Optical multiplexing device with separated optical transmitting plates
US6603897B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 22, 2001 |
| Grant date | Aug 5, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 22, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/2938
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A multiplexing device includes two facing-but-spaced apart optical transmitting plates, with optical reflective filters in facing contact with outer surfaces of the optical transmitting plates to define a reflective beam path therebetween. Light transceivers are associated with each of the optical reflective filters. The optical transmitting plates have greater indices of refraction than the central medium between them, so that the beam path has a low angle of incidence to the optical reflective filters but a higher angle in the central medium.
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