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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2002
Jianjun Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Peiching Ling, San Jose, CA (US);
Jinliang Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ming Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jianjun Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Peiching Ling, San Jose, CA (US);
Jinliang Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ming Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Integrated Optics Communications Corp., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a switching matrix configuration to reduce the optical propagation losses and coupling losses. The switching matrix comprises M horizontal waveguides interested with 2N vertical waveguides, where M and N are positive integers and the optical switching system is configured to receive a multiplexed input optical signal from a horizontal waveguide disposed next to an i-th horizontal waveguide where i is a closest integer to a positive real number M/2.