Design and construction of an active alignment demonstrator for a free-space optical interconnect

Author

Boisset, G.C. ; Robertson, B. ; Hinton, H.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

7

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

676

Lastpage

678

Abstract

An x-y active alignment system based on Risley beam steerers is described. The demonstrator features a quadrant detector which detects the misalignment error between the center of a spot of light and the center of the quadrant detector. This misalignment error is then used by a new algorithm to calculate the rotational displacement required for the two Risley beam steerers to steer the spot of light to the center of the quadrant detector. The experimental results indicate that any spot misaligned by up to 160 μm on the quadrant detector will be systematically centered by the demonstrator system.

Keywords

closed loop systems; laser beams; optical interconnections; optical links; optical variables control; Risley beam steerers; active alignment demonstrator; construction; free-space optical interconnect; light spot; misalignment error; quadrant detector; rotational displacement; x-y active alignment system; Detectors; Integrated circuit interconnections; Lenses; Optical computing; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical feedback; Optical interconnections; Senior members; Structural beams;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.388762

Filename

388762