Compact micro electrical mechanical actuated ring-resonator
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsSujit Handanhal Ramachandra, Kirk L Stechschulte
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Abstract
A compact micro electrical mechanical actuated ring-resonator includes a bus waveguide disposed on a platform; a ring resonator disposed on the platform, including at least a first optical coupler, wherein the ring resonator is optically coupled with the bus waveguide; and a selective waveguide disposed on a piezoelectric cantilever mounted in a trench defined in the platform, wherein the selective waveguide includes a second optical coupler and is controllable to selectively adjust a coupling ratio between the first optical coupler with the second optical coupler by physically changing a distance between the first optical coupler and the second optical coupler.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a first optical coupler disposed on a platform;
- and
- a selective waveguide disposed on a piezoelectric cantilever and including a second optical coupler, where the selective waveguide is controllable to selectively adjust a coupling ratio between the first optical coupler with the second optical coupler, wherein the piezoelectric cantilever includes a first electrode and a second electrode on a side of the piezoelectric cantilever mounted to the platform.
A device, comprising:
- a platform;
- a first piezoelectric cantilever connected on a first end to the platform;
- a second piezoelectric cantilever connected on a second end to the platform;
- a first selective waveguide that receives optical signal at a first wavelength disposed on the first piezoelectric cantilever and the platform;
- and
- a second selective waveguide that receives optical signal at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength disposed on the second piezoelectric cantilever and the platform.
An optical signal processor, comprising:
- a ring resonator including a plurality of first optical couplers;
- and
- a plurality of selective waveguides, wherein each selective waveguide of the plurality of selective waveguides comprises:
- a second optical coupler corresponding to one first optical coupler of the plurality of first optical couplers;
- and
- a piezoelectric cantilever configured to selectively adjust a coupling efficiency between each selective waveguide with the ring resonator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.