Optical reflective star device.

摘要

An optical reflective star device having a number of ports (1-n) for distributing each signal fed to a port over the other ports. Said optical reflective star device is made up a number of star elements and comprises a number of reflectors provided at reflection points in the reflective star device. At least one of the reflectors is an orthogonal polarisation reflector (OPR). An orthogonal polarisation reflector according to the invention consisting of a signal transmission loop which incorporates a non-reciprocal element which, according to the embodiment shown, takes the form of a 90 DEG Faraday rotator. Connected to said 90 DEG Faraday rotator is a half- lambda retarder. <IMAGE> <IMAGE>