The invention discloses an electrically-controlled variable
optical attenuator based on a multistage wedge-shaped
liquid crystal box and an attenuation control method, the attenuator comprises a
laser, the
laser provides an incident
light signal, the divergent incident
light signal is converted into a collimated parallel
light beam through a
collimator, the collimated parallel
light beam is subjected to deflection modulation through a multistage wedge-shaped
liquid crystal box module, and the modulated
light beam is converted into a modulated light beam; the multi-channel
liquid crystal controller is coupled to the output
optical fiber through the
optical fiber coupler, and generates and outputs driving
voltage signals capable of being independently adjusted to the N-stage wedge-shaped liquid
crystal box module, so that each wedge-shaped liquid
crystal box in the multi-stage wedge-shaped liquid
crystal box module is independently controlled; the control method comprises the steps of receiving a target instruction, querying a
system-level relationship, distributing a deflection task, querying a device-level relationship, outputting a driving
signal and performing closed-loop feedback correction. According to the invention, a large attenuation range is obtained, and at the same time,
millisecond-level and even sub-
millisecond-level
rapid response is realized; the precision, the
linearity and the
usability of attenuation control are improved, and the
control complexity is reduced.