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US 2017/0302397 A1Published application
Optical devices for the construction of compact optical nodes
OwnerMark E. Boduch, Kimon Papakosinventors
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Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to optical wavelength directing devices used to construct compact optical nodes.
Claims23
An optical device, comprising:
- a wavelength directing function, operable to implement a first mode and a second mode;
- a first optical input, used to provide a first source of wavelengths to the wavelength directing function;
- a second optical input, used to provide a second source of wavelengths to the wavelength directing function;
- a first optical output used to output a first set of wavelengths from the wavelength directing function;
- and
- a second optical output used to output a second set of wavelengths from the wavelength directing function,
- wherein when in the first mode, the wavelength directing function is operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the first optical input to the first optical output and from the second optical input to the second optical output, and the wavelength directing function is not operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the first optical input to the second optical output and from the second optical input to the first optical output, and wherein when in the second mode, the wavelength directing function is operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the first optical input to the first optical output and from the second optical input to the first optical output, and the wavelength directing function is not operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the first optical input to the second optical output.
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An optical device, comprising:
- a wavelength directing function;
- a first optical input, used to provide a first source of wavelengths to the wavelength directing function;
- a second optical input, used to provide a second source of wavelengths to the wavelength directing function;
- a first optical output used to output a first set of wavelengths from the wavelength directing function;
- and
- a second optical output used to output a second set of wavelengths from the wavelength directing function,
- wherein the wavelength directing function is operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the first optical input to the first optical output and from the first optical input to the second optical output and from the second optical input to the second optical output, and wherein the wavelength directing function is not operable to pass and block individual wavelengths from the second optical input to the first optical output.
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An optical device comprising:
- n number of wavelength division multiplexed optical inputs, numbered 1 to n;
- n number of wavelength division multiplexed optical outputs, numbered 1 to n;
- and
- a wavelength directing function,
- wherein the wavelength directing function is operable to direct wavelengths from any given input i of the n number of wavelength division multiplexed optical inputs to only outputs 1 to i of the n number of wavelength division multiplexed optical outputs, wherein i=1 to n.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.