Optical cross-connect system

US7183633B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Analog Devices, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michael Julian Daneman · Campbell, US
• Franklin J. Wall, Jr. · Vacaville, US
• Behrang Behin · Berkeley, US
• Murali Chaparala · Newton, US
• Mark Chang · Baoshan, TW
• Scott Dalton · Berkeley, US
• Timothy Beerling · San Francisco, US
• Stephen Panyko · Novato, US
• Meng-Hsiung Kiang · Albany, US
• Boris Kobrin · Dublin, US
• Chuang-Chia Lin · Diamond Bar, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2007
• Expiry date: Feb 14, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3584
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical cross-connect switch comprises a base (216), a flap (211) and one or more electrically conductive landing pads (222) connected to the flap (211). The flap (211) has a bottom portion that is movably coupled to the base (216) such that the flap (211) is movable with respect to a plane of the base (216) from a first orientation to a second orientation. The one or more landing pads (222) are electrically isolated from the flap (211) and electrically coupled to be equipotential with a landing surface.