TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconfigurable sampling of the electric field at the reflecting surface of folded arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers
AU - Bernussi, A. A.
AU - de Peralta, L. Grave
AU - Knapczyk, M.
AU - Gale, R.
AU - Temkin, H.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - We describe the use of a reflective arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer in conjunction with a digital micromirror device to modulate the electric field distribution in the grating. Modulation of the electric field is accomplished by turning individual digital mirrors ON and OFF. By imposing a reconfigurable grating superstructure on the digital mirror array, we can change the free-spectral range of the device and alter the overall transmission spectra. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with model calculations. This type of a device is expected to be useful in generation of reconfigurable sequences of ultrashort pulses.
AB - We describe the use of a reflective arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer in conjunction with a digital micromirror device to modulate the electric field distribution in the grating. Modulation of the electric field is accomplished by turning individual digital mirrors ON and OFF. By imposing a reconfigurable grating superstructure on the digital mirror array, we can change the free-spectral range of the device and alter the overall transmission spectra. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with model calculations. This type of a device is expected to be useful in generation of reconfigurable sequences of ultrashort pulses.
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2004.834494
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2004.834494
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:5444250557
VL - 16
SP - 2257
EP - 2259
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
SN - 1041-1135
IS - 10
ER -