Power selective optical filter devices and optical systems using same
Abstract
In an embodiment, a power selective optical filter device includes an input polarizer for selectively transmitting an input signal. The device includes a wave-plate structure positioned to receive the input signal, which includes at least one substantially zero-order, zero-wave plate. The zero-order, zero-wave plate is configured to alter a polarization state of the input signal passing in a manner that depends on the power of the input signal. The zero-order, zero-wave plate includes an entry and exit wave plate each having a fast axis, with the fast axes oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. Each entry wave plate is oriented relative to a transmission axis of the input polarizer at a respective angle. An output polarizer is positioned to receive a signal output from the wave-plate structure and selectively transmits the signal based on the polarization state.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1159982
- Patent Number(s):
- 8854713
- Application Number:
- 13/464,245
- Assignee:
- Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
-
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2012 May 04
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Koplow, Jeffrey P. Power selective optical filter devices and optical systems using same. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web.
Koplow, Jeffrey P. Power selective optical filter devices and optical systems using same. United States.
Koplow, Jeffrey P. Tue .
"Power selective optical filter devices and optical systems using same". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1159982.
@article{osti_1159982,
title = {Power selective optical filter devices and optical systems using same},
author = {Koplow, Jeffrey P},
abstractNote = {In an embodiment, a power selective optical filter device includes an input polarizer for selectively transmitting an input signal. The device includes a wave-plate structure positioned to receive the input signal, which includes at least one substantially zero-order, zero-wave plate. The zero-order, zero-wave plate is configured to alter a polarization state of the input signal passing in a manner that depends on the power of the input signal. The zero-order, zero-wave plate includes an entry and exit wave plate each having a fast axis, with the fast axes oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. Each entry wave plate is oriented relative to a transmission axis of the input polarizer at a respective angle. An output polarizer is positioned to receive a signal output from the wave-plate structure and selectively transmits the signal based on the polarization state.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Information recording and reproducing apparatus
patent, June 2003
- Saimi, Tetsuo; Nishino, Seiji; Wada, Hidenori
- US Patent Document 6,584,059
Optical circuits for tunable second order PMD compensation and tunable dispersion compensation
patent, April 2006
- Fu, Xiaoli; Zhang, Genzao; Wang, Tongqing
- US Patent Document 7,027,135
Polarization state conversion in optically active spectroscopy
patent-application, September 2004
- Hug, Werner
- US Patent Application 10/376710; 20040169923
The 4FAD: a high-extinction-ratio, achromatic, temperature-insensitive, high-damage-threshold, all-fiber, power-selective filter
conference, January 2011
- Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Soh, Daniel B. S.
- CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications
Intensity discrimination of optical pulses with birefringent fibers
journal, January 1982
- Stolen, R. H.; Botineau, J.; Ashkin, A.
- Optics Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 10
Measurements and analyses of fields in fused tapered single-mode fiber couplers
journal, January 1989
- Zhang, Jian-Luo; Mao, Zhong-Ming; Lin, Zong-Qi
- Applied Optics, Vol. 28, Issue 11