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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
May. 08, 2003
Okan K. Ersoy, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Okan K. Ersoy, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A phased-array device for wavelength division multiplexing/demultiplexing, comprising at least one input channel, a plurality of output channels, and an irregularly sampled array of phase modulators between the input and output channels, the irregular array having a configuration and phase modulation such that effectively only one beam at a given wavelength is focused onto a given output channel. In one embodiment the individual phase modulators are randomly spaced, their relative locations being determined by establishing a set of initially chosen locations, shifting each initial location by a random increment resulting in delay within one wavelength if the initially chosen locations are not sufficiently random, and then adjusting each shifted location a fraction of a wavelength such that the overall phase shift to a desired image point on one of the output channels equals a constant value.