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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Applicant:
Rockley Photonics Limited, London, GB;
Inventors:
Andrew Rickman, Marlborough, GB;
Nathan Farrington, Arcadia, CA (US);
Amit Singh Nagra, Altadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rockley Photonics Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0071 (2013.01); H04L 49/1515 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0066 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0032 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0033 (2013.01);
Abstract
A switch module and optoelectronic switch incorporating the same. The optoelectronic switch includes an N-dimensional array of switch modules arranged in a topology in which each switch module is a member of N sub-arrays, the sub-arrays defined with reference to the coordinates of the constituent switch modules, and wherein all of the members of each sub-array are connected by an active switch, which in some embodiments may be an optical active switch or an electronic active switch.