not only produces the refractive index change within the core layer, but also acts as a thin-film heater allowing thermal tuning of the optical power within a metal-defined optical waveguide. Fabricated devices exhibit greater than 25 dB of optical attenuation with an applied electrical current of /spl sim/40 mA at 1550-nm wavelength. The switching speed of the VOA exhibits 800 /spl mu/s of rising and 720 /spl mu/s of falling time.     

Polarisation-insensitive Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ strip-loaded BaTiO/sub 3/ thin-film waveguide with low propagation losses

A low-loss and polarisation-insensitive singlemode BaTiO/sub 3/ thin-film waveguide is reported. Polarisation-dependent loss as low as 0.1 dB/cm at a wavelength of 1.55 /spl mu/m has been achieved by a novel Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ strip-loaded BaTiO/sub 3/ waveguide structure. Propagation loss of less than 0.9 dB/cm for both TE and TM polarisations was measured     

Low loss fully reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical 1/spl times/N switch based on transversal filter configuration using silica-based planar lightwave circuit

A low loss wavelength-selective switch is proposed and demonstrated. The switch has a 1/spl times/4 transversal filter configuration that includes arrayed waveguide gratings and thermooptic phase shifters, and can route arbitrary wavelength input light to arbitrary outputs with no loss variation. We confirmed its operating principle and obtained an average loss of 2.7 dB and a worst extinction ratio of more than 20 dB.     

Low-voltage high-contrast n-i-p-i-based waveguide modulators with alloyed selective contacts

We investigated an electroabsorptive n-i-p-i waveguide modulator based on the Franz-Keldysh effect (FKE), which is especially designed to operate with very low voltage swings over a broad wavelength range. In order to contact the n-i-p-i structure, the layer sequence and annealing conditions of Au-Zn-Au and Ni-Ge-Au contacts were optimized with respect to good selectivity and low contact resistance. The transmission measurements yield a contrast ratio of 30 dB, achieved with a voltage swing less than 1.5 V at a wavelength of 910 /spl mu/m with a 900-/spl mu/m-long waveguide modulator. Contrast ratios of /spl ges/20 dB have been obtained within the whole spectral range from 910 nm to 940 mm with a voltage swing less than 2 V. The absorption loss due to the FKE is below 3 dB.     

光子晶体波导可调光衰减器

提出一种直接用光子晶体(PC)波导实现的新型可调光衰减器(VOA)。基于填充液晶的光子晶体方向带隙的可调节性,通过调节液晶指向矢的旋转角实现对光子晶体波导衰减量进行控制。采用时域有限差分法(FDTD)对其原理和结构参量进行了分析。数值模拟结果表明,随着液晶旋转角从0°～90°改变,填充液晶的光子晶体波导可以实现光通量在0.5～25.4dB的动态衰减,它插入到普通光子晶体波导之间的额外损耗只有0.2dB,尺寸仅为微米量级。     

聚合物热光可变光衰减器

提出一种旁路结构聚合物热光可变光衰减器 (variable optical attenuator,VOA)的设计 ,采用旁路波导可提高衰减效率并降低串扰 .软件模拟验证 ,无间距旁路 VOA衰减可达 2 8d B,比未加旁路波导的相同结构 VOA增加10 d B,但同时插入损耗增加 0 .3d B,串扰低于 - 4 4 d B,理论功耗为 4 0 m W.采用倒脊形结构研制了原理性的热光聚合物 VOA,测得衰减大于 11d B,相应输入电流为 6 6 m A,具有明显的热光效应 .     

Monolithic Integration of a Multiplexer/Demultiplexer With a Thermo-Optic VOA Array on an SOI Platform

In this letter, a nine-channel 100-GHz arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer/demultiplexer is monolithically integrated with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer thermo-optic variable optical attenuators (VOAs) arrayed on a silicon-on-insulator platform. The on-chip transmission loss is $sim$6 dB and the crosstalk is less than $-$25 dB for the transverse-electric mode. The maximum modulation depths of different thermo-optic VOAs are similar, $sim$ 15 dB with 2.7-V bias. The frequency response of our device is fast ($geq$ 100 kHz) for thermo-optic effect devices. The maximum power consumption of a single VOA is less than 35 mW.      

Silica-based integrated optic Mach-Zehnder multi/demultiplexerfamily with channel spacing of 0.01-250 nm

A Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer design is presented for application to wavelength-division multiplexed/frequency division multiplexed (WDM/FDM) systems. A variety of integrated-optic devices with low loss and low crosstalk, using silica-based waveguides, are demonstrated. MZ interferometers operate as multi/demultiplexers or frequency-selection switches. The channel spacing is determined by the waveguide arm length difference, and a spacing range of 1 GHz to 36 THz, corresponding to a wavelength spacing of 0.008-250 nm, is achieved. The devices for the WDM region have low fiber-to-fiber loss of 0.5 dB, and the devices for the FDM region have higher losses of 2-5 dB. Crosstalk of less than -15 dB was obtained for all the devices. A 5-GHz-spaced 16-channel frequency selection switch and a 10-GHz-spaced eight-channel multi/demultiplexer were also fabricated with a total loss of 5 dB and total crosstalk of -10 dB or less     

Submicrosecond speed variable optical attenuator usingacoustooptics

A novel variable optical attenuator (VOA) is introduced that can provide high dynamic range and high-resolution all at fast submicrosecond speeds. The VOA design exploits an in-line one-to-one imaging optical architecture operating with Bragg-mode acoustooptic Bragg cells. Optical attenuation is achieved via frequency and drive voltage control of the Bragg cells, leading to flexible and precise attenuation-level settings. VOA demonstrated a 45-dB dynamic range with a 175-ns switching time. Other measured parameters include 1.14-dB/MHz resolution, 1.56-dB polarization dependent loss, and an excess loss of 3.55 dB