The invention provides a high performance reconfigurable DWDM transmitter incorporating low cost discrete optical components which can be placed in v grooves etched in a silicon optical micro-board or the like, keeping costs of manufacturing low. The lasers can be packaged in modules based on the technology...http://www.google.com/patents/US20030039015?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20030039015 - Reconfigurable multi-channel transmitter for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical communications
