Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical switch
- Patent Title (中): 光开关
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Application No.: US13716302Application Date: 2012-12-17
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Publication No.: US09052566B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: Atsushi Oguri , Hiroshi Matsuura , Masayoshi Kimura
- Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-227397 20101007
- Main IPC: G02B6/26
- IPC: G02B6/26 ; G02F1/31 ; G02B6/35

Abstract:
An optical switch includes: an input-output port with three or more ports arranged along a direction; a modulator that includes an incident layer, a reflective layer, and a modulation layer disposed between these layers, spatially modulates light entering the incident layer from any port of the input-output port, and outputs the light spatially-modulated toward any of other ports of the input-output port; and a condensing lens that optically couples the input-output port and the modulator, wherein x2≠2x1+x0 holds where: a coordinate axis is along the direction of the input-output port and an optical axis of the lens is set as an origin of the coordinate axis; x0, x1, and x2 respectively are coordinates of a first port to/from which light is input/output, and a second port and a third port from/to which light input to or output from the first port is output/input; and x1,x2>0.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130108205A1 OPTICAL SWITCH Public/Granted day:2013-05-02
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