Mechanical Optical Switch

Product DescriptionDescription

Gigalight’s mechanical optical switch provides channel selectionbetween one input fiber and two output fibers. With a specialdesign, the component uses a movable prism and a mirror toimplement its switching functions. The switches have hermeticpackaging which provides high reliability and qualify GR-1221-CORE.Directly mountable on printed circuits boards, the Gigalight’smechanical optical switch is equipped with status contacts toprovide an electrical readout of the switch position.

Features

1) Hermetic packaging

2) Compact Size

3) Low Insertion Loss

4) High Durability


Applications

1) Configurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing

2) Protection Switching

3) Network monitoring

4) Instrumentation, Testing and Measurement
Mechanical Optical Switch