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Holographic Wavelength Filters. Demetri Psaltis, Caltech. OUTLINE. Holographic filters Tunable filters Tunable WDM architectures. Recording. Read-out. =/2. Piezoelectric mirror. Stabilized Recording. Detector. Detector. Control. Holographic Add-Drop Filter. in. add. drop.
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Holographic Wavelength Filters Demetri Psaltis, Caltech OUTLINE • Holographic filters • Tunable filters • Tunable WDM architectures
Read-out =/2
Piezoelectric mirror Stabilized Recording Detector Detector Control
Holographic Add-Drop Filter in add drop thru
Fiber coupling D Grin lens Ferule INPUT FIBER To express collimator DROP FIBER PASSBAND SHAPING BY COUPLING ADJUSTMENT
Cross-talk Grin lens Ferule INPUT FIBER EXPRESS FIBER DROP FIBER 20 dB extra extinction by fiber coupling. No “cladding” Modes.
Polarization dependent loss In-band PDL (± 10 GHz): < 0.2 dB Polarization dependant shift: 1.2 GHz
Side-lobe suppression 1st pass 2nd pass Double passing through grating
Side-lobe suppression without apodization with apodization
Emitter frequency drift: power penalty 4 Rx threshold kept constant, optimised at 193.699THz 3 "Cross" input light polarisation 2 "Bar" input light penalty (dB) polarisation 1 ~16GHz Bandwidth available 0 Channel 17 PRBS=215-1 32 WDM channels -1 193,68 193,69 193,7 193,71 193,72 Frequency (THz) Courtesy of Alcatel
Tunable Add-drop filter: block diagram origin destination l2 ADD fiber l1 l1 l2 l2 IN EXPRESS l3 l3 l2 DROP
Tunable Add-drop filter: block diagram origin destination l3 ADD fiber l1 l1 l2 l2 IN EXPRESS l3 l3 l3 DROP
EXPRESS INPUT ADD DROP Dual fiber collimator Dual fiber collimator
RECONFIGURABLE WAVELENGTH ROUTING Tunable add-drop filters (hitless)