We demonstrate a wavelength, equalizer in planar silica waveguides that can
automatically control individual channel powers in a 10-channel 100-GHz-ch
annel-spacing wavelength-division multiplexed system, yet gives no distorti
on to channels that already have the same power as their neighbors. It has
<6.8 dB insertion loss over 32-nm, 9-13-dB attenuation range, and <0.18 dB
polarization/time-dependent loss.