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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Mohammed Taghi Fatehi, Middletown, NJ (US);
Sungho Jin, Millington, NJ (US);
Wayne Harvey Knox, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Hareesh Mavoori, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the invention, an optical cross-connect switch includes an optical router for distributing multi-wavelength optical input signals, an optical combiner for supplying multi-wavelength signals at the output ports of the switch, and optical fibers for interconnecting the optical router and optical combiner. Selected interconnecting optical fibers include controllable wavelength-selective elements, such as magnetically controllable fiber gratings, which are capable of transmitting or reflecting individual channels within the multi-wavelength optical signals so that a selected channel of a particular wavelength can be routed from any of the input ports to any of the output ports of the switch.