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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1998
Chan Yong Park, Daejeon, KR;
Dug Bong Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Seung Won Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong Soo Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Korea Telecom, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an optical filter for selecting a wavelength to be used in an optical communication and optical switching equipment and, more particularly, to an optical filter in order to reduce a sidelobe deteriorating its characteristics. The optical filter according to the present invention includes a plurality of pair gratings formed in a cladding layer, wherein a period of the grating pairs is constant throughout the optical filter, wherein the pair gratings are divided into two unit gratings, and wherein intervals between unit grating within pair grating are spatially different.