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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jian-Jun He, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
MetroPhotonics Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/34 ; H04J 1/402 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/34 ; H04J 1/402 ;
Abstract
A passband flattened waveguide grating device and a method of designing the same are disclosed wherein the resulting spectral response has a wide flat passband and steep transitions. The method involves adjusting the phases of grating elements forming the grating to achieve the desired spectral response. The phase variation between adjacent grating elements comprises of, in addition to a multiple of 2&pgr;, a slow-varying central phase variation and an oscillatory phase variation. The resulting spectral response of the waveguide device accounts for the effect of convolution of the field distribution profiles of the input port and of the output ports of the device.