Waveshaper Family

WaveShaper S-Series is the next generation of Finisar's WaveShaper family of Programmable Optical Processors. Based on a high-resolution, solid-state Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) optical engine, the WaveShaper S-Series provides extremely fine control of filter or channel amplitude and phase characteristics, including center wavelength, bandwidth, shape and dispersion. Covering the entire C- or L-band the WaveShaper S-Series is available as either a Programmable Optical Filter (WaveShaper 1000S) or Multiport Optical Processor (WaveShaper 4000S).

In its simplest application, the WaveShaper S-Series are fully programmable, flat-top optical filters or DWDM channel selectors. The filter or channel bandwidth is programmable in 1 GHz increments from 10 GHz up to the whole C-band, with the center frequency programmable in 1 GHz increments over the whole C-band. L-band versions of both models are also available. Band-stop and optical comb filters are also supported and optical power control over a range of 35dB is supported for all filter types.

In addition to the classical 'flat-top' channel shape, the WaveShaper S-Series supports arbitrary user-generated channel and filter shapes. The required filter shape (both amplitude and phase) can be generated by the user and then loaded into the WaveShaper software which translate the user specification into the required optical shape.

DWDM Channel Selector

WaveShaper 100S Channel Selector is a fully programmable, DWDM channel selector with user-selectable band-pass (Flat-top) and Gaussian filter shapes. The filter bandwidth is programmable in 1 GHz increments from 25 GHz up to 200 GHz, with the center frequency programmable in 1 GHz increments over the whole C- band.