Analysis and experimental results on a polarization independent electrooptic
matched filter (EMF) with a center wavelength of 1.53 μm are reported. The EMF
utilizes electrooptic phase-matched TE↔TM conversion in a Ti-diffused waveguide on
a LiNbO3 substrate. The operation of the EMF to select an optical frequency channel is
controlled by applying independent voltages to interdigital electrode sets cascaded
along a single mode waveguide. The device is inherently polarization independent and
has the potential for submicrosecond tuning. The number of selectable channels N is
related to the number of electrode sets P by the formula / 2 1 N P = + . A matrix analysis
is used to determine the TE↔TM conversion efficiency for the case that 8 P = and
5 N = . A driving circuit for the EMF was implemented using a digital-to-analog
converter (DAC) array controlled from a personal computer (PC). Transmittance
spectra of a filter produced in a LiNbO3 substrate are presented. A raised cosine
weighting function applied along the 3.8 cm length of an EMF provides a sidelobe
suppression level better than Â17 dB with a 1.0 nm 3-dB bandwidth.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/3305 |
| Date | 12 April 2006 |
| Creators | Kim, Changdong |
| Contributors | Taylor, Henry F. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 578540 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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