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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2000
Warren Hale Lewis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Middletown, PA (US);
Abstract
A scalable optical switching device comprising: (a) an input optical fiber; (b) a plurality of output optical fibers; (c) a rigid concave spherical mirror; and (d) at least one planar refractive plate located between the input fiber and the mirror and shiftable between a first position and a second position wherein the refractive plate has a thickness dimension in the direction through which a light beam from the input optical fiber passes and an index of refraction that are selected to transmit the light beam to and from the mirror through the refractive plate to different output optical fibers when the refractive plate is switched between the first position and the second position.