Outstanding Paper Award at MEMS2015 conference for MST
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Carlos Errando-Herranz, PhD student at KTH Micro and Nanosystems, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 28th IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference (MEMS) 2015 held in Estoril, Portugal for his work "A Low-power MEMS Tunable Photonic Ring Resonator for Reconfigurable Optical Networks"
The research presented in this work has applications in future integrated reconfigurable optical networks that demand dynamic routing of large amounts of information.
The novel device presented by Carlos is a low-power MEMS tunable photonic ring resonator with 10 selectable channels for wavelength selection in reconfigurable optical networks operating in the C band. The tuning is achieved by changing the geometry of the slot of a silicon slot-waveguide ring resonator, by means of vertical electrostatic parallel-plate actuation. The presented device provides static power dissipation below 0.1 μW, a wavelength tuning range of 1 nm, and a narrow bandwidth of 0.1 nm, i.e. 10 nW static power dissipation per selectable channel for TE mode tuning.
The work was coauthored by Frank Niklaus , Göran Stemme , and Kristinn B. Gylfason , team leader of Photonic MEMS at KTH Micro and Nanosystems.
