Thorlabs Gmbh

Dieter Palme

Adalbert Bandemer

Jens Peupelmann

Michael Sauer

Walter Nowak

Ingolf Baumann

Johann Meissner

A system and method for monitoring all the characteristic parameters of a DWDM communication system is implemented with two variants. Firstly, this is achieved by means of a specific grating spectrometer displaying a high resolution and a high-speed sampling of the measured values, and secondly by the application of an opto-electronic cross correlator as a purely electronic solution. The grating spectrometer is expediently a particular system in a mixed array according to Ebert and Fastie, wherein the light to be measured passes four times through the grating in a specific manner. The opto-electronic cross correlator can mix the working light with a reference light tunable in terms of its frequency to form an electrical low-frequency signal that is analyzed in a high-impedance operation.

System and method for monitoring the performance of dense wavelength division multiplexing optical communications systems

The invention describes a transmission component for producing chromatic dispersion which can be predetermined, having

Fiber transmission element for generating a chromatic dispersion

An arrangement and method for producing a predeterminable polarization mode dispersion by means of double refracting elements provides for the production of a second-order polarization mode dispersion. An element is envisaged which twists the polarization principal axes by an appropriate angle at the output of an arrangement for producing first-order PMD, and the light signal exiting this element is fed into an arrangement which is also an arrangement for producing first-order PMD to produce an output signal having both first- and second-order PMD.

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Munich, Germany

Dieter Palme