편광상이 고리 기반 광섬유 다파장 필터의 입력 편광으로 제어되는 채널 간격 스위칭에 대한 연구

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an optical fiber multiwavelength filter based on a polarization-diversified loop (PDL), whose channel spacings (CSs) can be controlled by its input state of polarization (SOP). The PDL-based filter consists of a polarization beam splitter, three half-wave plates (HWPs), a Faraday rotator (FR), and two polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) segments with equal birefringence and different lengths. At proper orientation angle sets (θ<SUB>h1</SUB>, θ<SUB>h2</SUB>, θ<SUB>h3</SUB>) of the three HWPs, the proposed filter can have its polarization-dependent transmittance, offering the CS-switchable operation realized by switching between two orthogonal input SOPs of linear horizontal polarization (LHP) and linear vertical polarization (LVP). In particular, at a fixed input SOP, a half-period wavelength switching operation, i.e., an interleaving operation, can also be implemented by controlling only one HWP angle (θ<SUB>h1</SUB> or θ<SUB>h3</SUB>). Theoretical prediction was verified by experiments. For orthogonal input SOPs of LHP and LVP, the fabricated PDL-based filter could provide transmission spectra with CSs of ∼0.9 and ∼0.3nm or vice versa at appropriate sets of (θ<SUB>h1</SUB><SUB></SUB>, θ<SUB>h2</SUB>, θ<SUB>h3</SUB>), respectively, and each of the transmission spectra could be interleaved by adjusting only θ<SUB>h1</SUB> or θ<SUB>h3</SUB>.