Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical unit and wavelength selective switch
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Application No.: US13939999Application Date: 2013-07-11
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Publication No.: US09036263B2Publication Date: 2015-05-19
- Inventor: Satoshi Yoshikawa , Manabu Shiozaki
- Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Agent Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
- Priority: JP2012-157847 20120713; JP2013-118694 20130605
- Main IPC: G02B27/30
- IPC: G02B27/30 ; G02B6/35 ; G02B6/293

Abstract:
In a wavelength selective switch, a holding member is used to rotate one end of optical fibers and a collimator array around a rotation axis to thereby change an incident angle of collimated light with respect to incident surfaces of a beam expander optical system. When the incident angle of the collimated light on the beam expander optical system is changed, an amount of variation in an emission angle of light from the beam expander optical system is not proportional (inversely proportional) to the magnification of the beam expander optical system. Thus, this wavelength selective switch can easily fine-tune the incident position (beam position) of light with respect to each reflecting surface of a MEMS mirror by rotating the holding member.
Public/Granted literature
- US09081201B2 Optical unit and wavelength selective switch Public/Granted day:2015-07-14
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