Optical devices with integral isolators

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2008-03-14

2009-08-11

Kim, Ellen (Department: 2874)

Optical waveguides

Polarization without modulation

C385S016000, C385S017000, C385S018000

Reexamination Certificate

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07574073

ABSTRACT:
An isolator assembly, for use internally within a multi-port optical switch, and which operates on a preselected number of input port channels. The assembly incorporates a sequence of a birefringent crystal with a half wave plate on part of its output face acting as a linear polarizer, a 45° Faraday rotator element and a half wave plate aligned at 22.5° to the polarization direction of the light rotated by the Faraday rotator. This arrangement ensures that any light spuriously returned from a reflective beam switching element of the switch is blocked from transmission out of the paths of light which the isolator assembly covers because of the orientation of the light polarization returned to the birefringent crystal. The isolator assembly is arranged such that it does not cover the beam path leading to the output port or ports, such that legitimate output beams are transmitted unhindered.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6690846 (2004-02-01), Zhou et al.
patent: 2005/0111785 (2005-05-01), Zhao et al.
patent: 2007/029260 (2007-03-01), None

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