Fish & Richardson P.C.
Optical isolator
An optical system provides reflection-type isolation, and may include variable optical attenuation and/or a tap monitor. The optical system may include an optical isolator with a beam splitter such as a walk-off plate, a focusing element such as a GRIN lens, a combiner comprising two birefringent wedges and a non-reciprocal rotating device such as a Faraday rotator, a compensation device, and a reflector. The Faraday rotator may be variable to provide variable attenuation. The reflector may be a partial reflector to provide a tap monitor. The optical system is configured so that light transmitted into the optical isolator through the input fiber may be transmitted out of the optical isolator through the output fiber, but light transmitted into the optical isolator through the output fiber is generally not transmitted out of the optical isolator through the input fiber.
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