Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Switch
Patent
1992-03-20
1993-09-21
Lee, John D.
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Switch
385 16, 385 20, 385 40, 385 41, G02B 626
Patent
active
052475948
ABSTRACT:
A waveguide-type optical matrix switch including as its switching element a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which includes two directional couplers and an optical phase shifter. The two directional couplers are arranged by placing two optical waveguides in close proximity at two positions on a substrate, and have an identical coupling ratio. The optical phase shifter is disposed over at least one of the two optical waveguides between the directional couplers. The two optical waveguides have an effective optical path length difference of half a wavelength of a light signal between the two directional couplers, and are intersected in the optical switch element. The waveguide-type optical matrix switch is little affected by fabrication errors in the coupling ratio of the directional couplers, and superior in the extinction ratio.
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Kato Kuniharu
Katoh Katsumi
Kawachi Masao
Okuno Masayuki
Heartney Phan T.
Lee John D.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
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