Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical switch device
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Application No.: US16071742Application Date: 2017-01-26
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Publication No.: US10448128B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Ken-ichi Sato , Hiroshi Hasegawa , Yojiro Mori , Koh Ueda
- Applicant: National University Corporation Nagoya University
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
- Current Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2016-015710 20160129
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/002832 WO 20170126
- International Announcement: WO2017/131125 WO 20170803
- Main IPC: H04J14/00
- IPC: H04J14/00 ; H04Q11/00 ; H04J14/02

Abstract:
A wavelength routing SW is a large-scale optical switch device of a conventional technique, and it requires as many wavelength-tunable light sources as the number of input ports. For the wavelength-tunable light sources to achieve a stable oscillating operation across a wide wavelength range, a complicated control mechanism is necessary. This has been an obstacle in providing a large-scale optical switch device in terms of cost and circuit scale. A wavelength routing SW in the present disclosure includes N wavelength group generators, a splitting-selection unit, and MN tunable filters. Each wavelength group generator includes M fixed-wavelength light sources. Inexpensive general-purpose devices that require no control mechanism for wavelength tuning can be used as the fixed-wavelength light source. The channel loss in the optical switch device can also be reduced by using light sources with a limited narrow range of tunable wavelengths and the wavelength-dependent output port selecting function of an AWG.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190028785A1 OPTICAL SWITCH DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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