Principle of operation of a refractive optical beam deflector and its properties as a photonic switch

Masao Shimoji

doi:10.1117/12.203115

1 June 1995 Principle of operation of a refractive optical beam deflector and its properties as a photonic switch

Masao Shimoji

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 6, (June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.203115

Abstract

An optomechanical photonic switch that exploits the stationary property of the minimum deviation angle of a dispersive prism is described. The switch is based on an optical beam deflector consisting of an electric motor with hollow shaft. The tip of the motor is fitted with a dispersive prism and the deflected beam is focused onto pixels arranged around a circular scan track. It is shown that the proposed switch is, for all practical purposes, completely insensitive to mechanical wobble of the motor. Furthermore, the existing technology suggests that such a small-inertia motor with no external load may achieve speeds up to hundreds of thousands of revolutions per minute and beyond. We suggest one application of the switch as a write gate of a time slot interchanger in the time-division switching of pulse code modulation (PCM) codes. It is shown that the proposed switch can achieve speeds up to and exceeding hundreds of megabits per second.

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Masao Shimoji "Principle of operation of a refractive optical beam deflector and its properties as a photonic switch," Optical Engineering 34(6), (1 June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.203115

Published: 1 June 1995

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