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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 16 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor optical switch and an optical switch array for use in an optical logic circuit, photonic switching, OEIC, etc., wherein a light amplifying means is provided on a bypass waveguide that connects a plurality of optical waveguides, thereby enabling improvement of the light crosstalk and the light propagation loss. In particular, according to the arrangement of the present invention that a light amplifying means is provided in addition to the deflecting portion, no noise component is amplified and therefore the SN ratio is markedly increased.