WaveMakers

500A Programmable Optical Spectrum Generator
4000A Programmable Optical Spectrum Synthesizer

The WaveMaker family allows creating test signals especially suited for D-WDM system test applications. The WaveMaker 500A is a programmable ASE source covering the Super-C band and showing power levels of up to 20 dBm. The WaveMaker 4000A is a programmable spectrum synthesizer allowing generation of arbitrary spectral shapes in the C-band or in the C+L band. Shapes with widths (FWHM) as narrow as 10 GHz and slopes as steep as 600 dB/nm can be generated. With the WaveMaker 4000A units extinction ratios exceeding 60 dB can be achieved. Also, adding signals (like modulated channels) from external sources is supported

Programming of the spectrum can be done manually via the GUI, by upload of a spectrum definition file and also automated through an Application Programming Interface (API). See the video from Coherent for an introduction of this new product!  Click here!Internal amplifiers ensure that total power levels of up to 17 dBm can be achieved.