Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switch device
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Application No.: US15092170Application Date: 2016-04-06
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Publication No.: US09638865B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Junichi Hasegawa , Kazutaka Nara
- 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: JP2013-211671 20131009
- Main IPC: G02B6/35
- IPC: G02B6/35 ; H04J14/02 ; H04Q11/00 ; G02F1/313 ; G02B6/293

Abstract:
The present invention provides a switch device for an optical signal which has high extendibility and which can suppress an increase of loss in extension. A switch device in one embodiment of the present invention includes, in a housing, four splitter portions, four switch portions, and extension splitter portions. The splitter portions are connected to path-side ports, the switch portions are connected to client-side ports, and the splitter portions and the switch portions are connected to one another via shuffle fiber arrays. One ends of the extension splitter portions are connected to path-side extension ports, and the other ends thereof are connected to client-side extension ports. The number of wavelengths processable by the switch device can be easily changed by changing a connection state of optical fibers to the path-side ports, the client-side ports, the path-side extension ports, and the client-side extension ports.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160216451A1 SWITCH DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
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