USRE42124E1 - Fault-tolerant fiber-optical beam control modules - Google Patents
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- fiber-optic (FO) attenuator and switch modules using a macro-pixel approach to beam control are described.
- the preferred embodiment of this invention uses an array of high speed electronically controlled mechanically moving micromirrors to form the macropixel for single beam attenuation and routing.
- These high speed, robust, fault-tolerant FO structures can be used for routing and attenuating multiple light signals in optical networks such as wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communications, distributed sensor networks, and photonic signal processing systems.
- WDM wavelength division multiplexed
- the FO switch is a basic building block for many optical applications such as routing in fiber communications networks, photonic signal processing, distributed optical sensing, and optical controls.
- the desired features for a FO switch include low optical loss (e.g., ⁇ 1 dB), low interchannel crosstalk ( ⁇ 30 dB), polarization independence, robustness to catastrophic failure, and simple to align low cost designs for large scale commercial production and deployment.
- FO switching speeds can range from nanoseconds to several milliseconds.
- variable fiber-optic attenuators are the basic building blocks for several key optical systems.
- these attenuators are required as equalizers in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication systems using non-uniform gain optical amplifiers.
- WDM wavelength division multiplexed
- Other important applications include polarization dependent loss compensation in fiber optic networks, optical component testing, and optical receiver protection.
- a variable fiber-optic attenuator with fast several microseconds duration speed with high attenuation dynamic range (e.g., 35 dB) control is a present challenge to the optical community.
- MEMS microelectromechanical system
- a micromirror is translated through many small sub-micron size steps to form a varying reflection surface, and this ultra-small motion makes the module very sensitive to vibrations.
- extensive module calibration and costly and complex control electronics are required to maintain the high performance of these analog-type FO MEMS-based modules.
- the attenuator modules typically there is one input and one output port.
- a single mode fiber for instance is focussed on to a single micromirror that is translated in an analog fashion to act as a variable optical shutter.
- the use of the tiny (a few microns size) optical mirror provides fast response in the microseconds domain, it is also highly susceptible to misalignments with the tightly focussed optical beam.
- the single micromirror fails, the attenuator suffers catastrophic failure and the module completely fails.
- researchers have moved to larger micromirrors, although with a drastic reduction in speed to the millisecond regime.
- FIG. 1 shows a macropixel formed by a micromirror array of small-tilt type micromirrors that have two independent tilt states, forming a digital control attenuator that controls a single FO beam shown as a circular patch falling on the macro-pixel;
- FIG. 2a shows a: Macropixel-based Digital Fiber-Optic Attenuator Structure in a single beam transmissive design attenuator;
- FIG. 2b shows a retro-reflective design N-wavelength attenuator.
- FIG. 3a shows a: Small Tilt Micromirror-based 2 ⁇ 2 Fiber-Optic Switch Structures for a single beam transmissive design switch;
- FIG. 3b shows a retro-reflective design N-wavelength switch, including an active add/drop WDM filter architecture based on the switched retroreflection 2 ⁇ 2 optical switch;
- FIGS. 3c and 3d illustrates operation of the switch of FIG. 3a for reflecting light from one input port to an opposite output port
- FIG. 4 illustrates a Piston Type Micromirror-based Fiber-Optic 2 ⁇ 2 Switch Structure for N-wavelength/beams routing.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the macro-pixel approach to non-MEMS technologies such as polarization rotating devices such as liquid crystals. Shown is a single beam FO fault-tolerant high speed attenuator using beam displacing polarizers.
- N. A. Riza in N. A. Riza and S. Sumriddetchkajorn “Fault-tolerant dense multiwavelength add-drop filter with a two-dimensional digital micromirror device,” Applied Optics, Vol. 37, No. 27, pp. 6355-6361, Sep. 20, 1998 and later in N. A. Riza and S. Sumriddetchkajorn, “Fault tolerant polarization-insensitive photonic delay line architectures using two dimensional digital micromirror devices,” Optics Communications, Vol. 160, pp. 311-320, Feb. 15, 1999.
- Our invention concept is based on using a “Macro-pixel” approach to light beam control (see FIG. 1 ) to solve the speed versus tolerance dilemma, thus realizing a commercially valuable component design.
- a single high speed micromirror we deploy several high speed micromirrors 11 simultaneously to control an optical beam 13 that is not tightly focussed.
- Light from an SMF See FIG. 2
- a fiber collimator that expands the light beam on to a rather large (compared to a single micromirror) area, thus providing robustness in alignment.
- small tilt micromirrors 11 are used to form a macropixel 15 .
- Each small tilt micromirror has two states, e.g., a 10° state and a ⁇ 10° state for the Texas Instruments Device described in N. A. Riza, “Coherent Techniques and Digital Micromirror Device based Switched Photonic Time Delay Control for High-Frequency Antenna Arrays,” SPIE Proc., Vol. 3160, pp. 97-103, July 1997, thus forming the desired digital operation device.
- the key advantages of using the macro-pixel approach are high optical alignment tolerance, fault tolerance to mechanical/electrical failures, inherent robust digital controls, and fast microseconds response speed of each individual micromirror as described in R. L. Knipe, “Challenges of a digital micromirror deviceTM: modeling and design,” SPIE Proc., Vol. 2783, pp. 135-145, June, 1996.
- FIGS. 2a and 2b show the small tilt micromirror-based variable fiber-optic attenuator structures.
- FIG. 2a illustrates the transmissive mode operation where two graded index (GRIN) fiber collimators 17 a, 17 b and a two-dimensional (2D) small tilt micromirror device 19 that forms a single macropixel 15 are used.
- GRIN graded index
- 2D two-dimensional small tilt micromirror device 19 that forms a single macropixel 15
- Each micromirror 11 in the macropixel 15 can be set to tilt at an angle of + ⁇ or ⁇ .
- a micromirror 11 is programmed to tilt at + ⁇ state, the portion of light beam coming from one GRIN lens 17 a that is incident on this micromirror 11 is directed to the other GRIN lens 17 b output port.
- the corresponding part of the optical beam (lines 21 ) is reflected at an angle of 4 ⁇ to another direction, leading to the reduction of the optical power at the GRIN lens 17 b output port.
- the two GRIN lenses 17 a, 17 b are positioned at 90 degrees with respect to each other. This angle can be greatly reduced for compact packaging.
- a single GRIN lens can be used with two input fibers where one fiber serves as the input fiber and the other serves as the output fiber receiving a slightly laterally displaced point of light after near retroreflection from the tilted macropixel.
- variable reflectivity larger mirror can be formed that leads to the desired FO beam power attenuation control.
- the basic transmissive-mode concept can be extended to multiple beams, as shown in FIG. 2 b.
- this reflective mode optical attenuator structure is shown in FIG. 2b , where a three-port optical circulator 23 is combined with the small tilt micromirror devices 19 to form a multichannel variable optical attenuator.
- the multiwavelength optical beam at the IN port goes to the WDM multiplexor/demultiplexor device 25 by passing through the fiber-optic circulator 23 .
- the output ports of the WDM device 25 are connected to GRIN lens fiber collimators 27 that are aligned so that the optical beams from these output ports fall on the corresponding small tilt micromirror devices 11 . As shown, all the tilt-mirror devices 11 are populated on one bigger chip.
- An alternate design applicable to all proposed FO module designs in this application is to have a smaller independent macro-pixel chip per fiber to ease in alignment and repair of the FO module. This way, when a chip fails, it is replaced for that specific fiber and not all the fibers.
- the macropixels 15 are programmed to the + ⁇ state, the optical beams hitting these macro-pixels are reflected back to their own ports 27 , multiplexed by the WDM device 25 , and sent to the OUT port by passing through the optical circulator 23 .
- the macropixels 15 are set to the ⁇ state, the optical beams are reflected off at an angle of 40 with respect to the optical path of the + ⁇ state setting to an absorber or monitoring port 29 .
- By selectively turning on or off the individual micromirrors 11 in the macropixel light emerging from the SMF can be redirected back into the SMF with variable power control. This concept forms the basis for the proposed retroreflective design attenuator.
- FIGS. 3a and 3b show the small tilt micromirror-based fiber-optic switch structures.
- the transmissive design is illustrated in FIG. 3 a.
- macropixel 15 a is set to the for example ⁇ 10° state and macropixel 15 b is set to the for example +10°
- the optical beams from IN 1 and IN 2 travel to OUT 1 and OUT 2 , respectively.
- macropixel 15 a is set to the +10° state
- macropixel 15 b is set to the ⁇ 10° state
- using the fixed dual-mirror set-up 31 the optical beam from IN 1 travels to OUT 2 while the optical beam from IN 2 goes to OUT 1 .
- FIGS. 3c and 3d show light beam paths for the switched system.
- This extended multiple FO beam 2 ⁇ 2 switch module is shown in FIG. 3 b and indicates a reflective mode architecture.
- the input optical beam from IN 1 is reflected back to OUT 1 after passing through the optical circulator 33 .
- the input optical beam from IN 2 incident on the macropixel 15 at a 40° angle is reflected back to OUT 2 by using the fixed mirror 35 .
- the macropixel 15 is set to for example ⁇ 10°
- the input optical beams from IN 1 and IN 2 reflects at the macropixel to OUT 2 and OUT 1 , respectively.
- a multiple FO beam 2 ⁇ 2 switch module is formed.
- a key innovation here is the placement of the fixed mirror 35 that allows for large beam deflections even though small tilt mirror devices 19 are used.
- the macropixel 15 can be formed by another type of optical MEMS device such as the piston-type micromirror devices 37 .
- the micromirror 37 moves like a piston, and can have a very fast response, e.g., sub-microseconds, if the motion distance is small, e.g., less than half a micron.
- This type of optical MEMS device property is exploited in the FIG. 4 FO module design that shows a FO switch/attenuator structure using a Michelson interferometer arrangement coupled with a piston-type micromirror device.
- a multi-wavelength optical beam design is shown where beams from IN 1 and IN 2 are being demultiplexed by the WDM devices 25 after passing through the three-port optical circulators 33 .
- the output ports of the WDM devices 25 are connected to GRIN lenses 27 arranged in 2D space.
- Each GRIN fed optical beam is equally split into two optical beams by a cube beam splitter (BS) 39 .
- One optical beam travels straight through and hits a macro-pixel in the 2D piston-type analog operation-based micromirror device 41 .
- the other optical beam is 90° reflected by the BS 39 towards the fixed mirror 43 .
- the two optical beams interfere at the cube BS diagonal interface 45 , later to be multiplexed and pass through the switch output ports via the three-port optical circulators 33 .
- the optical path difference between the two optical beams is equal to a multiple of ⁇ , where ⁇ is the optical beam wavelength
- the desired wavelength optical beams from IN 1 and IN 2 are sent to OUT 2 and OUT 1 , respectively.
- the optical path difference between the split optical beams is ⁇ /2
- the desired wavelength optical beams from IN 1 and IN 2 is sent to OUT 1 and OUT 2 , respectively.
- each mirror 43 in the 2D piston-type micromirror device 41 can be operated in an analog manner, indicating that the optical path difference can be varied from 0 to ⁇ /2.
- the output intensity can be controlled in an analog fashion, leading to variable optical beam power at both output ports of the interferometric structure.
- one output port of this switch structure can be used as the monitoring port and the other one is used as the main output port.
- a fault-tolerant high speed variable FO attenuator is formed.
- FIG. 5 shows the macro-pixel extension of non-MEMS technologies to form a variable fiber-optic attenuator.
- a beam displacing prism (BDP) 47 splits the optical beam emerging from the input GRIN fiber collimator 49 into two linearly orthogonal polarization lights 51 , 53 .
- Each optical beam goes through a macro-pixel device 55 such as multipixel liquid crystal device (LCs).
- LCs multipixel liquid crystal device
- the desired amount of the optical power of each polarized optical beam after passing through another BDP 57 , can couple to an output GRIN fiber collimator 59 , resulting in optical beam power control at the output port.
- the dashed lines indicate where the rejected power goes that can be used for a monitoring port.
- LC macropixels can be used to form fault-tolerant switch structures.
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