Nexfon Corporation

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Hongchuan Wang

Mei Yan

Yi Qin

Zhouzheng Shi

Zhenpeng Su

An interleaver comprises a serial array of optical elements to which a multichannel, continuous spectrum, composite signal is input and two multichannel, non-continuous spectrum, composite signals are output. Two embodiments are disclosed. One such embodiment provides output composite signals which are spectrally symmetric in that each such non-continuous spectrum contains the same number of channels albeit of alternating center wavelengths. The other such embodiment provides output composite signals which are spectrally asymmetric in that each such non-continuous spectrum contains either a different number of channels or an equal number of channels of narrower or wider passband. Each of the preferred embodiments comprises an array of optical elements which split the input composite signal into components of different polarization states, selectively add phase shifts to some of these components and recombine them a number of times. The inventive arrays operate on the incident composite signal light beam to produce interference effects which attenuate the unwanted wavelength components in each composite output signal and reinforce the desired wavelength components.

Interference-based DWDM optical interleaver using beam splitting and selective phase shifting and re-combining

This invention is related to method for assembling an optical attenuator to attenuate an optical beam. The method includes a step of a) collimating the optical beam from an input optical waveguide into a substantially collimated beam comprising an upper segmented-portion and a lower segmented-portion. The method further includes steps of b) transmitting the collimated onto a phase shifting means comprising at least an upper phase shifting means for generating a phase difference between the upper segmented-portion and the lower segmented-portion and c) generating a self-interference between the upper segmented-portion and the lower segmented-portion of the collimated beam and focusing the collimated beam into an output optical waveguide with an attenuation resulting from the self-interference.

Variable optical attenuator

The present invention discloses an improved wavelength slicing technique for demultiplexing a composite optical signal. The technique applies a method for demultiplexing the composite optical signal for transmitting data signals over a plurality of data channels of different wavelengths represented by &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , . . . &lgr; where n is a positive integer. The method includes a step a) of receiving the composite optical signal into an asymmetric wavelength slicing device through a device input port. And step b) of slicing the composite signal and extracting a first composite optical signal comprising data signals transmitted in a first set of data channels &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , . . . &lgr; through a first output port. And, extracting a second composite optical signal comprising data signals transmitted in a second set of data channels &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , &lgr; , . . . &lgr; through a second output port wherein the second set of data channels is complimentary and asymmetric to the first set of data channels.

Assymmetric wavelength slicing based dense wavelength division multiplexing

The present invention discloses a low-cost high power optical adapter employed to reduce the effects of the contaminants in the high power fiber optical transmission systems. The high power optical adapter uses the exactly same housing of the standard plug style single mode optical attenuators. The attenuating fiber is replaced by a TEC fiber. The TEC fiber has an MFD of more than 25 um at one end and an MFD of about 10 um at the other end that is the same as a standard single mode fiber. In the high power optical adapter, the large MFD end of the TEC fiber is fixed at the male side of the ferrule and the small MFD end of the TEC fiber is fixed at the female side of the ferrule. When the high power optical adapter is employed, the original pair of the standard optical connectors are first disconnected from the standard mating sleeve. Then each of these connectors is mounted into the female sides of a pair of the high power optical adapters. Then the male sides of the pair of the high power optical adapters are connected together through the standard mating sleeve. During the system test, if the high power optical adapters are not needed, then the standard optical connectors can be just dismounted from the high power optical adapters and then reconnected together through the standard mating sleeve.

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