Continuously Tunable Optical Buffer
- Homepage
- http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/cno.html
- Started
- 1st July 2012
- Ended
- 30th June 2015
- Investigators
- Peter Horak
Light field in a coupled dual waveguide geometry.
The project aims to design, fabricate and test a novel integrated all-optical buffer device that is based on MEMS technology and provides a continuously tunable delay for optical pulses over a broad wavelength region. Such a device could play a crucial role in future packet-switched optical networks, photonic integrated circuits and coherent light based applications such as optically steered phase array antennas, LIDAR and optical coherence tomography.
This EPSRC funded project is a collaboration between the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, and University College London.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: MEMS, Photonics, Semiconductors, Wave propagation
Algorithms and computational methods: Finite elements, Multi-physics, Optimisation
Simulation software: COMSOL
Programming languages and libraries: Matlab
Computational platforms: Iridis, Linux, Windows
Transdisciplinary tags: Digital Economy