Abstract: A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is provided with two optical fibers each being coated with a high-reflective thin film at its one end, a silicon block for aligning the two optical fibers with each other having a pair of V-shaped grooves formed at both ends thereof, respectively, a resonant cavity medium of silicon or polymeric material having a high coefficient of thermo-optic effect, and a thermal electrode for applying heat to the resonant cavity medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermo-optic tunable attenuator, which comprises a single mode channel optical waveguide, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure coupled with the single mode channel optical waveguide, the optical waveguide including two symmetric Y-branches, and two metal heating wires for applying power to one side of each of the two symmetric Y-branches, wherein the two metal heating wires are in a facing relationship with each other, wherein a refractive index of the optical waveguide is changed in response to a power applied to any one of the two metal heating wires.

Abstract: A wavelength converter for converting wavelength of a signal beam combined to a pump beam. The wavelength converter comprises a mode converting region for converting mode of the pump beam; a direction combining region for combining the signal beam to the pump beam; and wavelength converting region for converting the wavelength of the signal beam combined to the pump beam. The mode converting region and the wavelength converting region are formed as integrated by nonlinear polymeric material to construct a polymeric waveguide extended along propagation direction. The wavelength converting region includes the nonlinear polymer poled to a predetermined direction. According to the present invention, a DFG device, a cascade wavelength converting device, and second harmonic generation device of higher energy converting efficiency can be developed.

Abstract: A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is provided with two optical fibers each being coated with a high-reflective thin film at its one end, a silicon block for aligning the two optical fibers with each other having a pair of V-shaped grooves formed at both ends thereof, respectively, a resonant cavity medium of silicon or polymeric material having a high coefficient of thermo-optic effect, and a thermal electrode for applying heat to the resonant cavity medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermo-optic tunable attenuator, which comprises a single mode channel optical waveguide, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure coupled with the single mode channel optical waveguide, the optical waveguide including two symmetric Y-branches, and two metal heating wires for applying power to one side of each of the two symmetric Y-branches, wherein the two metal heating wires are in a facing relationship with each other, wherein a refractive index of the optical waveguide is changed in response to a power applied to any one of the two metal heating wires.