Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Particular coupling function
Patent
1994-06-20
1996-05-07
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Particular coupling function
385 27, 385 41, 385 42, 385131, G02B 626
Patent
active
055154611
ABSTRACT:
The polarization dependence of optical wavelength filters is eliminated by using waveguide directional couplers. Material birefringence is used to compensate for the waveguide (electromagnetic) birefringence which is the original cause of the polarization dependence. Material birefringence is introduced in a controllable fashion by replacing bulk waveguide layers by finely layered composites, such as multiple quantum wells using III-V semiconductor materials. The filter has use in wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber optic communication systems. This filter has broad application for wavelength-tunable receivers in fiber optic communication links, which may be used for telecommunications, optical computer interconnect links, or fiber optic sensor systems. Since multiple-wavelength systems are increasingly being used for all of these applications, the filter is useable whenever a rapidly tunable, wavelength-filtering receiver is required.
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Deri Robert J.
Patterson Frank
Bovernick Rodney B.
Sartorio Henry P.
Song Yisun
The Regents of the University of California
Wooldridge John P.
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