Lucent Technologies Inc.

Vladimir J Aksyuk

David John Bishop

Bradley Paul Barber

Clinton R Giles

Lawrence Warren Stulz

Rene R Ruel

An optical switch uses a MEMS device to insert a highly reflective shutter in a gap between a pair of coaxially aligned fibers. When the switch is closed, an input optical signal passes with little loss through the gap. When the switch is open and the shutter is positioned in the gap, an input optical signal incident on the shutter is reflected back into the input fiber. Such light is diverted by an optical circulator into a new path.

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Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

Vladimir J Aksyuk