Abstract
A liquid crystal tunable bidirectional isolator is proposed. A wave plate
is employed to realize a wavelength interleaving function. If it works as a
full wave plate, the corresponding light only may pass along a specific
direction while the opposite way is isolated. However, for wavelengths that
the light experiences a half wave plate, the isolator's passing direction is
reversed. A liquid crystal cell is utilized to tune the isolator so that
both the isolated wavelength and direction could be reconfigured. A 100-GHz
channel-interleaved tunable bidirectional isolator is demonstrated with ${\sim} {\hbox {30}}$ dB isolation in both directions. The spectral response at ITU
grids are further flattened by using a wave plate stacking technique.
© 2010 IEEE
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