ALL-FIBER POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT NARROW-BAND WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXER

Authors
STARODUMOV AN ZENTENO LA MONZON D BOYAIN AR
Citation
An. Starodumov et al., ALL-FIBER POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT NARROW-BAND WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXER, Optics communications, 138(1-3), 1997, pp. 31-34
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
138
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
31 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1997)138:1-3<31:APNWM>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A polarization-independent wavelength-division multiplexer (WDM) based on cross-splicing of a birefringent fiber in a Sagnac interferometer is proposed. Thermal stability of the spectral characteristics is anal ysed theoretically and experimentally. Wavelength tunability through t he temperature variations at the rate of 1 nm/K is measured. Polarizat ion-independent WDM with channel isolation better than 20 dB and bandw idth of 0.5 nm is presented.