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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2004
Mark Timothy Sullivan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carol J Courville, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Zorabedian, Mt View, CA (US);
Kerry D Bagwell, Campbell, CA (US);
David H. Kittell, Stamford, CT (US);
Mark Timothy Sullivan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carol J Courville, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Zorabedian, Mt View, CA (US);
Kerry D Bagwell, Campbell, CA (US);
David H. Kittell, Stamford, CT (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Loveland, CO (US);
Abstract
A manipulator for a fiber optic cable assembly (FOCA) provides microradian accuracy in control of the direction of a beam emanating from the FOCA. Such manipulators can control FOCAs to control the incidence angles of beams at a beam combiner in a beam-combining unit. Accordingly, fewer additional optical elements are required for control of input paths in the beam-combining unit. The manipulator and the beam-combining unit are accurate enough for use in an interferometer that combines beams with different frequencies and polarizations. One such interferometer includes a Zeeman split laser providing a heterodyne beam. A beam splitter separates frequency components of the beams, and AOMs increase the frequency separation between the separated beams. The separated beams can be sent via optical fibers to the beam-combining unit, which combines the beams for use in interferometer optics.