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Sheldon McLaughlin - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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A contentionless Twin 8×24 WSS has been designed and manufactured in prototype quantities. Measured insertion loss was between 3.3 dB and 6.8 dB for all port combinations, the lowest loss ever reported for a contentionless MxN WSS.Show More
Various switching engines such as MEMS, liquid crystal, and phased arrays, can be used to implement a colorless WSS. Switching engine affect on device design characteristics and implications on specifications for future applications are discussed.Show More
We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to multichannel tunable dispersion compensation based on multicavity etalons that can compensate all channels throughout the C- or L-band with either 50- or 100-GHz channel spacings for 10-Gb/s applications. We demonstrate very low group delay ripple, large tuning range, as well as dispersion slope compensation for LEAF and TrueWave RS fiber across the L...Show More
We present a multichannel tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) based on multicavity all-pass etalons that is capable of operation at 40 Gb/s. The device has a tuning range of +200/-220 ps/nm with a group delay ripple < /spl plusmn/5 ps over a channel bandwidth of 80 GHz, an overall loss of < 5.2 dB, very low insertion loss ripple, and can operate on any channel on a 200-GHz grid over the C-band. I...Show More
We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to multi-channel tunable dispersion compensation based on multicavity etalons that can compensate all channels throughout the C or L band with either 50 GHz or 100 GHz channel spacings for 10 Gb/s applications. We demonstrate very low group delay ripple, large tuning range, as well as dispersion slope compensation for LEAF and TrueWave RS fiber across th...Show More