A micromachined 4-port optical switch with no propagation length difference for add drop modules

Author

Kwon, Ho Nam ; Kim, Man Geun ; Lee, Jong-Hvun ; Kim, Seon Ju ; Park, Jong Sam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatronics, K-JIST, Kwangju, South Korea

fYear

2003

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

128

Abstract

We demonstrate a micromachined 4-port optical switch with 4 moving micromirrors. It features no propagation length difference and requires no collimators or planar lightwave circuits for low insertion loss. The optical performances were evaluated using 8 optical fibers (4 input-output pairs) of thermally expanded core (TEC) fibers.

Keywords

micromachining; micromirrors; microswitches; optical design techniques; optical fibres; optical losses; optical switches; optical testing; 4-port optical switch; add drop modules; collimators; insertion loss; micromachining; micromirrors; optical fibers; optical performances; planar lightwave circuits; thermally expanded core fibers; Circuits; Insertion loss; Micromirrors; Optical collimators; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical propagation; Optical switches; Performance evaluation; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMS, 2003 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7830-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2003.1233499

Filename

1233499

Link To Document

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