Mechanical anti-reflection switch (MARS) device forfiber-in-the-loop applications
Walker, J.A.; Goossen, K.W.; Arney, S.C.
Advanced Applications of Lasers in Materials Processing/Broadband Optical Networks/Smart Pixels/Optical MEMs and Their Applications. IEEE/LEOS 1996 Summer Topical Meetings:
Volume , Issue , 5-9 Aug 1996 Page(s):59 - 60
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/LEOSST.1996.540793
Summary:The Mechanical Anti-Reflection Switch (MARS) device is an optical modulator based on the principle of a vertically moving antireflection film suspended above a silicon substrate. The authors demonstrate that such a micromechanical modulator has the capability of providing upstream data rates of 3.5 Mbit/sec with low BER in a fiber-to-the-home communications system. Due to several advantageous aspects of the MARS, packaging costs for the device should be quite low, resulting in an extremely inexpensive moderate data rate optical modulator

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