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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jock T. Bovington, Koenigstein im Taunus, DE;
Mark C. Nowell, Ottawa, CA;
Thomas J. Williams, Sudbury, MA (US);
Matthew J. Traverso, Saratoga, CA (US);
Gary Nicholl, Ottawa, CA;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The systems and devices described provide for a user selectable CPO interface for both duplex and parallel optical network interfaces. The systems include a pluggable optical device with a laser source subassembly, an internal optical connector, a plurality of laser source optical paths connecting the laser source subassembly to the internal optical connector, and an external optical connector. The system also includes a plurality of transmit optical paths connecting the internal optical connector and the external optical connector and a plurality of receive paths connecting the internal optical connector and the external optical connector. The systems also include photonic device with a a set of laser source input channels connected to the pluggable optical device via a shared fiber array unit (FAU), a set of optical input channels receiving input optical signals from the pluggable optical device via the shared FAU, and a set of optical output channels transmitting optical signals from the photonic device to the pluggable optical device via the shared FAU.