Patent ID: 8369716

Claim:
An integrated wavelength selectable high-speed data receiver comprising: a. a device package having an input that receives an optical signal; b. a set-and-hold, thermally tunable thin-film filter positioned in the device package, the set-and-hold, thermally tunable thin-film filter having a blocking material that reduces the amount of unfiltered radiation passing through the thin-film filter, and having an input that is optically coupled to the input of the device package, the set-and-hold thermally tunable thin-film filter having an optical bandwidth wide enough to pass received data and, narrow enough to substantially reject data encoded on adjacent channels, and being locked to a single channel and passing to an output light encoded with data from the single optical channel to which the set-and-hold, thermally tunable thin-film filter is set and rejecting data encoded on adjacent channels; c. an optical element that collimates an incident optical beam onto the input of the set-and-hold, thermally tunable thin-film filter; and d. a high-speed detector that is positioned in the device package and having an input that is optically coupled directly to the output of the set-and-hold, thermally tunable thin-film filter, the detector detecting data that is encoded on the single optical channel as a function of time which is passed by the thermally tunable thin-film filter.