Programmable Spectral Filter in C-Band Based on Digital Micromirror Device

摘要： Optical ?lters have been adopted in many applications such as recon?gurable telecommunication switches, tunable lasers and spectral imaging. However, most of commercialized ?lters based on a micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) only provide a minimum bandwidth of 25 GHz in telecom so far. In this work, the programmable ?lter based on a digital micromirror device (DMD) experimentally demonstrated a minimum bandwidth of 12.5 GHz in C-band that matched the grid width of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) G.694.1 standard. It was capable of ?ltering multiple wavebands simultaneously and ?exibly by remotely uploading binary holograms onto the DMD. The number of channels and the center wavelength could be adjusted independently, as well as the channel bandwidth and the output power. The center wavelength tuning resolution of this ?lter achieved 0.033 nm and the insertion loss was about 10 dB across the entire C-band. Since the DMD had a high power handling capability (25 KW/cm2) of around 200 times that of the liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) chip, the DMD-based ?lters are expected to be applied in high power situations.