Pretrimming of tunable finite response (FIR) filter

Details Pretrimming of tunable finite response (FIR) filter Pretrimming of tunable finite response (FIR) filter

2005-03-22

2005-03-22

Kianni, K. Cyrus (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Temporal optical modulation within an optical waveguide

C385S002000, C385S003000, C385S129000

Reexamination Certificate

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06870967

ABSTRACT:
A method of inducing phase changes in a FIR filter is provided. The FIR filter consists of a concatenation of tunable couplers and tunable delay lines made of planar waveguides fabricated in SiON technology, forming a plurality of interferometers, at least one of which carries a heater on at least one of its waveguide arms. The method includes the step of exposing at least one of the arms of the interferometers to an irradiation at UV or a smaller wavelength, thereby inducing a change in the refractive index of the waveguide arms which induces the phase difference change. The method provides a procedure that will lead to temperature-stable changes of the refractive index of the waveguides. The resulting device is temperature-stable such that it can be afterwards be heated with chromium heaters to dynamically tune its spectral response without destroying the UV-induced changes.

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