Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wavelength selective optical switch device and method of controlling characteristics thereof
- Patent Title (中): 波长选择性光开关装置及其特性的控制方法
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Application No.: US13632937Application Date: 2012-10-01
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Publication No.: US08797638B2Publication Date: 2014-08-05
- Inventor: Yuji Hotta
- Applicant: Santec Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: Santec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Santec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: Osha Liang LLP
- Priority: JP2012-157518 20120713
- Main IPC: G02F1/29
- IPC: G02F1/29 ; G02F1/01 ; G02F1/03 ; G02B5/04 ; G02B27/10 ; H04J14/00

Abstract:
A wavelength selective optical switch device includes an incidence and exit part where a signal beam made of light of a multiplicity of wavelengths enters and a signal beam of a selected wavelength exits, a wavelength dispersion element that spatially disperses a signal beam according to the wavelength thereof and multiplexes reflected light, a condensing element that condenses the light dispersed by the wavelength dispersion element onto a two-dimensional plane, and a wavelength selection element that uses a multilevel optical phased array arranged in a position to receive incident light developed on an xy-plane made of an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction perpendicular thereto developed according to a wavelength, having a multiplicity of pixels arrayed in a lattice on the xy-plane, and that cyclically changes the phase shift amount in the y-axis direction to a sawtooth wave pattern for each pixel on the x-axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140016182A1 WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE OPTICAL SWITCH DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CHARACTERISTICS THEREOF Public/Granted day:2014-01-16
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