Inventors:
William Strausbaugh - Mt. Wolf PA, US
Eric Boyer - Dauphin PA, US
Richard Buterbaugh - Middletown PA, US
International Classification:
G02B006/00, G02B006/28
Abstract:
A module comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a tray mounted in the housing, wherein the tray comprises at least: (i) a first and second submodule, each submodule having one or more compartments for containing individual add/drop filters; (ii) a first plurality of cascaded add/drop filters installed in the first submodule; and (iii) a second plurality of cascaded add/drops filters installed in the second submodule; and (c) connectors mounted to the housing and optically connected to the fibers at the ends of the first and second plurality of cascaded add/drop filters.