Where to Buy Optical Switches

The fiber-optic switch AGS14 is a non-mechanical designed fiber-optic device based on the Faraday effect with a birefringent crystal and micro-optical components. Without moving parts in the design, the switch can meet the high requirement on reliability, durability and high switching speed.

Quantifi Photonics offers a wide range of fast and reliable optical switches to streamline fibre optic test procedures for wavelengths from 800 nm to 1590 nm. They can be customized with a wide range of switch configurations, fiber types and connectors including MPO for high-channel-count applications.

See us at ECOC 2023 in Glasgow, UK, Oct. 2–4 (booth 353)!

The PSW-LN and PSC-LN are two compact and high speed electro-optic polarization switches and scramblers. These integrated-optic devices feature a low-loss single-mode waveguide and are capable of modulating the polarization at frequencies ranging from DC to more than 10 GHz. They are available for the C and O bands.

AMS Techno­logies carries a broad range of MEMS-based fiber optic switches in miniature, small or larger module, benchtop and rackmount form factors. Latching or non-latching optical MEMS fiber optic switches are available with single mode (SM), multi mode (MM) or polarization maintaining (PM) fibers, suitable for wavelengths from 600 nm to 1600 nm.

Customers can choose among various port configurations from 1×1 up to 32 inputs and 32 outputs. Our MEMS-based fiber optic switches’ extremely high reliability matches with demanding applications like telecom, datacom, sensor networks, instruments or test and measurement.

AeroDIODE has developed the fiber modulator – a high-speed intensity modulator and optical switch based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). It is available over a wide wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm. Key features are high speed (down to 1 ns rise/fall time), high dynamic range (>48 dB), high extinction ratio (>50 dB) and an easy to use graphical user interface with multiple software libraries (LabVIEW, Python etc.). AeroDIODE also offers the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier alone or the SOA driver in either CW or pulsed configuration.

AeroDIODE also offers a wide range of fiber coupled AOMs (Acousto Optic Modulators) with various types of digital (TTL) or analog RF drivers.

See also our white paper/tutorial on fiber-coupled modulators.