Photonic Microsystems: Micro and Nanotechnology Applied to Optical Devices and Systems

✍ Scribed by Olav Solgaard (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 640
• Series: MEMS Reference Shelf
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Photonic Microsystems: Micro and Nanotechnology Applied to Optical Devices and Systems describes MEMS technology and demonstrates how MEMS allow miniaturization, parallel fabrication, and efficient packaging of optics, as well as integration of optics and electronics.

Photonic Microsystems also describes the phenomenon of Photonic crystals (nanophotonics) and demonstrates their ability to enable synthesis of materials with optimized optical characteristics. This provides control over optical fields over sub-wavelength distances, leading to devices with improved scaling and functionality compared to traditional optics.

Photonic Microsystems: Micro and Nanotechnology Applied to Optical Devices and Systems concludes with an up-to-date discussion of the need for the combination of MEMS and Photonic crystals by demonstrating that practical photonic-crystal devices leverage MEMS technology for integration and packaging.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications Olav Solgaard discusses:

How Practical photonic-crystal devices leverage MEMS technology for integration and packaging

The role of miniaturization in the integration and packaging of photonic microsystems

The fundamental limits on scaling of optical devices and systems

The analytical descriptions of Photonic Crystals and the practical application of Photonic-Crystal technology

Teaches the fundamentals of optics and makes micro and nano photonics accessible to non experts

About The MEMs Reference Shelf:

"The MEMs Reference Shelf is a series devoted to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMs) which combine mechanical, electrical, optical, or fluidic elements on a common microfabricated substrate to create sensors, actuators, and microsystems. The series, authored by leading MEMs practitioners, strives to provide a framework where basic principles, known methodologies and new applications are integrated in a coherent and consistent manner."

STEPHEN D. SENTURIA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-16
Introduction to Optical Microsystems....Pages 1-8
Electromagnetic Fields and Energy....Pages 1-31
Plane Waves at Interfaces....Pages 1-34
Diffraction and Gaussian Beams....Pages 1-39
Optical Fibers and Waveguides....Pages 1-57
Fiber and Waveguide Devices....Pages 1-72
Optical MEMS Scanners....Pages 1-50
Optical MEMS Fiber Switches....Pages 1-36
Micromirror Arrays – Amplitude and Phase....Pages 1-42
Grating Light Modulators....Pages 1-53
Grating Light Modulators for Fiber Optics....Pages 1-19
Optical Displacement Sensors....Pages 1-42
Micro-Optical Filters....Pages 1-42
Photonic Crystal Fundamentals....Pages 1-28
Photonic Crystal Devices and Systems....Pages 1-28
Back Matter....Pages 1-43

✦ Subjects

Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices; Circuits and Systems