Optical signal processing apparatus

Details Optical signal processing apparatus Optical signal processing apparatus

2005-08-09

2005-08-09

Boutsikaris, Leonidas (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Diffraction

From grating

C359S494010, C359S490020, C359S484010, C385S011000, C385S024000, C385S037000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06927913

ABSTRACT:
An optical signal processing apparatus has a diffraction grating element, first condenser lens, Faraday rotation elements, polarization beam splitter, λ/2 plate, second condenser lens, third condenser lens, and diffraction grating element. The magnitude of a magnetic field of each of the Faraday rotation elements is controlled on the basis of an externally input control signal. The rotation angle of the plane of polarization of signal light is set to 0 or λ/2 in accordance with the magnitude of the magnetic field. Each Faraday rotation element receives signal light having wavelengths λ1to λ4, which has arrived from the first condenser lens, and outputs the signal light as a polarized light component in the first azimuth (parallel to the z-axis direction) or second azimuth (parallel to the y-axis direction).

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