Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable optical router
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Application No.: US16402970Application Date: 2019-05-03
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Publication No.: US10826643B2Publication Date: 2020-11-03
- Inventor: Brian Robert Koch , Daniel Sparacin , Alexander W. Fang
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04B10/00
- IPC: H04B10/00 ; H04J14/02 ; H04J14/00 ; H04B10/50 ; H04B10/564 ; H04Q11/00

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190260492A1 RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ROUTER Public/Granted day:2019-08-22
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