发明申请
- 专利标题: OPTICAL RECEIVER INCLUDING A FILTER ON A PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT
- 专利标题(中): 光接收器,包括平面灯电路滤波器
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申请号: US12345824申请日: 2008-12-30
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公开(公告)号: US20090245796A1公开(公告)日: 2009-10-01
- 发明人: Brent E. Little , Wei Chen , John V. Hryniewicz , Sai T. Chu , Jeff Rahn , Mehrdad Ziari
- 申请人: Brent E. Little , Wei Chen , John V. Hryniewicz , Sai T. Chu , Jeff Rahn , Mehrdad Ziari
- 主分类号: H04J14/02
- IPC分类号: H04J14/02
摘要:
A planar lightwave circuit (PLC) includes a substrate, a tunable filter, a demultiplexer (DEMUX), and an optical processor each disposed on the substrate. The tunable filter is configured to filter at least one of a bandwidth or a wavelength of a Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) optical input signal. The DEMUX is connected to the tunable filter and configured to receive a filtered WDM optical input signal at an input and to supply one of a plurality of channels of the filtered WDM input signal at a respective one of a plurality of outputs. Each of the plurality of channels corresponds to one of a plurality of wavelengths of the filtered WDM input signal. The optical processor includes a bit-delay interferometer communicating with a respective one of the plurality of outputs of the DEMUX. The optical processor is configured to receive one of the plurality of channels from the DEMUX and output a plurality of demodulated optical signal components.