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Features
& Benefits
- High channel count
- Dense
channel spacing
- Excellent loss uniformity
- Low
insertion loss
- Scalable
- High level of intergration
- Easily customized
- Economical
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Applications
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DWDM systems
- Add/drop applications
- Metropolitan
networks
- Passive optical networks
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Product Capabilities and
Value
Building on established capacibilities, WaveSplitter is currently
developing its latest addition to an expanding portfolio of fiber optic
products, adding Planar Lightguide Circuit (PLC) platform. The WaveArrayTM
High-Channel Count Arrayed Waveguide Grating is designed to meet the
needs of DWDM system designers by offering a range of channel count
products with narrow channel spacings. The WaveArray allows
multiplexing and demultiplexing of densely packed wavelength channels
on a very large scale in a cost efficient manner.
WaveSplitter intends to launch the WaveArray product line with the
introduction of 100GHz Arrayed WaveGuide Grating products with
a
combination of low and uniform insertion loss, low polarization
dependent loss and low channel cross-talk. Additionally, the WaveArray
maintains a compact footprint for ease of system integration.
The WaveArray product portfolio is based on mature silica-on-silicon
wafer technology utilizing highly scalable manufacturing processes. The
platform technology consists of light-guiding structures and channels
that exhibit high wavelength resolution which allow
narrow-channel-spacing, high-channel-count devices in a small package.
Silica based integrated waveguides provide the ideal match with
standard single mode optical fiber, creating low insertion loss for the
device.
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Figure
1: Specifications
Preliminary Performance Specifications
for
WaveArray™ High Channel AWG
| Parameters | Gaussian
Profile | Flat-Top | | Channel
Count | 16, 32, 40 |
| Channel
Spacing (GHz) | 100 |
| Wavelength
Range (Band) | C
or L band | | Channel
Wavelength (nm) | 1530
to 1562 and 1575
to 1608
| | Frequency
Range (THz) |
186.4 to 190.4 and
191.4 to 195.5
| | Pass
Band (ITU Grid, pm) | +
50 | +
100 | |
Ripple (dB) | 0.8 |
0.5 |
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Polarization Dependent Loss (dB) | 0.35 |
0.35 |
| Insertion
Loss (dB) | 4.8 | 7.5 | | Insertion
Loss Uniformity (dB) | 1.7 |
1.7 | |
1dB Bandwidth (nm) | 0.2 |
0.35 | |
3dB Bandwidth (nm) | 0.35 |
0.55 | | Adjacent
Channel CrossTalk (dB) | -25 | -25 |
| Total
Optical CrossTalk (dB) | -22 | -22 |
| Return
Loss (dB) | 40 |
| Optical
Input Power Range (nW) | 400 | | Optical
Fiber Characteristics | | Fiber
Type | SMF
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| Fiber
Length (nm) | 1300
+
100 | | Optical
Fiber Terminations | SC Connectors
| | Fiber Tensile
Strain (N) | 5 |
| Fiber
Bend Radius (nm) |
30
| | Operating
Conditions | | Temperature
(°C) | 0
to 65 | | Relative
Humidity (%RH) | 85 |
| Storage
Conditions | | Temperature
(°C) |
-40 to 85 | | Relative
Humidity (%RH) | 90 |
| Vibration
(Hz) | 10 to 55,
Amplified
1.5mm | | Mechanical
Shock | 500G |
| Gaussian
Profile | Peltier |
| Power
Consumptions (Watts) | 0 to 65 | | Resistance
(ohms) | 3.1@25°C |
| Thermister
Resistance (Kohms) | 10 +2%@25°C |
| Thermister
B
value (K) | 3450
+2% | | Module
Size | | Foot
Print (WxLxH) (mm) | 65 x 94 x 16 | | Gaussian
Profile / Flat-Top | Resistive
Heater | | Power
Consumption (Watts) | 10 @ 5°C | | Resistivity
(ohms) | 2.75
+ 15% | | RTD (ohms) | 100 +
7% | | Voltage
(Volts
D.C.) | 5.5 |
| Currant
(Amps) | 1.5 |
| Warm-Up
Time
(minutes) | 7.0 |
| Module
Size | | Foot Print
(WxLxH) (mm) | 53
x 89 x 8.5 | |
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Figure
2: Ordering Information | Channel
Spacing | Channl
Count | Gaussian
/ Flat-Top | Starting
Wavelength | Peltier
/ Heater | Termination
Type | WAD
(demux)
WAM
(mux) | -- | --- | -- | ------- |
-- | -- |
| -- | --- | -- | ------- |
-- | -- |
05=50GHz
10=100GHz | 16=16Ch
32=32Ch
40=40Ch | G=Gaussian
F=Flat-Top | Ex.
1530.33nm=153033 | P=Peltier
H=Heater | 0=None
1=Standard
2=Custom | |
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