Design and experiments of a Nano-opto-mechanical switch using EIT-like effects of coupled-ring resonator

Author

Ren, M. ; Yu, Y.F. ; Tsai, J.M. ; Cai, H. ; Zhu, W.M. ; Kwong, D.L. ; Liu, A.Q.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 June 2011

Firstpage

1436

Lastpage

1439

Abstract

In this paper, a Nano-opto-mechanical (NOM) switch is designed, simulated and experimentally demonstrated, using the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)-like effects of coupled-ring resonator. The control of the switch is realized by optical force between the silicon waveguide and the dielectric substrate. As the injection pump power increases from 0 to 6 mW, the normalized power of transmission peak at 1553.3 nm decreases from 1 to 0.02, and the position of the initial transmission peak has a 7.8-GHz red shift. The proposed NOM switch can be potentially applied in all-optical network.

Keywords

micromechanical resonators; nanophotonics; optical resonators; optical switches; self-induced transparency; EIT-like effect; NOM switch; all-optical network; coupled ring resonator; dielectric substrate; electromagnetically induced transparency; frequency 7.8 GHz; injection pump power; nanooptomechanical switch; optical force; silicon waveguide; switch control; Force; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Nano-opto-mechanical system (NOMS); electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT); optical force; ring resonator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS), 2011 16th International

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0157-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969588

Filename

5969588