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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2020
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Kevin B. Leigh, Houston, TX (US);
Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stanley Cheung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
Waveguide shuffle blocks (WSBs) are provided that may incorporate waveguides routed in any pattern to effectuate many-to-many connectivity between optical cables/fibers or other WSBs connected thereto. Such WSBs may be configured in ways that allow the WSBs to be stacked and to achieve effective optical cable/fiber organization. Moreover, such WSBs may include readable tags that can provide information regarding a particular WSB configuration and/or what optical cables/fibers are connected so that network topology can be discovered and monitored. Some WSBs may be configured as wavelength shifting shuffles (WSSs) that allow a particular wavelength(s) of an optical signal(s) to be routed as desired and/or alter a first wavelength associated with a particular optical signal to a second wavelength. In other embodiments WSSs can be configured to allow for wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing.