OPTICAL SWITCHING APPARATUS, OPTICAL SWITCHING METHOD, OPTICAL SWITCHING NODE, AND SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240056707A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18496414

    申请日:2023-10-27

    CPC classification number: H04Q11/0005 G02B6/293 H04Q2011/0015

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical switching apparatus, an optical switching method, an optical switching node, and a system, to implement switching of optical signals in more transmission directions. The optical switching apparatus includes input ports, a first dispersion member, a first switching engine, a first beam combining member, a first lens group, a second dispersion member, a second beam combining member, a second switching engine, and output ports. The first switching engine and the second switching engine jointly change transmission directions of sub-wavelength light beams along a wavelength plane and a port plane, the wavelength plane and the port plane are perpendicular to each other, and both the wavelength plane and the port plane are parallel to transmission directions of first light beams.

    Wavelength switching apparatus and system

    公开(公告)号:US11372163B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17163454

    申请日:2021-01-31

    Inventor: Hui Xiang Han Zhao

    Abstract: A wavelength switching apparatus includes M input components, a first optical component, a first switch array, a second switch array, a second optical component, and K output components. The M input components include at least one local input component having N input ports, and a light beam input by the local input component can be converged, under an action of the first optical component, on a row of switch units that are in the first switch array and that are corresponding to the local input component. In this way, this is equivalent to further connecting an N*1-dimensional WSS to an input end of an M*K-dimensional WSS, so that the wavelength switching apparatus can integrate a wavelength adding function based on the M*K-dimensional WSS.

    Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer

    公开(公告)号:US11067752B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-20

    申请号:US16836488

    申请日:2020-03-31

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer, including: an input component, an output component, a beamsplitter, a first switch array, a wavelength dispersion system, a redirection system, and a second switch array. The input component includes M+P input ports, the output component includes N output ports, the beamsplitter is configured to: receive M input beams from M input ports, and split each of the M input beams into at least N parts, to obtain at least M×N beams; the first switch array includes at least P switch units; and the second switch array includes N rows of switch units. The first switch array, the beamsplitter, the wavelength dispersion system, the redirection system, and the second switch array are arranged so that P optical add beams and sub-beams of M×N beams in the at least M×N beams can be routed to the N output ports.

    SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH WSS

    公开(公告)号:US20190199464A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US16285022

    申请日:2019-02-25

    Abstract: A signal monitoring method and apparatus for a wavelength selective switch (WSS) are provided. The signal monitoring method for a wavelength selective switch WSS includes: encoding a phase of a first optical engine based on an input WDM signal, so that the WDM signal is split into a transmitted signal and a monitored signal after passing through the first optical engine; inputting the monitored signal to a second optical engine disposed at an output-side grating; and controlling the second optical engine to rotate in a wavelength plane of the WDM signal, so that monitored light of a specified wavelength in the monitored signal is output from the second optical engine at a preset angle.

    Wavelength Selective Switch
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170299858A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15636941

    申请日:2017-06-29

    Abstract: A wavelength selective switch (WSS) includes a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) panel and a fiber array with multiple ports. The two outermost ports of the multiple ports are a first port and a second port. An included angle between an intersecting line of the LCOS panel and a first plane in which the incident light entering the LCOS panel and emergent light exiting the LCOS panel are located, and incident light entering the LCOS panel is (90−θ) degrees, where a wavelength of the incident light is same as a wavelength of the emergent light, θ is less than 15 degrees, the first port and the included angle of (90−θ) degrees are located on a same side of the incident light, and the second port and the included angle of (90−θ) degrees are separately located on two sides of the incident light.

    Node apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Node apparatus 有权
    节点装置

    公开(公告)号:US09515766B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-06

    申请号:US14882107

    申请日:2015-10-13

    Abstract: The present invention provides a node apparatus, where two N×N wavelength selective switches are used to form a parallel-connected structure, and two ends of each power splitter are separately connected to input ends of the N×N wavelength selective switches, and two ends of each power combiner are separately connected to output ends of the N×N wavelength selective switches, thereby transferring route switching selection work originally performed between multiple 1×M wavelength selective switches to the inside of the N×N wavelength selective switch for implementation. Compared with an original structure using discrete components, the node apparatus is simplified, and when a traffic volume expands, the number of module slots on a line side does not need to be increased, thereby reducing usage costs eventually. The present invention is used for signal transmission in a node.

    Abstract translation: 本发明提供了一种节点装置,其中使用两个N×N个波长选择开关来形成并联结构,并且每个功率分配器的两端分别连接到N×N个波长选择开关的输入端,并且两个 每个功率合成器的端部分别连接到N×N个波长选择开关的输出端,从而将最初在多个1×M波长选择开关之间执行的路由切换选择工作传送到N×N波长选择开关的内部,以实现。 与使用离散组件的原始结构相比,节点设备简化,当流量扩大时,线路侧的模块插槽数量不需要增加,从而最终降低使用成本。 本发明用于节点中的信号传输。

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