EXTERNAL CAVITY TUNABLE LD LIGHT SOURCE ECL-210
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Introduction
The ECL-210 is an electronically tunable multi-channel LD light source. It utilizes Santec's
considerable expertise in external cavity type tunable semiconductor laser design, and in particular
uses an interference filter in the external cavity for wavelength control and selectivity.
Wavelength and optical power can be set up by simple operation compared with usual manual tuning
method. With the growth of the telecommunications industry, there is a need for tunable light sources
to evaluate EDFA, and DWDM. Santec designed the ECL-210 to meet this need with a unit that has
precise wavelength tuning accuracy, excellent wavelength and power stability, and high optical output
power. Used as a stand-alone unit or as part of a larger test system, the ECL-210 is the excellent choice
as a tunable light source to use in optical research and development, inspection, production testing.
The ECL-210 is wavelength stable light source which utilizes both a wavelength selecing and a
wavelength locking filter filter inside the unit. High precision temperature control of wavelength
locking filter enables extremely high wavelength stability and repeatability to be achieved.
To operate the ECL-210 the unit needs to be installed in either the MLS-2100 or MLS-8100 Rack.
These racks provide a power supply and the control electronics for operation. The MLS-2100 is a two
channel rack and the MLS-8100 allows up to eight channels to be used simultaneously.
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