Guided wave acousto-optic and electro-optic tunable filter designs with relaxed beam-splitter requirements. Academic Article

abstract

• New designs for acousto-optic tunable filters and electro-optic tunable filters with the Mach-Zehnder configuration are proposed. The new designs differ from conventional designs in three respects: (1) polarizing beam splitters are not required, (2) the optical path difference for the waveguides between the beam splitters is a half-wavelength, and (3) the relative positions of the polarization coupling regions in the two waveguides are displaced in the propagation direction by half of the spatial period of the perturbation responsible for the coupling. Because the new designs provide an additional degree of freedom in achieving the required beam-splitter performance, they are expected to be much easier to fabricate than conventional filter designs with polarizing beam splitters.

authors

• Eknoyan, Ohannes

published proceedings

• Appl Opt

author list (cited authors)

• Taylor, H. F., & Eknoyan, O.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Taylor, HF||Eknoyan, O

publication date

• January 2000

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• n1559-128XISSN  Journal

keywords

• 0912 Materials Engineering

PubMed Central ID

• 18337879

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ao.39.000124

start page

• 124

end page

• 128

volume

• 39

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.39.000124