PARIS -- Kylia declines its standard micro-interferometer mint 1x2 into a micro interferometer with two inputs and two outputs, so called mint 2x2. mint 2x2 offers the possibility of a bidirectional amplification with a standard amplifier. An application drawing is available online.

mint 2x2 allows the integration of a “one-way” path at some point of a bidirectional fibre , hence enabling amplification. Afterwards, even and odd channels take back their nominal directions towards the two different edges of the fibre.

mint 2x2 is a wavelength interleaver directly issued from the mint 1x2. mint 2x2 inherits of outstanding performance of the mint 1x2. Fix version of mint 1x2 is used as an interleaver when the tunable version is used for D(Q)PSK.

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