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6504970 |
Planar lightwave wavelength blocker
A method and apparatus are disclosed for filtering an input wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) signal comprised of N wavelength channels. The disclosed wavelength blocker includes a...
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6501896 |
Optical waveguide circuit
The present invention relates to an optical waveguide circuit such as an arrayed waveguide grating, etc. A lower cladding is formed on a silicon substrate. A core having the following waveguide...
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6501885 |
Optical waveguide coupler and method for producing same
The optical waveguide coupler comprises a structure ( 1 ) of a number of elongated narrow optical waveguide strips ( 2 ), which consist respectively of a front area ( 3 ), a center area ( 4 ) and a...
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6498878 |
Arrayed waveguide grating
An arrayed waveguide grating for multiplexing or demultiplexing WDM optical signals is fabricated by forming an input waveguide, an input slab waveguide, arrayed waveguides, an output slab...
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6493487 |
Optical waveguide transmission devices
An optical waveguide device comprising a free space region, suitably provided by a slab waveguide, having optical signal ports for coupling to input and output waveguide sections and an optical...
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6466715 |
Multiplexer/demultiplexer for WDM optical signals
At least one input waveguide, plural output waveguides, an arrayed waveguide diffraction grating composed of plural channel waveguides successively extending in a length by ΔL, an input slab...
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6466707 |
Phasar athermalization using a slab waveguide
A passive temperature-compensated integrated optical component having an array of adjacent waveguides, and a slab waveguide located within a groove at an intermediate section of the array. The...
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6456760 |
Optical signal processing apparatus and optical signal processing method
An optical signal processing apparatus includes a first optical waveguide and a first slab waveguide configured to equally distribute an output light of the first optical waveguide. A first arrayed...
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6442308 |
Optical wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer with uniform loss
Disclosed is an optical wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer with uniform loss. The optical wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer includes a first star coupler for dividing optical power of input...
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6434303 |
Optical waveguide slab structures
An optical waveguide device comprising a free space region, suitably provided by a slab waveguide, having optical signal ports for coupling to input and output waveguide sections and an optical...
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6426821 |
Optical upconverter apparatuses, methods and systems
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed that provide for simultaneously upconverting electrical signals carrying information at electric frequencies onto optical subcarrier lightwave...
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6400872 |
Trimmed integrated optical multi-beam interferometer
For the trimming of an arrayed waveguide grating ( 1 ) of an integrated optical multi-beam interferometer which is comprised of a large number (N) of waveguides (i) at least one (j) of these...
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6400513 |
Optical beam coupling of multiple wavelengths into an output channel using spatial wavefront segmentation
An apparatus and method for coupling an array of light beams extending predominantly in one direction into an output port. The light beams are rearranged into a desired shape which extends more...
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6385366 |
Fiber to the home office (FTTHO) architecture employing multiple wavelength bands as an overlay in an existing hybrid fiber coax (HFC) transmission system
A method of operating a hybrid fiber coax transmission system to provide Fiber to the Home Office (FTTHO) functionality comprises directing, via a fiber portion of the transmission system, first...
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6385373 |
Compensated cascaded waveguides
When two star couplers are cascaded so as to perform two Fourier transformations without phase distortions, an imaging arrangement results which accurately reproduces at the output the input...
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6381384 |
Flexible WDM network architecture
A unidirectional or bidirectional node for use in an optical communications network, a network consisting of such nodes. The node comprises one or more optical couplers as well as either or both of...
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6377730 |
Waveguide based component optical signal power and wavelength detector
A planar waveguide monitor is shown for determining the wavelength and power of component optical signals of a multiplexed optical signal. The monitor includes an optical waveguide router similar...
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6356692 |
Optical module, transmitter, receiver, optical switch, optical communication unit, add-and-drop multiplexing unit, and method for manufacturing the optical module
A method is supported for aligning the height of a polymer waveguide to the height of a core layer of a semiconductor element in an optical module composed so as to mount the semiconductor element...
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6339664 |
Wavelength division multiplexing
An arrayed wavelength grating device has a series of waveguiding channels ( 3 ) interconnecting two free space regions ( 2,4 ) across which light inputting and outputting the device passes. There...
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6337936 |
Optical amplifier, and method and apparatus for monitoring an optical fiber transmission path
An optical amplifier comprises an optical circulator and an optical fiber grating connected to this. The optical fiber grating reflects a backscattered light of a probe light coming back from an...
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6304687 |
Optical waveguide circuit, its manufacturing method and optical waveguide module having the optical waveguide circuit
In a light waveguide circuit including a plurality of waveguides having different length, a material (10) having a temperature coefficient of a refractive index including a symbol different from...
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6301412 |
Apparatus and method for making multi-branching optical coupler
A mask having a center hole for passing through a center fiber, which is one of multiple fibers, and multiple surrounding holes for passing through surrounding fibers, which are the remainder of...
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6289147 |
Passband flattening of a phasar
A passband-flattened phasar including two free space regions coupled by a plurality of waveguides having predetermined differences between their lengths so as to act as an arrayed waveguide...
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6289146 |
Optical component of the waveguide array spectrograph type, having centered outlet channels
The present invention relates to an optical component of the waveguide array spectrograph type, the component comprising an inlet coupler and an outlet coupler between which said array extends, and...
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6285810 |
Tunable add/drop optical device
Tunable add/drop optical device for injecting or extracting (add/drop) at least a selected optical channel or carrier wavelength in or from a set of multiplexed channels or carriers of different...
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6282344 |
Intersecting N x M star couplers for routing optical signals
Overlapped coupler combination Photonic Lightguide Circuits for routing optical signals within an optical communication system include at least two couplers whose planar slab waveguides are...
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6278814 |
1×N optical wavelength-division demultiplexer alignment apparatus and 1×N optical wavelength-division demultiplexer therefor
A 1×N optical wavelength-division demultiplexer alignment apparatus including a 1×N optical wavelength-division demultiplexer including an input waveguide, N output waveguides and a plurality of...
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6272270 |
Optical wave combining/splitting device
The present invention expands a selective wavelength band and flattens light intensity in the selective wavelength band as good as or better than prior art, and makes power loss less than prior...
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6263127 |
Free-space/arrayed-waveguide router
A router combines free-space and guided wave optics to drastically increase the number of channels used in WDM transmission systems. The two-stage router uses the partial demultiplexing...
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6263146 |
Apparatus for optically generating chaotic random numbers
An apparatus for optically generating chaotic random numbers to obtain chaotic random numbers satisfying a chaotic dynamical system expressed by X(n+1)=F(X(n)) includes an optical signal splitting...
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6259833 |
Optical cross connect using a planar arrangement of beam steerers
A strict-sense nonblocking N×N spatial optical cross connect that employs planar lightwave beam steerers. The beam steerers allow for a modular design without requiring two-dimensional...
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6256427 |
Process for creating several data circuits on an optical fiber and device for embodiment of the process
This invention relates to a process for setting up several data paths on a single optical transmission fiber, including a modulation step consisting, for each data path, of modulating a light...
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6240118 |
Multichannel laser transmitter with a single output port
A multichannel laser is based on an interleaved chirped waveguide grating router. An interferometric modulator is incorporated inside a laser cavity by means of a waveguide grating router and...
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6240227 |
Star-type optical coupler
Optical fibers used in a star-type optical coupler each have a light signal input terminal and a light signal output terminal. A light signal passes through the optical fibers in a linear...
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6236782 |
Grating assisted coupler devices
An add/drop filter for optical wave energy incorporates a Bragg grating in a very narrow waist region defined by merged lengths of elongated optical fibers. Light is propagated into the waist...
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6236781 |
Duplicated-port waveguide grating router having substantially flat passbands
A duplicated-port waveguide grating router is provided that includes a first free space region configured to receive an optical signal from at least one input waveguide. An optical grating...
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6229935 |
Dispersion slope compensation in optical transmission systems
A wavelength division multiplex transmission system has an optical fiber trunk (12) with one or more branching units (18) each providing an add/drop channel (22, 20). In the branch, components are...
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6229943 |
Optical circuit device and wavelength router
A wavelength router has a structure capable of preventing a wavelength shift from occurring and an optical circuit device capable of reducing a phase error. The wavelength router includes three...
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6229938 |
WDM filter
The present invention provides a wavelength division multiplexing filter that requires lower costs, a smaller size, and a smaller amount of fiber routing operations. According to the present...
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6226425 |
Flexible optical multiplexer
A multiplexer has an optical circulator including at least first, second and third circulator ports. An optical fiber with a first optical transmission path is coupled to the first circulator port...
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6222956 |
Optical wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer
Plurality of channel waveguides of an arrayed waveguide diffraction grating are arranged such that all of intervals thereof are not constant between each two adjacent channel waveguides at a first...
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6222955 |
Integrated 1×N optical switch
An optical apparatus is disclosed that includes a first Z×T optical switch having Z input ports and T output ports, where T is at least 2, optically coupled to an integrated optical generalized...
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6222965 |
Bias control system for electrooptic devices
An optical device includes a substrate formed of an electrooptic material, a waveguide formed in the substrate, an electrically conductive film formed over at least a portion of the waveguide and a...
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6222957 |
Dispersion slope compensator
A dispersion slope compensator includes a dispersion compensation fiber, an optical circulator and a plurality of fiber gratings. The optical circulator is connected between an optical fiber and...
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6219471 |
Optical device having equal length waveguide paths
An optical device having an array of substantially equal-length optical waveguides. Each one of the optical waveguides includes one or more straight segments, one or more curved segments, and...
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6219480 |
Optical coupler for coupling light between one and a plurality of light ports
An optical coupler for coupling light along an axis between a light port on one side of the coupler and a plurality of light ports on another side of the coupler. The coupler comprises a one-side...
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6219477 |
Multiport single path optical system and associated method
In an optic fiber, different first and second optical signals are transmitted through optic fiber in the first direction. The first optical signal may be infrared, whereas the second optical signal...
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6219479 |
Optical star assembly
An optical star assembly having a ribbon fiber optic mixing element with the first and second ends. A first and second bundle of fiber optic cables are provided each with an engagement end for...
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6205273 |
Waveguide grating router having a predetermined composite amplitude spectrum
In a waveguide grating router, a predetermined composite transmission spectrum output is achieved by eliminating loss imbalances through the use of variable loss elements. The variable loss...
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6192172 |
Optical wavelength-space cross-connect switch architecture
A multi-wavelength optical cross-connect switch architecture incorporates a plurality of wavelength-selective optical cross-connect (WSXC) switch fabrics that receive multi-wavelength input signals...
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