Design of programmable multi-wavelength tunable filter on lithium niobate

Yuan Yao; Jiaqing Hou; Haifeng Liu; Ailing Zhang; Bo Liu; Hao Zhang; Jianguo Liu

Results in Physics (Dec 2019)

Design of programmable multi-wavelength tunable filter on lithium niobate

Yuan Yao,
Jiaqing Hou,
Haifeng Liu,
Ailing Zhang,
Bo Liu,
Hao Zhang,
Jianguo Liu

Affiliations

Yuan Yao: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Jiaqing Hou: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Haifeng Liu: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China; State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, China; Corresponding authors.
Ailing Zhang: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Optoelectronic Devices and Communication Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China; Corresponding authors.
Bo Liu: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Hao Zhang: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Jianguo Liu: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15

Abstract

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Tunable optical filters have a wide range of applications, especially in optical sensing systems and optical communication systems. In this letter, a programmable multi-wavelength tunable filter on Lithium Niobate (LN) is designed. The spectral response of the filter could be tuned by manipulating the voltage applied on the electrode pairs due to the electro-optic effect of LN. Besides, the number of resonant wavelength and the wavelength spacing are both programmable by encoding the electrode pairs. The number of resonant wavelength is reconfigured by changing the number of ‘1’ in the code. The wavelength spacing of the filter is reconfigured by the number of ‘0’ between adjacent ‘1’ in the code. Keywords: Lithium Niobate, Programmable, Tunable filter, Electro-optic effect

Published in Results in Physics

ISSN: 2211-3797 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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