@inproceedings{4a42f6222bca406ebbfec6afa0cdc139,
title = "A NEMS optical switch driven by optical force",
abstract = "In this paper, an optical switch driven by the optical force is demonstrated based on Nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) technology. The switch consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and a ring resonator. One of the MZI arms is suspended to enable optical switching by optical force induced displacement. The optical force is introduced by injecting a control light into the ring resonator. It has a switching contrast of 16 dB and a response time of 0.2 μs, which is 103 times faster than the traditional millimeter-scaled optical switches. It has potential applications in the high speed optical-packet-switching communications and the silicon-photonic integrated circuits.",
keywords = "NEMS, optical force, optical switch, ring resonator",
author = "Tao, {J. F.} and H. Cai and Yu, {A. B.} and Zhang, {Q. X.} and J. Wu and K. Xu and Lin, {J. T.} and Lo, {G. Q.} and Kwong, {D. L.} and Liu, {A. Q.}",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969798",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781457701573",
series = "2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11",
pages = "1753--1756",
booktitle = "2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11",
note = "2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11 ; Conference date: 05-06-2011 Through 09-06-2011",
}