Method and apparatus for processing analog optical wave signals (US Patent 4798437)

Patent number: 4798437 Granted: 1989-01-17 Filed: 1986-09-09 Inventors: Robert H. Rediker (Watertown, MA, US); Frederick J. Leonberger (Lexington, MA, US); Darryl P. Greenwood (Westford, MA, US) Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, US)

Abstract

Discrete segments of an analog optical wave signal are collected in individual waveguides of a waveguide array. In the waveguide array, the optical signal is processed to provide an analysis of the signal or to control the signal. The