Beam-steering micromirrors for large optical cross-connects.

Autor: Aksyuk, V.A., Pardo, F., Carr, D., Greywall, D., Chan, H.B., Simon, M.E., Gasparyan, A., Shea, H., Lifton, V., Bolle, C., Arney, S., Frahm, R., Paczkowski, M., Haueis, M., Ryf, R., Neilson, D.T., Kim, J., Giles, C.R., Bishop, D.
Zdroj: Journal of Lightwave Technology; Mar2003, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p634-642, 9p
Abstrakt: This paper describes Si-micromachined two-axis beam-steering micromirrors and their performance in 256 × 256- and 1024 × 1024-port large optical cross-connects (OXCs). The high-reflectivity wavelength-independent mirrors are electrostatically actuated; capable of large, continuous, controlled, dc tilt in any direction at moderate actuation voltages; and allow setting times of a few milliseconds. Packaged two-dimensional (2-D) arrays containing independently addressable identical 256 and 1296 mirrors are used to build fully functional bitrate and wavelength-independent single-stage, low-insertion-loss, single-mode fiber OXC fabrics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Databáze: Complementary Index