Title

A Liquid Lens-Based Broadband Variable Fiber Optical Attenuator

Keywords

Fiber optics; Liquid lens; Variable optical attenuator

Abstract

To the best of our knowledge, proposed is the first variable fiber optical attenuator (VFOA) using an electronically controlled variable focus liquid lens. The approach uses the changes in the radius of curvature of the liquid lens edge to enable an electronically controlled optical wedge that produces a varying beam tilt angle. In effect, changing beam tilt within a single mode fiber (SMF) lens free space coupling assembly leads to a polarization independent broadband VFOA design. The demonstrated VFOA experiment shows broadband operation over the 1530-1560 nm C-Band with a 40 dB dynamic range, <0.5 dB resolution, 0.3 dB polarization dependant loss, 4.3 dB fiber-to-fiber optical loss, 3 dB optical bandwidth from 1510 nm to 1700 nm, and switching time of <100 ms. Applications for this VFOA include use in hand held test and measurement equipment. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

282

Issue

7

Number of Pages

1298-1303

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.029

Socpus ID

59749087111 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/59749087111

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