Design and fabrication of thin-film microheater tuned fiber array device

Author

Lin, C. ; Lyons, E.R. ; Au, A. ; Lee, H.P. ; Zaouk, R. ; Shkel, A. ; Hauer, M.C. ; Yu, Q. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

521

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we describe a simple and scalable process for fabricating arrays of thermally tuned fiber devices that is compatible with low power electrical control signals. The process was used in fabricating a four-element polarization controller and a 30-element PDM emulator that exhibits accurate first order and second order PMD statistics.

Keywords

heating elements; optical arrays; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; thermo-optical devices; 30-element PDM emulator; first order PMD statistics; four-element polarization controller; low power electrical control signals; scalable process; second order PMD statistics; thermal cross-talk; thermally tuned fiber device arrays; thin-film microheater tuned fiber array device; Absorption; Glass; Gold; Optical arrays; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical retarders; Thin film devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034276

Filename

1034276