Title :
A New Scheme of Birefringent Optical Interleaver Employing Ring Cavity as Phase-dispersion Element
Author :
Lee, Chao-Wei ; Wang, Ruibo ; Yeh, Pochi ; Cheng, Wood-Hi
Author_Institution :
Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung
Abstract :
A new scheme with fewer components and shorter birefringent-crystal length for an optical interleaver using a ring cavity is proposed. A wide 0.5 dB passband (0.91 times bandwidth), a large 25 dB stopband (0.78 times bandwidth), and a high channel isolation (45 dB) are obtained.
Keywords :
light interferometers; optical beam splitters; optical resonators; birefringent optical interleaver; phase-dispersion element; ring cavity; Birefringence; Channel spacing; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical films; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Passband; Reflectivity;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453482
