A novel 2/spl times/2 microfluidic-based optical switch is demonstrated. The device is made of an optically clear elastomer, using soft lithography, and having insertion loss smaller than 1 dB, extinction ratio of 20 dB and switching speed less than 20 milliseconds.


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    Title :

    A microfluidic 2/spl times/2 optical switch


    Contributors:
    Lin Pang, (author) / Levy, U. (author) / Campbell, K. (author) / Groisman, A. (author) / Mookarjee, S. (author) / Psaltis, D. (author) / Fainman, Y. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


    Size :

    92853 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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