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Programmable variable delay lines have been developed, so as to delay packets in variable durations by combining several lengths of FDLs in optical packet Switch. In practice, two-stage switch with this programmable variable delay lines has been proposed. This switch has two buffers. One is the programmable variable delay lines (Look-ahead Buffer). The other is the fixed FDLs that re-input a packet from the output to the input (Loop-back Buffer). The switch can foresee following packets and avoid contentions effectively by using two buffers. However, existing studies only focus on the Look-ahead Buffer and intelligent usage of the Loop-back Buffer is actually out of concern. In this paper, a packet transfer scheduling method in the two-stage switch is proposed. The proposed method controls both the Look-ahead Buffer and the Loop-back Buffer cooperatively and improves the utilization of the switching process. The proposed method uses the Loop-back Buffer systematically and distributes traffics in the whole switch. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated through simulation experiments.