Product/Service

NFOEC: Optical Channel Monitor

Source: Axsun Technologies Inc.
The AXSUN Optical Channel Monitor is the first in a series of product families based on its photonic hybrid integration platform. In a footprint...
The AXSUN Optical Channel Monitor is the first in a series of product families based on its photonic hybrid integration platform. In a footprint smaller than a business card (OCM) provides the performance of a laboratory class optical spectrum analyzer. This subsystem establishes a new benchmark for performance and functional density, consuming less than one-tenth the real estate of OCM solutions based on bulk optics.

The compact size of the monitor empowers Optical Networking equipment and service providers to embed this function within existing network elements, which will allow wide-scale deployment of distributed network monitoring in the metropolitan and core optical networks.

The device monitors the signal integrity of optical networks to facilitate network fault management and the routing of light paths. Typical applications for the OCM include power balancing, EDFA gain tilt monitoring, new system commissioning and transmitter wavelength locking.

Axsun Technologies Inc., 1 Fortune Drive, Billerica, MA 01821. Tel: 978-262-0049; Fax: 978-262-0035.