Simple and low-cost technique for wavelength division multiplexing channel monitoring

Mario Iodice; Giuseppe Cocorullo; Francesco G. Della Corte; Ivo Rendina

doi:10.1117/1.602548

1 June 2000 Simple and low-cost technique for wavelength division multiplexing channel monitoring

Mario Iodice, Giuseppe Cocorullo, Francesco G. Della Corte, Ivo Rendina

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 6, (June 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602548

Operation and management of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems require the monitoring of optical channel frequency and power. We propose a simple and low-cost solution for tracking the frequency of WDM channels, based on the thermooptic tuning of single or coupled-cavities Fabry-Perot silicon optical filters. The fabricated structures are single-cavity filters exhibiting, thanks to a suitable coating stack on both cavity sides, high finesse and narrow bandwidth. Moreover, the free spectral range is large compared to the channel spacing, enabling the monitoring of one carrier frequency at a time. By means of a heater, we change the cavity refractive index and move the transmission peaks, thus scanning the WDM frequency set. In particular, we demonstrate the possibility to resolve up to seven 50-GHz-spaced channels with a crosstalk of -10 dB at wavelengths around 1550 nm. Better performances, in terms of resolvable channels and crosstalk can be obtained by using two coupled cavities, having a common resonance peak and different free spectral ranges. The global optical transfer function of such a cascade shows only one transmission peak in a frequency range of about 30 nm, and can be thermally tuned in this range.

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Mario Iodice, Giuseppe Cocorullo, Francesco G. Della Corte, and Ivo Rendina "Simple and low-cost technique for wavelength division multiplexing channel monitoring," Optical Engineering 39(6), (1 June 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602548

Published: 1 June 2000

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