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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hideaki Okayama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/26 (2006.01); G02B 6/35 (2006.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/122 (2006.01); G02B 6/28 (2006.01); G02B 6/293 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/354 (2013.01); G02B 6/12007 (2013.01); G02B 6/1228 (2013.01); G02B 6/2813 (2013.01); G02B 6/29332 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wavelength-selective path-switching element has a silicon substrate on which a pattern of optical waveguides including a first optical waveguide, a second optical waveguide and an intermediary optical waveguide is formed. The widths W, W, and Wof these optical waveguides, lengths L, L, and spacing G, Gare so set that light of a first wavelength entered into the first optical waveguide propagates on the first, intermediary, and second optical waveguides, exits from the second waveguide, propagates on an output waveguide, and is outputted and that light of a second wavelength entered into the first waveguide after propagating on an input waveguide is outputted from this first waveguide. The wavelength-selective path-switching element can be easily fabricated at low cost and have no light leaking out.


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