Optical time shifter and routing system
US5692077A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 30, 1996 |
| Grant date | Nov 25, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 30, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/2861
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An optical time shifter and routing system having high efficiency switched gratings to form optical time delay and routing networks. This system also includes a unique passive noise suppression device that can be used in multiple channel optical systems such as time shifters and routers to increase channel isolation and reduce crosstalk. The latter noise suppression devices are applicable broadly to the free-space time shifters as well as to other time shifters.
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