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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thaddeus Hawkes, Paris, FR;
Jean-Claude Reymond, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
Thomson-CSF, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9616 ; 350 9624 ;
Abstract
A reciprocal coupler for connecting anyone of a plurality of optical signal transmission lines to all the other transmission lines in an optical communication system. The coupler comprises an elongated transparent optical mixing rod optically coupled by a first endface to each of the waveguides forming the lines to be interconnected and by its second endface to both ends of return guides provided by a fiber bundle which form a loop.