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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120014643 | HOLOGRAPHIC MIRROR FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECT SIGNAL ROUTING A holographic mirror 10 for re-directing an optical signal that includes a base 14 having an outer surface 16, and a plurality of discrete nano-structures 12 formed into the outer surface of the base. Each nano-structure has an out-of-plane dimensio... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002917 | M X N WSS WITH REDUCED OPTICS SIZE A M×N wavelength selective switch (WSS) module capable of independently routing any wavelength channel from any input port to any output port is provided. The M×N WSS includes a first beam relayer including first and second elements having optical power, each of which... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110273703 | OPTO-MECHANICAL SWITCH An opto-mechanical switch produces different optical paths from two optical path sections out of a plurality of optical path sections that are oriented in different spatial directions. The switch has an optical component on which one end of each optical path section imp... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110206317 | Optical fiber switch with movable lens A scalable optical switch especially useful for switching multimode beams carried by optical fibers. Light from an input fiber is focused by a lens which is moved in an x-y direction perpendicular to the beam direction in order to switch the beam from one output fiber t... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110164845 | Optical routing device comprising hollow waveguides and MEMS reflective elements An optical routing device is described that comprises a semiconductor substrate (52) having at least one optical input (4), a plurality of optical outputs (6,8) and an array of MEMS moveable reflective elements (58;102). The array of moveable... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110150389 | WSS WITH HITLESS SWITCHING A wavelength selective switch (WSS) with hitless switching. The WSS includes the fiber collimator array, the focusing lens, collimating lens, diffraction grating, focusing lens, and attenuation reflection unit array. Each attenuation reflection unit has an interconnecte... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142394 | MICRO-SIZE OPTICAL SWITCH ON SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORM An innovative micro-size photonic switch is presented. The photonic switch is comprised of: a mirror having a reflecting surface; an input waveguide configured to receive an optical signal and output the optical signal at an angle of incidence upon the reflecting surfac... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110103739 | WAVELENGTH SELECTION SWITCH A wavelength selection switch that includes an optical component for adjusting an optical path with an image magnification of M that is provided between a second imaging position and a mirror array. Therefore, it is possible to provide a small wavelength selection optic... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110033151 | OPTICAL WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE ROUTER A fiber-optical, wavelength selective switch, especially for channel routing with equalization and blocking applications. The input signals are converted to light beams having predefined polarizations (41). The beams are then laterally expanded (43), and t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100322553 | OPTICAL SENSOR ARRAY A switching array is disclosed that has a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers having phase shifting mirrors. The switching array may be used for providing a device and system that has optical signal processing of sensing, a serialization and protocol in... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100302796 | OPTICAL FIBER SWITCH An optical fiber switch (16) for alternatively directing an input beam (14) to a plurality of different locations (18A) (18B) (18C) (18D) includes an input fiber (30), a redirector (32), a redirector mover (382<... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303407 | OPTICAL SWITCH AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL SWITCH An optical switch includes a mirror to reflect an input light; a controller to generate a control signal representing a target rotation angle of the mirror; a generator to generate a low-frequency signal; an adder to superimpose the low-frequency signal on the control s... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100284648 | OPTICAL SWITCH The optical switch is capable of supervising the performance of optical switching in standby channels, and includes: a collimator unit; an optical splitter; a light-gathering unit; and a rotatable mirror. The optical switch further includes: a mirror angle controlling u... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100245960 | Optical deflection method and optical deflection apparatus An optical deflection apparatus includes a signal light source configured to emit signal light having one or more wavelengths, a control light source configured to emit control light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the signal light, a thermal lens f... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100172613 | OPTICAL SELECTOR SWITCH AND SIGNAL-PROCESSING APPARATUS An optical selector is provided which enables reliable transmission of a signal from a single or plurality of light output sections to a single or plurality of light input sections. An optical selector (1A) includes: an optical waveg... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100172612 | MEMS DEVICE AND A MEMS DEVICE ARRAY A two-axis tiltable linear array of MEMS micromirrors is described. The individual micromirrors of the array are flexibly suspended over a common substrate by using two pairs of serpentine hinges coupled by a gimbal ring and are actuated by using tilt and roll electrode... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100111471 | Photonic band gap router An arrangement includes a photonic band-gap assembly comprising at least one input wave guide and at least one output wave guides, and at least one routing element responsive to signals to selectively route a signal from the input wave guide to one or more of the output... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100092130 | MICRO MOVABLE DEVICE AND OPTICAL SWITCHING APPARATUS A micro movable device includes: a micro movable substrate in which a micro movable unit is formed, the micro movable unit including a frame, a movable part, and a coupling part for coupling the frame and the movable part to define an axial center of rotation of the mov... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100040325 | Low-cost multimode optical fiber switch A low cost, multimode optical fiber switch in which a MEMS mirror is used to serially reflect input light from a plurality of input optical fibers into a single output fiber or from a single optical fiber into a plurality of output fibers. In a planned demonstration pro... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034499 | Methods and Apparatus to Make Substantially Uniform Losses in Optical Cross Connects A method for cross connecting optical signals includes using a common beam steerer to direct a set of optical signals from a set of input ports to a set of output ports. The method further includes adjusting a curvature of the common beam steerer so that paths of the op... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100034498 | OPTICAL SWITCH An optical apparatus including input ports receiving WDM light, an output port, a first wavelength dividing unit that divides the lights input from the input ports into divided lights with different wavelengths, an optical signal processing unit that reflects the divide... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100002288 | Electrically Controlled Optical Elements and Method The effective focal length of an optical system can be electronically controlled using switchable wave plates in conjunction with polarized light.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090304329 | OPTICAL-SWITCH TESTING APPARATUS, OPTICAL-SIGNAL SWITCHING APPARATUS, OPTICAL-SWITCH TESTING METHOD, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL-SIGNAL SWITCHING A light source supplies optical signal to an optical switch and a detector detects light receiving level. A control unit changes a deflection control amount for changing an angle of a tilt mirror, and outputs the deflection control amount to a driving unit. When an inpu... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090297097 | RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL SWITCH An optical switch is provided which includes a plurality of input/output ports for receiving one or more wavelength component(s) of an optical signal. The optical switch also includes an optical arrangement that directs the wavelength component to any given one of the p... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090290834 | Optical Switch An optical switch is provided, which is used to switch a light path(s) between at least three lenses spaced from each other in a horizontal direction, or in horizontal and vertical directions. This optical switch comprises a lens supporting member for supporting the len... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090274415 | Compact, Low-Loss Optical Wavelength Multiplexer/Demultiplexer The multiplexer/demultiplexer has a planar reflector, a planar first filter element and a planar second filter element offset from the first filter element in a first direction to receive light reflected and transmitted from a first location on the first filter element.... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090257708 | Optical component, fiber collimator array and wavelength selective switch The invention provides a fiber collimator array including a fiber array in which a plurality of optical fibers is arrayed and a microlens array in which microlenses are arrayed on positions corresponding to the plurality of optical fibers on a transparent substrate. Eac... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090252453 | OPTICAL SELECTOR SWITCH AND SIGNAL-PROCESSING APPARATUS An optical selector switch contains an optical waveguide that includes a first optical waveguide portion having a first light-transmissivity, a second optical waveguide portion having a second light-transmissivity, reflecting members that reflect light, and a light-divi... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090245727 | Optical switch and control method of optical switch, and control method of MEMS device A control section of an optical switch calculates information relating to a polarization amount in an insulating film at each predetermined time, to update the information relating to the polarization amount in the insulating film. On the other hand, when a drive voltag... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090237375 | APPARATUS USING WAVEGUIDE, OPTICAL TOUCH PANEL, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING WAVEGUIDE An apparatus, an optical touch panel, a waveguide, and a process for producing a double layered waveguide structure are provided. The apparatus includes a waveguide having a plurality of transmission waveguide elements and a plurality of reception waveguide elements; a ... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090231580 | BEAM STEERING ELEMENT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR MANIFOLD FIBEROPTIC SWITCHES AND MONITORING An optical system comprising a combination optical switch and monitoring system based on an array of mirrors, and a moveable reflective element co-packaged together, including discrete sets of fiber ports wherein λn from input fiber ports is focused on λn mirror via t... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090232446 | HIGH PORT COUNT INSTANTIATED WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH A high port count instantiated wavelength selective switch comprising two or more discrete sets, or instances, of m fiber ports totaling N fiber ports co-packaged together, one or more shared optical elements and dispersive elements, and one or more steering elements in... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090220192 | WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH WITH REDUCED CHROMATIC DISPERSION AND POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS A reduced polarization-dependent loss optical device utilizing two or more dispersive elements or a single dispersive element and a turning mirror, wherein the optical signal makes two passes through said single dispersive element when reflected from said turning mirror... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090202200 | Beam steering element with built-in detector and system for use thereof An all-optical cross-connect switching system provides optical switching that may reduce processing requirements by three orders of magnitude over conventional techniques by associating at least one optical detector with an optical beam steering element. In one embodime... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090190882 | Optical device, optical communication apparatus, and method of controlling optical device An optical device includes an I/O port group and a movable mirror reflecting light input through an input port of the I/O group, aligning the light reflected with an output port of the I/O port group, and changing the angle of the light reflected according to a driving ... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090162009 | Optical switch with reconfigurable broadcasting and combining capabilities An optical switch provides the ability to broadcast one input signal to multiple output channels and to combine multiple input signals into single output channel. The signal broadcast pattern is reconfigurable. One or more diffractive optical elements are used in the sw... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090136175 | NON-CONTACT CONNECTOR A non-contact connector, which has a rotation-side optical element positioned on a rotating body which rotates about a rotation axis, and a fixed-side optical element positioned on a fixed body, and which performs data transmission and reception without contact between ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090129726 | Photonic crystal energy converter A photonic crystal is configured with wavelength converting material to act as a concentrator for electromagnetic energy. The concentrator may also be configured with energy conversion devices to convert the electromagnetic energy into another form of energy.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090067782 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL SWITCH A semiconductor optical switch may include an optical waveguide, a first electrode, and a first reflector. The optical waveguide may include a branching point, a first incoming path and first and second outgoing paths. The first electrode is provided at the branching po... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090067781 | OPTICAL SWITCH The present invention discloses an optical switch having an optical switching function as well as an add/drop function. The optical switch includes two add optical fibers and two drop optical fibers. In addition to the optical switching function of the optical switch ac... | 03/12/2009 |
