CN102012573A - Liquid crystal photon crystal fiber tunable narrowband filter and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

Liquid crystal photon crystal fiber tunable narrowband filter and manufacturing method thereof Download PDF

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CN102012573A
CN102012573A CN 201010559078 CN201010559078A CN102012573A CN 102012573 A CN102012573 A CN 102012573A CN 201010559078 CN201010559078 CN 201010559078 CN 201010559078 A CN201010559078 A CN 201010559078A CN 102012573 A CN102012573 A CN 102012573A
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The invention provides a liquid crystal photon crystal fiber tunable narrowband filter and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: directly plating a multilayer dielectric film on a photon crystal fiber end face to form a one-dimensional photon crystal, performing photosensitive self-assembly film treatment on the dielectric film, and then performing polarization treatment under ultraviolet light; and butting two photon crystal fibers treated likewise on the dielectric film sides, injecting liquid crystal at the butted position, and putting the liquid crystal into a variable magnetic field to realize wavelength tuning function. The invention overcomes the defects of difficult coupling of the filter and an optical communication system, complex structure and mechanical motion, and meanwhile solves the problem of difficult liquid crystal control in a microscopic system. The tunable narrowband filter is easy to couple and easy to match with an all optical network, and has the advantages of simple structure, large tuning range, low cost and the like.

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Humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable and preparation method thereof
Technical field
What the present invention relates to is a kind of tunable narrow-band wave filter, the present invention also relates to a kind of method for making of optical fiber liquid crystal photon crystal tunable narrow-band wave filter.
Background technology
In advanced information society, along with needs information transmitted amount constantly increases, people also improve constantly the requirement of communication network.Dense wave division multipurpose (DWDM) technology provides at a high speed, the best mode of high-capacity optical fiber communication system, along with the fast development of DWDM in optical communication system, the required port number that holds of simple optical fiber is more and more, for the some wavelength in the hyperchannel are handled, just must use multiplexing and demodulation multiplexer.Realization at present is multiplexing and method demodulation multiplexer is a lot, mainly contain Thin Film Filter, array waveguide grating or the like, but these all is untunable wave filter.Yet following optical-fiber network will be towards intelligence, flexible and configurability aspect development, and the wave filter that possesses tunable function is the important devices that realizes this trend.The tunable optic filter of research mainly comprises now: acousto-optic tunable filter, piezoelectric ceramics Fabry-Bo Luo Gan relates to wave filter, mach zhender interference filter etc.The acousto-optic tunable filter tunable range is greater than 100 nanometers, but their bandwidth is narrow inadequately.Piezoelectric ceramics Fabry glass Luo Gan relates to wave filter, though enough big tunable range and narrow bandwidth are arranged, owing to require very high bearing accuracy to make that making is very difficult.The mach zhender interference filter has very narrow bandwidth, but not enough by the degree of depth.
At present, all on glass substrate, be coated with multilayer dielectric film for the research of liquid crystal photon crystal filter and realize the narrow-band filtering function.And in the optical communication of reality, all be based on optical-fibre communications, will bring the problem of glass devices and optical fiber coupling difficulty like this, and because the use of glass can cause also the light energy losses serious.
Current also have the people that liquid crystal is directly injected photonic crystal fiber to carry out tuning research, and this structure can be used as bandpass filter, but can not be used for narrow band filter.And the liquid crystal in the photonic crystal fiber can not artificially be controlled, and liquid crystal is in chaotic the arrangement, be that condition of equivalent thickness liquid crystal wavelength tuning range reduces thereby cause the utilization factor reduction of liquid crystal, so the degree of depth that liquid crystal injects in optical fiber generally reaches 20 millimeters.And because liquid crystal is in chaotic the arrangement, the light scattering of liquid crystal strengthens, and makes light loss reach about 15-40dB/ centimetre.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable that is coupled with Fiber Optical Communication System easily.The present invention also aims to provide the method for making of the humorous narrow band filter of a kind of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable.
The object of the present invention is achieved like this:
The humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention comprises two photonic crystal fibers, on a section of every photonic crystal fiber, silicon dioxide and titania deielectric-coating alternately have been coated with, the deielectric-coating end face is carried out carrying out after photosensitive self-assembled film is handled the end face butt joint that has deielectric-coating of two photonic crystal fibers that the ultraviolet light polarization handles again, and joint is marked with liquid crystal.
The humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention can also comprise:
1, the silicon dioxide of every photonic crystal fiber section is identical with the number of plies of titania deielectric-coating, is respectively the 3-5 layer.
2, the joint spacing of every photonic crystal fiber is in 775 nanometers.
The humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention is to adopt such method to make:
(1) selecting the smooth core of two butt faces is solid photonic crystal fiber alternately is coated with the identical number of plies by the optical thickness of 1550 nanometers in its end face side silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide film;
(2) the deielectric-coating end face is carried out carrying out the ultraviolet light polarization and handling after photosensitive self-assembled film handles;
(3) utilize fibre clip, little platform that moves to dock by the end with the photonic crystal fiber that microscope will be coated with multilayer film, spacing is controlled at 775 nanometers;
(4) liquid crystal is heated to the interface that injects two photonic crystal fibers behind the cleaning point;
(5) utilize externally-applied magnetic field that the liquid crystal of photonic crystal fiber interface is controlled.
The humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention is multilayer dielectric film directly to be coated on the photonic crystal fiber end face form 1-D photon crystal, is carrying out carrying out the polarization processing after photosensitive self-assembled film is handled under ultraviolet light on the deielectric-coating.Did the same photonic crystal fibers of handling with two and dock by side dielectric film, joint injects liquid crystal, puts it in the magnetic field of variation and can realize the wavelength tuning function.
The humorous wave filter of this liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of method preparation of the present invention is stablized good reproducibility, can be in optimum Working 5~30 ℃ of temperature ranges, is easy to carry out the output of computer control wavelength.
With respect to acousto-optic tunable filter, piezoelectric ceramics Fabry-Bo Luo Gan relates to wave filter, mach zhender interference filters etc., liquid crystal photon crystal optical fiber filter of the present invention have easy coupling, can mate with all-optical network, simple in structure, low-voltage driving, do not have advantages such as mechanical motion, volume be little.
The present invention proposes to solve between this device and be difficult for coupling problems, and can reduce light loss greatly.Proposed directly to be coated with the method for multilayer dielectric film among the present invention, proposed a kind of novel liquid crystal photon crystal optical fiber filter at the photonic crystal fiber end face.
The present invention proposes and utilize light-operated method, make the arrangement of liquid crystal in microscopic system artificially to control, thereby improve the liquid crystal utilization factor, reduce thickness of liquid crystal layer, reduce optical loss liquid crystal aligning.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable among the present invention
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In conjunction with Fig. 1, the humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention comprises two photonic crystal fibers 1, silicon dioxide 2, titania 3, alignment films 4, liquid crystal 4.
The humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable of the present invention is to adopt such method to prepare:
(1) selecting two cores is the photonic crystal fiber that solid end face flatness is better than 10 nanometers, utilize H447700-7 molding box formula coating machine, in photonic crystal fiber end face one side, alternately being coated with thickness respectively is the silicon dioxide and the titanium dioxide film of 265 nanometers and 165 nanometers, plates 5 pairs altogether;
(2) being stained with concentration at the photonic crystal fiber deielectric-coating end face libation at an ancient wedding ceremony is 1% polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) (PVA) aqueous solution, photonic crystal fiber was placed in the baking oven of 100 flood 20 minutes, subsequently the photonic crystal fiber end face is dipped in the acyl chlorides anhydrous toluene solution of 0.5 mg/ml and (keeps 40 ℃ of temperature), take out after 20 minutes, alcohol flushing, nitrogen dries up;
(3) the photonic crystal fiber end face of handling well is carried out perpendicular end surface irradiation 20 minutes under linear polarized uv.Ultraviolet source is 400 watts a Hg-Xe lamp, places the Glan-Talor prism thereafter and obtains linear polarized uv, and be 0.30 milliwatt/square centimeter in wavelength 297 nanometers light intensity;
(4) utilize fibre clip, the little platform that moves of nanometer to dock by the end with the photonic crystal fiber that microscope will be coated with multilayer film, require the direction of orientation of the alignment films of light-operated processing to parallel, spacing is controlled at 775 nanometers;
(5) will be the interface that injects two photonic crystal fibers after 0.19 pure nematic liquid crystal (RDP-92975, big Japanese ink company) is heated to cleaning point at near-infrared band refractive index anisotropy value;
(6) utilize energization solenoid that the liquid crystal of photonic crystal fiber interface is controlled.

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1. humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable, comprise two photonic crystal fibers, it is characterized in that: on a section of every photonic crystal fiber, alternately be coated with silicon dioxide and titania deielectric-coating, the deielectric-coating end face is carried out carrying out after photosensitive self-assembled film is handled the end face butt joint that has deielectric-coating of two photonic crystal fibers that the ultraviolet light polarization handles again, and joint is marked with liquid crystal.
2. the humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the silicon dioxide of a section of every photonic crystal fiber is identical with the number of plies of titania deielectric-coating, is respectively the 3-5 layer.
3. the humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that: the joint spacing of every photonic crystal fiber is in 775 nanometers.
4. the method for making of the humorous narrow band filter of liquid crystal photon crystal optical-fibre adjustable is characterized in that:
(1) selecting the smooth core of two butt faces is solid photonic crystal fiber alternately is coated with the identical number of plies by the optical thickness of 1550 nanometers in its end face side silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide film;
(2) the deielectric-coating end face is carried out carrying out the ultraviolet light polarization and handling after photosensitive self-assembled film handles;
(3) utilize fibre clip, little platform that moves to dock by the end with the photonic crystal fiber that microscope will be coated with multilayer film, spacing is controlled at 775 nanometers;
(4) liquid crystal is heated to the interface that injects two photonic crystal fibers behind the cleaning point;
(5) utilize externally-applied magnetic field that the liquid crystal of photonic crystal fiber interface is controlled.
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