Wavelength router with staggered input/output fibers

Details Wavelength router with staggered input/output fibers Wavelength router with staggered input/output fibers

2005-03-29

2005-03-29

Bovernick, Rodney (Department: 2874)

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Switch

C385S016000, C385S017000, C385S020000, C385S021000, C385S031000, C385S039000, C385S047000, C359S223100, C359S226200, C359S627000, C359S877000, C398S045000, C398S048000, C398S049000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06873755

ABSTRACT:
An optical routing apparatus and method that achieves improved optical signal reintegration is disclosed. The optical routing apparatus includes an input port, such as may be provided at the end of an optical fiber. The signal may be routed to one or more of a plurality of output ports, such as may also be provided at the end of an optical fiber, each output port being configured to receive the optical signal. The routing between the input port and the output ports is accomplished with an optical switching arrangement that may shift among multiple distinct optical configurations, each configuration being such as to direct the optical signal to one of the output ports. The ports are positioned such that the input port and at least one of the output ports lie in different parallel planes, each such plane being orthogonal to a path along which the optical signal is provided by the input port or received by one of the output ports.

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