Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2886564
Keywords
Optical microfiber coupler; all-optical modulation; thermo-optic effect; tunable filter; intensity modulation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61805278]
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In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the all-optical modulation characteristics of a microfiber coupler combined Sagnac loop (MCSL). We inject pump lights with different intensities into the MCSL and utilize the thermo-optical effect from the microfiber coupler to control the phase relationship between the counter-propagating beams inside the Sagnac loop. The spectral characteristics from the Sagnac loop can be controlled accordingly, and the rate of the frequency comb (interference characteristic wave- length) shift can be 1 pm/mW. In addition, at a specific wavelength (e.g., 1550 nm), the MCSL can be used as an intensity modulator as well as a reflectivity-tunable Sagnac reflector. The reflectivity variation of the Sagnac reflector can reach about 10% when the pump light is at milliwatt level. The intensity modulation depth can be 9.3% at 100 Hz when the intensity-modulated 980 nm pump light imposed on the MCSL is 5.5 mW. Based on the thermo-optical effect, the MCSL can achieve the all-optical intensity modulation and all optically tunable filtering functions. The device is expected to play an important role in the development of tunable, multi-wavelength, and compact fiber lasers.
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