Waveguide type optical switch

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PATENT NO 9360629
APP PUB NO 20130322815A1
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13984282

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A waveguide type optical switch that can reduce the number of intersections in a matrix optical switch having the configuration of connecting unit optical switches and optical combining devices or optical branching devices to have a connecting function from “multiple inputs to one output” to “one input to multiple outputs”. To reduce the number of intersections in an entire matrix optical switch, an optical combining device of M inputs and one output is divided into (M−1) pieces of unit optical combining elements each having two inputs and one output, which are arranged immediately after (N−1) pieces of respective output ports excluding one piece of the output port closer to the input in the matrix optical switch out of N pieces of the output ports in the optical switch of one input and N outputs.

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NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONTOKYO 100-8116

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Goh, Takashi Atsugi, JP 27 381
Mori, Atsushi Atsugi, JP 159 1265
Suzuki, Kenya Atsugi, JP 65 188
Watanabe, Toshio Atsugi, JP 241 3745
Yamazaki, Hiroshi Atsugi, JP 468 4441

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