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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Wayne Sorin, Mountain View, CA (US);

Joaquin Matres, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Michael Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/0256 (2013.01); G02B 6/12014 (2013.01); G02B 6/12016 (2013.01); G02B 6/12033 (2013.01); H04J 14/0269 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0062 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01); H04B 10/60 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0016 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0018 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0032 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0064 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0073 (2013.01);
Abstract

In the examples provided herein, a system has a plurality of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports. A signal within a given wavelength channel transmitted to one of the input ports of a given AWG is routed to one of the output ports of the given AWG based on a signal wavelength. The system also has a plurality of nodes, with each node comprising a set of components for each AWG that the node is coupled to. Each set of components comprises a plurality of optical transmitters, where each optical transmitter is tunable over multiple wavelength channels within a different wavelength band; a band multiplexer to multiplex the multiple wavelength channels within each different wavelength band; and a first output fiber to couple an output of the band multiplexer to one of the input ports of a first AWG.


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