Optical communications – Optical communication over freee space
Reexamination Certificate
2003-06-24
2009-12-01
Vanderpuye, Ken N (Department: 2613)
Optical communications
Optical communication over freee space
C398S128000, C398S129000, C398S130000, C398S131000, C398S152000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07627251
ABSTRACT:
A communication device uses one or two stacks of reflective deflectors to steer the electromagnetic waves carrying signals received and transmitted through a single telescope/aperture device. The signals outside the device may be circularly polarized while inside the device they are linearly polarized most of the time. The deflectors within each stack are transparent to the signals steered by the deflectors behind them. Since the deflecting wave band may shift with the changing angle of incidence of the signals due to steering, the wave bands are sufficiently spaced apart. When the signals impact the deflectors at nearly normal angles, the wave bands can be made more narrow. When more than one stack of deflectors is used, the spacing between the wave bands within one stack may be utilized by another stack. Beam splitters and a variety of other optical devices (such as quarter wave plates, half wave plates, Faraday rotators, and equivalent devices) are used to separate signals for further processing within the device. Instead of reflective deflectors, the device may generally use stacks of transmissive deflectors for similar effect in a similar way.
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DeCew Alan E.
Keicher William E.
Roth Jeffrey M.
Walther Frederick G.
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
Liu Li
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vanderpuye Ken N
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