All-fiber acousto-optic tunable notch filter with a fiber winding driven by a cuneal acoustic transducer

作者:Zhang Wending*; Gao Feng; Bo Fang; Wu Qiang; Zhang Guoquan; Xu Jingjun
来源:Optics Letters, 2011, 36(2): 271-273.
DOI:10.1364/OL.36.000271

摘要

We report a type of all-fiber acousto-optic tunable notch filter consisting of a cuneal acoustic transducer and a fiber winding of four unjacketed single-mode fibers. With -32 dB peak rejection efficiency and 178 nm tunable range of the central wavelength, all of the tunable characteristics of the all-fiber acousto-optic tunable filter are kept. In addition, the structure is versatile and convenient for use in building other complicated filters. As an example, a coarse comblike filter has been built by adjusting the axial strains of the unjacketed fibers.