Optical cross-connect assembly
US6970616B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 2002 |
| Grant date | Nov 29, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 30, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/3556
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The light beams from a collimator array are each aimed at a optical switch array in a converging manner such that the point of convergence of the reflected light beams is at or near the center of a target (e.g., another optical switch array, receiver array, or any other space in which light beams are to be directed). The light beams converge at an imaginary common point behind the plane of the mirrors, at a distance along an optical axis from the mirrors, which is substantially equal to the distance along an optical axis between mirror arrays.
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