ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE LIQUID CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS

The function of adjustable liquid crystal attenuator

Liquid crystal modulators provide electrically adjustable attenuation by altering the polarization state, which is then further attenuated by a polarizer. While these devices have limited power handling capabilities, they offer precise control over attenuation levels. Bulk attenuators can operate based on several principles, such as filter wheels with neutral density filters, rotated. The variable gray filter functions for polychromatic or monochromatic light as well as. Thorlabs' Liquid Crystal (LC) Optical Shutters / Variable Attenuators incorporate a liquid crystal cell sandwiched between polarizing elements that are used to quickly change the transmission to either block or attenuate light propagating through the devices. The transmission of the light can be adjusted as required by using the latest liquid crystal technology This makes the LCVA an indispensable. They can be applied to both free-space laser beams and telecom signals transmitted through optical fibers.

Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator

(MIIPS) is a technique based on the computer-controlled phase scan of a linear-array spatial light modulator. Through the phase scan to an ultrashort pulse, MIIPS can not only characterize but also manipulate the ultrashort pulse to get the needed pulse shape at target spot (such as for optimized peak power, and other specific pulse shapes).

Based on grating waveguide arrays

Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) are commonly used as optical (de)multiplexers in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems. It is usually built as part of a planar lightwave circuit (photonic integrated circuit), where the light coming from an input fiber first enters a multimode. Component-level simulations using varFDTD are carried out for more realistic results. It is a very powerful integrated light-dispersion technology with sig-nificant exibility for tailoring its performance to the individual.

Planar Optical Waveguide Technology

Planar waveguides are optical waveguides with a planar geometry that confine light propagation to a single dimension. They are often fabricated in the form of a thin transparent film with increased refractive index on some substrate, or possibly embedded between two substrate layers. FIMMPROP is probably the most widely used propagation tool for the modelling of silicon photonics: rigorous (no slowly varying approximation), fully vectorial, offering wide angle capability and very high design flexibility.

Waveguide Optical Splitter

In this paper, low-loss Y-branch splitters up to 128 splitting ratio are designed, simulated, and optimized by using 2D beam propagation method in OptiBPM tool by Optiwave.

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE LIQUID CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS

The function of adjustable liquid crystal attenuator

Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator

Based on grating waveguide arrays

Planar Optical Waveguide Technology

Waveguide Optical Splitter

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