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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
May. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mehdi Asghari, Swindon, GB;
Assignee:
Bookham Technology Limited, Oxon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ; H01S 3/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ; H01S 3/08 ;
Abstract
An integrated optical transceiver comprising: a laser cavity formed between first and second feedback elements ( ), wavelength selective means, eg a diffraction grating ( ), within the laser cavity for determining a lasing wavelength thereof and a light receiver ( ), one of the feedback elements ( ) being partially transmissive at the lasing wavelength to enable the transceiver to emit radiation at the lasing wavelength, and the wavelength selective means ( ) being arranged to receive light through the feedback element ( ) and transmit light of a selected wavelength, differing from the lasing wavelength, to the light receiving means ( ).