TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic response of silicon photonic variable-gap waveguide coupler switch
AU - Abe, S.
AU - Chu, M. H.
AU - Sasaki, T.
AU - Hane, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 University of Strathclyde.
PY - 2014/10/14
Y1 - 2014/10/14
N2 - Dynamic response of a silicon photonic nanowire-waveguide microelectromechanical switch is studied theoretically and experimentally. The switching mechanism is based on gap-variation of a directional waveguide coupler consisting of 400-nm-wide and 260-nm-thick waveguides. Analyzing an electrical and mechanical model, an optimum switching rise-time is estimated to be around 10 μsec. The rise-time measured from the optical output intensity was 18 μsec under a condition of slightly overdumping.
AB - Dynamic response of a silicon photonic nanowire-waveguide microelectromechanical switch is studied theoretically and experimentally. The switching mechanism is based on gap-variation of a directional waveguide coupler consisting of 400-nm-wide and 260-nm-thick waveguides. Analyzing an electrical and mechanical model, an optimum switching rise-time is estimated to be around 10 μsec. The rise-time measured from the optical output intensity was 18 μsec under a condition of slightly overdumping.
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U2 - 10.1109/OMN.2014.6924602
DO - 10.1109/OMN.2014.6924602
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908032904
T3 - International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics
SP - 79
EP - 80
BT - 2014 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, OMN 2014 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, OMN 2014
Y2 - 17 August 2014 through 21 August 2014
ER -