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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1996
Rashit F Nabiev, Mountain View, CA (US);
Constance J Chang-Hasnain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lars E Eng, Fogelsville, PA (US);
Kam-Yin Lau, Danville, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US);
Abstract
A compact and cost-effective wavelength meter and photodetector (10) that can measure simultaneously both wavelength and intensity has two back-to-back photodiodes (12 and 14) with a wavelength dependent distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) (28) positioned in-between. The wavelength resolution of this device is 1 nm or less. Easy design and fabrication of the device provides for reliable and cost-effective manufacturing. Applications include instrumentation and wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) in optical communication systems.