Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical switch, optical transmission device, and optical switching method
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Application No.: US14441247Application Date: 2013-11-12
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Publication No.: US09609401B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Hitoshi Takeshita , Ryuichi Ikematsu , Akio Tajima
- Applicant: NEC Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Priority: JP2012-251146 20121115
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/006642 WO 20131112
- International Announcement: WO2014/076936 WO 20140522
- Main IPC: H04Q11/00
- IPC: H04Q11/00 ; H04J14/02

Abstract:
It is difficult to increase the number of inputs and outputs of an optical switch supporting CDC functions, therefore, an optical switch according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a unit optical switch inputting n optical signals and outputting n optical signals; an optical splitter inputting a single optical signal, splitting the single optical signal into k optical signals, and outputting the k optical signals; and an optical selector inputting m optical signals and outputting a single optical signal, wherein the optical splitter includes m×n pieces, the unit optical switch includes m×k pieces, the optical selector includes n×k pieces, (k×(m×n)) outputs of the optical splitter correspond to (n×(m×k)) inputs of the unit optical switch, (n×(m×k)) outputs of the unit optical switch correspond to (m×(n×k)) inputs of the optical selector, and (n×m) optical signals inputted into the optical splitter are output through the (m×k) unit optical switch from the optical selector as (n×k) optical signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150289036A1 OPTICAL SWITCH, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND OPTICAL SWITCHING METHOD Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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