Paolo Bassi
University of Bologna
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Optics Express | 2005
Lara Scolari; Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold; Jesper Riishede; Anders Bjarklev; David Sparre Hermann; Anawati Anawati; Martin Nielsen; Paolo Bassi
We present an electrically controlled photonic bandgap fiber device obtained by infiltrating the air holes of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a dual-frequency liquid crystal (LC) with pre-tilted molecules. Compared to previously demonstrated devices of this kind, the main new feature of this one is its continuous tunability due to the fact that the used LC does not exhibit reverse tilt domain defects and threshold effects. Furthermore, the dual-frequency features of the LC enables electrical control of the spectral position of the bandgaps towards both shorter and longer wavelengths in the same device. We investigate the dynamics of this device and demonstrate a birefringence controller based on this principle.
Optics Express | 2002
Fabrizio Fogli; Luca Saccomandi; Paolo Bassi; Gaetano Bellanca; Stefano Trillo
A 3D full-vectorial Beam Propagation Method is successfully applied to compute both the propagation constants and the modal profiles in high-contrast silica-air index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fibers. The approach is intrinsically suited to investigate longitudinally varying structures or propagation and polarization effects, which are of practical interest for advanced optical applications. As an example we model a dual-core coupler, showing that efficient polarization preserving coupling can be expected.
Optics Letters | 2008
Danny Noordegraaf; Lara Scolari; Jesper Lægsgaard; Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold; Giovanni Tartarini; Elena Borelli; Paolo Bassi; Jun Li; Shin-Tson Wu
We demonstrate a highly tunable deep notch filter realized in a liquid-crystal photonic-bandgap (LCPBG) fiber. The filter is realized without inducing a long-period grating in the fiber but simply by filling a solid-core photonic-crystal fiber with a liquid crystal and exploiting avoided crossings within the bandgap of the LCPBG fiber. The filter is demonstrated experimentally and investigated using numerical simulations. A high degree of tuning of the spectral position of the deep notch is also demonstrated.
Optics Letters | 2012
Piero Orlandi; C. Ferrari; Michael J. Strain; Antonio Canciamilla; Francesco Morichetti; Marc Sorel; Paolo Bassi; Andrea Melloni
We present the design and the fabrication of compact tunable silicon-on-insulator bandpass filters based on the integration of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with ring resonators and activated via thermo-optic phase shifters. The proposed architecture provides wide filter bandwidth tunability from 10% to 90% of the free spectral range preserving the filter off-band rejection. Possible applications are channel subset selection in wavelength division multiplexing optical systems, adaptive filtering to signal bandwidth, and reconfigurable filters for gridless networking.
Journal of Lightwave Technology | 1994
S. Chen; P. Baldi; M. de Micheli; D. B. Ostrowsky; A. Leycuras; Giovanni Tartarini; Paolo Bassi
In this paper, we present a relation between material structure, hybrid modes, and propagation losses in proton exchanged (PE) LiNbO/sub 3/ waveguides. Rutherford backscattering (RBS) and X-ray diffraction studies are used to show that there are two essential reasons for losses and complex behavior in high /spl delta/n/sub e/ PE waveguides. RBS studies show that using benzoic acid melt temperatures below 300/spl deg/C leads to distorted waveguide layers and propagation losses higher than several dB/cm. At high temperature, the X-ray studies prove that the crystalline order is preserved, but induced strain leads to biaxial exchanged layers, which results in hybrid modes that can have very high losses. Finally, fabrication parameters allowing the realization of high quality, high /spl delta/n/sub e/, PE waveguides in LiNbO/sub 3/ are identified. >
Journal of Lightwave Technology | 1999
Fabrizio Fogli; Gaetano Bellanca; Paolo Bassi; Iain Madden; Walter Johnstone
The behavior of a fiber-slab coupler used as a polarization and wavelength tunable filter is studied both experimentally and theoretically. The theoretical model is based on a three-dimensional (3-D) fully vectorial beam propagation method (BPM), whose main features concern its high efficiency from the point of view of memory and central processing unit (CPU) requirements. The device characteristics have been measured and the results of the comparisons among experimental and theoretical two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D numerical modeling are reported and discussed. They show a very good agreement In the 3-D case where field polarization, coupling terms and z-variant structures are taken into account.
Journal of Lightwave Technology | 2007
Davide Castaldini; Paolo Bassi; Sorin Tascu; Pierre Aschieri; M. de Micheli; P. Baldi
We present the results of an experimental study of waveguide tapers realized in LiNbO3 using the soft-proton-exchange process and the waveguide segmentation technique. Measurements show that they can be favorably introduced between the nonlinear or electrooptic part of the components, which require strong mode confinement to increase efficiency, and the coupling section with a standard optical fiber, which requires low mode confinement in order to have low coupling losses. These tapers allow almost lossless mode-shape transformation. Preliminary results show that they allow reducing the coupling losses by up to 0.7 dB, thus proving the practical interest of the approach.
Journal of Lightwave Technology | 2014
Piero Orlandi; Francesco Morichetti; Michael J. Strain; Marc Sorel; Paolo Bassi; Andrea Melloni
We present a comprehensive design, fabrication, and characterization analysis of compact silicon-on-insulator bandpass filters with widely tunable bandwidth. The filter architecture is based on an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer loaded with a pair of ring resonators. A wide bandwidth tunability (from 10% to 90% FSR) can be achieved by controlling the resonant frequency of the rings while preserving a good filter off-band rejection. Design rules are provided that take into account fabrication tolerances as well as losses. Furthermore, the use of tunable couplers allows a more flexible shaping of the spectral response of the filter. The sensitivity with respect to nonlinear effects is carefully investigated. Operation over a wavelength spectrum of 20 nm is demonstrated, making the device suitable for channel subset selection in WDM systems, reconfigurable filters for gridless networking and adaptive filtering of signals.
Optical and Quantum Electronics | 1999
F. Zepparelli; Paolo Mezzanotte; Federico Alimenti; Luca Roselli; Roberto Sorrentino; Giovanni Tartarini; Paolo Bassi
Continous advances in material technology, in the field of integrated optics and optoelectronics, allow the realization of devices with geometries more and more compact and complex. Because of this trend, there is a parallel need for accurate fully numerical CAD tools. Among new ones, the FDTD method, already widely and successfully used for the characterization of microwave and millimeter-wave devices, is emerging in optics community because of its accuracy and versatility. However, in spite of the tremendous increase in computing power, the applicability of the method is still limited by the typical dimensions of optical structures. To overcome these limitations a specialized version of the FDTD algorithm for the rigorous analysis of 3D optical and optoelectronic devices is proposed and validated. This new technique is then used to characterize the optical behaviour of a MQW waveguide electroabsorption modulator.
Anisotropic and Nonlinear Optical Waveguides | 1992
Maurizio Zoboli; Paolo Bassi
A Full Vectorial Finite Element Method to analyze anisotropic optical waveguides of arbitrary cross section is presented and illustrated.