Optical switch and optical switch system

Abstract

An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical switch that does not require power supply. The present disclosure provides an optical switch which includes: a light driving rotation unit including: a light-expansion body which expands by irradiating light and contracts by interrupting light; a knock rod for converting expansion/contraction of the light-expansion body into reciprocating linear motion by a constant distance; and a rotary motion body for correspondingly converting reciprocating linear motion by the constant distance of the knock rod into rotating rotary motion by a constant angle; and a optical switching rotation unit including: a first optical connector to which one switching object optical fiber is fixed; a second optical connector to which an optical fiber of a switching object optical fiber group is respectively fixed; and a connecting rotor for rotating around an axis in synchronization with rotation converted by the rotary motion body, and for switching/connecting one switching object optical fiber fixed to the first optical connector in contact with one end face and one optical fiber in the switching object optical fiber group fixed to the second optical connector in contact with other end face

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