Optical communications – Multiplex – Wavelength division or frequency division
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-29
2006-08-29
Vanderpuye, Kenneth (Department: 2613)
Optical communications
Multiplex
Wavelength division or frequency division
C398S173000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07099586
ABSTRACT:
An all-optical regenerating circuit including a wavelength converter based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The input signal is amplified and the interferometer adjusted to place the input signal across an entire monotonic portion of a sinusoidal transfer function to the wavelength-converted output signal. Retiming is effected by wavelength converters including pulsed laser sources of the output wavelength. A multi-wavelength regenerator may be integrated on a chip including two arrayed waveguides and an array of tunable lasers on parallel waveguides therebetween.
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Park Vaughan & Fleming LLP
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Vanderpuye Kenneth
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