A 1.55μm Fabry-Perot (F-P) thermo-optical t unable filter is fabricated.The cavity is made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) layer grown by electron-beam evaporation technique.Due to the excellent thermo-optical property o...A 1.55μm Fabry-Perot (F-P) thermo-optical t unable filter is fabricated.The cavity is made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) layer grown by electron-beam evaporation technique.Due to the excellent thermo-optical property of a-Si,the refractive index of the F-P cavity will be changed by heating;the transmittance resonant peak will therefore shift substantially.The measured tuning rang is 12nm, FWHM (full-width-at-half-maximum) of the transmissi on peak is 9nm,and heating efficiency is 0.1K/mW.The large FWHM is mainly due to th e non-ideal coating deposition and mirror undulation.Possible improvements to increase the efficiency of heating are suggested.展开更多
文摘A 1.55μm Fabry-Perot (F-P) thermo-optical t unable filter is fabricated.The cavity is made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) layer grown by electron-beam evaporation technique.Due to the excellent thermo-optical property of a-Si,the refractive index of the F-P cavity will be changed by heating;the transmittance resonant peak will therefore shift substantially.The measured tuning rang is 12nm, FWHM (full-width-at-half-maximum) of the transmissi on peak is 9nm,and heating efficiency is 0.1K/mW.The large FWHM is mainly due to th e non-ideal coating deposition and mirror undulation.Possible improvements to increase the efficiency of heating are suggested.