Patent ID: 9509432
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H04J,H04Q

Claim Text:
1. A spectral-temporal connector comprising: a plurality of star couplers arranged into sets of star couplers, each star coupler having a number of inlets and one outlet; a plurality of spectral translators each spectral translator connecting to a respective inlet of a respective star coupler; a plurality of input spectral demultiplexers, each input spectral demultiplexer directing individual signals occupying different spectral bands of a respective input link of a plurality of input links to a respective spectral translator in each set of star couplers; and a plurality of spectral routers, each spectral router connecting outlets of an associated set of star couplers to a respective set of output links of a plurality of output links; each spectral translator cyclically shifts a spectral band of a signal received from a respective input spectral demultiplexer so that, at any instant of time, spectral bands of signals at inlets of any star coupler are non-overlapping.