TY - GEN
T1 - Compound switch consisting of gap-variable silicon nanowire waveguide couplers
AU - Akihama, Y.
AU - Munemasa, Y.
AU - Kanamori, Yoshiaki
AU - Hane, Kazuhiro
PY - 2012/10/23
Y1 - 2012/10/23
N2 - We propose a compound optical-path switch using microelectromechanical silicon nano-wire gap-variable waveguide couplers. A 2 x 6 switch composed of five 2 x 2 switches was designed and fabricated. The operation of the 2 x 6 switch was confirmed in the experiment, and the insertion loss of the single 2 x 2 switch was evaluated to be about 0.3 dB. The port isolation between distant ports is higher than 20 dB. Due to the capacitive operation, the proposed waveguide switch consumes negligible power.
AB - We propose a compound optical-path switch using microelectromechanical silicon nano-wire gap-variable waveguide couplers. A 2 x 6 switch composed of five 2 x 2 switches was designed and fabricated. The operation of the 2 x 6 switch was confirmed in the experiment, and the insertion loss of the single 2 x 2 switch was evaluated to be about 0.3 dB. The port isolation between distant ports is higher than 20 dB. Due to the capacitive operation, the proposed waveguide switch consumes negligible power.
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U2 - 10.1109/OECC.2012.6276674
DO - 10.1109/OECC.2012.6276674
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867600836
SN - 9781467309776
T3 - Technical Digest - 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, OECC 2012
SP - 875
EP - 876
BT - Technical Digest - 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, OECC 2012
T2 - 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, OECC 2012
Y2 - 2 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -