MEMS ORIENTATIONAL OPTOMECHANICAL MEDIA FOR MICROWAVE NONLINEAR APPLICATIONS

The fabrication and testing of orientational optomechanical media suit able for microwave phase conjugation is described, It consists of meta l-coated dielectric elongated beams 1 mm x 100 mu m x 10 mu m suspende d by nonconductive torsional springs attached to a microwave transpare nt frame, Rotation of single elements, in a polarized electromagnetic field at 15 GHz, was measured and found to be in a good agreement with theory, This first experimental implementation of using microelectrom echanical structures (MEMS) for nonlinear microwave devices demonstrat es the potential of an entirely new class of devices.