Single-pole optical wavelength selector

Details Single-pole optical wavelength selector Single-pole optical wavelength selector

2006-05-18

2008-11-18

Font, Frank G (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Switch

C385S015000, C385S016000, C385S017000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07454100

ABSTRACT:
A fiber-optical, wavelength selective switch, especially for channel blocking applications. The input signal is converted to light beams having predefined polarizations relative to the plane in which optical manipulation of the beam is performed. The beams are then preferably laterally expanded in this system plane only, and then spatially dispersed in the beam expansion plane, preferably by means of a diffraction grating. The light is directed through a polarization rotation device, preferably a liquid crystal cell, pixelated along the wavelength dispersive direction such that each pixel operates on a separate wavelength. When the appropriate control voltage is applied to a pixel, the polarization of the light signal passing through that pixel is rotated. The wavelength dispersed beams from all of the pixels are then recombined, and are passed towards a polarization selective device, aligned such that only selected polarization components are transmitted out of the switch.

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