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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1987
Carl F Buhrer, Framingham, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An n channel birefringent multiplexer/demultiplexer consists of log.sub.2 n sequences of birefringent crystal elements in Solc-type filter configuration. The configuration of polarizing beam splitters have one such beam splitter before the first sequence, one such beam splitter after the last sequence, and solely one such beam splitter between adjacent sequences of birefringent elements. With such multiplexer/demultiplexer horizontally and vertically polarized components of an input beam are separated at the input beam splitter, independently traverse all of the sequences of the birefringent elements and are recombined to form output beams only upon reaching the output beam splitter.