High-Voltage Amplifier Design for MEMS based Switching Arrays in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Networks

Author

Heinz, Steffen ; Lange, Andre ; Erler, Klaus ; Ebest, Gunter ; Miesch, Wolfgang ; Dietrich, Jürgen ; Knopke, Jürgen ; Pfau, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Chemnitz Univ. of Technol., Chemnitz

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

1418

Lastpage

1423

Abstract

The paper describes the design requirements of integrated high-voltage amplifiers for large MEMS based arrays which consist of electrostatically driven actuators. Such actuators are applied in optical switching arrays for cross connects in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks. Besides a new calculation approach for the efficiency of amplifier operation modes a new concept of level-shifter circuitry for switching output stages of high-voltage amplifiers is presented and compared with conventionally level-shifter circuits.

Keywords

amplifiers; micromechanical devices; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; MEMS; electrostatically driven actuator; high-voltage amplifier design; optical switching array; wavelength-division multiplexing network; Circuits; Electrostatic actuators; Micromechanical devices; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical arrays; Optical fiber networks; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0755-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4374809

Filename

4374809