A thermo-optically tunable multimode interference fiber laser is demonstrated. The laser emission can be easily tuned trough the C-band by simply changing the temperature around the multimode fiber liquid cladding of the filter. ©2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.2410) Fibers, Erbium; (060.2310) Fiber Optics; (140.3600) Lasers Tunable; (060.4510) Optical communications

There is strong interest in the development of tunable lasers and optical filters for a number of optoelectronic applications. From a telecommunications standpoint, compact, efficient, and affordable tunable sources and filters could find immediate widespread use for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, enabling incredibly dense optoelectronic communications over a single optical fib...

ABSTRACT:In this paper, an improved design of a tunable optical filter device made up of alternating layers of MgF2 and Ta2O5is proposed. Different configurations of this narrow band pass (NBP) optical filter are used for whole visible spectral range (400nm-700nm).We report on the calculated values of the design parameters, such as pass band wavelength, 3-dB bandwidth and quality factor for dif...

A high resolution optical vector network analyzer (OVNA) implemented based on a wideband and wavelength-tunable optical single-sideband (OSSB) modulator is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The OSSB modulation is achieved using a phase modulator and a tunable optical filter with a passband having two steep edges and a flat top. Wideband and wavelength-tunable OSSB modulation is achieved...

A tunable photonic microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficient based on an electro-optic phase modulator (EOPM) and a variable polarization beamsplitter (VPBS) is demonstrated. A two-tap microwave bandpass filter with one negative coefficient is presented. The chromatic dispersion and optical coherence are not affected on this filter. Keywords—Bandpass filter, EOPM, photonic microwave f...

A highly programmable optical filter architecture is designed and a unit cell building block is fabricated in InP-InGaAsP with tunable inter-ring couplers. Simulated and measured bandpass filter responses for the 3-ring structure are presented. ©2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 230.5750 Resonators, 250.5300 Photonic integrated circuits

Introduction: Optically realised microwave filters offer advantages such as large operating bandwidth and immunity to microwave interference. Several researchers have investigated microwave photonic filters to enable tunable and reconfigurable systems. Capmany et al. [1] proposed a filter system that employs an array of tunable lasers. The filter can be both tuned and reconfigured by changing t...

In this paper, we numerically simulated a glass-based all-optical 1×N power splitter with eleven different configurations using soliton breakup in a nonlinear medium. It is shown that in addition to reconfigurability of the proposed splitter, its power splitting ratio is tunable up to some extent values too. Nonlinear semivectorial iterative finite difference beam propagation method (IFD-...

A simple self-seeding scheme is developed to generate tunable dual-wavelength optical short pulses in a flexible manner and with an increased wavelength-tuning range. The wavelength selection and tuning are achieved by simultaneous use of a fiber Bragg grating and a tunable optical filter. The side-mode suppression ratio of the output pulses is better than 30 dB over a wavelength-tuning range o...

in this article, the effect of cells' radius on the behavior of wavelength switching optical filter andthe effect of the radius of the optical filters' key characteristics such as wavelength resonance onan optical filter based on photonic crystals, have been investigated. currently, the most commonapplied mechanism for designing optical filter based on photonic crystals is using twome...