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| In optical fiber communication systems, the Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) is commonly used to multiplex or demultiplex wavelength channels. Current optical technologies have difficulty in integrating device components with a high speed optoelectronic modulator in a simple, cost effective, and manufacturable configuration. Purdue University researchers have developed a novel optical communications system that is capable of multiplexing multiple, parallel electronic data streams onto a very high speed optical data channel. Advantages: -Provides direct optical access to the individual guides in the waveguide array -Scalable to higher or lower channel rates -Pulse spacing as small as one picosecond have been demonstrated Potential Applications: -Computing -Optics |
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May 28, 2004
Utility Patent
United States
6,934,445
Aug 23, 2005
May 29, 2003
Provisional-Patent
United States
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