• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 38, Issue 12, 3194 (2009)
LI Chuan*, WAN Zhou, XU Jiang-chun, XU Xiao-ping, and CHEN Yan
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    LI Chuan, WAN Zhou, XU Jiang-chun, XU Xiao-ping, CHEN Yan. Changing Inscribed Bragg Wavelengths with Biprism in Phase Mask Technique[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2009, 38(12): 3194 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A rotatable biprism is introduced in phase mask technique to change the inscribed Bragg of grating.In this system,the gratings are inscribed by the UV interference fringes of 248 nm derived from a rotatable biprism,where the phase mask is used as a beam splitter,and the biprism is rotated to change the intersection angle of two beams.For initializing the reference quantity of Bragg wavelength,the vertex angles of the biprism are determined by the ±1 diffraction angle of phase mask and the refract index of the biprism.Because the change of grating period caused by the asymmetrical rotation of two beams is limited to 5×10-4 nm at a tunability of the Bragg wavelength of ~100 nm,the tilt of grating caused by the rotation of the biprism can be ignorable.As the shift of Bragg wavelength is 1 nm,the maximum rotation angle of the prism is ~1 degree,and the minimum rotation angle is ~3 min.By contrasting with the rotation angle ~23 s/nm of the mirror in Talbot interferometer,the rotation precision of the prisms is decreased by two or three orders of magnitude in this phase mask interferometer.
    LI Chuan, WAN Zhou, XU Jiang-chun, XU Xiao-ping, CHEN Yan. Changing Inscribed Bragg Wavelengths with Biprism in Phase Mask Technique[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2009, 38(12): 3194
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