Patent ID: 7031609
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G02B,H04J

Abstract:
1. An optical add-drop multiplexer comprising: a first ferrule having an input optical fiber, an output optical fiber and a third optical fiber stationed therein; a first graded index lens; a first bandpass filter having a first central wavelength; a second bandpass filter having a second central wavelength; an optical crystal; a second graded index lens; and a second ferrule having a first adding optical fiber and a second adding optical fiber stationed therein, and a first dropping optical fiber and a second dropping optical fiber stationed therein; wherein the first graded index lens, the first and second bandpass filters, the optical crystal and the second graded index lens are successively placed between the first ferrule and the second ferrule, an optical multiplexed signal from the input optical fiber is transmitted to the first bandpass filter, from which an optical signal having a wavelength identical to the first central wavelength of the first bandpass filter is output to the first dropping optical fiber, and other optical signals having other wavelengths are transmitted to the second bandpass filter via the third optical fiber, from which an optical signal having a wavelength identical to the second central wavelength of the second bandpass filter is output to the second dropping optical fiber, and other optical signals having other wavelengths are coupled with optical signals from the first and the second adding optical fibers whose wavelengths are respectively identical to the first and second central wavelengths of the first and the second bandpass filters and are transmitted to the output optical fiber.