High performance optical add/drop multiplexer and optical wavelength multiplexing network

摘要

In making use of an add/drop multiplexer for demultiplexing or multiplexing signal light of a few specific wavelengths from signal light subjected to optical wavelength multiplexing, a fiber bragg grating (33-1,33-N) is excellent for enhancing rejection of a leakage of a demultiplexed light, but with respect to a high speed optical signal at the demultiplexing or multiplexing, a waveform deterioration occurs. When a dielectric multilayer film filter is used for dealing with the high speed optical signal, a plurality of filters are used to suppress a coherent cross talk, resulting in an increase of loss of pass-through light and an increase of costs.;For a filter portion of at least demultiplexing part (22-1), a dielectric multilayer film filter (23-1,23-N) which is short in an optical path and free from deterioration of a high speed optical signal is used, and for demultiplexed light leakage rejecting part between the demultiplexing part and the multiplexing part, a fiber bragg grating (33-1,33-N) which is low in loss of pass-through light, is low in cost and is excellent in the rejection characteristics of filter light is used.