Micromachines (Feb 2023)

Miniature Fourier Transform Spectrometer Based on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate

  • Lichao Zhang,
  • Guangyang Gou,
  • Jiamin Chen,
  • Wangzhe Li,
  • Weichao Ma,
  • Ruoming Li,
  • Junming An,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Tianjun Ma,
  • Chunxiu Liu,
  • Jianjun Cheng,
  • Zhimei Qi,
  • Ning Xue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14020458
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 2
p. 458

Abstract

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A miniature Fourier transform spectrometer is proposed using a thin-film lithium niobate electro-optical modulator instead of the conventional modulator made by titanium diffusion in lithium niobate. The modulator was fabricated by a contact lithography process, and its voltage-length and optical waveguide loss were 2.26 V·cm and 1.01 dB/cm, respectively. Based on the wavelength dispersion of the half-wave voltage of the fabricated modulator, the emission spectrum of the input signal was retrieved by Fourier transform processing of the interferogram, and the analysis of the experimental data of monochromatic light shows that the proposed miniaturized FTS can effectively identify the input signal wavelength.

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