Dynamic channel blocker/equalizer with high blocking extinction ratio

Shuping Wang; Chi-Hao Cheng; Yanqing Lu; Charles Wong

doi:10.1117/1.2841045

1 February 2008 Dynamic channel blocker/equalizer with high blocking extinction ratio

Shuping Wang, Chi-Hao Cheng, Yanqing Lu, Charles Wong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 47, Issue 2, 025003 (February 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2841045

Abstract

The effect of an interpixel gap on light leakage in a free-space liquid-crystal-based dynamic channel blocker/equalizer is studied. The electric field components along the driving electric field within the liquid crystal interpixel gap are numerically calculated. The results show nonuniform distributions in both width and thickness. The numeric results on the relation between gap width and electric field distribution are also presented. A 20-channel, 200-GHz channel-spacing blocker/equalizer on the C band with flat tops and a 40-dB extinction ratio is fabricated and examined.

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Shuping Wang, Chi-Hao Cheng, Yanqing Lu, and Charles Wong "Dynamic channel blocker/equalizer with high blocking extinction ratio," Optical Engineering 47(2), 025003 (1 February 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2841045

Published: 1 February 2008

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