Title :
Temperature independent interferometer for WDM filters
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
A new method for eliminating the temperature dependence of an interferometer is proposed and demonstrated. This method is effective for interferometers such as a Fabry-Perot etalon or a virtually-imaged phased-array. An experiment with a filter at 1550 nm showed that the shift of the filtering wavelength due to the temperature change was less than 0.1 nm in a temperature range between 5/spl deg/C and 85/spl deg/C.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical filters; wavelength division multiplexing; 1550 nm; 5 to 85 C; Fabry-Perot etalon; WDM filters; filtering wavelength; temperature dependence; temperature independent interferometer; temperature range; virtually-imaged phased-array;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
