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Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2014
Applicant:

Commissariat a L'energie Atomique ET Aux Ene Alt, Paris, FR;

Inventor:

Yvain Thonnart, Grenoble, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/27 (2013.01); G02B 6/43 (2006.01); H04B 10/80 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/27 (2013.01); G02B 6/43 (2013.01); H04B 10/801 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical network including: a medium; at least one beam of optical waveguides extending over the medium; for each beam, interfaces between the beam and the processing units, respectively. The beam successively links the interfaces in a closed loop oriented in a certain direction of rotation of information. The communication units of each interface are transversely arranged in ranks increasing from the periphery to the interior of the beam. First and second optical waveguides start from different interfaces or end at different interfaces. The first optical waveguide links two communication units both of them readers and/or writers of different ranks in first and second respective interfaces. The second optical waveguide passes through a communication unit from the second interface of lower rank to that of the communication unit of said second interface through which the first optical waveguide passes.


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