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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
May. 03, 2001
Oleg Bouevitch, Gloucester, CA;
Thomas Ducellier, Ottawa, CA;
JDS Uniphase Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
The filtering of optical signals, and in particular the interleaving/de-interleaving of optical signals is becoming a necessary step in Dense-Wavelength Division Multiplexing (D-WDM), because of a requirement for smaller channel spacing due to higher levels of traffic. Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters, including lattice and birefringent waveplate versions, are a particular type of optical filter used for interleavering/de-interleavering optical channels, which can be defined by their transfer function H(f). To ensure dispersion free filtering, the present invention provides a cascaded optical filter, comprising two optical filters, wherein the transfer function of the second filter is the complex conjugate of the first filter, i.e. H (f)=H *(f), or the complex conjugate of the first filter H *(f) multiplied by the transfer function of a dispersion free optical filter G(f).