CA2354321A1 - Apparatus for writing features in or on photosensitive medium - Google Patents
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Description
APPARATUS FOR WRITING FEATURES IN OR ON A PHOTOSENSITIVE
MEDIUM
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an optical device using radiation induced changes in the index of refraction of a glass medium such as the core of an optical fiber.
More to particularly, the invention relates to using interference between two coherent light beams to induce changes in the index of refraction of the medium wherein the two light beams are produced by splitting a first light beam and propagated in a prism through total internal reflection.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 a shows a side view of the energy delivering system Figure 1b shows a front view of the energy delivering device.
Figure 2 shows the basic filtering/recombining transparent block.
2o Figure 3 shows the incident diffracted beam crossing the interface at a first angle.
Figure 4 shows the incident diffracted beam crossing the interface at a second angle.
Figure 5 shows beam expansion unit used to control grating length.
Figure 6 shows one step apodization writing system .
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DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The optical apparatus comprises a diffractive element, which could be a phase mask, to split a pre-shaped and collimated laser beam into two split beams.
Instead of using an arrangement of mirrors to filter undesirable light, such as high order diffration beams, and to recombine at an angle the two split beams in the substrate, the optical apparatus comprises a solid UV transparent block or a transmissive block.
In a variant, the solid UV transparent block comprises a curved surface to change 1o the angle of attack of the laser beams entering the block as a function of the gap between the diffractive element and the curved surface. The block having a curved surface can thus be used for varying the period of the interference pattern produced by the apparatus.
The optical apparatus uses the 0 diffraction order to write the DC part of the apodized fiber Bragg grating (FBG) simultaneously the +/- 1 orders write the AC part.
The balance between the intensity of the diffractive orders does not need to be design in the phase mask (or other diffractive element), because of the use of a focusing lens that can adjust the intensity of energy of the 0 order (DC part) reaching the fiber's core, so the apodization can be balanced by a simple feed-back control loop.
The optical apparatus is used with a laser for writing gratings on UV
sensitive material, such as Bragg gratings in an optical fiber's core, wherein close proximity between the substrate and the apparatus is not necessarily required. The apparatus ,' t comprises a beam shaping/collimating unit, a uniaxial movable 45°
mirror that redirects the laser beam through a diffractive unit, a solid UV transmissive device that filters out the undesired orders of diffraction and internally reflected the desired ones to cross over at a focal point in the substrate to create a grating by the UV energy intensity profile due to the interference pattern of the reflected orders of diffraction. More particularly, the apparatus comprises an enclosed beam shaping/collimating unit located near the exit of the laser, and an enclosed diffractive far field delivery unit. The use of the inside walls of the UV transparent block to filter the diffractive orders reduces the maintenance needs and the sensitivity to different natural contaminants, such as dust. This far field 1o diffractive blocks system can be removed and replaced with another with no re-adjustment required. The apparatus can be use on a wide variety of UV
sensitive substrate, including fiber optic and integrate optic chips. A variety of diffractive elements can also be used to obtain various apodization shapes of the diffractive orders.
The invention also seeks to provide a new method to adjust and vary the center wavelength of gratings fabricated by interference of two laser beams. The method consist of using a UV trnasparent or transmissive block between the diffractive element that generate the two split laser beams and the UV sensitive substrate. The role of the block is to filter out the parasite laser light, and to reflect on its the internal walls the desired 2o beams, at the desired angle of interference, at the desired focal point in the UV sensitive substrate. Since the laser beams enter the block at a certain angle, they will be reflected by the inside walls, conserving the same angle if the walls are parallel to the longitudinal axis of the block. A flat entry surface of the block will maintain the same angle of attack whatever is the gap between the diffractive element and that surface. But with a curved surface, the angle of attack of the beams entering the block will vary with the distance between the diffractive element and the curved surface of the block. The method consist of using a properly curved surface of the block and a simple linear motion control of the distance between the diffractive element and this curved surface to control the angle of interference of the delivered laser beams in the UV sensitive substrate. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the apparatus would work in sensibly the same way if the inside walls of the prim are not parallel or if the curved surface is on the side of the prism through which the light exits the transmissive material.
The invention also seeks to provide a method to adjust the length of a grating created by an interferometric pattern of two laser beams encountering at an angle. The interferometric pattern will be shape as diamond in the light travel plane, by adjusting the height position of the substrate in this diamond, the length of the created grating can be controled. To better control the sensitivity of this length's adjustment, the laser beams can be modified by using beam shaping/collimating units placed along the optical path.
The exact form of the UV beam pattern can be measure previous to the exposure using a beam shaping analyzer.
2o The invention further seeks to provide a method to balance the DC signal resulting from the UV writing of an apodized gratings. The method can be applied to any apparatus using a diffractive element to create separate beams of light from one incident beam, and to recombine at least two of them in a photosensitive substrate to produce an interference pattern creating a periodic modulation of the refractive index in the substrate, such as a grating. The diffracted orders can be energy profiled (apodized) as long as the energy profile of the 0 order of diffraction is the inverse in shape and in intensity, of the energy profiles of the beams used to produce the interference pattern. Then, by letting through the 0 order of diffraction to the substrate the apodization will be balance in a single exposure. Optical cylindrical lenses can be used after the diffractive element to shape the energy intensity profile of only the 0 order as long as it is in the direct axis of the incoming beam toward the substrate plane, and the other orders are passing beside those lenses. This set of lenses can be adjustable to obtain the proper energy intensity profile of the 0 order.
A UV laser (11) is used to deliver the energy. Preferably, the laser emits light at a wavelength of 193 to 260 nm and is either pulsed or continuous. The laser beam (19) is shaped and collimated by a lens assembly (12). It is then reflected at 90° by a movable mirror (13), that can be controlled to be optimally aligned on the fiber's core. The beam is then split in two beams (110) and (111) by a diffractive element (14), that can be positioned using a controlled motion stage (15). The split beams (110) and (111) are then filtered and recombined together in front of the apparatus using complete internal reflection inside an UV transparent block (16). By interference, the recombining split 2o beam creates a stationary intensity fringe pattern (17).
As showed in FIG. 2, a phase mask (22) can be used as a diffractive element.
The phase mask (22) can be apodized to obtain an apodized interference pattern.
Preferably, the UV transparent block ( l6) is quadrilateral and has two walls parallel to the incident UV beam (19), a portion that is perpendicular to the incident UV beam (19) and another portion that is perpendicular to the substrate axis. The substrate is preferably either the core of a fiber optic (24), an integrated optic devices (not shown) on a silicon wafer or a pre-packaged fiber optic or a pre-assembled optical module (now shown), although those skilled in the art will recognize that any photosensitive medium can be used in conjunction with the present invention.
To adjust the grating center wavelength, phase mask (32) can be used as a 1o diffractive element and the apparatus can comprise block having a curved surface (34) to fabricate constant period Bragg gratings. The period of the Bragg grating is dictated by the angle of interference between two beams (35) and (36) of light As it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, those two angles depend respectively on the angles made between beams (35) and (36) and a plane (not shown) tangent to surface (34). So by a simple linear motion (33), it is possible to change and adjust the gap between the phase mask (32) and the tangent to the curved entry surface (34). In doing so, the angles between the two beams 35 and 36 delivered in the substrate (39), and so, the period of the Bragg grating created.
2o To control the grating length (FIG.S), the laser beam is shaped (53) and collimated (52) at the exit of the laser (54) to give good proper sensitivity.
Such beam shaping and collimating is well known in the art and will therefore not be described further. The interference pattern is measured by a beam shape analyzer previous to the exposure (not shown). The substrate support height in the interference pattern is automatically adjustable (57). Different supports are used for different substrate, such as optic fiber (58), pre-package optic fiber and integrate optic devices on silicon wafers.
To apodize the grating, an apodized holographic phase mask can be used as a diffractive element (see FIG.6). An UV transparent block (64) is use to filter out all diffractive orders except for --1, 0 and +1 (65). Since the 0 order has already the inverse energy profile shape of the one in the interference pattern of -1 and +1, only the global intensity of the 0 order has to be controled. To do so, we use a simple localizing cylindrical lens (61). The lens moves in the axial direction (63) to focus more or less in the interference pattern to obtain the balance amount of global 0 order energy (67) and (68).
MEDIUM
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an optical device using radiation induced changes in the index of refraction of a glass medium such as the core of an optical fiber.
More to particularly, the invention relates to using interference between two coherent light beams to induce changes in the index of refraction of the medium wherein the two light beams are produced by splitting a first light beam and propagated in a prism through total internal reflection.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 a shows a side view of the energy delivering system Figure 1b shows a front view of the energy delivering device.
Figure 2 shows the basic filtering/recombining transparent block.
2o Figure 3 shows the incident diffracted beam crossing the interface at a first angle.
Figure 4 shows the incident diffracted beam crossing the interface at a second angle.
Figure 5 shows beam expansion unit used to control grating length.
Figure 6 shows one step apodization writing system .
U
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The optical apparatus comprises a diffractive element, which could be a phase mask, to split a pre-shaped and collimated laser beam into two split beams.
Instead of using an arrangement of mirrors to filter undesirable light, such as high order diffration beams, and to recombine at an angle the two split beams in the substrate, the optical apparatus comprises a solid UV transparent block or a transmissive block.
In a variant, the solid UV transparent block comprises a curved surface to change 1o the angle of attack of the laser beams entering the block as a function of the gap between the diffractive element and the curved surface. The block having a curved surface can thus be used for varying the period of the interference pattern produced by the apparatus.
The optical apparatus uses the 0 diffraction order to write the DC part of the apodized fiber Bragg grating (FBG) simultaneously the +/- 1 orders write the AC part.
The balance between the intensity of the diffractive orders does not need to be design in the phase mask (or other diffractive element), because of the use of a focusing lens that can adjust the intensity of energy of the 0 order (DC part) reaching the fiber's core, so the apodization can be balanced by a simple feed-back control loop.
The optical apparatus is used with a laser for writing gratings on UV
sensitive material, such as Bragg gratings in an optical fiber's core, wherein close proximity between the substrate and the apparatus is not necessarily required. The apparatus ,' t comprises a beam shaping/collimating unit, a uniaxial movable 45°
mirror that redirects the laser beam through a diffractive unit, a solid UV transmissive device that filters out the undesired orders of diffraction and internally reflected the desired ones to cross over at a focal point in the substrate to create a grating by the UV energy intensity profile due to the interference pattern of the reflected orders of diffraction. More particularly, the apparatus comprises an enclosed beam shaping/collimating unit located near the exit of the laser, and an enclosed diffractive far field delivery unit. The use of the inside walls of the UV transparent block to filter the diffractive orders reduces the maintenance needs and the sensitivity to different natural contaminants, such as dust. This far field 1o diffractive blocks system can be removed and replaced with another with no re-adjustment required. The apparatus can be use on a wide variety of UV
sensitive substrate, including fiber optic and integrate optic chips. A variety of diffractive elements can also be used to obtain various apodization shapes of the diffractive orders.
The invention also seeks to provide a new method to adjust and vary the center wavelength of gratings fabricated by interference of two laser beams. The method consist of using a UV trnasparent or transmissive block between the diffractive element that generate the two split laser beams and the UV sensitive substrate. The role of the block is to filter out the parasite laser light, and to reflect on its the internal walls the desired 2o beams, at the desired angle of interference, at the desired focal point in the UV sensitive substrate. Since the laser beams enter the block at a certain angle, they will be reflected by the inside walls, conserving the same angle if the walls are parallel to the longitudinal axis of the block. A flat entry surface of the block will maintain the same angle of attack whatever is the gap between the diffractive element and that surface. But with a curved surface, the angle of attack of the beams entering the block will vary with the distance between the diffractive element and the curved surface of the block. The method consist of using a properly curved surface of the block and a simple linear motion control of the distance between the diffractive element and this curved surface to control the angle of interference of the delivered laser beams in the UV sensitive substrate. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the apparatus would work in sensibly the same way if the inside walls of the prim are not parallel or if the curved surface is on the side of the prism through which the light exits the transmissive material.
The invention also seeks to provide a method to adjust the length of a grating created by an interferometric pattern of two laser beams encountering at an angle. The interferometric pattern will be shape as diamond in the light travel plane, by adjusting the height position of the substrate in this diamond, the length of the created grating can be controled. To better control the sensitivity of this length's adjustment, the laser beams can be modified by using beam shaping/collimating units placed along the optical path.
The exact form of the UV beam pattern can be measure previous to the exposure using a beam shaping analyzer.
2o The invention further seeks to provide a method to balance the DC signal resulting from the UV writing of an apodized gratings. The method can be applied to any apparatus using a diffractive element to create separate beams of light from one incident beam, and to recombine at least two of them in a photosensitive substrate to produce an interference pattern creating a periodic modulation of the refractive index in the substrate, such as a grating. The diffracted orders can be energy profiled (apodized) as long as the energy profile of the 0 order of diffraction is the inverse in shape and in intensity, of the energy profiles of the beams used to produce the interference pattern. Then, by letting through the 0 order of diffraction to the substrate the apodization will be balance in a single exposure. Optical cylindrical lenses can be used after the diffractive element to shape the energy intensity profile of only the 0 order as long as it is in the direct axis of the incoming beam toward the substrate plane, and the other orders are passing beside those lenses. This set of lenses can be adjustable to obtain the proper energy intensity profile of the 0 order.
A UV laser (11) is used to deliver the energy. Preferably, the laser emits light at a wavelength of 193 to 260 nm and is either pulsed or continuous. The laser beam (19) is shaped and collimated by a lens assembly (12). It is then reflected at 90° by a movable mirror (13), that can be controlled to be optimally aligned on the fiber's core. The beam is then split in two beams (110) and (111) by a diffractive element (14), that can be positioned using a controlled motion stage (15). The split beams (110) and (111) are then filtered and recombined together in front of the apparatus using complete internal reflection inside an UV transparent block (16). By interference, the recombining split 2o beam creates a stationary intensity fringe pattern (17).
As showed in FIG. 2, a phase mask (22) can be used as a diffractive element.
The phase mask (22) can be apodized to obtain an apodized interference pattern.
Preferably, the UV transparent block ( l6) is quadrilateral and has two walls parallel to the incident UV beam (19), a portion that is perpendicular to the incident UV beam (19) and another portion that is perpendicular to the substrate axis. The substrate is preferably either the core of a fiber optic (24), an integrated optic devices (not shown) on a silicon wafer or a pre-packaged fiber optic or a pre-assembled optical module (now shown), although those skilled in the art will recognize that any photosensitive medium can be used in conjunction with the present invention.
To adjust the grating center wavelength, phase mask (32) can be used as a 1o diffractive element and the apparatus can comprise block having a curved surface (34) to fabricate constant period Bragg gratings. The period of the Bragg grating is dictated by the angle of interference between two beams (35) and (36) of light As it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, those two angles depend respectively on the angles made between beams (35) and (36) and a plane (not shown) tangent to surface (34). So by a simple linear motion (33), it is possible to change and adjust the gap between the phase mask (32) and the tangent to the curved entry surface (34). In doing so, the angles between the two beams 35 and 36 delivered in the substrate (39), and so, the period of the Bragg grating created.
2o To control the grating length (FIG.S), the laser beam is shaped (53) and collimated (52) at the exit of the laser (54) to give good proper sensitivity.
Such beam shaping and collimating is well known in the art and will therefore not be described further. The interference pattern is measured by a beam shape analyzer previous to the exposure (not shown). The substrate support height in the interference pattern is automatically adjustable (57). Different supports are used for different substrate, such as optic fiber (58), pre-package optic fiber and integrate optic devices on silicon wafers.
To apodize the grating, an apodized holographic phase mask can be used as a diffractive element (see FIG.6). An UV transparent block (64) is use to filter out all diffractive orders except for --1, 0 and +1 (65). Since the 0 order has already the inverse energy profile shape of the one in the interference pattern of -1 and +1, only the global intensity of the 0 order has to be controled. To do so, we use a simple localizing cylindrical lens (61). The lens moves in the axial direction (63) to focus more or less in the interference pattern to obtain the balance amount of global 0 order energy (67) and (68).
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1. An apparatus for writing an interference pattern on a photosensitive medium with a laser beam, said apparatus comprising:
means for splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams;
and means for propagating first and second split laser beams through at least one total internal reflection.
means for splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams;
and means for propagating first and second split laser beams through at least one total internal reflection.
2. A method for writing an interference pattern on a photosensitive medium with a laser beam, said the method comprising the steps of:
splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams; and propagating first and second split laser beams through at least one total internal reflection.
splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams; and propagating first and second split laser beams through at least one total internal reflection.
3. An apparatus for writing an interference pattern on a photosensitive medium with a laser beam, said apparatus comprising:
(a) a diffractive element for splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams; and (b) a transparent block for propagating first and second split laser beams through one total internal reflection.
(a) a diffractive element for splitting the laser beam into first and second split laser beams; and (b) a transparent block for propagating first and second split laser beams through one total internal reflection.
4. An apparatus as defined in claim 3, wherein said transparent block comprises at least two parallel walls.
5. An apparatus as defined in claim 4, wherein said transparent block comprises a portion through which first and second laser beams enter.
6. An apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein said portion comprises a curved surface.
7. An apparatus as defined in claim 3, wherein said diffractive element is an apodized hogographic phase mask.
8. An apparatus as defined in claim 7, wherein said apparatus comprises a focusing lens.
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