Free space optical isolator with stacked parallel polarizers

Details Free space optical isolator with stacked parallel polarizers Free space optical isolator with stacked parallel polarizers

2008-05-20

2008-05-20

Font, Frank G. (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Polarization without modulation

C359S246000, C359S245000, C359S238000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07376291

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides low cost methods and apparatuses for filtering out polarized light reflections in a free space optical isolator. Multiple polarizers having relatively poor extinction ratios can be stacked together as polarizer assemblies having higher extinction ratios than possible with the individual components. One or more polarizer assemblies may then be used in series with an optical signal generator, an optical signal rotator, one or more other polarizers or polarizer assemblies, and a fiber optic receptacle to isolate an optical signal in a transmitter optical subassembly. Accordingly, the present invention can polarize an optical signal more efficiently than with prior methods, doing so at a relatively high perpendicular beam extinction ratio with a much lower cost.

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