摘要:
To produce a fiber laser (106) a double-cladding active fiber (114) doped with Yb is predisposed to receive, near a first end (114a), a UV radiation suitable to write a first Bragg grating; during the writing process, a scanned pumping radiation is fed to the first end of the active fiber in order to excite an amplified stimulated emission between the first grating and the reflecting surface of a second end (114b) of the active fiber, previously cut and cleaned, and to consequently induce a laser emission from the active fiber; the optical power of the laser emission is measured and processed to obtain the laser efficiency; when a maximum value of the efficiency is reached, the writing process is stopped; similar steps are used to write a second grating near the second end (114b) of the active fiber.
摘要:
A mode hop-free tunable laser including a gain medium, a microfabricated blazed grating, defining an external cavity of a given length, the blazed grating lying in a general plane and including a plurality of elongate beams carrying mutually parallel respective reflection surfaces spaced apart from one another with a predefined pitch, and actuating elements designed so as to allow displacements of the assembly with respect to a grating support within a plane substantially parallel to the grating general plane, and including actuation elements designed so as to apply a stretching and a displacement of the assembly in a direction transverse to said reflection surfaces, the blazed grating being arranged relative to an incident light beam provided by the gain medium so that the incident light beam impinges on the reflection surfaces with a substantially normal incident angle.
摘要:
A device for crossing optical beams. At least a first input optical waveguide is directed along a first axis, a second optical waveguide is directed along a second axis inclined with respect to the first axis, and a photonic crystal having a regular periodicity in an optical crossing region at the intersection of said first and second axis has, opposite the first and second input waveguides, a first and a second output waveguide to provide for exit beams.
摘要:
A wavelength selective grating-based filter includes a planar waveguide which includes a core surrounded by a cladding, the cladding including a lower cladding, the core being placed above the lower cladding, a lateral cladding adjacent to a first and a second opposite lateral sides of the core, and an upper cladding, said upper cladding being positioned above said core and lateral cladding. The waveguide also includes a grating structure, including a first and a second plurality of grating trenches formed in the lateral cladding in proximity of the first and second opposite lateral sides of the core, respectively. The first and second plurality of grating trenches are covered by the upper cladding.
摘要:
A device for varying the direction of an optical beam. A first waveguide is directed along a first direction, a second waveguide is directed along a second direction different from the first direction, and a bending region is interposed between the first and the second waveguide. The bending region has a photonic crystal having a regular periodicity and at least a first and a second crystal axes substantially aligned with the first and second directions, and a reflecting surface delimiting the photonic crystal and so positioned and oriented as to reflect an optical beam coming from the first waveguide toward the second waveguide.
摘要:
An optical wavelenth selective filter on an optical waveguide and a method of making the same is provided. The filter is able to transmit a first predetermined band of wavelengths and to reflect a second predetermined band. The filter further includes a plurality of transmissive couples and reflective couples in series, with each of the couples including a first zone of high refractive index and a second zone of low refractive index adjacent to each other so as to form a structure with a high gap modulated refractive index.
摘要:
An integrated optical device having a first and a second integrated waveguide arranged so as to be in optical coupling relationship in a first and a second spaced-apart coupling region and having respective optically uncoupled waveguide sections in between the first and second coupling regions. A first and a second modulated refractive index structures are provided, each one formed along a respective uncoupled waveguide section; the modulated refractive index structures each having at least one pair of regions of mutually different refractive index adjacent to each other along the respective uncoupled waveguide section. The regions of mutually different refractive index have a portion of the respective uncoupled waveguide section and a gap formed in the uncoupled waveguide section, the refractive indexes of the regions differing from each other by at least approximately 1.5%. The device can be exploited to form optical multiplexers/demultiplexers, particularly adapted to the use in wavelength division multiplexing optical communications.
摘要:
A blazed grating is disclosed as well as mode hop-free tunable lasers and a process for fabricating gratings of this type. The grating lies in a general plane and includes a plurality of elongate beams carrying mutually parallel respective reflection surfaces spaced apart from one another with a predefined pitch, each of these reflection surfaces having a normal direction inclined at a grating angle α to the normal direction of the general plane. The grating includes a plurality of resilient suspension arms connected to the beams and intended to be fastened to a grating support. A first pair of comb electrodes is provided for applying a mechanical force to this assembly, being placed on a first side of the grating, along an axis transverse to the beams, and designed so as to allow the pitch of the grating to be modified in response to the application of the mechanical force.
摘要:
A method for guiding electromagnetic radiation by providing a photonic crystal made of a bulk material with a predetermined refractive index and having a periodic array of holes with predetermined radius, and feeding to that region an electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the fundamental photonic band and so related to the refractive index of the bulk material, to the radius of the holes and to the period of the array that, starting from an isotropic distribution of the wave vectors within a first angular range that is twice the angular extension of the first irreducible Brillouin zone of the photonic crystal, the corresponding group velocity vectors are rearranged as concerns direction and module so that at least 50% of them become directed within a second angular range that is about one-third of the first angular range and the width at half-maximum of the distribution of the modules of the vectors is lower than about two-thirds of the second angular range.
摘要:
An optical filter includes at least one ring resonator that receives as input an optical signal having a plurality of channels from an input optical source. At least one Mach-Zehnder module is nested in the at least one ring resonator. The at least one Mach-Zehnder module and the at least one ring resonator filter at least one selective channel from the optical signal.