Compact Interrogator for Fiber Optic Bragg Sensors Based on Acousto-Optic Filter Formed by Photonic Crystal Rows of Air Holes

Abstract

Fiber optic sensors are typically used with expensive tunable lasers or optical spectrum analyzers for wavelength interrogation. We propose to replace the tunable laser by a broadband optical source incorporated with novel thin linewidth acousto-optic tunable filter. It utilizes optical beam expanders constituted by photonic crystal rows of air holes in LiNbO3 waveguide. A new design is numerically studied for a short structure (with 32 photonic crystal rows) by 2D FDTD method. Extrapolation of these results to larger structure sizes (about 1 cm) demonstrates the possibility to develop compact interrogators with 0.4 pm wavelength resolution and 40 nm tunable range around 1550 nm.


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  • Tsarev A.V. , De Leonardis F , Passaro V.M.N

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OPTICS LETTERS


Anno di pubblicazione

2011

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0146-9592

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