Photonic crystal waveguide switch with a microelectromechanical actuator

Ken Ichi Umemori; Yoshiaki Kanamori; Kazuhiro Hane

doi:10.1063/1.2219996

Photonic crystal waveguide switch with a microelectromechanical actuator

Ken Ichi Umemori, Yoshiaki Kanamori, Kazuhiro Hane

Tohoku University

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Abstract

A photonic crystal waveguide switch with a movable slab is proposed and fabricated by silicon micromachining. The switch structure consists of in-line input and output photonic crystal waveguide slabs and a switching slab to bridge gap between the waveguides. Driving the switching slab with a microelectromechanical actuator, the transmission between the waveguides is modulated. The switching characteristics can be explained by calculations using the finite-difference time-domain method.

Original language	English
Article number	021102
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2219996
Publication status	Published - 2006

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