Design of MEMS optical filter for all optical code based router

Author

Shanmugapriya, M. ; Meenakshi, M. ; Geetha, G. ; Thilagarathi, P.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Anna Univ., Chennai

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the design of an integrated filtering system using Bragg mirrors and MEMS actuators. The actuator varies the air gap thickness between two mirror stacks to vary the optical transmission of the stack. The architecture of the code based router is proposed and its configured using the combination of wavelength filters, circulators, combiners and MEMS optical switch on a single platform. The CDMA code based all optical router employs a 2 level coding scheme. The optical MEMS filter is required to isolate the different spectral components of the code. The electrostatic actuator and filter is modeled using Simulink and MEMS intellisuite real time software.

Keywords

code division multiple access; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; microactuators; mirrors; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical filters; optical switches; telecommunication network routing; 2 level coding; Bragg mirrors; CDMA code; MEMS actuators; MEMS optical filter; all optical code based router; circulators; electrostatic actuator; optical switch; wavelength filters; Actuators; Circulators; Filtering; Micromechanical devices; Mirrors; Multiaccess communication; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2009. WOCN '09. IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4704-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3474-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCN.2009.5010545

Filename

5010545