Interleaver with thermal and chromatic dispersion compensation
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Jan 20, 2004
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Nov 14, 2001
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An interleaver employs two birefringent crystals with opposite behavior under temperature variations and chromatic dispersion to achieve temperature stability and to compensate for chromatic dispersion. The interleaver employs a third birefringent crystal made of a birefringent material different from the materials of the other two crystals so that the wavelength components of radiation passing through the interleaver conform to the predetermined International Telecommunications Union grid. One of the three birefringent crystals includes a Faraday rotator placed in a magnetic field. By changing the direction of the magnetic field relative to the optical paths of beams passing through the interleaver, the behavior of the interleaver can be fine tuned to achieve temperature stability and chromatic dispersion compensation in a way that does not require very accurate dimension control of the three crystals.
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