WO2002082165A3 - Dynamic optical filter having a spatial light modulator - Google Patents

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WO2002082165A3
WO2002082165A3 PCT/US2002/010490 US0210490W WO02082165A3 WO 2002082165 A3 WO2002082165 A3 WO 2002082165A3 US 0210490 W US0210490 W US 0210490W WO 02082165 A3 WO02082165 A3 WO 02082165A3
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John Moon
Alan D Kersey
James S Sirkis
James Dunphy
Joseph Pinto
Paul Szczppanek
Michael Davis
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Cidra Corp
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Abstract

An dynamic optical filter 10 is provided to selectively attenuate or filter a wavelength band(s) of light (i.e., optical channel(s)) or a group(s) of wavelength bands of an optical WDM input signal 12. The optical filter is controllable or programmable to selectively provide a desired filter function. The optical filter 10 includes a spatial light modulator 36, which comprises an array of micromirrors 52 effectively forms a two-dimensional diffraction grating mounted in a retro-reflecting configuration. Each optical channel 14 is dispersed separately or overlappingly onto the array of micro-mirrors 52 along a spectral axis or direction 55 such that each optical channel or group of optical channels are spread over a plurality of micro-mirrors to effectively pixelate each of the optical channels or input signal. Each channel 14 or group of channels may be selectively attenuated by flipping or tilting a selected number of micro-mirrors to thereby deflect a portion of the incident radiation away from the return optical path. The micro-mirrors operate in a digital manner by flipping between a first and second position in response to a control signal 56 provided by a controller 58 in accordance with an attenuation algorithm and an input command 60. The switching algorithm may provide a bit (or pixel) map or look-up table indicative of the state of each of the micro-mirrors 52 of the array to selectively attenuate the input signal and provide a modified output signal 38 at optical fiber 40.
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