WDM Router
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Abstract
The present invention provides a mixed analog and digital chip-scale reconfigurable WDM network. The network suitably includes a router that enables rapidly configurable wavelength selective routers of fiber optic data. The router suitably incorporates photonic wavelength selective optical add/drop filters and multiplexers.
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1-47. -47. (canceled)
- 48. A WDM router comprising a chip, the chip including a programmable wavelength filter resonator for changing paths of different wavelength channels of light, and a device for cross-connecting selected wavelength to selected outputs, the resonator including at least one of dynamically programmable wavelength filter photonic crystal resonator components and dynamically programmable wavelength filter ring resonator components.
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