학술논문

A microfluidic 2/spl times/2 optical switch
Document Type
Conference
Source
The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. LEOS annual meeting Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE. 1:124-125 Vol.1 2004
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Microfluidics
Optical switches
Optical refraction
Optical devices
Mirrors
Telecommunication switching
Fluidic microsystems
Silicon
Valves
Optical reflection
Language
Abstract
A novel 2/spl times/2 microfluidic-based optical switch is demonstrated. The device is made of an optically clear elastomer, using soft lithography, and having insertion loss smaller than 1 dB, extinction ratio of 20 dB and switching speed less than 20 milliseconds.