Micromachining future networks

The purpose of this paper is to outline the technological developments which will impact on these current and future networks, within the realms of micromachining techniques and technologies which are used to put together these systems. The paper will outline some of the techniques used in micromachining and why we would want to use them. I will use two specific devices to outline the variety of micromachining techniques used in a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD), and a 100 Gbits/s packet header generator. I shall also outline the micromachining techniques used in the various processes