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Electronically tunable liquid-crystal-etalon filter for high-density WDM systems

Minoru Maëda, Jay Patel, Ching‐Fuh Lin, J. Horrobin, R. Spicer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1990 · 68 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A 1.5- mu m high-density wavelength-division-multiplexed (HD-WDM) system experiment is demonstrated using a novel Fabry-Perot etalon filter with a liquid-crystal electrical tuning element. The filter has a narrow passband (0.4 nm) and is continuously tunable over a wavelength range of >60 nm with a drive voltage from 1 to 5 V. Bit-error-rate measurements with an 8-channel (1539-1556 nm), 622 Mb/s WDM system confirms that the crosstalk penalty is negligible for an optical channel spacing of 2 nm.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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