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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1995
Hisaharu Yanagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takeo Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Shiro Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Furukawa, Mito, JP;
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A composite optical device has a first and second chips. The first chip has a substrate on which M pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting communication light, N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting monitoring light and M-input/N-output star couplers are formed in an integrated form, and the second chip has a substrate on which N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting communication light, N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting monitoring light and N pieces of 2-input/2-output star couplers are formed in an integrated form. A first and second blocks holding optical fibers are joined respectively to the first and second chips. When the composite optical device in which the first and second blocks and the first and second chips are joined is incorporated into the optical communication system, a passive double star system is constructed. By using an MT connector instead of the first block and the first chip, a single star system can be rapidly constructed.