LOW-LOSS TUNABLE INTEGRATED ACOUSTOOPTICAL WAVELENGTH FILTER IN LINBO3 WITH STRONG SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION

Authors
HERRMANN H SCHAFER K SCHMIDT C
Citation
H. Herrmann et al., LOW-LOSS TUNABLE INTEGRATED ACOUSTOOPTICAL WAVELENGTH FILTER IN LINBO3 WITH STRONG SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(1), 1998, pp. 120-122
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
10
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
120 - 122
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:1<120:LTIAWF>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
An integrated acoustooptical double-stage wave-length filter in LiNbO3 has been developed using acoustooptical polarization converters and p olarization splitters as basic components integrated on the same chip. Ti-indiffusion technology is used throughout to fabricate the device. The packaged and pigtailed filter has low insertion losses (4.1 dB fi ber-to-fiber), low-polarization dependence (0.1 dB) and a strong sidel obe and baseline suppression (>30 dB). Its tuning range exceeds the ga in bandwidth of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers around 1550 nm.