Acousto-optic tunable apparatus having a fiber bragg grating...

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2005-06-21

2005-06-21

Lee, John D. (Department: 2874)

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Particular coupling function

C385S007000, C385S037000, C385S010000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06909823

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus that microbend a fiber Bragg grating with a transverse acoustic wave. The fiber Bragg grating reflects one or more Nth order sidebands of reflection wavelengths an optical signal in order to couple the band of wavelenghts within from a first mode to a second mode.

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