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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
May. 08, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard G Caron, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Assignee:
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9615 ; 350 9616 ;
Abstract
An optical matrix switch has N input ports and M output ports and M number of fiber optics coupler elements. One each of the coupler elements is connected to one each of the output ports directly via a fiber optics transmission line. The matrix switch further comprises N.times.M number of 1.times.2 fiber optics switch elements with each number 1/N of the total of such 1.times.2 switch elements connected via a fiber optics transmission line to the input port or to a preceding 1.times.2 switch element and to one of the coupler elements.