TY - GEN
T1 - MEMS tunable optical filter using auto-cloned photonic crystal
AU - Nagasawa, S.
AU - Onuki, T.
AU - Ohtera, Y.
AU - Kuwano, H.
PY - 2006/10/24
Y1 - 2006/10/24
N2 - This paper proposes a novel MEMS tunable optical filter (TOP) using an auto-cloned photonic crystal (PhC). The auto-cloning method has great gains to fabricate multi-dimensional PhCs in productivity, flexibility and robustness. A two-dimensional PhC was fabricated by stacking Mb2O5 and SiO2 layers alternately keeping nano-scale periodic corrugations (190nm in pitch) formed on a substrate. This PhC was designed for splitting an incident light into the TM and TE modes at 500nm. Photonic band-gaps were changed by rotating the PhC and the transmittance of the TE mode was changed drastically at 420nm. The PhC was attached on the MEMS device (Eco Scan: Japan Signal) to control its angle of incidence. A resonance frequency of the MEMS structure was 183Hz and that rotation angle reached up to 40 degree. Switching characteristics of our MEMS-TOF were confirmed and its availability was demonstrated.
AB - This paper proposes a novel MEMS tunable optical filter (TOP) using an auto-cloned photonic crystal (PhC). The auto-cloning method has great gains to fabricate multi-dimensional PhCs in productivity, flexibility and robustness. A two-dimensional PhC was fabricated by stacking Mb2O5 and SiO2 layers alternately keeping nano-scale periodic corrugations (190nm in pitch) formed on a substrate. This PhC was designed for splitting an incident light into the TM and TE modes at 500nm. Photonic band-gaps were changed by rotating the PhC and the transmittance of the TE mode was changed drastically at 420nm. The PhC was attached on the MEMS device (Eco Scan: Japan Signal) to control its angle of incidence. A resonance frequency of the MEMS structure was 183Hz and that rotation angle reached up to 40 degree. Switching characteristics of our MEMS-TOF were confirmed and its availability was demonstrated.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750109709
SN - 0780394755
SN - 9780780394759
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
SP - 858
EP - 861
BT - 19th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
T2 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
Y2 - 22 January 2006 through 26 January 2006
ER -