Photonic switching technologies show potential for transforming communication networks
across diverse markets from long-haul to short-reach distance scales due to their large …

In the last decade, silicon photonic switches are increasingly believed to be potential
candidates for replacing the electrical switches in the applications of telecommunication …

Phased array radars have remarkable advantages over radars with single-element antenna
in terms of agility, flexibility, robustness, and reconfigurability. Current pure-electronic …

This study demonstrates a monolithic 1 x 4 optical switch composed of a planar micro-
electro-mechanical system (MEMS) integrated with silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides. The …

Wavelength-tunable narrow-band thermal emitters are highly desired for various
applications including multigas sensing. However, current thermal emitters suffer from either …

Alignment is critical for efficient integration of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuators have shown potential to tackle this …

This work demonstrates a hybrid MEMS actuator platform that combines electrostatic and
piezoelectric actuators to displace a suspended MEMS platform along 3 degrees-of-freedom …

We present a 1× 3 optical switch based on a translational microelectromechanical system
(MEMS) platform with integrated silicon nitride (SiN) photonic waveguides. The fabricated …

While 3-D microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) allow switching between a large
number of ports in optical telecommunication networks, the development of such systems …

This paper presents a Single-Pole Double-Throw (SPDT) microelectromechanical system
(MEMS) waveguide switch operating at 500–750 GHz. The switch consists of a U-bend …