JPS6459203A - Nxn single mode light waveguide coupler and coupling method - Google Patents

Nxn single mode light waveguide coupler and coupling method

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Publication number
JPS6459203A
JPS6459203A JP63183743A JP18374388A JPS6459203A JP S6459203 A JPS6459203 A JP S6459203A JP 63183743 A JP63183743 A JP 63183743A JP 18374388 A JP18374388 A JP 18374388A JP S6459203 A JPS6459203 A JP S6459203A
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output ports
input
ports
input signal
waveguide
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JP63183743A
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Edowaado Darushii Toomasu
Abuderu Emu Sarii Aderu
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AT&T Corp
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American Telephone and Telegraph Co Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/29—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection
    • G02F1/31—Digital deflection, i.e. optical switching
    • G02F1/313—Digital deflection, i.e. optical switching in an optical waveguide structure
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/2804—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/2804—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers
    • G02B6/2821—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers using lateral coupling between contiguous fibres to split or combine optical signals

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Nonlinear Science (AREA)
  • Optical Integrated Circuits (AREA)
JP63183743A 1987-08-17 1988-07-25 Nxn single mode light waveguide coupler and coupling method Pending JPS6459203A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US07/085,924 US4842368A (en) 1987-08-17 1987-08-17 N×N single-mode optical waveguide coupler

Publications (1)

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JPS6459203A true JPS6459203A (en) 1989-03-06

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US (1) US4842368A (ja)
EP (1) EP0304213A3 (ja)
JP (1) JPS6459203A (ja)
KR (1) KR890004177A (ja)
DK (1) DK457588A (ja)

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JPS62127806A (ja) * 1985-11-29 1987-06-10 Furukawa Electric Co Ltd:The シングルモ−ド用光合波分波器

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE10146975B4 (de) * 2000-09-25 2005-12-22 Nsk Ltd. Steuereinrichtung für elektrische Servolenkung

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DK457588A (da) 1989-05-22
DK457588D0 (da) 1988-08-16
KR890004177A (ko) 1989-04-20
EP0304213A3 (en) 1990-07-04
EP0304213A2 (en) 1989-02-22
US4842368A (en) 1989-06-27

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