performance and features of add/drop multiplexer with fiber gratings and circulators. We have proposed a new multichannel add/drop multiplexer that is constructed by a piece of fiber with a few fiber gratings
circulators
and WDM multiplexer and demultiplexer. Using it
we can obtain each channel signal from the WDM transmission link in the same time. It has less insert loss than that in the simply cascaded single channel optical add/drop multiplexers. The technology of optical add/drop multiplexing in WDM all optical network is one of key technologies for realizing WDM network.