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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An arrayed waveguide grating including an input waveguide or input waveguides, an input side slab waveguide lens, arrayed waveguides, an output side slab waveguide lens, and an output waveguide or output waveguides, wherein an optical length of the arrayed waveguides monotonically increases or decreases by a constant value between adjacent waveguides; the arrayed waveguides include an input side waveguide block, an intermediate waveguide block, and an output side waveguide block; the intermediate waveguide block includes at least one fan-formed waveguide block, the fan-formed waveguide block is coaxial, equal in vertical angle, and monotonically increases or decreases by a constant value in radius between adjacent waveguides; and the input side waveguide block and the output side waveguide block are line symmetrical about a bisector of the vertical angle of the intermediate waveguide block.