1) Introduction:

1) Fabry perot filters:

It is an optical resonator that consists of two flat highly-refractive and parallel
mirrors with the reflecting part facing each other. [1] The space in between
the mirrors is referred to as cavity. It is a type of filter that transmits the
desired and narrow range of wavelength and rejects the unwanted
wavelengths. It has ability to select the different peak wavelength. It act as a
light generator when laser is used in between the cavity, otherwise it is a
passive filter [2].

2) Phenomenon of Interference:
When the cavity width is equal to an odd multiple of half wavelength of
incident light, then there is a constructive interference and the transmission
is maximum. As side by side when there is a destructive interference then
optical transmission tends towards zero. It acts as a band pass filter that
transmit the desired range of wavelength. To get high reflectivity and
transmission dielectric mirrors are used instead of metallic mirrors [3].

3) Basic Principle:
Fabry perot filter consists of two aligned fiber coating with high reflecting
film. When the light enters the F-P cavity with an angle () against normal,
the light beam exits the second fiber parallelly after multiple reflecting. The
parallel beams are amplitude decreased and superposed coherent.
Destructive interference will be observed in this phenomenon. [4]
2) Proposed system:

1) Introduction to open filter software:

Optical researchers released their in house optical filter design software
called open filter under the license of GNU (general public license). They are
used for the design of multilayer or graded index filters. [5] The researchers
invites other not only free of charge but also to examine the source code and
modify it if needed. It is programmed in python and c++ and the graphical
user interface is implemented with WX python. It provides the refinement;
needle, steps and Fourier transform methods. [6]

2) Applications:

It is open source software released under GNU general public license, for the
design of optical filters. It offers multiple tools for design and optimization of
optical coating. It can calculate the transmission, reflection, absorption and
color of the filter, phase, group delay, admittance diagram, circle diagram
and the electric field distribution of the structure of particular filter that is
under this software. All the simulations will be done with this software. [7]

3) How we will use the open filter software:

In this project we will use this software to verify the previous results. We will
make a structure of fabry perot filter with different combinations of materials
deposited on DBRs and also change the cavity side by side. All simulations
are done on open filter software. After getting simulations, results are
verified. All the results are compared with the previous results.
3) Aims and Objectives:
This task involves the verification of previous results and new results which
are going to be simulated by open filter software. We have the previous
results from different past researches and we also do research to verify
these old results and the new one. For this purpose we will deal with
different materials that are going to be deposited on mirrors and simulated
by open filter software. The objectives of this project are as under

Verify the previous results.

Comparison of previous and new results.
Simulations by using different materials.

4) Application Areas and Abs Features:

There are the main applications of fabry perot filter in Wavelength division
multiplexing and the biochemical analysis of human fluid.

1) Fabry perot filter in WDM:

It is a system that uses multiplexer at transmitter end to combine all the
signals together and a de-multiplexer at receiver end to split all the
combined channels. The optical filtering devices mostly used Fabry perot
filters as thin film optical glass. [8] A new design Fabry perot-based array
filter for wavelength division multiplexing is introduced. The device is
constituted of two partially reflected mirrors; the surface of one of the mirror
is stepwise. The configuration of different air gap cavities into a single unit
not only provides wavelength tunability but the expansion of channel is also
involved. A four channel multiplexer is also observed. So, by using the fabry
perot filter with the wavelength division multiplexer a compact and cost
effective device WDM should be attainable. [9] A tunable optical filter having
a 60nm tuning range and a transmission line width of 5nm might found
extensive applications in wavelength division multiplexing. [10]

2) Biochemical Analysis of Human fluid:

Tunable Fabry perot optical filter can be used as application in clinical
analysis as to measure the concentration of biochemical substances in
biological fluids. It consists of two parallel silver thin mirrors with a beta-
PVDF(poly(vinylidene fluoride) in its beta phase) film in between as the
resonance cavity. The filter is tuned by adjusting the space between the
mirrors through an electric voltage inducing dipolar direction in the beta
PVDF film. Once the thickness changes of the beta-PVDF film is due to
variation in the molecular level, the changes are rather homogenous within
the samples. As a result the approach is the parallelism of two mirrors that
are used in it and it is a very difficult problem in the conventional optical
filters. When it is used as a biological fluid analysis system, it is not much
expensive and enables low cost and portable device which would improve
the use of spectrometric analysis in clinical analysis. [11]

5) Development and Deployment of Project:

Fabry perot filter is used in this task to verify the previous results and open
filter software is used for measuring the new results. Mirrors have layers and
different materials are used for this purpose. There are the two major tasks
which are going to be done in this project.

Verify the old results.

Measure the new results.

New results will be very helpful for the research purpose.

References:
1) (http://www.sspectra.com/fp.hml)
2) http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Fabry-Perot
3) http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-
48998-8_522
4) (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, 2013)
5) http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-44/issue-
7/newsbreaks/openfilters-optical-filter-design-software-is-released-
under-open-source-license.html
6) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18449250
7) http://larfis.polymtl.ca/index.php/en/links/openfilters
8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing
9) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15813252
10) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/864769/
11) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4078830/
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