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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Pietro Bernasconi, Genestrerio, CH;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/035 (2006.01); G02B 6/28 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01); G02B 6/293 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/0115 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01); G02B 6/29386 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a cascaded set of deinterleavers. A first optical deinterleaver is configured to receive a first optical signal and a second optical signal. A second optical deinterleaver is configured to receive the second optical signal and a first optical output of the first optical deinterleaver. A third optical deinterleaver is configured to receive a second optical output of the first optical deinterleaver. The apparatus comprises an optical power splitter configured to provide the second optical signal received by the first optical deinterleaver and by the second optical deinterleaver.