Electrically controllable all-fiber PMD emulator using a compact array of thin-film microheaters

Author

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

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

4

fYear

2004

fDate

4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1059

Lastpage

1065

Abstract

An electrically controllable, all-fiber polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) emulator is constructed using thin-film microheaters to temperature tune the birefringence of 30 PM-fiber sections spliced at 45° angles. Compact packaging is achieved by mounting the fiber heaters onto an array of silicon V-grooves. The advantages of this electrically tunable emulator design are low loss, negligible PDL, simple construction, no internal reflections, and no moving parts.

Keywords

birefringence; heating elements; optical arrays; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; thermo-optical devices; 30 PM-fiber sections; all-fiber polarization-mode dispersion emulator; birefringence; compact array; compact packaging; electrically controllable all-fiber PMD emulator; electrically tunable emulator design; fiber heaters; optical communications; silicon V-grooves; thin-film microheaters; Birefringence; Gold; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Probability distribution; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.825312

Filename

1291550