ARROW-based optical accelerometers

SENSORS, 2002 IEEE - Tập 2 - Trang 1075-1079 vol.2
A. Llobera1, J.A. Plaza2, I. Salinas3, J. Berganzo4, J. Garcia4, J. Esteve2, C. Dominguez2
1Centro Nacional de Microelectróica, Barcelona, Spain
2Centro Nacional de Microelectróica, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
3Department de Física Ap, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
4Electronics and Components Department, Ikerlan, Spain

Tóm tắt

Design, fabrication and characterization of silicon-based stress-free self-aligned quad beam accelerometer is presented. Standard total internal reflection waveguides have been replaced by ARROW structures, enhancing the sensitivity to >4dB/g at the wavelength visible range (633nm) Moreover, as the waveguide core has approximately the same size as the input fiber optic, insertion losses have been reduced to 2.5dB. Attenuation in ARROW waveguides is 0.3dB/cm.

Từ khóa

#Accelerometers #Optical waveguides #Optical sensors #Optical attenuators #Electromagnetic waveguides #Optical films #Optical losses #Optical refraction #Integrated optics #Silicon

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