Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical wavelength multiplexing/ de-multiplexing circuit
- Patent Title (中): 光波长复用/解复用电路
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Application No.: US13054158Application Date: 2009-06-30
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Publication No.: US08369666B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Shin Kamei , Tsutomu Kitoh , Masaki Kohtoku , Tomohiro Shibata , Takuya Tanaka , Yasuyuki Inoue , Mikitaka Itoh
- Applicant: Shin Kamei , Tsutomu Kitoh , Masaki Kohtoku , Tomohiro Shibata , Takuya Tanaka , Yasuyuki Inoue , Mikitaka Itoh
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Priority: JP2008-182989 20080714; JP2008-307602 20081202
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/062010 WO 20090630
- International Announcement: WO2010/007888 WO 20100121
- Main IPC: G02B6/34
- IPC: G02B6/34 ; H04J14/02

Abstract:
An optical wavelength multiplexing/de-multiplexing circuit having a low loss and a flat transmission spectrum is provided. The optical wavelength multiplexing/de-multiplexing circuit compensates a temperature dependence of a center transmission wavelength which remains in an athermal AWG, and has an excellent accuracy of the center transmission wavelength in a whole operating temperature range or has a comparatively wide operable temperature range. The temperature dependence of the transmission wavelength in the athermal MZI is modulated and set so as to cancel the temperature dependence of the center wavelength which remains in the athermal AWG. The present invention focuses particularly on an optical coupler in the MZI and modulates the temperature dependence of the transmission wavelength in the MZI by providing the optical coupler itself with a mechanism which changes a phase difference between two outputs by temperature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110116802A1 Optical Wavelength Multiplexing/ De-multiplexing Circuit Public/Granted day:2011-05-19
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