Because of the low dimensional power of its force scaling law, surface tension is appropriate
for carrying out reshaping and assembly in the microstructure size domain. This paper …

Over the last decade, optical 3D printing has proved itself to be a flexible and capable
approach in fabricating an increasing variety of functional structures. One of the main …

Micromachining technology opens up many new opportunities for optical and optoelectronic
systems. It offers unprecedented capabilities in extending the functionality of optical devices …

This review gives a brief introduction to materials and techniques used for microfabrication.
Rigid materials have typically been used to fabricate microstructures and systems …

Optical crossconnects with large port counts are fast becoming critical components for high-
capacity optical transport networks. The free-space micromachined optical switches (FS …

Optical systems are ubiquitous in the present-day societal fabric, from sophisticated fiber-
optic telecommunication infrastructure to visual information display, down to mundane …

We report on vertical mirrors fabricated by deep reactive ion etching of silicon. The mirror
height is 75/spl mu/m, covering the fiber core of a single-mode fiber when the latter is placed …

Modern analytical luminescence methods and their recent applications are reviewed with
emphasis on the most sensitive methods that can be expected to be useful in future …

Manufacturing processes that can create extremely small machines have been developed in
recent years. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) refer to devices that have …

We demonstrate a novel, Michelson-based, ultrafast multiplexer with a throughput
approaching 100% for a polarization-multiplexed train and 50% for a linearly polarized train …