MEMS laser power regulator for optical sensors and networks

H. Cai; Xuming Zhang; Chao Lu; A. Q. Liu

doi:10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597747

MEMS laser power regulator for optical sensors and networks

H. Cai, Xuming Zhang, Chao Lu, A. Q. Liu

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This paper reports a micromachined reflective-type MEMS power regulator (PR) for optical networks. The PR consists of an improvingly designed variable optical attenuator (VOA), which has superior performance as compared with the conventional flat-mirror reflection-type and shutter-type VOAs. It uses an elliptical mirror as the movable reflector. It achieves a large attenuation range at low insertion loss and low voltage. More importantly, it uses only normal fibers as the input and output, and the attenuation increases nearly linearly with the mirror displacement. The improved reflective-type VOA obtains a 44 dB tuning range at an insertion loss of 0.7 dB. At 20 dB attenuation level, the wavelength dependent loss (WDL) is 1.0 dB for 100nm (1520 nm - 1620 nm) wavelength range, and the polarization dependent loss (PDL) is 0.3 dB.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Sensors 2005
Pages	508-511
Number of pages	4
Volume	2005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597747
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	Fourth IEEE Conference on Sensors 2005 - Irvine, CA, United States Duration: 31 Oct 2005 → 3 Nov 2005

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Conference	Fourth IEEE Conference on Sensors 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Irvine, CA
Period	31/10/05 → 3/11/05

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