CA2276275A1 - Switchable wavelength router - Google Patents

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CA2276275A1
CA2276275A1 CA002276275A CA2276275A CA2276275A1 CA 2276275 A1 CA2276275 A1 CA 2276275A1 CA 002276275 A CA002276275 A CA 002276275A CA 2276275 A CA2276275 A CA 2276275A CA 2276275 A1 CA2276275 A1 CA 2276275A1
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Kuang-Yi Wu
Jian-Yu Liu
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Abstract

A switchable wavelength router (999) having an input port (11) for the incoming WDM signal (500) and two output ports (13, 14) for de-multiplexing the WDM signals (500). The router (999) divides the received optical signals into divided optical signals (101, 102) comprising a subset of the channels and spatially positions the divided optical signals in response to a control signal applied to the router (999). For example, the router (999) can divide a received WDM signal (500) into two subsets that are either single channel or WDM signals. Multiple routers (999) can be cascaded to form a 2n switchable wavelength router, where n is the number of stages of wavelength routers.
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