| Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatus, system, and method embodiments
that provide micro electro mechanical system optical switching and
methods of manufacturing switches. For example, one optical switch
embodiment includes at least one micro electro mechanical system type
pivot mirror structure disposed along a path of an optical signal, the
structure having a mirror and an actuator, and the mirror having a pivot
axis along a first edge and having a second edge rotatable with respect
to the pivot axis, the mirror being capable of and arranged to be
actuated to pivot between a position parallel to a plane of an optical
signal and a position substantially normal to the plane of the optical
signal. |
| Filed: 11/10/2008 |
| Application Number: 12/291428 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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