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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Albert Goodman, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Mohsen Shahinpoor, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Wizard Technologies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of optical switching wherein a plurality of individual activation strips ( ) are adhered longitudinally upon an optical channel, such as an optical fiber ( ) to cause the fiber to undulate in 2½ dimensions when the activation strips are activated. The activation strips are activated with a constant or varying electrical source and are located at the free end of the optical fiber. Contraction and expansion of respective activation strips causes a free end of the optical fiber to be displaced or to undulate. A multichannel switch ( ) operates by moving the free end of the selected input fiber and the free end of the selected output fiber toward one another so that the signal is sent from the input to the output fiber.