Agere Systems Inc., the recent spinoff from Lucent Technologies' microelectronics group, says it is helping OEMs to do that by introducing a three-dimensional microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) ...

Like tunable lasers, MEMS-based optical switches are a key building block for developing the next-generation network communication infrastructure, bringing us closer to realizing the goal of ...

Optical switches may separate signals at different wavelengths and direct them to different ports. Using tiny mirrors that reflect the input signal to the output port, MEMS technology is expected ...

Rather than connecting smaller optical switches in succession to form a switching network, the new architecture is a single-stage switch with a MEMS switching mechanism, which completely ...

The all-optical, electronically controlled switch ... Unit cell of the silicon photonic MEMS switch consisting of a pair of adiabatic couplers on orthogonal bus waveguides with MMI crossing ...

Other companies have designed and tried to market high-density 3D-MEMS-based all-optical switches, and they all have come up against the same technical hurdles: acceptable performance and ...

In contrast, systems developer Draper has come up with a LiDAR-on-a-chip that uses patented, all-digital MEMS optical switches for beamsteering. Draper says its all-digital switches “provide ...

In contrast, Draper has developed, and recently advanced, a LiDAR-on-a-Chip that uses patented, all-digital MEMS optical switches for beamsteering. Draper's all-digital switches provide robustness ...

More information: Datai Hui et al, A MEMS grating modulator with a tunable sinusoidal grating for large-scale extendable apertures, Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41378-025 ...