光梯度力驱动的纳米硅基光开关

通过一道光改变另一道光的传输路线是光子集成网络中重要而长远的目标, 然而, 由于硅材料的光学非线性较弱, 在硅材料上实现开关的全光控制难以实现. 因此本文提出了一种由光梯度力驱动的纳米硅基光开关, 实现了硅基光开关的全光控制. 该光开关由一个部分悬空的微环谐振器和一个交叉波导结构构成, 当通入一道控制光时, 悬空的微环谐振器在光梯度力的作用下发生弯曲, 微环谐振器的谐振波长随之发生变化, 从而实现光信号的传输路线发生改变. 该光开关利用纳米光子制造技术在标准绝缘体上硅晶圆上制造, 实验数据得出其最小消光比为10.67 dB, 最大串扰为 -11.01 dB, 开关时间分别为180 ns和170 ns. 该光开关具有尺寸小, 响应速度快, 低损耗和可拓展等优点, 在片上集成光路、高速信号处理以及下一代光纤通信网络中具有潜在应用.     

一种超小型1×2微机械光开关

设计制作了一种非硅基底的1×2微机械光开关,利用电磁驱动微反射镜运动实现输出端口切换,开关时间＜3 ms,封装尺寸缩小至21 mm×16 mm×12.6 mm,驱动电压5 VDC,经5×106次开关重复性测试,性能稳定.     

MEMS与MEMS光开关

微机电系统(MEMS)技术是一种新型制造技术,在光通信的发展中得到广泛的应用,有极大的市场价值.在整个光通信中,光开关是较为重要的光无源器件,在光网络系统中可对光信号进行选择性操作.随着光通信的日益发展,对光开关的技术要求也日益提高,利用MEMS技术制作的新型光开关具有体积小、重量轻、能耗低、集成化程度高等特点,从而日益成为研究的热点.本文简单介绍了MEMS技术和其主要特点,并较详细地阐述了MEMS技术在光通信中的应用,以及MEMS光开关的结构、发展趋势和目前存在的主要问题.     

全天时星敏感器视场选通成像系统的微开关阵列设计

针对全天时星敏感器视场选通成像系统的应用需求,设计了一种基于静电驱动的单元尺寸为4 mm、开口面积占空比为90%、响应时间为25 ms、单元数为7×7的微开关阵列。考虑到微开关阵列体硅加工工艺中材料的特性,首先确定电极宽度、支撑梁宽度和支撑梁厚度等参数,再根据微开关单元结构的数学模型对支撑梁数目及长度进行理论分析,优化设计了微开关阵列主要结构参数。利用电磁场仿真软件和有限元仿真软件对微开关单元的驱动特性进行仿真分析,结果表明,仿真计算的微开关单元驱动电压为106.4 V时可以开启微开关单元,与理论计算结果 114 V基本吻合,验证了微开关阵列设计参数的可行性。此外,利用杂光分析软件对微开关阵列引入系统内的杂散光进行仿真分析,结果表明,微开关阵列的表面反射率对系统杂散光的影响较小,即使80%的表面反射率也不会明显增加视场选通成像系统的杂散光。该研究为视场选通成像系统的微开关阵列提供了一种有效的设计方案,推动了视场选通成像系统的实际应用。     

一种智能光网络中的亚毫秒光开关阵列

设计研制了一种亚毫秒级微机械光开关阵列.该阵列驱动电压为5V,开关时间小于750μs, 插入损耗在0.6 dB～0.8 dB之间,串扰<－70 dB.具有结构简单、成本低廉、可大规模集成的优点,能很好地解决智能光网络节点连接设备OADM快速信号转换和串扰问题.详细介绍了该光开关阵列实现原理,报告了器件性能测试,并应用FEA软件分析了开关单元中磁场和开关驱动过程.     

一种带有U形波导的交叉信道单微环电光开关

本文利用耦合模理论,电光调制理论和传输矩阵法,提出了一个带有U形波导的交叉信道单微环电光开关的器件模型,并在谐振波长为1561 nm的情况下对该器件进行了仿真计算.结果表明,该电光开关的开关电压约为400 V,串扰小于-30 dB,插入损耗小于4 dB,开关时间仅为5.4 ps,其中微环上的上升和下降时间仅为0.32 ps.此外,该电光开关由单刀双掷开关控制,通过在微环和U形波导上加载驱动电压可实现三种开关状态,不仅可以实现光信号在两条输出信道的选择,还可以使两条信道同时有光信号输出.     

微腔光梳的产生、发展及应用

光频梳提供了光波和微波相干链接的桥梁,它的诞生革命性地提高了人们对于光学频率和时间的测量精度,深刻影响着当今世界科技的发展.最早的光频梳产生于锁模激光器系统,然而基于锁模激光器的光梳,因其系统复杂、体积庞大和价格高昂,一般仅限于实验室应用.近年来一种新型光频梳应运而生,并有望解决上述问题.它是通过连续激光耦合进入高品质光学微腔而激发的,在频域上通过四波混频产生等间距的频率分量,在时域上则利用非线性效应平衡微腔色散而形成锁模,这种新型光频梳被称为“微腔光梳”.相比于传统光梳,微腔光梳有着尺寸小、可集成、功耗低和重频范围大等优势,它的出现标志着产生光梳迈向芯片级尺寸的时代,并引起了科学界和工业界越来越多的关注.本文首先概述了微腔光梳的产生与发展历程,随后介绍微腔光梳在实际应用方面取得的进展,最后对微腔光梳当前的问题进行总结,并对未来发展进行展望.     

微型光热驱动机构的光热膨胀理论模型与实验研究

提出和发展了一种基于微尺度光热膨胀效应的微型光热驱动机构.建立了膨胀臂的微尺度光热传导与膨胀的物理模型,利用有限元分析和数学物理方法,推导出膨胀臂的一维温度分布表达式及光热膨胀量和偏转量的计算公式.利用准分子激光微加工系统设计制作了一个长度为1200?μm 的微型光热驱动样机,根据激光和样机的相关参数,计算得到光热膨胀量与激光功率之间的理论关系曲线.实验结果表明,微型光热驱动机构的光热偏转量（对应于膨胀量）与照射到膨胀臂上的激光功率近似成线性关系,实验曲线与理论模型及计算结果符合良好.在理论和实验研究基础上,作为光热微驱动的应用实例,设计并加工制作了一个双向微开关型光热驱动机构,并通过实验实现了双向微开关功能. 关键词： 光热膨胀臂 微驱动机构 光热传导模型 激光     

微纳米加工技术及其应用综述

材料与结构在微纳米尺度展现了许多不同于宏观尺度的新特征，纳米技术已经成为当前科学研究与工业开发的热门领域之一。微小型化依赖于微纳米尺度的功能结构与器件，实现功能结构微纳米化的基础是先进的微纳米加上技术，文章对微纳米加上技术做了一个综合的介绍，简要说明了微纳米加工技术与传统加工技术的区别，在微纳米加工技术的应用方面提出了一些合理选择加工技术的原则，并对当前微纳米加工技术面临的挑战和今后发展的趋势作了预测。     

微纳金属光学结构制备技术及应用

微纳光学结构制备技术一直是微纳光子学器件发展的技术瓶颈.针对微纳光学结构制备技术向小尺寸、高精度和广泛应用发展的趋势,报道了基于电子束、X射线和接近式光学的混合光刻制作微纳金属光学结构技术.针对微纳光子学器件复杂图形开发了微光刻数据处理体系,基于矢量扫描电子束光刻设备在自支撑薄膜上进行1×高分辨率图形形成,利用X射线光...     

光纤通信光开关的物理基础

光开关是光交换系统的基本元件，也是一种基本的控光器件，本文综述了目前光纤通信中所研究和开发的光通信开关器件的物理原理，并给出各类光开关的阈值条件和典型参量。     

Serpentine Spring Corner Designs for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Optical Switches with Large Mirror Mass

In this paper, we describe the design principles of serpentine springs with high reliability for the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) optical switches with large mirror mass. The most often seen failure mode of the MEMS optical switches under reliability tests is the breaking of these springs, which provide the restoring force for the MEMS actuators. The breaking points are usually at the turning corner of the serpentine springs when the MEMS optical switches are under a high G shock test or a vibration test. In order to overcome the difficulties, we redesigned the corner shapes of the springs with careful consideration. We will discuss the theoretical analysis and simulation modeling for the corner shapes of serpentine springs. MEMS optical switches with redesigned serpentine springs are fabricated and tested to prove the proposed design. The results show that the MEMS optical switches with new serpentine springs can pass rigorous reliability tests.     

A comparison of optically and electronically controlled optical switches

Electronically and optically controlled optical switches are compared with respect to switch energy requirements. Only switches based on optical phase change are treated, since these have the largest flexibility. Further, only switches that preserve input wavelength at the output are considered, due to cascadeability requirements. It is argued that as long as ‘all-optical’ switches need electronically controlled switches for information transfer to the optical signals controlling the all-optical switch, this will compromise any other advantages that the all-optical switch and the corresponding systems might have. A further application for all-optical switches, which currently are orders of magnitude faster than electronically controlled ones, would be in banks of electronically controlled slower all-optical switches which are all-optically multiplexed to drive all-optical switches to data rates not currently achievable by electronically controlled switches. It is argued that such systems will be complex, requiring sophisticated electronic synchronization and being inferior to corresponding wavelength division multiplexing systems. Power dissipation and switch energy are analyzed for two different physical mechanisms for controllably changing the refractive index in the all-optical and electronically controlled optical switches: Pockels and Kerr effects as well as the plasma or free carrier effect and the relative merits of electronically and optically controlled optical switches using these are discussed. It is shown that, in the former case, (Pockels and Kerr effects) using representative data, electronically controlled switches are generally more power efficient than the all-optical counterparts.     

Interferometric ultrafast SOA-based optical switches: From devices to applications

All-optical switches are fundamental building blocks for future, high-speed optical networks that utilize optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) techniques to achieve single channel data rates exceeding 100 Gb/s. Interferometric optical switches using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) non-linearities perform efficient optical switching with < 500 fJ of control energy and are approaching optical sampling bandwidths of nearly 1 THz. In this paper, we review work underway at Princeton University to characterize and demonstrate these optical switches as processing elements in practical networks and systems. Three interferometric optical switch geometries are presented and characterized. We discuss limitations on the minimum temporal width of the switching window and prospects for integrating the devices. Using these optical switches as demultiplexers, we demonstrate two 100-Gb/s testbeds for photonic packet switching. In addition to the optical networking applications, we have explored simultaneous wavelength conversion and pulse width management. We have also designed high bandwidth sampling systems using SOA-based optical switches as analog optical sampling gates capable of analyzing optical waveforms with bandwidths exceeding 100 GHz. We believe these devices represent a versatile approach to all-optical processing as a variety of applications can be performed without significantly changing the device architecture.     

基于光反馈半导体激光器的多开关状态检测系统

为了能够同时检测多个开关的状态,提出了一种基于光反馈半导体激光器的多开关状态检测系统.该系统由半导体激光器、多开关传感网络和数据采集与处理单元组成.多开关传感网络包括多个反馈光路,每个光路由耦合器、光纤和强度反射式光开关构成.所有开关都闭合时,系统没有反馈,激光器输出连续光.当有开关被打开时,光反馈使系统工作在混沌状态.根据系统输出信号的自相关曲线中与各开关位置对应处的峰值是否大于预设阈值来判断开关的状态,通过编程令其它位置处的峰值为零来消除干扰峰.搭建了3个开关的实验系统,分别对不同开关状态下的系统进行检测,结果表明该系统可以准确检测单个或多个开关的状态.     

Ultracompact and low-power optical switch based on silicon photonic crystals

Switching light is one of the most fundamental functions of an optical circuit. As such, optical switches are a major research topic in photonics, and many types of switches have been realized. Most optical switches operate by imposing a phase shift between two sections of the device to direct light from one port to another, or to switch it on and off, the major constraint being that typical refractive index changes are very small. Conventional solutions address this issue by making long devices, thus increasing the footprint, or by using resonant enhancement, thus reducing the bandwidth. We present a slow-light-enhanced optical switch that is 36 times shorter than a conventional device for the same refractive index change and has a switching length of 5.2 microm.     

Polarization-independent bidirectional 4×4 optical switch in free space

Optical switches play an important role in all optical communication networks and multiprocessor computer systems. The 2×2 and 4×4 optical switches are the basic units of large-scale switch matrices. Using a conventional polarization control method, the optical switch system and structure is optimized, and a novel optical switch is proposed, which has the advantages of relatively low crosstalk and insertion loss, compact and simple construction, higher performance and cost effectiveness. First, a novel 2×2 optical switch is proposed using phase spatial light modulator (PSLM), polarizing beam splitter (PBS) and mirror. This configuration uses fewer optical components, is compact in structure, efficient in performance, and insensitive to polarization of the signal beam. Second, a new optical experimental module of 4×4 optical switch is presented by cascading a 2×2 optical switch. The routing method of polarization-independent bidirectional 4×4 optical switch is investigated. Finally, the operational characteristics of the polarization-independent bidirectional 2×2 and 4×2 optical switches are discussed in detail.     

Demonstration of a directed optical encoder using microring-resonator-based optical switches

We propose and demonstrate a directed optical logic circuit that performs the encoding function from a 4 bit electrical signal to a 2 bit optical signal based on cascaded microring switches. The four logic input signals control the states of the switches, while the two logic outputs are given by the optical power at the output waveguides. For proof of concept, a thermo-optic switching effect is used with an operation speed of 10 kbps.     

Active semiconductor optical switches with blue-shifted channel waveguides

This paper presents a theoretical design study of active optical switches constructed from III-V semiconductor multiple-quantum-well waveguides. New designs are given for 4 × 4 matrix switches, 1 × 4 tree switches, and 4-delay optical transversal filters. The designs feature ～ 0 dB insertion loss and ～ 30 dB crosstalk isolation. Low injection currents are predicted because pumping is eliminated on ～ 70 percent of the channel waveguide area by an induced-disorder treatment that blue-shifts the material's absorption edge. The active networks also feature etched facet reflectors that facilitate the dense packing of guides.     

Finite element analysis of optically controlled non-linear directional coupler switches

Optically controlled two-way optical switches are useful for high-speed photonic switches and rapidly reconfigurable optical interconnection networks. A directional coupler forms such a switch because the field can be switched from one waveguide to the other by altering the optical length of the waveguide. Nonlinear materials are incorporated in the waveguide so that the optical path length may be altered by using an optical control beam to vary the intensity of light. A finite element method is described that enables the modelling of the non-linear dual waveguide structure for arbitrary waveguide shapes. Spurious modes are avoided in the transverse magnetic field method and non-linearity is handled by iteration and assuming an equivalent non-linear relative permittivity.