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This paper reports an on chip nano-optomechanical SRAM, which is integrated with light modulation system on a single silicon chip. In particular, a doubly-clamped silicon beam shows bistability due to the non-linear optical gradient force generated from a ring resonator. The memory states are assigned with two stable deformation positions, which can be switched by modulating the control light's power...
Optically enabled accelerometers offer superior displacement resolution and resilience to electromagnetic interference, which brought benefits to a wide range of applications ranging from inertial navigation to consumer electronics [1, 2]. However, impossible chip scale integration hampered their practical applications [2]. In this paper, a novel in-plane opto-mechanical accelerometer is demonstrated,...
This paper presents a Nano-opto-mechanical actuator, which is driven by optical radiation force. The actuator consists of two waveguides, two identical ring resonators, and an actuator with Bragg reflector. Light is injected into the waveguides and coupled to the Bragg reflector via the ring resonator. The actuator is displaced by the optical force. The achieved maximum displacement of the actuator...
This paper reports a silicon-based micromachined optical power detector with on-chip measurement ability. The optical power is detected by an integrated electron-tunneling displacement transducer, in which optical force is employed as the bridge between optical energy and mechanical energy transition. Compared with the traditional optical power detectors, which are based on photo absorption, the proposed...
This work presents an opto-mechanical linear actuator utilizing the gradient optical force between two identical parallel waveguides. The actuator size shrinks to nanoscale dimensions. Theoretical study shows that the actuator deflection is controlled over optical signals and linearly proportional to the applied optical power. Such optical actuator takes full advantages of the nanotechnology, and...
This paper presents a pressure sensor array based on optical force using Nano-opto-mechanical Systems (NOMS). It consists of a deformable diaphragm and a waveguide array. When pressure is applied on the diaphragm, the gap between the diaphragm and the waveguide is reduced. The induced optical force deforms the waveguide and change the optical loss. In the experiment, it measures up to 32 dB optical...
We propose optical switches in which the heater is fabricated directly on the slab region of the rib waveguide. Two types of Heater-on-Slab (HoS) switches were investigated. In the first type, the silicon slab regions are doped highly to form the heaters. For this type of switches, the switching power is ~85 mW and the switching time is ~27 μs. In the second type, a strip of metal in direct contact...
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