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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:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bardia Pezeshki, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Santur Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 ;
Abstract
An optical configuration that provides tunable characteristics. The tunable characteristics are applicable, for example, for channel monitoring, dispersion compensation and polarization-dependent loss. A passive optical element is used where the optical properties of this element varies as a function of position on the element.