OPTICAL NANOSWITCH Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G02F1/295 B82Y10/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used in fibre-optic information transmission systems for switching transmission channels. The device has a group of n address optical nano-waveguides, a group of n information optical nano-waveguides, n pairs of extensible nanotubes, an n-output optical nano-waveguide splitter, a constant radiation source and an n-input optical nano-waveguide coupler.

EFFECT: controlled switching of information optical flow coming from n information transmission channels to the output of the device, while realising nanodesign.