Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Making mass connections in an optical circuit switch
- Patent Title (中): 在光电开关中进行质量连接
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Application No.: US13938008Application Date: 2013-07-09
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Publication No.: US09438968B2Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Inventor: Jitender Miglani , Mike Deacon , Vijayan Thattai
- Applicant: CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Goleta
- Assignee: CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Goleta
- Agency: SoCal IP Law Group LLP
- Agent John E. Gunther; Steven C. Sereboff
- Main IPC: H04J14/00
- IPC: H04J14/00 ; H04Q11/00

Abstract:
An optical circuit switch, method, and apparatus are disclosed. The optical circuit switch may include a plurality of mirror elements, each mirror element uniquely associated with a port from a plurality of ports, each mirror element coupled to a dedicated electrode and configured to rotate in response to a voltage applied to the dedicated electrode. A command interpreter may receive a command defining a plurality of port-pairs to be connected via the optical circuit switch and determine a respective target voltage value to be applied to the dedicated electrode coupled to each of the mirror elements associated with each of the port-pairs. A transition manager may cause voltages applied to the dedicated electrodes coupled to the mirror elements associated with the port-pairs to concurrently transition from respective previous voltage values to the respective target voltage values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150016820A1 MAKING MASS CONNECTIONS IN AN OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH Public/Granted day:2015-01-15
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