Optical switch fabric with redundancy

Details Optical switch fabric with redundancy Optical switch fabric with redundancy

2005-04-14

2009-02-24

Hyeon, Hae Moon (Department: 2839)

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Switch

C385S017000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07496252

ABSTRACT:
An optical switch fabric with an input stage, an output stage, and a center stage coupled in a cascaded manner. The center stage includes (1) a minimum number of center switches greater than one that cause the optical switch fabric to be strict-sense nonblocking and (2) at least one additional center switch to provide redundancy for the optical switch fabric. A module is described that includes optical input and output switches coupled to an optical center stage of an optical switch fabric. The module includes an interior cavity that contains free space beams from both the optical input switch and the optical output switch. A method is described for reconfiguring a redundant optical switch into a multilevel optical switch without interrupting operation of the signals carried by the optical switch by adding additional switch components and reconfiguring the fiber interconnection between switch elements.

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