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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1996
Francedilla.ois Tillerot, Plouigneau, FR;
Mouhammad Jamil Chawki, Lannion, FR;
Georges Claveau, La Roche Derrien, FR;
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A device for the frequency transposition of optical signals receiving data elements liable to be at different wavelengths (.lambda.0, .lambda.1 . . . .lambda.n) and capable of delivering, at output, these data elements at one of the reception wavelengths. The device comprises a circulator (30); at least one optical arm comprising a rejection filter (31) followed by a wavelength converter (32); the circulator comprising a port for the reception of the data packets at the different wavelengths (.lambda.0, .lambda.1 . . . .lambda.n), a port for the transmission of data packets without changing their wavelength and at least one other port for each optical arm, so that each of these ports is connected to a rejection filter (31) to receive the data packets at the different wavelengths and reintroduce the data packets reflected by this filter into the circulator; the converter (32) at output of each rejection filter enabling the conversion into a desired wavelength of the data packets not reflected by the filter. The invention can be applied to asynchronous packet or synchronous frame transmission packets.