Laser oscillation wavelength monitoring device

Abstract

A laser oscillation wavelength monitoring device, which can obtain a changing direction and a changing amount of an oscillation wavelength without any relation with a polarization state of an incident light, whose manufacturing is made to be easy, is provided. The laser oscillation wavelength monitoring device provides a lens that converts an incident light from an optical fiber in which an optical signal is transmitted using wavelength division to a beam, a polarizer that makes an arbitrary linear polarization state in the beam transmit, a polarization splitter that splits the arbitrary linear polarization state into a first polarization state and a second polarization state, first and second optical band pass filters to which each polarization state split by the polarization splitter is inputted, first and second light receiving elements which receive light transmitted through the first and second optical band pass filters respectively and convert the received light to electric signals, a divider that calculates a ratio of digital values that the output levels of the first and second light receiving elements are converted at analog/digital (A/D) converters, an adder that accumulates the outputs of the divider every designated unit time, and a counter. And the laser oscillation wavelength monitoring device outputs an average value that the accumulated result designated times at the adder is divided by the counted value.