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FiberWork releases new analyser
4/2/2004
fibers.org
FiberWork Optical Communications, Campinas - Brazil and San Jose - CA, has developed and is commercially releasing the OSPA (Optical S-Parameter Analyser). The OSPA is a fast platform for full and accurate characterization of passive optical devices during R&D and production, such as Fiber Bragg Gratings, interference filters, AWG´s, dispersion compensators, optical multiplexers and demultiplexers, short lengths of fiber, photonic crystal fiber devices etc.. It fully characterizes passive optical devices, providing simultaneously essential parameters such as phase, time delay, chromatic dispersion, reflectivity, transmissivity, bandwidth, insertion loss, return loss, polarization dependent loss and polarization mode dispersion (PMD/DGD). It replaces alternative solutions which requires several instruments and that can not measure all parameters simultaneously. It is intended towards time and cost savings during device development, production, testing and qualification stages.
The OSPA technology is built around an original interferometric technique. Such an innovation has been awarded with the British "Metrology for World Class Manufacturing Award" under category "Frontier Science and Measurement - Innovation in Metrology and Measurement Standards for Industry and Research".
Bearing a long list of technical advantages as compared to its competing technologies, the OSPA also innovates by treating the device under test using "optical S-parameter theory", an important innovation for multi-port device characterization. OSPA´s differentials include theoretical curve fitting routines, which allow to find DUT parameters non-directly measured; external laser solution; compatibility with main commercially available tunable laser sources allowing cost effective integration with existing equipment; swept and stepped wavelenght operation modes; S, C and L wavelength operation bands; easy and friendly Windows based user interface; fully automated operation; temperature and vibration stability; reduced space; simultaneous measurement in transmission and reflection in a single scan, integrated optical bench for ease of use and capability to characterizing multi-port devices.
The OSPA international debut will happen at the Optical Fiber Conference and Exhibition (OFC-2004), the biggest fair of this industry, which will take place from February 22 to 27, 2004, at the Los Angeles Convention Center (FiberWork´s booth is #4343 - West Hall).
Originally published on fibers.org
