MICRO-MECHANICAL WAVEGUIDE OPTICAL DEVICES

• Main Authors: KENNEY, JOHN, T, PURCHASE, KEN, G, STILLER, MARC, A, TICKNOR, ANTHONY, J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 28.11.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS

Optical devices and methods for attenuating, shuttering, or switching optical signals as found in telecommunications. A platform carrying a portion of a waveguide and residing in a plane of a substrate is tipped, tilted, twisted, or otherwise moved out of the plane of the substrate to divert the pat...