Affiliation:
1. Elect. and Compu. Eng. Dept. , Islamic Azad Univ. , North Br. , Tehran , Iran
2. Optical Commun. Group, Commun. Dept. , Iran Telecom Research Center , Tehran , Iran
Abstract
Abstract
In this paper, analysis of tunable optical filter based on Sagnac effect tuning is presented using a fiber-optic ring resonator (FORR) and the responses of the filters for different FORR and Sagnac loop parameters under steady-state conditions are investigated. Formulation of the optical filter response is presented by considering with/without single and multiple Sagnac loop effects. Effects of the FORR parameters of filter response are studied and analyzed under different parametric conditions for the maximum transmission intensity. The simulation results show that the filter responses are affected strongly by the Sagnac loop and the FORR parameters. With the Sagnac effect, it is shown that full-width at half maximum (FWHM) would increase by increasing the phase difference Δϕ from 0 to 0.20 radian, beyond which it will start decreasing. The difference in FWHM value in this range of Δϕ variations is found to be about 3.77 nm. Between the first and the second resonances at wavelengths 1395 and 1538 nm, the free spectral range (FSR) is found to be 140 nm. In multiple loops effects, by increasing the number of loop turn N, the values of FSR would reduce. For Δϕ = 0.3 and N = 1, 2, 3, the values of FSR are obtained as 144, 74, 47 nm, respectively.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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