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Multiplexer-demultiplexer for integrated optic circuit

US5098804A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 16, 1989
Grant dateMar 24, 1992
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/138
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A diffraction grating is created in the branching region of a photopolymer waveguide, preferably by directing onto the branching region coherent light through a hologram of a grating or by intersecting two or more coherent light beams on the branching region in a regular grating pattern.

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