BEAM STEERING ELEMENT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR MANIFOLD FIBEROPTIC SWITCHES AND MONITORING

摘要

An optical system comprising two or more mixed and/or similar combination optical switches co-packaged together Comprising discrete sets of fiber ports, each optical switch configured either with N input fiber ports and 1 output fiber port (NxI optical switch) or with 1 input fiber port and N output fiber ports (1- optical switch), and wherein lambda n from said input fiber ports is focused on lambda n mirror via the use of shared free space optics; such as one or more shared beam steering elements, one or more dispersive elements, and one or more optical elements, wherein said one or more steering elements steers one or more lambda n from any point in the optical path to any other point; and one or more discrete arrays of micro electromechanical system (MEMS) mirrors in a shared array.