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ArticleScientific reports2024

A miniaturized tunable optical attenuator with ultrawide bandwidth based on evanescent-field coupling between nanofibers.

Changjiang Fan, Yunfei Zhang, Jianbin Zhang, Lijun Guo, Mengwei Li, Chenguang Xin

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Changjiang FanSchool of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China.
Yunfei ZhangSchool of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China.
Jianbin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
Lijun GuoSchool of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China.
Mengwei LiSchool of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China. lmw@nuc.edu.cn.
Chenguang XinSchool of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China. xincg@nuc.edu.cn.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 62375247
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Abstract

We propose a novel miniaturized optical attenuator based on the evanescent-field coupling between two nanofibers. Benefiting from a wavelength-dependent waveguiding property of the coupled structure, a tunable attenuation with maximum extinction ratio of ~ 20 dB is demonstrated with an ultrawide optical bandwidth up to 0.7 μm in experiment. The wavelength-depended waveguiding properties of both one single nanofiber and coupled nanofibers are investigated in both theory and simulation. Using an adiabatic coupling structure, an attenuation range from - 0.16 dB to - 18.46 dB is obtained within a spectrum from 1.2 μm to 1.7 μm experimentally. Moreover, the simulated results indicate that, the attenuation only shows a slight change of ~ 0.1 dB with a lateral misalignment of 0.5 μm between the two nanofibers, indicating a high tolerance of this attenuator to the lateral misalignment. Considering the wide bandwidth as well as the ultracompact structure, this attenuator shows high potential in applications such as all-fiber optical sensing and communicating.

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