• DocumentCode
    2472976
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    9-11 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    250
  • Lastpage
    252
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4402-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1949-2081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338371
  • Filename
    5338371
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2472976