Title :
Stable lightwave synthesized frequency sweeper for the 1.5 μm band
Author :
Takesue, Hiroki ; Yamamoto, Fumihiko ; Horiguchi, Tsuneo
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
We realized a stable lightwave synthesized frequency sweeper for the 1.5 μm band by using a Fabry-Perot cavity composed of two Faraday rotator mirrors. We show its high stability of the frequency sweep span which is very important for WDM networks
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; Faraday effect; mirrors; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; stability; synchronisation; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.5 mum; Fabry-Perot cavity; Faraday rotator mirrors; frequency sweep span; high stability; stable lightwave synthesized frequency sweeper; Band pass filters; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Frequency estimation; Frequency synthesizers; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732650
