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Optical fiber interconnection network including spatial light modulator

  • US 4,856,863 A
  • Filed: 06/22/1988
  • Issued: 08/15/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An optical interconnection network, comprising:

  • (a) a spatial light modulator with a plurality of reflective pixels, each of said pixels having at least first and second states.(b) an optical system, said optical system (i) imaging light emitted from one of a plurality of optical inputs onto a corresponding pixel of said spatial light modulator and (ii) reimaging said light afer reflection from said corresponding pixel if said corresponding pixel is in said first state but not if said corresponding pixel is in said second state onto one of a plurality of optical outputs, said reimaging substantially retracting the rays of said imaging through said optical system.

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