Title :
Design of MEMS optical filter for all optical code based router
Author :
Shanmugapriya, M. ; Meenakshi, M. ; Geetha, G. ; Thilagarathi, P.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., Anna Univ., Chennai
Abstract :
This paper presents the design of an integrated filtering system using Bragg mirrors and MEMS actuators. The actuator varies the air gap thickness between two mirror stacks to vary the optical transmission of the stack. The architecture of the code based router is proposed and its configured using the combination of wavelength filters, circulators, combiners and MEMS optical switch on a single platform. The CDMA code based all optical router employs a 2 level coding scheme. The optical MEMS filter is required to isolate the different spectral components of the code. The electrostatic actuator and filter is modeled using Simulink and MEMS intellisuite real time software.
Keywords :
code division multiple access; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; microactuators; mirrors; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical filters; optical switches; telecommunication network routing; 2 level coding; Bragg mirrors; CDMA code; MEMS actuators; MEMS optical filter; all optical code based router; circulators; electrostatic actuator; optical switch; wavelength filters; Actuators; Circulators; Filtering; Micromechanical devices; Mirrors; Multiaccess communication; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical switches;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2009. WOCN '09. IFIP International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4704-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3474-9
DOI :
10.1109/WOCN.2009.5010545
