Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 31, Issue 11, 1106002(2011)
Design of All-Fiber Asymmetric Interleaver with 2×2 and 3×3 Fiber Couplers
An all-fiber asymmetric optical interleaver of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer using a 2×2 and two 3×3 fiber couplers is developed. Influences on its transmission characteristics by such factors as splitting ratio of the directional fiber couplers and the physical length differences of the interferometer arms are numerically analyzed in detail. One set of optimized data is validated in the experimental result. The results of numerical simulation and experiments show that all-fiber optical interleaver with -3 dB passband in odd channels and even channels can be obtained for transmission speed of 40 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s, respectively. Compared with all-fiber asymmetric optical interleaver of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer using three 2×2 fiber couplers, the most advantage of the present method is that the coupling ratio of couplers can be controlled in the fabricating process accurately. Finally, a novel structure of interleaver is fabricated using fused biconical taper technics in experiment. The experimental results agree with the analytical ones well.
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Lu Huaiwei, Wei Yun, Wu Kaijun, Zhang Baoge, Luo Guanwei. Design of All-Fiber Asymmetric Interleaver with 2×2 and 3×3 Fiber Couplers[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2011, 31(11): 1106002
Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Received: Apr. 20, 2011
Accepted: --
Published Online: Oct. 21, 2011
The Author Email: Huaiwei Lu (luhw@mail.lzjtu.cn)