OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER WITH OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER ON A FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE
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Abstract
An optical transceiver for converting and coupling an information-containing electrical signal with an optical fiber including an optical fiber coiled over at least a portion of its length; a support element disposed in the transceiver module; a substrate for securing said coiled optical fiber to said support element to enable said coiled fiber to bend from a first direction to a second opposite direction inside said transceiver module; and an optical multiplexer secured to said substrate for receiving first and second optical fibers and multiplexing respective optical signals on said first and second optical fibers into a multi-wavelength beam onto a third optical fiber.
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27 Claims
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15. An optical transceiver module for converting between an information containing electrical signal and a modulated optical signal transported over at least one optical fiber in the transceiver module comprising:
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at least one optical fiber coiled over at least a portion of its length; a physical support disposed in the transceiver module; a flexible substrate for securing said at least one coiled optical fiber to said support to enable said coiled fiber to bend from a first direction to a second opposite direction inside said transceiver module, wherein the coiled optical fiber provides a continuous optical path between the first direction and the second opposite direction; and an optical multiplexer mounted on said flexible substrate for receiving first and second optical fibers and multiplexing respective optical signals on said first and second optical fibers into a single multi-wavelength beam onto a single third optical fiber, wherein said optical multiplexer is selected from the group consisting of an arrayed waveguide grating, a multimode interference coupler, and a combination of spatially fixed optical elements. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An optical transceiver module for converting between an information containing electrical signal and a modulated optical signal comprising:
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an optical fiber coiled over at least a portion of its length; a support element disposed in the transceiver module; a substrate for securing said coiled optical fiber to said support element to enable said coiled fiber to bend from a first direction to a second opposite direction inside said transceiver module; and an optical multiplexer secured to said substrate for receiving first and second optical fibers and multiplexing respective optical signals on said first and second optical fibers into a multi-wavelength beam onto a third optical fiber, wherein said optical multiplexer is an arrayed waveguide grating. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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