WO2002023245A3 - Tunable add/drop filter - Google Patents

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WO2002023245A3
WO2002023245A3 PCT/US2001/042201 US0142201W WO0223245A3 WO 2002023245 A3 WO2002023245 A3 WO 2002023245A3 US 0142201 W US0142201 W US 0142201W WO 0223245 A3 WO0223245 A3 WO 0223245A3
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Robert H Cormack
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    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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Abstract

A precise, tunable, low loss add/drop filter (200, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800) for use in fiber optic communication systems utilizes a cascaded system of Mach Zenderlike stages (401, 501, 601, 701, 801), along with reflective elements (410, 418, 420, 512, 526, 603, 606, 702, 706, 803) to return passed channels to the output pass + add port (306) while transmitted signal(s) appear at the drop port (308). The optional add signal (304) follows the reverse path of the drop signal and is added to the pass signal.
PCT/US2001/042201 2000-09-18 2001-09-18 Tunable add/drop filter WO2002023245A2 (en)

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US5363228A (en) * 1993-03-05 1994-11-08 General Electric Company Optical device with spatial light modulators for switching arbitrarily polarized light
WO1998004954A1 (en) * 1996-07-26 1998-02-05 Italtel S.P.A. Tunable add/drop optical device
EP0903616A2 (en) * 1997-09-23 1999-03-24 Lucent Technologies Inc. Switchable optical filter

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US5363228A (en) * 1993-03-05 1994-11-08 General Electric Company Optical device with spatial light modulators for switching arbitrarily polarized light
WO1998004954A1 (en) * 1996-07-26 1998-02-05 Italtel S.P.A. Tunable add/drop optical device
EP0903616A2 (en) * 1997-09-23 1999-03-24 Lucent Technologies Inc. Switchable optical filter

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Title
KUNETSOV M: "CASCADED COUPLER MACH-ZEHNDER CHANNEL DROPPING FILTERS FOR WAVELENGHT-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL SYSTEMS", JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, IEEE. NEW YORK, US, vol. 12, no. 2, 1 February 1994 (1994-02-01), pages 226 - 230, XP000676152, ISSN: 0733-8724 *

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