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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1999
Jacques Bismuth, Ottawa, CA;
Michael Trzecieski, Ottawa, CA;
Rajiv Iyer, Nepean, CA;
Paul Colbourne, Nepean, CA;
JDS Fitel Inc., Nepean, CA;
Abstract
Broad wavelength tuning range are achieved in an effectively reset-free, optical, automatic polarization controller by providing a device and method for varying the polarization of an input beam of light. A block of electro-optic material has two pairs of electrodes for applying a voltage across the block. Light is launched into an input end of the block for receiving the input beam of light. A controller controls a quadrature voltage applied to the first and a second pair of electrodes; the quadrature voltage has the form of a magnitude and an angle. The quadrature voltage can be varied in such a manner as to orient a given electric field within the electro-optic material through a plurality of angles, for example between 0 and 2&pgr; radians; the magnitude of the quadrature voltage can be set to create an arbitrary retardance from 0 to 2&pgr;. Any output polarization state can be realized by appropriately varying the magnitude and angle of the voltage applied to the Vx and Vy electrodes.