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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chi-hung Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Joseph Chon, Fremont, CA (US);
Sheau Sheng Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 24 ; 359124 ;
Abstract
A wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) utilizes cascaded interferometric devices, where the two output branches of interferometric devices in each new stage are each coupled to an additional stage of interferometric devices having the same wavelength separation or channel spacing, which suppresses the sidelobes of the signals from preceding stage of interferometric devices. In one embodiment, the interferometric devices are unbalanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometers.