Title :
Low power optic switch using SOI-nanowires
Author :
Amthor, Julia ; Horn, O. ; Lipka, T. ; Savov, A. ; Mueller, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microsyst. Technol., Hamburg Univ. of Technol., Hamburg, Germany
Abstract :
An optic switch of SOI-nanowires with a very low power consumption of less than 1 mW is presented. The nanowires are placed on freestanding electrostatically deflectable SiO2-membranes to tune them thermo-optically and elasto-optically.
Keywords :
integrated optics; membranes; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical switches; piezo-optical effects; silicon compounds; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optical devices; SOI-nanowires; Si; SiO2; elasto-optical tuning; freestanding electrostatically deflectable SiO2-membranes; integrated optical system; low power optic switch; thermo-mechanical-optical Si-nanowire switch; thermo-optical tuning; Biomembranes; Nanowires; Optical device fabrication; Optical refraction; Optical ring resonators; Optical scattering; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338371