A wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) and a type of fiber arrangement for the
WDM are provided. In the WDM according to the invention, a filter having dielectric
coating is used to allow lights within a specific band of wavelength to pass but
reflect lights not within the specific band of wavelength. A reflection mirror
is then used to reflect the lights passing through the filter to pass through the
filter for a second time. Because of the two filtering, the WDM provided by the
invention has very high adjacent channel isolation. In particular, the WDM contains
a fiber pigtail having a fiber bundle and a ferrule with a square aperture in the
center. By carefully arranging the common input fiber, the reflection output fiber,
and the transmission output fiber inside the aperture, the lights in the specific
band of wavelength have identical wavelength bandwidth when passing through the
filter twice, and the insertion loss for both the transmission output and the reflection
output is minimum. Having identical wavelength bandwidth implies that the wavelength
bandwidth of lights emitted out of the transmission output is not reduced because
the lights pass through the filter twice and cancel out each other. On the other
hand, minimum insertion loss for both the reflection output and the transmission
output implies that the performance of the WDM is optimal.