TEMPERATURE-TUNED ZNS ETALON FILTERS FOR WDM SYSTEMS

被引:6
作者
CHUNG, YC
机构
[1] AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel
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10.1109/68.141981
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report a simple ZnS etalon filter tunable with temperature (5 GHz/-degrees-C) for channel selection and noise filtering in amplified WDM systems. It has large free-spectral-range (30 nm), narrow passband (4.6 angstrom), and low insertion loss (1 dB). The filter has been used for channel selection in a WDM system without any degradation in the receiver sensitivity. When the filter was locked to a desired channel using a simple digital servoloop, it maintained a very stable transmission (maximum drift < 3%) even when the wavelength of transmitter laser was intentionally changed by as much as 1 nm.
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