H - Electricity – 04 – J
Patent
H - Electricity
04
J
H04J 14/02 (2006.01) G02B 6/34 (2006.01) H04Q 3/52 (2006.01) G02B 6/35 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2372344
A method and apparatus are disclosed for filtering an input wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal comprised of N wavelength channels. The disclosed wavelength blocker includes a demultiplexer for producing a plurality of demultiplexed output signals from the input WDM signal and a multiplexer for producing an output WDM signal. In addition, a shutter array selectively passes each of the N wavelength channels using a plurality of shutters. The demultiplexer is coupled to the multiplexer using a plurality of waveguides having approximately equal length, in order to reduce multipath interference. The shutters may be embodied, for example, as Mach- Zehnder switches, electro-absorption modulators or Y-branch switches. Each of the N wavelength channels in the incoming signal are selectively passed or blocked using a thermo-optic or electro-optic control signal to control the state of the corresponding shutter. Crosstalk among the various N channels can be reduced using dilation techniques that position two shutters in series, especially where the shutters are thermo-optic Mach-Zehnder switches. Wavelength-selective cross connects and wavelength add-drop multiplexers are also disclosed that employ the novel wavelength blockers.
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Lucent Technologies Inc.
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