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General Information
1. Is Optoplex ISO certified?
Yes. Optoplex is an ISO-9001:2000 certified company. Optoplex's QMS System has successfully passed ISO-9001:2000 certifying audit by a seasoned world-class quality system certifying organization.
2. Can Optoplex provide OEM products?
Yes. Optoplex will discuss OEM opportunities for its products with standard or non-standard specifications. Please contact Optoplex Sales persons for such a discussion.
3. What is Optoplex core technology?
Optoplex's products are based on its patented free-space micro-optics technologies and state-of-the-art, in-house thin-film coating, which are foundations for Optoplex's DPSK demodulators, DQPSK demodulators, 90° optical hybrids, Polarization diversified optical hybrid (QPSK mixer), 2-port tunable optical filters, 3-port reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), Tunable edge filter, Bandwidth-tunable filter, Tunable notch filter, Optical interleavers, Flat-top comb filters, Optical channel monitor (OCM), Optical performance monitors (OPMs), DWM wavelength meter, and Portable spectrometers.
4. Are Optoplex's products compliant with RoHS requirements?
Currently, Optoplex's products are RoHS-5 compliant.
DPSK Demodulators
1. How many types of DPSK demodulators arecurrently available?
Three types of DPSK Demodulators are available: Passive (fixed), Fully tunable, and Semi-tunable.
2. What (which parameter) is tunable on Optoplex's tunable demodulators?
Frequency alignment of the constructive and destructive outputs. For a given device, its free spectral range (FSR) is not tunable.
3. What is the tuning mechanism used in Optoplex's tunable DPSK demodulators?
Optoplex's tunable DPSK demodulators utilize the temperature-dependence of an optical part to adjust the phase difference between the two interference beams. The tuning is achieved by varying the temperature of that part through a resistance heater.
4. What is the difference between the fully tunable type and the semi-tunable type?
The fully tunable DPSK demodulator has wider tuning range and faster tuning speed compared with the semi-tunable type.
5. What is the advantage of each type?
For the passive DPSK demodulator, the main advantages are the colorless application (each device with 40- or 50-GHz FSR can be used for all DWDM channels and no need for electric power and the control circuit.) For the fully tunable DPSK demodulator, the user usually choose the FSR to exactly match the signal rate. The main advantage is the ability of tracking signal frequency drift (laser aging; temperature dependence; transmission related frequency chirp) to avoid OSNR penalty. The semi-tunable type combines the advantages of the passive and fully tunable type. It maintains the colorless feature (by choosing 40- or 50-GHz FSR) while gaining some degree of frequency-tracking ability.
Optical Interleavers
1. Can Optoplex provide optical interleaver with channel center frequency offset from the ITU grid?
Optoplex optical interleaver platform is flexible in frequency alignment. Please specify your interleaver channel plan upon ordering.
2. Can Optoplex provide asymmetric optical interleaver?
Yes. Optoplex provides both standard optical interleaver and asymmetric optical interleaver.