DocumentCode
3667386
Title
Row/column addressing of scalable silicon photonic MEMS switches
Author
Niels Quack;Tae Joon Seok;Sangyoon Han;Wencong Zhang;Richard S. Muller;Ming C. Wu
Author_Institution
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA
fYear
2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present a scalable silicon photonic MEMS switch with an actuation scheme requiring only 2N electrical contacts for an N×N switch matrix. Unit cell size is 145μm × 145μm and switching loss 1.5dB at 1550nm.
Keywords
"Optical switches","Optical waveguides","Silicon photonics","Optical device fabrication","Optical imaging"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2015 International Conference on
ISSN
2160-5033
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-6834-6
Electronic_ISBN
2160-5041
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OMN.2015.7288891
Filename
7288891
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