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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2001
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical switch is provided with an optical-fiber-arraying-member in which a plurality of optical fiber fixing grooves extending along radial directions of a virtual circle are radially formed in a predetermined surface of a base material, a plurality of array-side optical fibers arrayed in the plurality of optical fiber fixing grooves of the optical-fiber-arraying-member , and a moving-side optical fiber to be selectively optically connected to either of the plurality of array-side optical fibers ; the moving-side optical fiber and the optical-fiber-arraying-member are rotated relative to each other about a center axis of the virtual circle, and the moving-side optical fiber is selectively optically connected to the array-side optical fiber selected.
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