Invention Grant
US07769295B2 Dual beam splitter optical micro-components and systems and methods employing same
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双光束分离器光学微元件及其使用的系统和方法
- Patent Title: Dual beam splitter optical micro-components and systems and methods employing same
- Patent Title (中): 双光束分离器光学微元件及其使用的系统和方法
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Application No.: US11845596Application Date: 2007-08-27
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Publication No.: US07769295B2Publication Date: 2010-08-03
- Inventor: Rad Sommer , Jill Oosterom , Claude Gamache
- Applicant: Rad Sommer , Jill Oosterom , Claude Gamache
- Applicant Address: GB Towcester, Northamptonshire
- Assignee: Bookham Technology plc
- Current Assignee: Bookham Technology plc
- Current Assignee Address: GB Towcester, Northamptonshire
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04J14/02
- IPC: H04J14/02 ; H04B10/00 ; H04B10/04 ; H04B10/06

Abstract:
A micro-optic dual beam-splitter assembly comprises at least two beam-splitter optical filters and at least one photoreceptor. Each of the beam-splitter optical filters comprises an optical substrate having at least a coated or uncoated optical tap surface and a filter surface carrying a thin-film optical filter. The thin-film optical filters are substantially normal to the optical path from an optical signal source. Each of the optical tap surfaces is operative as an optical beam splitter to tap off an optical tap signal. The one or more photoreceptors are arranged to receive both or at least one of the optical tap signals. The tap signals comprise a portion of the optical signals passed along the optical path to the optical filter chips. The filter chips are cooperatively transmissive to an optical signal output port of a selected set of wavelengths received from the optical signal source along the optical path, and are reflective of other wavelengths. Each of the one or more photoreceptors are operative to pass tap signals to a corresponding tap signal output port, either as optical or electrical signals. Various different embodiments of the disclosed micro-optic dual beam-splitter assemblies are useful as TOSAs, ROSAs, gain-flattening filters for optical amplifiers, or other applications.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080050127A1 DUAL BEAM SPLITTER OPTICAL MICRO-COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING SAME Public/Granted day:2008-02-28
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