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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2003
Xuehua Wu, Union City, CA (US);
Mingjun Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
John Feng, Union City, CA (US);
Giovanni Barbarossa, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xuehua Wu, Union City, CA (US);
Mingjun Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
John Feng, Union City, CA (US);
Giovanni Barbarossa, Saratoga, CA (US);
Avanex Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A reconfigurable thin film based dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) device is described for hitless switching of wavelengths by employing a reconfigurable filtering device. The reconfigurable filtering device is based on a mechanical switching of a filtering chip which has a thin film coated a first one-half of a first face for interference wavelength filtering and has a gold-mirror coated on a second one-half of the first face for high reflection.