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光开关综述（Overview of optical switches） Overview of optical switching technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Cheng Xiaofei, Fang Fang, Wang Jianquan, Gu Wanyi At present, optical switches have been widely proposed in various optical switching networks for different switching principles and implementation technologies. Optical switches with different principles and techniques have different characteristics and are suitable for different occasions. According to different optical switching principle, the optical switch can be divided into mechanical light switch, thermo optical switch, electro-optical switch and acoustooptic switch. According to the switching medium of optical switch, the optical switch can be divided into free space switching optical switch and waveguide switch. The development of mechanical optical switch has been mature. It can be divided into moving optical fiber, moving sleeve, moving collimator, moving reflector, moving prism and mobile coupler. The traditional mechanical optical switch with low insertion loss (less than 2dB); a high degree of isolation (45dB); is not affected by the polarization and wavelength. The defect is that the switch time is longer, the order of one millisecond, sometimes there are bound dithering and repeatability of the problem of the poor. In addition, its large size, it is difficult to make large-scale optical switching matrix. Therefore, the traditional mechanical light switch is difficult to adapt to the development of high-speed and high-capacity optical transmission network. While the new micro mechanical MEMS based optical switch has an insertion loss of traditional mechanical optical switch, low isolation etc., and has small advantages, has become the mainstream direction of the development of large capacity optical network switch exchange. Thermal optic, electro-optic and acoustooptic effects are achieved by switching the refractive index of the waveguide in the switching medium. The commonl