Patent ID: 7154924

Claim:
A method for configuring an optical transceiver system including a laser device comprising: configuring a real time operating system embedded in the optical transceiver; and, interacting with the optical transceiver through the embedded operating system by interactively setting and storing a plurality of optical transceiver operational parameters using an external graphical user interface wherein the step of setting an operational parameter comprises performing a wavelength calibration function and wherein the step of performing a wavelength calibration function comprises communicating with a remote controller for the purpose of calibrating the wavelength in an optical channel using wavelength division multiplexing and wherein the step of communicating with a remote controller comprises sending a signal from a local transceiver to a remote host, receiving the signal at the remote host, generating a wavelength measurement and determining if the local wavelength setting meets specifications at the remote host, sending a command from the remote host to the local transceiver specifying the magnitude of a wavelength adjustment if needed, locally tuning the wavelength of the optical transceiver, and displaying results and graphs with the graphical user interface.