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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Bun Lee, Daejon-Shi, KR;
Jong Hyeob Baek, Daejon-Shi, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejon-Shi, KR;
Abstract
The present invention is related to a surface transmission-type optical switch of the 1-D array method, and more particularly to a surface transmission-type optical switch, which is manufactured by Fabry-perot type not to need optical waveguides and integrated only by amplifiers of the space division multiplex. A surface transmission-type optical switch according to the present invention is a structure to overlap 3 optical amplifiers for optical switching, and an incoming signal beam is amplified through the first optical amplifier and becomes an n×n amplifiers of a matrix type with the second signal amplification, passing through the second optical amplifier overlapped on the first amplifier. Amplified signal beams through 2 amplifiers perform n×n matrix switching through the third amplifier, and go out to the opposite side of the incoming surface. Characteristics of a surface-type Fabry perot type structure is that selective amplification is possible, by selecting only one wavelength in multiple wavelengths as the gain bandwidth is 5 nm or less.