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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1981
Steven A Newton, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Cassius C Cutler, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic tapped delay line is disclosed in which a number of bends in a single optical fiber are formed to obtain taps of an optical signal traveling in that fiber at each bend location. Light removed at the bends is directed to a focusing lens, which focuses the light onto a photodetector acting as a summing device to produce a frequency-filtered output of the light signal traveling in the fiber. The device's response as a transversal filter is enhanced by weighting the taps either by use of a cylindrical lens, or by selectively masking a portion of light emitted by selected individual taps.