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We demonstrate an 11 port count wavelength selective switch (WSS) supporting spatial superchannels of three spatial modes, based on the combination of photonic lanterns and a high-port count single-mode WSS.
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We demonstrate a pulse-shaping technique that allows for spectrally resolved splitting of an input signal to multiple output ports. This ability enables reconfigurable creation of splitters with complex wavelength-dependent splitting ratios, giving similar flexibility to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in electronics. Our technique can be used to create reprogrammable optical (interferometric) circuits, by emulating their multi-port spectral transfer functions instead of the traditional method of creating an interferometer by splitting and recombining the light with an added delay. We demonstrate the capabilities of this technique by creating a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, an all-optical discrete Fourier transform filter, two nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers and a complex splitter with a triangular-shaped response.
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Hyperparallel OCT (HP-OCT) is a parallel spectral domain imaging technology particularly well-suited to the anterior segment. It uses a 2-dimensional grid of 1008 beams to simultaneously image across a wide area of the eye. In this paper we demonstrate that sparsely sampled volumes captured at 300â Hz can be registered without the need for active eye tracking to produce 3-dimensional (3D) volumes free from motion artefacts. The anterior volume provides complete 3D biometric information, including lens position, curvature, epithelial thickness, tilt, and axial length. We further demonstrate that, with the change of a detachable lens, we can capture high resolution anterior volumes and importantly, posterior volume images for preoperative assessment of the posterior segment. Advantageously, the retinal volumes have the same 11.2 mm Nyquist range as the anterior imaging mode.
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A model for characterizing the spectral response of the passband of Wavelength Selective Switches (WSS) is presented. We demonstrate that, in contrast to the commonly used supergaussian model, the presented model offers a more complete match to measured results, as it is based on the physical operation of the optical system. We also demonstrate that this model is better suited for calculation of WSS channel bandwidths, as well as predicting the final bandwidth of cascaded WSS modules. Finally, we show the utility of this model in predicting channel shapes in flexible bandwidth WSS channel plans.
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Dispositivos Ópticos , Processamento de Sinais Assistido por Computador/instrumentação , Desenho Assistido por Computador , Desenho de Equipamento , Reprodutibilidade dos TestesRESUMO
We show the first simultaneous OSNR monitoring of two 40 Gb/s OOK and DPSK channels, using only a wavelength selective switch and two slow photodetectors. Our approach is modulation format and bit-rate independent and can easily be included in existing reconfigurable networks.