Photorefractive beam-steering system that uses energy transfer in a BaTiO3 crystal for a fiber-array interconnect

Pierre Mathey (1) , Raymond Mercier (2) , Gilles Pauliat (1) , Gérald Roosen (1) , Philippe Gravey (3)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Manolia
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Scop
3 OPT - Département Optique

Abeam-control system to write gratings on a holographic plane is studied. The arrangement is designed to interconnect two 1024 monomode fiber arrays. The beam-control system is composed of two subsystems: a beam steerer, which deflects one incident beam toward 1024 positions, and a collimating system, which adapts the shape of the deflected beam to the holographic plane. The collimating system was studied only after the beam steerer had been fully built and tested. It is based on the photorefractive amplification of a beamlet selected by a shutter array. The deflection efficiency is enhanced by a factor 1500 with the photorefractive crystal, and the signal-to-noise ratio is larger than 5500. The influence of the optical aberrations on the coupling losses of the infrared beams in the monomode fibers are evaluated.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Pierre Mathey, Raymond Mercier, Gilles Pauliat, Gérald Roosen, Philippe Gravey. Photorefractive beam-steering system that uses energy transfer in a BaTiO3 crystal for a fiber-array interconnect. Applied optics, 1995, 34 (35), pp.8220-8229. ⟨hal-00856691⟩