Study and Fabrication of Filter Film in Tactical Optical Fiber Communication System

Abstract:

The development of optical fiber transmission technology provides a broad application prospect for the communication of real-time battlefield information. The information could be communicated between the front and headquarters through the cable by using tactical optical fiber communication system, which ensures the missions of military intelligence communicated and tactical real-time arrangement are completed successfully. According to the requirements of multiplexer for military tactical optical fiber communication system, the filters with low-loss have been developed. Filters are prepared by the depositing method of dual ion beam sputtering, Nb2O5 and SiO2 have been chosen as deposition materials, and the filter film is designed and optimized with the help of TFCalc software. In order to broaden the shortwave cutoff region of the filter, the long-wave pass film have been added behind the initial film, and the thickness of the matching layers have been optimized, which based on the concept of equivalent refractive index, the insertion loss of the pass-band of the filter has been reduced. The optical extreme value method and average time method have been used to control layers thickness, and the problem of the layers thickness accuracy controlling have been solved by using the method of real-time calibration of the deposition rate and the repeatability of parameters accurately control. The transmission spectrum of the filter has been tested, which demonstration that the center wavelength of the filter is 1511.2nm, the width of the filters pass band is 17.1nm and 23.5nm in the region of-0.5dB and-35dB respectively, the worst insertion loss within pass band region is-0.1dB, the ripple of the pass band is 0.06dB. The results show that the preparation of the filter meets the using requirements of military tactical fiber optic communication system well.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 609-610)
• Pages: 455-460
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.609-610.455
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Hao Long Tang*, Guo Jun Liu, Xiu Hua Fu
• Keywords: Filter, Optical Communication, Spectrum Analysis, Sputtering, Thin Film

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