A high port-count wavelength-selective switch using a large scan-angle, high fill-factor, two-axis MEMS scanner array

Author

Tsai, Jui-che ; Wu, Ming C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

Volume

18

Issue

13

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1439

Lastpage

1441

Abstract

We present a high-port-count (scalable to 1 times 32) wavelength-selective switch (WSS) using a large scan-angle, high fill-factor, two-axis analog micromirror array in conjunction with a densely packed two-dimensional array of fiber collimators. A partially populated (1 times 9) WSS exhibits a fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 5.57 plusmn 1.4 dB and an extinction ratio of 51 plusmn 11 dB. The channel spacing is 100 GHz

Keywords

channel spacing; micromirrors; microswitches; optical arrays; optical collimators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre losses; optical scanners; optical switches; MEMS scanner array; channel spacing; extinction ratio; fiber collimators; fiber-to-fiber insertion loss; fill-factor; port-count wavelength-selective switch; Insertion loss; Micromechanical devices; Micromirrors; Mirrors; Optical collimators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber polarization; Optical sensors; Switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); two-axis micromirror; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM); wavelength-selective switch (WSS);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.877235

Filename

1643249