Low power wireless readout of autonomous sensor wafer using MEMS grating light modulator

Author

Krüger, Michiel V P ; Guddal, Michael H. ; Belikov, Ruslan ; Bhatnagar, Aparna ; Solgaard, Olav ; Spanos, Costas ; Poolla, Kameshwar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

68

Abstract

We demonstrate remote data acquisition from an autonomous sensor module over a low power wireless optical link. The communication link is based on a grating light modulator. The high data rate, low power consumption, compactness and ease of fabrication make this wireless optical link a promising candidate for a wide range of remote-sensing and sensor-network applications

Keywords

data acquisition; diffraction gratings; electro-optical modulation; micro-optics; microsensors; modules; optical communication equipment; optical links; power consumption; MEMS grating light modulator; autonomous sensor module; autonomous sensor wafer; communication link; compactness; grating light modulator; high data rate; low power consumption; low power microsensors; low power wireless optical link; low power wireless readout; remote data acquisition; remote-sensing; sensor-network application; wireless optical link; Data acquisition; Energy consumption; Gratings; Micromechanical devices; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Remote sensing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMS, 2000 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6257-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2000.879629

Filename

879629