| 摘要 |
An optical switching device (10) routes optical signals, completely within optical media, from an arbitrary number N input optical fibers to a different set of M output optical fibers. The switching device uses a thermal microcantilever bimorph optical switch to redirect optical radiation emitted by a laser light source (LS), or from the end of an optical fiber, to an input end of another optical fiber. The modulated optical radiation containing signals from the input fiber optic bundle or laser light source is collimated into parallel beam and projected in free space across the tops of an array of the microcantilever bimorph optical switches.
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