EP1277082A1 - Vorrichtung zum wandeln von licht mit einer polarisation p e? in licht mit einer vorgegebenen polarisation p a? - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zum wandeln von licht mit einer polarisation p e? in licht mit einer vorgegebenen polarisation p a?Info
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- EP1277082A1 EP1277082A1 EP01929357A EP01929357A EP1277082A1 EP 1277082 A1 EP1277082 A1 EP 1277082A1 EP 01929357 A EP01929357 A EP 01929357A EP 01929357 A EP01929357 A EP 01929357A EP 1277082 A1 EP1277082 A1 EP 1277082A1
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- G—PHYSICS
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- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
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- the invention relates to a device for converting light with any polarization into light with a given polarization and a method for its operation.
- Polarization state of the light after each cable route and before polarization-dependent components such as filters, switches, optical amplifiers and interferometric switches.
- polarization-dependent components such as filters, switches, optical amplifiers and interferometric switches.
- the device comprising a measuring device for the polarization state of the light, an electronic control unit and a polarization control device.
- the described and all other known active polarization modulators have the disadvantage that at least two physical parameters have to be changed in order to convert a general elliptical polarization state into a predefined linear polarization state without loss.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a device for converting the polarization of light into a predetermined polarization, which on the one hand can be produced simply and inexpensively and on the other hand simplifies the adaptation of a temporally fluctuating polarization to a predetermined polarization state.
- the invention solves this technical problem with a device having the features of claim 1 or with a method for operating such a device according to claim 11.
- the device for converting the polarization includes an input for receiving light with a polarization P E that generally varies over time. At the output, the device emits light with a predetermined polarization P A. Furthermore, there is a device for dividing the received light into differently polarized light components and a device for adjusting the
- Polarization is provided in at least one of the light components.
- Light components are brought together again in a coupling device, the coupling for outputting light having a maximum output intensity being adjustable and this light having a predetermined polarization P A being able to be output at the output of the device according to the invention.
- the device according to the invention can have a polarizing beam splitter, which splits the light falling on it into two mutually linearly polarized portions.
- the device for setting the polarization at least in part of the received light can comprise a polarization adjusting device according to the prior art. It is particularly advantageous if the polarization adjusting device is constructed by means of a Berry phase rotator, which can rotate the polarization of a linearly polarized light beam by 90 degrees.
- the Berry phase rotator faces a ⁇ / 2 plate the advantage that it works regardless of the wavelength. In the present case, it converts the polarization of one beam into the polarization of the second beam without loss.
- the device for coupling the light comprises two inputs, each of which one of the components of the light, i.e. receive a beam of light.
- a phase modulator is arranged in front of one of the two inputs, through which the assigned portions of the light pass before entering the device for coupling light portions.
- the device for coupling the light has two outputs, the first output being followed by a light-sensitive detector, which emits at least one signal for determining at least one control signal for the phase modulator and the light at the second output can be output with the specified polarization P E.
- the device can have a device for generating at least one control signal, this device being connected on the input side to the detector and on the output side to the phase modulator.
- the modulation of the phase in one of the light components can be set, the light intensity of the light emitted at the second output being maximized with the predetermined polarization P E in an optimized coupling.
- the device according to the invention therefore has the advantage over other polarization modulators that only a single physical parameter, here the phase in one of the light beams has to be set.
- this can be a polarization-maintaining interference coupler, for example a polarization-maintaining beam splitter or a polarization-maintaining fiber coupler.
- the interference coupling in the coupling device can be controlled by introducing a phase shift into part of the light.
- the intensity of the light emitted at the second output of the coupling device can be maximized with the predetermined polarization P A.
- the device according to the invention also has the advantageous property that, regardless of the polarization of the light at the input of the device, at least 50% of the incoming light power can be converted into light with the desired polarization and emitted at the output. A complete loss, such as can occur when using a linearly polarizing analyzer, is avoided.
- coherent light To operate a device according to the invention with an interference coupling device, coherent light must be available, but this is not a problem in view of today's narrow-band laser sources in optical communications technology, especially in telecommunications.
- the device according to the invention can be designed in a large number of embodiments.
- This relates, for example, to a device for converting the polarization of light, which is constructed on an optical table, or one Device made by means of the integrated optics.
- Fig. 1 shows the embodiment in its entirety in a schematic diagram
- Fig. 2 shows certain devices of the embodiment in detail.
- FIG. 1 of a device according to the invention for converting the polarization of light into a predetermined polarization is designed to be arranged behind an optical cable section.
- the device according to the invention serves to cancel time-dependent fluctuations in the polarization in order to make the light accessible for processing or transmission with a defined polarization.
- the optical fiber path F1 is coupled to the input E of the device.
- the input is followed by a device SPW, in which the incident light is divided depending on the polarization and the polarization of part of the light is changed such that the polarizations of the light components at both outputs of the device are the same.
- a device SPW in which the incident light is divided depending on the polarization and the polarization of part of the light is changed such that the polarizations of the light components at both outputs of the device are the same.
- Glass-fiber-guided, both light components are fed to a fiber coupler C.
- one of the two light beams is subjected to phase modulation in a modulator M.
- the device C which is designed as a polarization-maintaining interference coupler, has a first output CA1 and a second output CA2, the second output being connected to the output A of the device for emitting light by means of a fiber F4 a predetermined polarization P A is connected.
- the first output CA1 of the coupling device C is followed by a light-sensitive detector D which is connected to a control device S which controls the phase modulator M.
- the mode of operation can be described as follows with reference to FIG. 2, which in particular shows the device SPW in detail.
- the light with the time-varying polarization P E is fed through the fiber F1 to the device. After emerging from the fiber, the light passes through a grin lens (gradient index lens) which adjusts the opening cone of the light to the subsequent optical components.
- the light with any polarization in principle falls on a polarizing beam splitter PBS, which splits the received light into two linearly polarized light components E1 and E2.
- the component E1 transmitted by the beam splitter is horizontally polarized and the component E2 reflected by the beam splitter is vertically polarized.
- Light components pass through respectively assigned prisms P3, P4 and Pl, P2.
- the prisms P3 and P4 only serve to deflect the beam part El.
- the Prisma Pl acts as a Berry phase rotator, which converts the vertical polarization of the light into a horizontal polarization.
- the functioning of such a Berry phase rotator is described, for example, in article M. Berry, Nature, Volume 326, page 277 (1997).
- the prism P2 following the rotator P1 reverses the direction of the beam.
- Grin lenses L3 and L2, which couple the respective light components into the assigned fibers F2 and F3, serve to couple the respective light components, both light components having the same polarization.
- Both parts of the light are each at an entrance CEl or CE2 introduced into a fiber coupler C.
- a light beam passes through a phase modulator M, which is designed as an electrically controllable electro-optical crystal according to the prior art.
- the phase modulator is controlled by a control device S. Since the
- Fiber coupler C is designed as an interference coupler, the coupling in the coupling device C can be influenced and controlled via a corresponding control of the modulator M by the device S. Depending on the relative phase positions of the two light components superimposed in the coupling device, the light is output at one of the two outputs CA1 or CA2 or fractions of the light dependent on the coupling at both outputs.
- the light output at the first output CA1 is detected by means of a light-sensitive detector D, which emits an electrical signal associated with the light intensity to the control device S, which controls the phase modulator in response to this electrical signal.
- the coupling of the light components in the coupling device is regulated via the phase modulator in such a way that the light power output at the first output CA1 is minimal and thus the light power output at the second output CA2 is maximum.
- the coupling device C is known in principle and operates in a polarizing manner, so that the light output at the second output CA2 is horizontally linearly polarized in a defined manner.
- the light emitted at the coupling device is guided by means of a fiber F4 to the output A of the device according to the invention, at which light of the predetermined polarization P A is thus emitted.
- the light output at the output A of the device is 50% to 100% of the input power with the predetermined linear polarization state P A.
- the value 50% arises in the event that the light in the input is horizontally or vertically linearly polarized, ie power is coupled into only one arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer at the input beam splitter PBS. 100% of the input power is coupled out at output A when half of the light at the input is coupled into the two interferometer arms, for example light that is circularly polarized or linearly polarized at 45 degrees.
- the described embodiment of the invention accordingly works as a tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the polarizing beam splitter PBS and the coupling device C representing the beam-splitting components.
- the fiber coupler C a conventional beam control can also be used in another embodiment of the invention.
- Another type of interferometer may be used in the embodiment of the invention.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE10014830 | 2000-03-24 | ||
| DE10014830A DE10014830A1 (de) | 2000-03-24 | 2000-03-24 | Vorrichtung zum Wandeln von Licht mit einer Polarisation P¶E¶ in Licht mit einer vorgegebenen Polarisation P¶A¶ |
| PCT/EP2001/002109 WO2001073502A1 (de) | 2000-03-24 | 2001-02-24 | Vorrichtung zum wandeln von licht mit einer polarisation pe in licht mit einer vorgegebenen polarisation p¿a? |
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| EP1277082A1 true EP1277082A1 (de) | 2003-01-22 |
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| EP01929357A Ceased EP1277082A1 (de) | 2000-03-24 | 2001-02-24 | Vorrichtung zum wandeln von licht mit einer polarisation p e? in licht mit einer vorgegebenen polarisation p a? |
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| US (1) | US20030138182A1 (de) |
| EP (1) | EP1277082A1 (de) |
| DE (1) | DE10014830A1 (de) |
| WO (1) | WO2001073502A1 (de) |
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| JP2019040124A (ja) * | 2017-08-28 | 2019-03-14 | Kddi株式会社 | 偏波変動生成装置 |
| WO2020194215A1 (en) * | 2019-03-26 | 2020-10-01 | Terahertz Group Ltd. | Devices for generation of electromagnetic radiation of predetermined profile |
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