Two-Dimensional Planar Lightwave Circuit Integrated Spatial Filter Array and Method of Use Thereof

Dimov, Fedor ; Ai, Jun

PID  :  NTRS Document ID: 20150022089

学科分类：电子与电气工程

美国|英语

来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

A large coherent two-dimensional (2D) spatial filter array (SFA), 30 by 30 or larger, is produced by coupling a 2D planar lightwave circuit (PLC) array with a pair of lenslet arrays at the input and output side. The 2D PLC array is produced by stacking a plurality of chips, each chip with a plural number of straight PLC waveguides. A pupil array is coated onto the focal plane of the lenslet array. The PLC waveguides are produced by deposition of a plural number of silica layers on the silicon wafer, followed by photolithography and reactive ion etching (RIE) processes. A plural number of mode filters are included in the silica-on-silicon waveguide such that the PLC waveguide is transparent to the fundamental mode but higher order modes are attenuated by 40 dB or more.