Tunable mismatched twin-core fibre filters
Tunable mismatched twin-core fibre filters
Spectral filters are very important in optical fibre systems. Examples of their applications are ASE filtering or gain-flattening in EDFAs. Current devices are basically bandpass filters based on thin film technology, which uses some bulk optic techniques, and loss filters based on long period gratings written in fibres. However, the response of these gratings is highly sensitive to changes of temperature and strain, besides the grating strength decays over time. All-fibre filters based on twin-core fibres designed to phase-match at the filtering wavelength were demonstrated sometime ago. We present a highly reproducible and accurate way of tuning the coupling wavelength of a mismatched twin-core fibre over 500 nm wavelength range. The filter wavelength is controlled by reducing the fibre diameter on a coupler rig while the filter strength is tuned by adjusting the fibre length. Strain and temperature sensitivity of these filters have been also characterised. They present high environmental stability (~0.26 nm/100°C and 7.8 x 10-3 nm/µε) which allows easy packaging. Therefore, we demonstrate the implementation of a tunable, low loss and high quality all-fibre bandpass or bandstop filter.
Dong, L.
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Ortega, B.
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1998
Dong, L.
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Ortega, B.
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Dong, L. and Ortega, B.
(1998)
Tunable mismatched twin-core fibre filters.
Institute of Physics In-Fibre Bragg Gratings and Special Fibres, London, United Kingdom.
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Spectral filters are very important in optical fibre systems. Examples of their applications are ASE filtering or gain-flattening in EDFAs. Current devices are basically bandpass filters based on thin film technology, which uses some bulk optic techniques, and loss filters based on long period gratings written in fibres. However, the response of these gratings is highly sensitive to changes of temperature and strain, besides the grating strength decays over time. All-fibre filters based on twin-core fibres designed to phase-match at the filtering wavelength were demonstrated sometime ago. We present a highly reproducible and accurate way of tuning the coupling wavelength of a mismatched twin-core fibre over 500 nm wavelength range. The filter wavelength is controlled by reducing the fibre diameter on a coupler rig while the filter strength is tuned by adjusting the fibre length. Strain and temperature sensitivity of these filters have been also characterised. They present high environmental stability (~0.26 nm/100°C and 7.8 x 10-3 nm/µε) which allows easy packaging. Therefore, we demonstrate the implementation of a tunable, low loss and high quality all-fibre bandpass or bandstop filter.
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Published date: 1998
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Institute of Physics In-Fibre Bragg Gratings and Special Fibres, London, United Kingdom, 1998-01-01
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/76641
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L. Dong
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B. Ortega
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