WO2002084372A3 - Reconfigurable free space wavelength cross connect - Google Patents

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WO2002084372A3
WO2002084372A3 PCT/US2002/011396 US0211396W WO02084372A3 WO 2002084372 A3 WO2002084372 A3 WO 2002084372A3 US 0211396 W US0211396 W US 0211396W WO 02084372 A3 WO02084372 A3 WO 02084372A3
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David A Smith
Harry Presley
Zhuoyu Bao
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An optical cross connect (100), especially a wavelength cross connect, using free-space optics (106, 114, 116), a diffraction grating (108), and a micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) array (122) of movable mirrors (128). A concentrator (104) receives light from widely separated optical fibers (170) and brings the beams together into a more closely spaced linear array. Free-space optics process all the beams. Front-end optics (106) collimate the beams from the fibers and flatten their fields. The diffraction grating (108) spectrally separates each beam into sub-beams. A long-focus lens (114) focuses the sub-beams onto the 2-dimensional MEMS array (122). A fold mirror (124) reflectively couples two such mirrors, whereby the switched signals propagate back through the same optics and are spectrally recombined onto the fibers. Other embodiments include white-color cross connects, multiple MEMS arrays, and parallel optics. Power dividers (272) or wavelength interleavers can divide signals from the fibers, and multiple cross connects (276a, 276b) switch different wavelength groups.
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