A loss tunable long-period fiber gratings on corrugated silicon with on-chip microheater and temperature sensor

Author

Lin, C.H. ; Li, Q. ; Au, A.A. ; Jiang, Y. ; Lyons, E.R. ; Lee, H.P.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

194

Abstract

In summary, we report a strain induced long period grating (LPG) created by bonding an etched single mode fibre (SMF) onto a corrugated Si fixture with on-chip heater and temperature sensor. The loss of the LPG can be tuned electrically through the microheater current and monitored simultaneously. The use of Si fixture lends itself to easy integration of microheater and other cascaded filter structure. The results may be useful for dynamic spectral shaping in DWDM networks.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre filters; optical fibre losses; optical tuning; temperature sensors; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM networks; Si; Si fixture; bonding; cascaded filter structure; corrugated Si fixture; corrugated silicon; dynamic spectral shaping; electrically tuned; etched SMF; etched single mode fibre; long period fibre grating; loss tunable long-period fiber gratings; microheater; microheater current; monitored; on-chip microheater; strain induced LPG; temperature sensor; Bonding; Capacitive sensors; Etching; Fiber gratings; Filters; Fixtures; Monitoring; Optical fiber sensors; Silicon; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036299

Filename

1036299