1. A jig assembly for swage assembling a workpiece having first and second side components and a central component, said assembly comprising:
a first pair of bi-directional traversable platforms supported in inward and outward reciprocating fashion relative to a central support fixture upon which are mounted supporting structures for mounting the workpiece;
a pair of engaging jigs mounted to inner opposing sides of said pair of traversable platforms, each of said engaging jigs including a plurality of fingers which are adapted to seat within aperture locations associated with the workpiece side components and to facilitate loading and positioning the workpiece prior to swaging; and
a pair of opposing and synchronized inward compressing dies for simultaneously swaging locations associated with opposite edges of the central component which project through apertures defined in the side components, each of said dies including an end face, said dies being subsequently retracted and the swaged workpiece removed.
2. The jig assembly as described in claim 1, each of said opposing dies further comprising an end face upon which are exhibited an array of projections including upper anglingbending locations and a lower notching location.
3. A method for swage assembling a workpiece having first and second side components and a central component, said method comprising the steps of:
positioning the workpiece upon a central supporting jig fixture and so that locations associated with opposite edges of the central component project through apertures defined in the side components;
inwardly traversing a pair of bi-directional platforms for gripping opposite sides of the workpiece;
providing a pair of engaging jigs mounted to inner opposing sides of said pair of traversable platforms, each of said engaging jigs including a plurality of fingers adapted to seat within aperture locations associated with the workpiece side components and to facilitate loading and positioning the workpiece prior to swaging;
rearwardly displacing the central jig fixture and supported workpiece in alignment with a pair of inwardly facing and opposing dies;
inwardly displacing said dies into compressive engagement with the projecting locations of the central component for simultaneously swaging to the side components; and
retracting said dies and removing the swaged workpiece.
4. The method as described in claim 3, further comprising the step of forwardly displacing the central jig fixture following workpiece removal prior to loading with a subsequent pre-swaged workpiece.
5. The method as described in claim 3, said step of inwardly displacing said dies into compressive engagement further comprising the step of anglingbending upper locations and inwardly notching a lower location.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of demodulating a multiwavelength optical DQPSK signal within an optical system having a plurality of optical DQPSK demodulators, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving the multiwavelength optical DQPSK signal;
separating the received multiwavelength DQPSK signal into a number of individual component wavelength signals;
directing each of the individual component wavelength signals into a respective one of the plurality of optical demodulators;
within each of the respective demodulators:
splitting the received individual component wavelength signal into two component signals wherein each of the two component signals exhibit substantially identical characteristics;
directing each of the two component signals into a respective Delay Interferometer (DI) each having two paths, such that two output signals are output from each of the respective DIs; and
directing the output signals from the two DIs into respective balanced detectors;
SAID METHOD CHARACTERIZED IN THAT:
each one of the plurality of demodulators are substantially the same regardless of the respective individual component wavelength signal received.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said colorless fixed delay produces an interference characteristic between signals traversing the two paths in each of the DIs.
3. The method according to claim 2 wherein said colorless fixed delay is characterized by a colorless delay parameter D which is defined by the relationship D\xb1N\u03bb+\u215b\u03bb phase change where N is an integer and \u03bb is the wavelength of light traversing the DI.
4. The method according to claim 3 wherein said fixed delay is set according to an ITU grid.
5. The method according to claim 4 wherein said optical DQPSK signal is a 40G signal and said fixed delay is one selected from the group consisting of: 40\xb10.000647 ps, and 50\xb10.000647 ps.
6. The method according to claim 4 wherein said optical DQPSK signal is an 80G signal and said fixed delay is one selected from the group consisting of 20\xb10.000647 ps, and 25\xb10.000647 ps.
7. The method according to claim 4 further comprising the steps of:
determining a difference between the two output signals for each one of the DIs thereby producing an intensity modulated signal for each one of the DIs.
8. The method according to claim 7 further comprising the steps of:
adjusting the amount of delay in the DI as a function of an extinction ratio.
9. A method of operating an optical communications network comprising a plurality of optically-connected transmitters and receivers wherein each of the receivers includes a plurality of colorless optical demodulators, the method comprising the steps of:
transmitting a multiwavelength optical DQPSK signal;
receiving the multiwavelength optical DQPSK signal; and
demodulating the received optical DQPSK signal with one or more of the colorless optical demodulators.
10. The method according to claim 9 further comprising the steps of:
separating the received multiwavelength optical DQPSK signal into a plurality of component wavelength signals; and
directing each one of the plurality or component wavelength signals into a respective one of the plurality of colorless optical demodulators.
11. The method according to claim 10 wherein each one of the individual colorless optical demodulators are substantially the same independent of the wavelength of the component wavelength signal directed into it:
12. The method according to claim 11 wherein said demodulation step comprises the steps of:
within each of the respective demodulators:
splitting the received individual component wavelength signal into two component signals wherein each of the two component signals exhibit substantially identical characteristics;
directing each of the two component signals into a respective Delay Interferometer (DI) each having two paths, such that two output signals are output from each of the respective DIs; and
directing the output signals from the two DIs into respective balanced detectors;