Patents by Inventor Thierry Zami

Thierry Zami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Switch for optical signals
    Publication number: 20020041727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch (112) for optical signals and which has a number of outputs at least equal to the number of inputs and include means whereby an input signal is routed to at least one of those outputs. Each input receives information modulating optical carriers at different wavelengths. The switch (112) includes means (12611, 12612, . . . , 126NB) for grouping all the carriers received into non-contiguous subsets of carriers (G11, . . . , G1B, . . . , GN1, . . . , GNB) and means (1291, 1292, . . . , 129NB) for selecting blocks of carriers from the same subset of carriers. The information corresponding to each subset of optical carriers is thus routed in blocks to the same subset output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Thierry Zami, Nicholas Le Sauze, Denis Penninckx, Dominique Chiaroni, Amaury Jourdan, Olivia Rofidal