Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optoelectronic switch
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Application No.: US15696145Application Date: 2017-09-05
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Publication No.: US09967208B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Andrew Rickman , Nathan Farrington
- Applicant: ROCKLEY PHOTONICS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: Rockley Photonics Limited
- Current Assignee: Rockley Photonics Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
- Priority: GB1506729.1 20150421
- Main IPC: G02B6/35
- IPC: G02B6/35 ; H04L12/933 ; H04J14/02 ; H04Q11/00

Abstract:
An optoelectronic switch comprising: a first plurality of detector remodulators (DRMs) (C3, D1), each DRM having an integer number M of optical inputs and an integer number N of optical outputs; a second plurality of DRMs (C7, D5), each DRM having N optical inputs and M optical outputs; a passive optical switch fabric (C4+C5+C6, D2+D3+D4) connecting the N optical outputs of each of the first plurality of DRMs with the N optical inputs of each of the second plurality of DRMs, the path of an optical signal through the optical switch fabric depending upon its wavelength; wherein each DRM (C3, D1) of the first plurality of DRMs is configured to act as a tunable wavelength converter to select the desired path of an optical signal through the optical switch fabric (C4+C5+C6, D2+D3+D4); and wherein each of the first plurality of DRMs (C3, D1) includes a concentrator, the concentrator configured to aggregate optical signals received from any of the M inputs of that DRM and to buffer them according to the one of the plurality of second DRMs (C7, D5) that includes their destination port.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180063029A1 OPTOELECTRONIC SWITCH Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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