Trex Enterprises Corporation

Yoshi Taketomi

Hus Tigli

Matthew Last

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 to a different fiber. In preferred embodiments the beam can be directed to any one of as many as 90 output fibers. Techniques for scaling the switch to produce N&#xd7;N switches with N being large are described. Embodiments of the present invention can also be utilized to create more elaborate fiber optical switches such as an N&#xd7;N switch and a N&#xd7;N switch.

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Yoshi Taketomi