ALL-SILICON BISTABLE MICROMECHANICAL FIBER SWITCHES

Authors
HOFFMANN M KOPKA P GROSS T VOGES E
Citation
M. Hoffmann et al., ALL-SILICON BISTABLE MICROMECHANICAL FIBER SWITCHES, Electronics Letters, 34(2), 1998, pp. 207-208
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
34
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
207 - 208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1998)34:2<207:ABMFS>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A fibre optical 1 x 2 switch based on Si-micromechanics for singlemode fibres is presented. For bistable operation, the input fibre is switc hed and fixed in a V-groove clamp using thermal actuators. The power c onsumption during switching is 1.5W for several 10ms, the insertion lo ss achieved so far is 5dB and the cross talk is below -60dB.