温度不敏感电光调制器和保偏光衰减器设计

A new design for temperature insensitive electro-optic modulator and variable optical attenuator is presented in this paper. The modulator consists of a pair of electro-optic crystals, one polarizer and a pair of collimators. The propagation of light through the modulator is studied in detail using wave coupling theory of linear electro-optic effect. The study result demonstrates that only the amplitude of output light is modulated, and the polarization state does not change at all. Phase shift brought by natural binary refraction does not exist in the modulator, there is no zero-field leakage, temperature stability is very good, and insertion loss is small. And it can be used as variable optical attenuator and electro-optic detector, too。

A Temperature Insensitive Design for Electro-Optic Modulator and Variable Optical Attenuator

A new design for temperature insensitive electro-optic modulator and variable optical attenuator is presented in this paper. The modulator consists of a pair of electro-optic crystals, one polarizer and a pair of collimators. The propagation of light through the modulator is studied in detail using wave coupling theory of linear electro-optic effect. The study result demonstrates that only the amplitude of output light is modulated, and the polarization state does not change at all. Phase shift brought by natural binary refraction does not exist in the modulator, there is no zero-field leakage, temperature stability is very good, and insertion loss is small. And it can be used as variable optical attenuator and electro-optic detector, too.