Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical selector switch and signal-processing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 光选择开关和信号处理装置
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Application No.: US12397854Application Date: 2009-03-04
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Publication No.: US07889957B2Publication Date: 2011-02-15
- Inventor: Hidehiko Ogasawara , Nozomu Ozaki , Seiji Wada , Toshiyuki Sekiya , Ken Hayakawa , Kazuo Haraoka , Shinji Sangawa , Masaaki Hattori , Naoki Kaneko , Tetsujiro Kondo
- Applicant: Hidehiko Ogasawara , Nozomu Ozaki , Seiji Wada , Toshiyuki Sekiya , Ken Hayakawa , Kazuo Haraoka , Shinji Sangawa , Masaaki Hattori , Naoki Kaneko , Tetsujiro Kondo
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-055569 20080305; JP2008-234011 20080911
- Main IPC: G02B6/26
- IPC: G02B6/26

Abstract:
An optical selector switch contains an optical waveguide that includes a first optical waveguide portion having a first light-transmissivity, a second optical waveguide portion having a second light-transmissivity, reflecting members that reflect light, and a light-dividing device that reflects and transmits light; at least one light-emitting unit that emits the light toward the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide; and at least one light-receiving unit that receives the light which is incident to the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide from the light-emitting unit, based on a directivity due to an angle of the incident light to the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide, wherein the incident light to the first optical waveguide portion is emitted radially toward the circumference of the second optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090252453A1 OPTICAL SELECTOR SWITCH AND SIGNAL-PROCESSING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-10-08
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