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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997

Filed:

Jan. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tetsuya Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;

Hideo Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;

Takeshi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 46 ; 385 33 ; 385 47 ;
Abstract

A light beam from an optical fiber held by a waveguide support is guided to an illuminated region of a light-receiving section. A light beam from one light-deflecting device inside this region is reflected by a reflecting surface and passed as a light beam through a second light-deflecting device in another illuminated region to arrive at a second optical fiber. A light beam from the second optical fiber takes the reverse route to the foregoing route. In this way, various light-deflecting devices in one illuminated region are optically coupled to light-deflecting devices in other illuminated regions with substantially equal optical coupling strength. Further for equalizing light-beam intensities and minimizing optical dispersion loss, lenses may be included with the light-deflecting devices.


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