发明申请
US20160033849A1 Fast optical switch and its applications in optical communication
审中-公开
快速光开关及其在光通信中的应用
- 专利标题： Fast optical switch and its applications in optical communication
- 专利标题（中）： 快速光开关及其在光通信中的应用
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申请号： US14756096申请日： 2015-08-01
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公开(公告)号： US20160033849A1公开(公告)日： 2016-02-04
- 发明人: Mohammad A. Mazed , Rex Wiig , Angel Martinez
- 申请人： Mohammad A. Mazed , Rex Wiig , Angel Martinez
- 主分类号： G02F1/313
- IPC分类号： G02F1/313 ; G02F1/00 ; H04J14/02 ; H01S5/50 ; G02F1/35 ; H04Q11/00 ; G02B6/35 ; G02F1/365
摘要：
A fast optical switch can be fabricated/constructed, when vanadium dioxide (VO2) ultra thin-film or a cluster of vanadium dioxide particles (less than 0.5 microns in diameter) embedded in an ultra thin-film of a polymeric material or in a mesh of metal nanowires is activated by either an electrical pulse (a voltage pulse or a current pulse) or a light pulse just to induce rapid insulator-to-metal phase transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide ultra thin-film or vanadium dioxide particles embedded in an ultra thin-film of a polymeric material or in a mesh of metal nanowires. The applications of such a fast optical switch for an on-Demand optical add-drop subsystem, integrating with or without a wavelength converter are also described.