Digital optical network architecture

US7634195B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infinera Corp. · US

Inventors

• Jagdeep Ahluwalia SINGH · Los Gatos, US
• Drew D. Perkins · Saratoga, US
• David F. Welch · Atherton, US
• Mark Yin · Cupertino, US
• Fred A. Kish, Jr. · Palo Alto, US
• Stephen G. Grubb · Atherton, US
• Robert R. Taylor · Charleston, US
• Vincent G. Dominic · Fremont, US
• Matthew L. Mitchell · Monte Sereno, US
• James Richard Dodd, Jr. · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2007
• Grant date: Dec 15, 2009
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10F55/18
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A digital optical network (DON) is a new approach to low-cost, more compact optical transmitter modules and optical receiver modules for deployment in optical transport networks (OTNs). One important aspect of a digital optical network is the incorporation in these modules of transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) chips and receiver photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) chips in lieu of discrete modulated sources and detector sources with discrete multiplexers or demultiplexers.