CN100356156C - Light waveguide parameter measurer - Google Patents
Light waveguide parameter measurer Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- CN100356156C CN100356156C CNB2004100892857A CN200410089285A CN100356156C CN 100356156 C CN100356156 C CN 100356156C CN B2004100892857 A CNB2004100892857 A CN B2004100892857A CN 200410089285 A CN200410089285 A CN 200410089285A CN 100356156 C CN100356156 C CN 100356156C
- Authority
- CN
- China
- Prior art keywords
- detector
- turntable
- autocollimatic
- waveguide
- measuring
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Expired - Fee Related
Links
Images
Abstract
The present invention relates to a light waveguide parameter measurer which belongs to the field of guided wave optics and photoelectron. The present invention comprises a collimating laser, a polarizer, a beam splitter, small holes, a double angle turntable, a measuring detector, a focusing lens, an autocollimatic detector, a regulating bracket, an optical flat, an electrical control box and a computer, wherein the collimating laser, the polarizer, the beam splitter, the small holes, the condenser lens and the autocollimatic detector are all fixed on the regulating bracket. The regulating bracket is fixed on the optical flat, and the double angle turntable lies on the optical flat. The measuring detector is fixed on the double angle turntable, and the measuring detector and the autocollimatic detector are simultaneously connected with the electrical control box and the computer through data lines. The present invention can be used for measuring various parameters, such as refractivity, thickness, light waveguide refractivity contour, transmission loss, etc. of a thin film material. The measurement range has large expansion, and the measuring accuracy is conspicuously raised. The present invention has the characteristics of simple operation, accuracy, reliability, fast measurement, friendly interface, etc.
Description
Technical field
What the present invention relates to is a kind of measuring apparatus that is used for Wave Guiding Optics and photoelectron technology field, specifically is a kind of light waveguide parameter measurer.
Background technology
Recent two decades comes, and along with the particularly development of optical communication technique of laser technology, the research and the application of optical waveguide have obtained significant progress.Therefore the parameter measurement of optical waveguide, for example the thickness of ducting layer film, refractive index, the isoparametric measurement of transmission loss of optical waveguide just seem all the more important.In order to improve the performance of all kinds of fiber waveguide devices, the sign of the various parameters of waveguide is absolutely necessary.Have only on this basis and could further analyze, design, optimize fiber waveguide device.
Through the literature search of prior art is found, the patent No. is to have proposed a kind of prism coupler in 4,653,844 the United States Patent (USP) " Prismcoupler " (prism coupler).Form by prism, middle layer, ducting layer and 4 layers of structure of substrate layer of leaking in this device.Wherein the ducting layer preparation is on substrate.In the middle of 4 layers of structure, the refractive index of prism is the highest, secondly is ducting layer, middle layer and the substrate layer refractive index minimum of leaking.The middle layer that leaks is generally air.In this device, total reflection takes place when inciding the prism bottom surface greater than the angle of total reflection in laser, and light wave leaks layer in the middle of being penetrated into the form of evanescent field.When incident angle satisfies the coupling condition of waveguide, just can inspire guided mode.Owing to be subjected to the restriction of prism, the refractive index of ducting layer can not be greater than prism based on the instrument of the measuring light waveguide parameter of this prism-coupled structure.Existing prism material is at the highest refractive index (the rutile TiO of optical frequency wavelength band
2) n=2.75.Therefore the scope of refractometry can only be limited in 1.0-2.65.The refractometry of higher scope is just powerless.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to overcome deficiency of the prior art, a kind of light waveguide parameter measurer is provided, make refractive index and multiple parameters such as thickness, fiber waveguide refractive index profile and loss that it can the MEASUREMENTS OF THIN material, and measurement range has bigger expansion, measuring accuracy also is significantly improved, have simple to operate, accurately and reliably, characteristics such as fast measurement, friendly interface.
The present invention is achieved by the following technical solutions, the present invention includes: collimation laser device, polarizer, beam splitter, aperture, times angle turntable, measurement detector, condenser lens, autocollimatic detector (being silicon photocell), adjusting support, optical flat, electric control box, computing machine.Its annexation is: the collimation laser device, polarizer, beam splitter, aperture, condenser lens, the autocollimatic detector all is fixed on to be regulated on the support, regulating support is fixed on the optical flat again, times angle turntable lies on the optical flat, the waveguide testing sample then is placed on the interior turntable of times angle turntable, measuring detector is fixed on times outer turret of angle turntable, measuring detector is connected with electric control box by data line with the autocollimatic detector, through signal amplify with analog to digital conversion after link to each other with computing machine, importing computing machine through the A/D card after the light intensity signal that detects (if measuring transmission loss of optical waveguide, then the waveguide transmission line picture signal that collects for the CCD) processing and amplifying.
Measure detector and be generally silicon photocell, if carry out the measurement of transmission loss of optical waveguide, then measuring detector is digital imagery device CCD.Condenser lens only uses when carrying out the measurement of transmission loss of optical waveguide.
Times angle turntable comprises: flat board, wheel, interior turntable, outer turret, base, support roll.Its annexation is: the flat board that rolls is fixed on the base by support, draw three contacts symmetrically at interior turntable edge, wheel is set on contact, the center of wheel has bearing, guarantee that the axis of wheel and the central axis strictness of interior turntable intersect vertically, the outer turret bottom surface is provided with the groove of a circle, and outer turret is enclosed within on the wheel by groove, and the dull and stereotyped central axis with interior turntable that rolls is strict vertical.The autocollimatic detector is used for the auto zero angle calibration system and the location of measured angular.
Because the summit of rolling wheel is the twice at its center with respect to the linear velocity of bottom surface, the center of wheel and interior turntable keep synchronously, top with wheel drives outer turret, the angular velocity of outer turret is the twice of interior turntable angular velocity like this, realized times angle synchronized relation of outer interior turntable, thereby guaranteed turntable in rotation process, measured the reflective light intensity that detects that detector all the time can be accurately synchronous.
When using measuring light waveguide parameter of the present invention, the collimation laser that the collimation laser device is sent becomes S or P polarized light through behind the polarizer, passes through beam splitter and aperture again, is incident on the waveguide testing sample.After carrying out the auto zero angle calibration system, change laser is incident on the incident angle on the waveguide testing sample.When angle satisfies the coupling condition of waveguide, just can inspire guided mode.Recycle silicon photoelectric cell (promptly measuring detector) writes down light intensity or gathers the waveguide line image with CCD, and is input to computing machine.The operation corresponding software is done computing to related data and just can be obtained needed waveguide parameter.
The present invention compares with the instrument of existing measuring light waveguide parameter, possesses following advantage: 1, owing to combine free-space coupling technology, be not subjected to the restriction of prism, the measurement range of material refractive index and thickness is greatly improved.The material refractometry can surpass 3, and thickness measure can reach the mm magnitude.2, can carry out accurate match to the tapered waveguide index distribution.Replace contrary WKB method with contrary transition matrix (contrary ATM) method of analyzing, can overcome the approximate intrinsic shortcoming of contrary WKB.3, can realize measurement to the waveguide surface refractive index.Utilize the new method of surface plasma wave measurement waveguide surface refractive index, eliminated classic method high relatively degree of freedom in determining the surface refractive index process, what make that waveguide index distributes determines to have more science and degree of accuracy.4, adopt CCD digital imagery device, the transmission light intensity of optical waveguide inside is measured, can calculate the loss of waveguide, have advantages such as harmless, high-precision rapid survey by digital imagery.When 5, can realize material refractive index and thickness, measure fast, and measuring accuracy height, resolution height.Refractivity precision can reach 0.001, and refractive index resolution can reach 0.0005.6, the auto zero angle calibration system and the positioning function that have measured angular.By carry out zero degree calibration and angle original records from quasi-optical reflected signal peaks value.7, times angle turntable of Cai Yonging can strict assurance be measured detector and catoptrical synchronous.The rotating speed and the data acquisition of times angle turntable are all controlled by computing machine.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 structural representation of the present invention
Fig. 2 structure side view of the present invention
The structural representation of Fig. 3 times of angle turntable
The structural drawing of Fig. 4 times of angle turntable wheel
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the present invention includes: collimation laser device 1, polarizer 2, beam splitter 3, aperture 4, times angle turntable 5, measurement detector 6, condenser lens 7, autocollimatic detector 8, adjusting support 9, optical flat 10, electric control box 11, computing machine 12.Its annexation is: collimation laser device 1, polarizer 2, beam splitter 3, aperture 4, condenser lens 7, autocollimatic detector 8 all are fixed on to be regulated on the support 9, regulating support 9 is fixed on the optical flat 10 again, the waveguide testing sample is placed on times angle turntable 5, times angle turntable instrument 5 lies on the optical flat 10, measuring detector 6 is fixed on times angle turntable 5, measure detector 6 and be connected with electric control box 11 by data line, after signal amplification and analog to digital conversion, link to each other with computing machine 12 with autocollimatic detector 8.
As shown in Figure 3, Figure 4, a times angle turntable 5 comprises: flat board 13, wheel 14, interior turntable 15, outer turret 16, base 20, support 21 roll.Its annexation is: rolling dull and stereotyped 13 is fixed on the base 20 by support 21, draw three contacts 18 symmetrically at interior turntable 15 edges, wheel 14 is set on contact 18, and the center of wheel 14 has bearing 19, guarantees that the axis of wheel 14 and the central axis strictness of interior turntable 15 intersect vertically.Outer turret 16 bottom surfaces are provided with the groove 17 of a circle, and outer turret 16 is enclosed within on the wheel 14 by groove 17, and the flat board 13 that rolls is strict vertical with the central axis of interior turntable 15.
In conjunction with content of the present invention, embodiment is provided, be about to the present invention and be used to measure the refractive index of polymer thin-film material and the embodiment of thickness measure, specific as follows:
The first step: collimation laser device, polarizer, beam splitter, aperture, autocollimatic detector, times angle turntable, waveguide testing sample, measurement detector are carried out the contour adjustment of light path coaxial.
Second step: make the waveguide testing sample, prism material select for use high index prism (ZF7 optical glass, n=1.811).Utilize sputtering method on the bottom surface of prism, to plate layer of metal film, be typically chosen in golden film or be silverskin.In order to improve the efficient that the optically-coupled afferent echo is led, metal thickness needs strict control.The silver of bottom surface metal membrane material employing here (ε under the 650.0nm wavelength=-11.89+i0.83), thickness is 46mm.Polymer material solution is got rid of on the metal film of bottom surface uniformly by photoresist spinner, form film through oven dry.Can control the thickness of waveguide film by the rotating speed of control photoresist spinner, be generally between 0.5～3um.
The 3rd step: the center that the waveguide testing sample for preparing is placed on turntable in times angle turntable.The selection laser wavelength of incidence is 650.0mm, and choosing laser polarization direction is the P ripple.Incident light reflects at sample surfaces, and the measured detector of reflected light receives.
The 4th step: carry out automatic zero adjustment.
The 5th step: a times angle turntable is carried out angle scanning, on the computer software interface, can obtain the spectral line that reflective light intensity changes with angle.A plurality of guide mode resonances peak can appear on the spectral line, the angle at wherein adjacent three the guide mode resonance peaks of record, be respectively 53.47 °, 58.15 °, 62.12 °, calculate the propagation constant of these adjacent three guided modes, modal dispersion equation with these propagation constant substitution guided waves, can find the solution the refractive index that draws film is 1.689, and thickness is 1.724 μ m.
Claims (4)
1, a kind of light waveguide parameter measurer, comprise: collimation laser device (1), polarizer (2), beam splitter (3), aperture (4), condenser lens (7), regulate support (9), optical flat (10), electric control box (11), computing machine (12), it is characterized in that, also comprise: times angle turntable (5), measure detector (6), autocollimatic detector (8), its annexation is: collimation laser device (1), polarizer (2), beam splitter (3), aperture (4), condenser lens (7), autocollimatic detector (8) all is fixed on to be regulated on the support (9), regulating support (9) is fixed on the optical flat (10) again, times angle turntable (5) lies on the optical flat (10), the waveguide testing sample is placed on times angle turntable (5), measuring detector (6) is fixed on times angle turntable (5), measure detector (6) and be connected with electric control box (11), after signal amplification and analog to digital conversion, link to each other with computing machine (12) with autocollimatic detector (8); Collimation laser device (1), polarizer (2), beam splitter (3), aperture (4), autocollimatic detector (8), the waveguide testing sample, times angle turntable (5), it is contour to measure detector (6) light path coaxial, become S or P polarized light behind the collimation laser process polarizer (2) that collimation laser device (1) is sent, pass through beam splitter (3) and aperture (4) again, be incident on the waveguide testing sample behind the condenser lens (7), incident light reflects at sample surfaces, the measured detector of reflected light (6) receives, measure detector (6) record light intensity, autocollimatic detector (8) is used for the auto zero angle calibration system and the location of measured angular, the output of autocollimatic detector (8) and the output of measuring detector (6) is by electric control box (11), through signal amplify with analog to digital conversion after link to each other with computing machine (12).
2, light waveguide parameter measurer according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, times angle turntable (5) comprising: roll dull and stereotyped (13), wheel (14), interior turntable (15), outer turret (16), base (20), support (21), its annexation is: roll dull and stereotyped (13) are fixed on the base (20) by support (21), draw three contacts (18) symmetrically at interior turntable (15) edge, wheel (14) is set on contact (18), the center of wheel (14) has bearing (19), guarantee that the axis of wheel (14) and the central axis strictness of interior turntable (15) intersect vertically, outer turret (16) bottom surface is provided with the groove (17) of a circle, outer turret (16) is enclosed within on the wheel (14) by groove (17), and roll dull and stereotyped (13) are strict vertical with the central axis of interior turntable (15).
3, light waveguide parameter measurer according to claim 1 is characterized in that, measuring detector (6) is silicon photocell, and when the measurement of carrying out transmission loss of optical waveguide, then measuring detector (6) is digital imagery device CCD.
4, light waveguide parameter measurer according to claim 1 is characterized in that, condenser lens (7) only is used for the measurement of transmission loss of optical waveguide.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNB2004100892857A CN100356156C (en) | 2004-12-09 | 2004-12-09 | Light waveguide parameter measurer |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNB2004100892857A CN100356156C (en) | 2004-12-09 | 2004-12-09 | Light waveguide parameter measurer |
Publications (2)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| CN1616941A CN1616941A (en) | 2005-05-18 |
| CN100356156C true CN100356156C (en) | 2007-12-19 |
Family
ID=34766180
Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNB2004100892857A Expired - Fee Related CN100356156C (en) | 2004-12-09 | 2004-12-09 | Light waveguide parameter measurer |
Country Status (1)
| Country | Link |
|---|---|
| CN (1) | CN100356156C (en) |
Families Citing this family (7)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN100567931C (en) * | 2006-11-03 | 2009-12-09 | 中国科学院光电技术研究所 | Centro-symmetry dielectric micro-nano structure device frequency-doubling conversion efficiency proving installation |
| CN102998097B (en) * | 2011-09-19 | 2015-06-03 | 中国科学院电子学研究所 | Attenuated total reflection optical measurement platform |
| CN105372179A (en) * | 2015-12-09 | 2016-03-02 | 江西师范大学 | Chiral liquid enantiomeric excess measuring system, preparation method thereof and measuring method |
| CN107807108B (en) * | 2017-09-30 | 2020-02-04 | 复拓科学仪器（苏州）有限公司 | Wide-range high-resolution gas-liquid refractive index detection method and device |
| CN107991506B (en) * | 2017-10-26 | 2019-11-29 | 中国航空工业集团公司洛阳电光设备研究所 | A kind of device and test method of test pendulum scarnning mirror speed and uniformity |
| CN111189397A (en) * | 2019-01-22 | 2020-05-22 | 云南民族大学 | Transparent film thickness measuring device and method |
| CN114046740B (en) * | 2021-11-26 | 2022-11-29 | 北京工业大学 | System for measuring diameter of optical waveguide mode field |
Citations (3)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN2596346Y (en) * | 2003-01-01 | 2003-12-31 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Optic wave guide detector |
| CN2645067Y (en) * | 2003-07-10 | 2004-09-29 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Alignment assembly for light guide parameter tester |
| CN2645068Y (en) * | 2003-07-10 | 2004-09-29 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Revolving table apparatus for light guide parameter tester |
-
2004
- 2004-12-09 CN CNB2004100892857A patent/CN100356156C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
Patent Citations (3)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN2596346Y (en) * | 2003-01-01 | 2003-12-31 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Optic wave guide detector |
| CN2645067Y (en) * | 2003-07-10 | 2004-09-29 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Alignment assembly for light guide parameter tester |
| CN2645068Y (en) * | 2003-07-10 | 2004-09-29 | 长春第一光学有限公司 | Revolving table apparatus for light guide parameter tester |
Also Published As
| Publication number | Publication date |
|---|---|
| CN1616941A (en) | 2005-05-18 |
Similar Documents
| Publication | Publication Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| US8854623B2 (en) | Systems and methods for measuring a profile characteristic of a glass sample | |
| CN104154869B (en) | White light interference lens center thickness measuring system and method | |
| CN104613881A (en) | Lens center thickness measuring device and method based on double face confocal measurement | |
| CN106568382B (en) | Overlength optical fiber grating inscribes on-line monitoring system and method | |
| CN106525775A (en) | Multichannel SPR sensor for single-mode fiber and multi-mode fiber cascade application | |
| CN113375572B (en) | Method and system for measuring thickness of GRIN lens by spectrum confocal method | |
| CN100356156C (en) | Light waveguide parameter measurer | |
| CN111272284A (en) | Large-caliber laser polarization characteristic measuring instrument | |
| CN101144726A (en) | Goos-Hanchen shift measuring system based on wave length scanning | |
| CN201903325U (en) | Goos-Hanchen shift real-time measurement system | |
| CN113008833B (en) | High-precision optical film transmissivity/reflectivity measurement method and device | |
| CN102221538A (en) | Device and method for measuring optical loss coefficient of infrared glass | |
| CN110361363B (en) | Resolution compensation device and compensation method for terahertz wave attenuated total reflection imaging | |
| CN112229338A (en) | Double-spectrum confocal thickness measuring method without standard sheet zero alignment | |
| CN102692392A (en) | Device for measuring gas and liquid refractive indexes | |
| CN107525589B (en) | A kind of wavelength scaling system and method | |
| CN214666659U (en) | Multi-beam confocal three-dimensional profile detection system | |
| CN111964580B (en) | Device and method for detecting position and angle of film based on optical lever | |
| CN106871797B (en) | Non-contact sample thickness measuring method and measuring device based on Michelson interference principle | |
| CN112903596B (en) | Z-scan measuring device and measuring method for measuring nonlinear optical coefficient | |
| US11442008B2 (en) | Systems and methods for measuring stress-based characteristics of a glass-based sample | |
| CN208270415U (en) | A kind of spectrum widening device based on digital micromirror array DMD | |
| CN215833253U (en) | Angle modulation type SPR sensor based on beam deflector and SPR detection equipment | |
| CN114894106B (en) | Opaque sample thickness measurement system and method | |
| BG110789A (en) | LASER DISTRACTIVE MEASUREMENT OF TRANSLATION WITH ACCESSING OBJECTS USING CLINICAL INTERFEREAL STRUCTURE |
Legal Events
| Date | Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| C06 | Publication | ||
| PB01 | Publication | ||
| C10 | Entry into substantive examination | ||
| SE01 | Entry into force of request for substantive examination | ||
| C14 | Grant of patent or utility model | ||
| GR01 | Patent grant | ||
| C17 | Cessation of patent right | ||
| CF01 | Termination of patent right due to non-payment of annual fee |
Granted publication date: 20071219 Termination date: 20101209 |