340 nm Bandwidth Automatic Dynamic Optical Equalizer for CWDM Networks

Table 1

Equalizer main characteristics.

Equalizer characteristics	AO-VOA setup	Recommendations^b
Bandwidth	>340 nm	/
Dynamic	20 dB	20 dB
Resolution	0.1 dB	0.2 dB
Response time	~𝜇s^a	30 ms
Insertion loss	2 dB	<6 dB

aCorrespond to AO-VOA response time; bReferences [15, 16].