• DocumentCode
    2155240
  • Title

    Optically Controlled Switching in Microwave Bridges

  • Author

    Xue, Xin ; Wei, Haiqing ; Shih, I.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7. xxue@photonics.ece.mcgill.ca
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    Oct. 2000
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A novel design for optically controlled microwave switching is presented, which is based on a microwave bridge structure consisting of a coplanar waveguide and a coplanar transmission line on a high-resistive semiconductor substrate. Numerical simulation for such bridge switches demonstrates unprecedented performance (> 30 dB ON/OFF ratio all over a frequency band of 100 GHz), even with 10% fabrication imperfection.
  • Keywords
    Bridges; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Numerical simulation; Optical control; Optical design; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor waveguides; Substrates;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2000.338768
  • Filename
    4139781