Dynamic optical coupled system employing Dammann gratings

Caihui Di; Changhe Zhou; Huayi Ru

doi:10.1117/12.558242

22 October 2004 Dynamic optical coupled system employing Dammann gratings

Caihui Di, Changhe Zhou, Huayi Ru

Proceedings Volume 5560, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications X; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558242
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

With the increasing of the number of users in optical fiber communications, fiber-to-home project has a larger market value. Then the need of dynamic optical couplers, especially of N broad-band couplers, becomes greater. Though some advanced fiber fusion techniques have been developed, they still have many shortcomings. In this paper we propose a dynamic optical coupled system employing even-numbered Dammann gratings, which have the characteristic that the phase distribution in the first half-period accurately equals to that in the second-period with π phase inversion. In our experiment, we divide a conventional even-numbered Dammann grating into two identical gratings. The system can achieve the beam splitter and combiner as the switch between them according to the relative shift between two complementary gratings. When there is no shift between the gratings, the demonstrated 1×8 dynamic optical coupler achieves good uniformity of 0.06 and insertion loss of around 10.8 dB for each channel as a splitter. When the two gratings have an accurate shift of a half-period between them, our system has a low insertion loss of 0.46 dB as a combiner at a wavelength of 1550 nm.

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Caihui Di, Changhe Zhou, and Huayi Ru "Dynamic optical coupled system employing Dammann gratings", Proc. SPIE 5560, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications X, (22 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558242

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