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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1986
Henry F Taylor, Alexandria, VA (US);
Scott C Rashleigh, Alexandria, VA (US);
Joseph F Weller, Fort Washington, MD (US);
Kiyoshi Nosu, Yokosuka, JP;
Sachs/Freeman Associates, Inc., Bowie, MD (US);
Abstract
An acousto-optic frequency shifter in which two cylindrical acoustic resonators driven 90.degree. out of phase from one another are placed around a birefringent, single-mode optical fiber approximately three-quarters of a polarization beat length apart. The resonators interact with optical radiation propagating in one of two polarization modes of the fiber, the first to cross-couple two sidebands into the other polarization mode, and the second to suppress one of the sidebands in the cross-coupled mode and enhance the other, thereby creating a single sideband signal completely within the fiber.