Optical multiplexer

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H04J 14/02 (2006.01) H04B 10/10 (2006.01) H04B 10/142 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2075293

2075293 9114321 PCTABS00007 Light from a laser (10) is divided by a beam splitter (12) to provide signal (15) and reference (14) channels. The signal channel light is expanded (11) to illuminate an acousto-optic (AO) device (13). This leads to a spatial distribution of Doppler shifted frequencies. This spatial distribution then illuminates a spatial light modulator (SLM) (19) such that a number of parallel and discrete optical channels (112) emerge. In a local area network (LAN) the optical signal channels are coupled into a single mode optical fibre (22) and then heterodyned to the reference laser light from a further optical fibre (23) in an optical coupler (25). In a receiver the modulated light is detected (32) and the detected signal connected to the transducer of an AO device (35). The AO device (35) is illuminated by a receiver laser light (36) and the emerging modulated light is incident on a focal plane detector array (39) where each detector (310) then receives light corresponding to each of the transmitted channels (311). A secure free space communications system is possible by separate transmission of a delayed (43) unmodulated reference signal. The receiver is then arranged to include an identical delay (55) in the signal channels before coupling together the signal and reference channels (56) for modulating the AO cell (35). By this means the transmission delay lines (43) and the reference delay lines (55) must have delays which are equal within the coherence length of the source laser.

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