Multiplexing device with precision optical block

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1997-02-14

1999-01-12

Negash, Kinfe-Michael

Optical: systems and elements

Deflection using a moving element

Using a periodically moving element

359127, 385 24, H04J 1402

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058597174

ABSTRACT:
An optical multiplexing device demultiplexes collimated light from a fiber-optic source into separate individual wavelength sub-ranges or channels, and/or multiplexes separate channels to a common fiber-optic waveguide or other destination. An optical block defines an optical gap between two parallel surfaces having an optical port on a first such parallel surface for passing the multi-channel collimated light into the optical gap. A channel port and at least one other reflective element, e.g., multiple channel ports arrayed in spaced relation to each other, are secured to the optical block at the parallel surfaces, providing an unobstructed, epoxy-free multi-point light path within the optical gap. At each channel port an interference filter secured to the optical block spans the optical gap. Each filter transmits a wavelength sub-range of the multi-channel collimated light passed by the optical port, and reflects other wavelengths. Thus, a wavelength sub-range of the multi-channel light passed through the optical gap to a first channel port, which is in-band of that first channel port, is transmitted through that first channel port. Light not transmitted through that first channel port is reflected back through the optical gap, e.g., to strike a second channel port, at which a second, different wavelength sub-range is transmitted. The reflected optical signal thus cascades in a "multiple-bounce" sequence through the optical gap of the multiplexing device, sequentially adding and/or removing channels.

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