Fibre optic switching system.

摘要

A fibre optic switching system comprising a plurality of crossing optical fibres (10,12) which cross at angles less than 90 DEG in oblique arrays. Mechanisms (14) are disposed in the crossing region of the fibres such that the crossing fibres can be brought temporarily into mutual effective engagement by said mechanisms (14) so that light leakage therebetween occurs, this light leakage occuring only for as long as the mechanism (14) holds said effective engagement of the fibres.