Feasibility of Non-Collinear TeO2 Acoustic-Optic Tunable Filters Used in the Optical Communication
LIU Wei, SUN Yu-Nan, CUI Fang, BAN Long
Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081
Feasibility of Non-Collinear TeO2 Acoustic-Optic Tunable Filters Used in the Optical Communication
LIU Wei;SUN Yu-Nan;CUI Fang;BAN Long
Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081
摘要The characteristics and the structure of TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter used in communication are discussed briefly based on the acoustic-optic theory and it is shown that a large optical incident angle and a long interaction length are suitable for the optical add/drop multiplexer based on the TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter. The distribution of acoustic energy flow in the device supports the large optical incident angle. The long interaction length depends on the change of the device structure to some degree. The measured results of the samples show that the diffraction efficiency reaches at 96% in the tuning range larger than 100nm and the bandwidth is about 2nm. It can be found that there is a good consistency with the basic theoretical mode. The optimized design result shows that the diffraction efficiency can arrive at 100%, and the bandwidth can be less than 0.4nm. Thus, the non-collinear TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter can play an important role in the coming general optical network.
Abstract：The characteristics and the structure of TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter used in communication are discussed briefly based on the acoustic-optic theory and it is shown that a large optical incident angle and a long interaction length are suitable for the optical add/drop multiplexer based on the TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter. The distribution of acoustic energy flow in the device supports the large optical incident angle. The long interaction length depends on the change of the device structure to some degree. The measured results of the samples show that the diffraction efficiency reaches at 96% in the tuning range larger than 100nm and the bandwidth is about 2nm. It can be found that there is a good consistency with the basic theoretical mode. The optimized design result shows that the diffraction efficiency can arrive at 100%, and the bandwidth can be less than 0.4nm. Thus, the non-collinear TeO2 acoustic-optic tunable filter can play an important role in the coming general optical network.
LIU Wei;SUN Yu-Nan;CUI Fang;BAN Long. Feasibility of Non-Collinear TeO2 Acoustic-Optic Tunable Filters Used in the Optical Communication[J]. 中国物理快报, 2007, 24(4): 986-989.
LIU Wei, SUN Yu-Nan, CUI Fang, BAN Long. Feasibility of Non-Collinear TeO2 Acoustic-Optic Tunable Filters Used in the Optical Communication. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(4): 986-989.
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