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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Gaurav Naik, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Jithamithra Sarathy, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Michael Evans, Ocean Township, NJ (US);
David Lidsky, Sea Bright, NJ (US);
Gaurav Naik, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Jithamithra Sarathy, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Michael Evans, Ocean Township, NJ (US);
David Lidsky, Sea Bright, NJ (US);
Alphion Corporation, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system, method and device for AO2R is presented. The AO2R system presented is redundant, containing multiple pathways for the input and output signals to travel. The system carries out both the regeneration and reshaping functions in the optical domain, and returns a clean output signal at the same bit rate and in the same format as the input signal, on a wavelength of choice. As an all optical device, the apparatus is bit rate and format transparent, and requires no optical-electrical-optical conversion. The system's built in redundancy and symmetry allows less than perfect yields on components to be tolerated, thus increasing the utility of devices manufactured with less than perfect yields. In alternative embodiments the redundancy aspect of the invention can be extended to any optical signal processing device, thus facilitating high availability optical signal processing.