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Passive Temperature Compensation for All Optical Fiber Type DWDM Interleaver  

Chang Jin Hyeon (Dept. of Optical Communication Engineering, Korea Information & Communication Polytechnic College)
Kim Yung Kwon (Huree Institute of Information & Communication Technology)
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Abstract
In this paper, we report Mach Zehnder Interleaver of optical fiber type is fabricated by the fabrication system only for interfermeter design, and it is used $CO_2$ laser to adjust precisely the wavelength. The optical fiber is very sensitive in the thermal variation around. Thus, When fabrication the prototype, it is applied a technique to compensate the optical thermal effect because the center wavelength at the output is shifted according to the thermal variation around. it can he done by applying a substrate with high thermal expansion coefficient as well as an adjusting the position between two optical fiber couplers. Consequently, the output wavelength is shifted within 0.05 nm when the surrounding temperature varies until $60^{\circ}C$.
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Mach-Zehnder Interference; DWDM; Optical Fiber; Temperature Compensation; Passive Component;
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