{"title":"Fast switching via frustrated total internal reflection in silicon photonics MEMS-actuated waveguides","authors":"Eran Aharon, D. Marom","doi":"10.1109/OMN.2019.8925195","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a switching concept based on total internal reflection (TIR) and frustrated-TIR (F-TIR) using a MEMS movable waveguide fully compatible with silicon photonics technology. The switching element allows implementing large-scale photonic switches.","PeriodicalId":353010,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OMN.2019.8925195","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a switching concept based on total internal reflection (TIR) and frustrated-TIR (F-TIR) using a MEMS movable waveguide fully compatible with silicon photonics technology. The switching element allows implementing large-scale photonic switches.