Invention Grant
- Patent Title: PLC-type demodulator and optical transmission system
- Patent Title (中): PLC型解调器和光传输系统
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Application No.: US13409343Application Date: 2012-03-01
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Publication No.: US08526102B2Publication Date: 2013-09-03
- Inventor: Takashi Inoue , Kazutaka Nara
- Applicant: Takashi Inoue , Kazutaka Nara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Furukawa Electronic Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Furukawa Electronic Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-206115 20090907
- Main IPC: G02B6/26
- IPC: G02B6/26 ; G02B6/42 ; H04J14/06

Abstract:
The invention provides a PLC-type DP-QPSK demodulator that reduces connection loss between a polarization beam splitter and a 90-degree hybrid circuit and aims at reducing the manufacturing cost and an optical transmission system using the same. In an embodiment of the invention, a PLC-type DP-QPSK demodulator that receives a DP-QPSK signal includes one PLC chip having a planar lightwave circuit. Input ports and output ports of signal light are provided at an input end and at an output end of the PLC chip, respectively. Within the planar lightwave circuit, there are integrated a polarization beam splitter that splits the DP-QPSK signal into an X-polarization QPSK signal and a Y-polarization QPSK signal, and two 90-degree hybrid circuits that mix the X-polarization QPSK signal and local oscillation light and the Y-polarization QPSK signal and local oscillation light, respectively, split each QPSK signal into orthogonal components I, Q and output them.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120207474A1 PLC-TYPE DEMODULATOR AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-08-16
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