CN1279379C - Double micro mirror 2*2 array MEMS photo switch - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses a double-micro-mirror 2*2 array type MEMS optical switch which utilizes the anisotropic etching characteristics of a 110 silicon substrate on the 110 silicon substrate. Simultaneously, V-shaped grooves for positioning fibers, a vertical wall deep groove for reflected beams, and double-micro-mirror faces vertical in the deep groove are arranged on the silicon substrate, a cantilever drive beam with piezoelectric elastic composite films is manufactured on the surface of the silicon substrate, and drives the double-micro-mirror faces to simultaneously vertically upward and downwards move so as to move in and out an optical path. Input and output fibers are arranged in four-shaped grooves, and the direction of each of the V-shaped grooves forms included angles of 54.74 DEG with the surfaces of the micro mirrors and the vertical deep groove wall. The present invention greatly reduces the package difficulty of the optical switch by using a self-aligned V-shaped groove structure, and simultaneously has the advantages of simple structure of the optical switch, high reliability of devices, low technology complexity, high manufacturing qualified rate, easy manufacture and suitable mass production. The whole optical switch has low insertion loss so as to greatly increase the efficiency of optical coupling because of the consistency of crystal direction of the vertical micro mirror faces.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to micro photo-electro-mechanical device field, particularly a kind of pair of micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches that drive with piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane semi-girder.
Background technology
In recent years, the appearance of the communication technology and Internet technology and development had been played the part of crucial role the mankind in the process of information society leap.Especially the development of optical communication technique and widespread use improved the speed of message exchange and the capacity of transmission greatly.
Along with the maturation of the development of Fibre Optical Communication Technology, particularly dense wave division multipurpose technology such as (DWDM) is used, Fibre Optical Communication Technology becomes the important foundation technology of the communications field.Require a large amount of novel optical-fiber network device supports in the complicated Networks of Fiber Communications; photoswitch and array of photoswitch have important use as the important optical device of optical fiber telecommunications system in the automatic protection switching of the optical cross connect in optical-fiber network (OXC), optical-fiber network, optical-fiber network monitoring and the fiber optic telecommunications equipment test.For a long time, the electronic light switch is widely used in light shutter device.The photoswitch of this dependence electronics core (being also referred to as the OEO switch) at first is converted to electric signal with light signal, by electronics mode switch signal, and then converts it back to light signal.The high power consumption of OEO switch, shake are big, limited bandwidth, need photoelectricity/electric light conversion, need to adopt bipolar or characteristics such as GaAs circuit, cost height, volume be big, make the application of electronic light switch become very expensive.Along with the increasing suddenly of DWDM capacity of communication system today, when port number and message transmission rate increase, a large amount of light-electricity-light conversion demand is arranged at each node, this more and more is difficult to satisfy following high speed, high capacity optical communication requirement.Therefore, the OEO photoswitch is the bottleneck of following optical communication network, develops a kind of novel high capacity, low-loss, becomes the main direction of studying of photoswitch with the all-optical switch of Wavelength-independent.
The MEMS technology in optical communication one of the most promising application be mems optical switch.Mems optical switch is the novel photoswitch that MEMS (micro electro mechanical system) (MEMS) technology combines with traditional optical switching technique.In Free Space Optics MEMS, the free space design of photoswitch utilizes the advantage that intrinsic high index of refraction difference is arranged between optical material and its surrounding environment, make mems optical switch not only keep its traditional free space photoswitch optics low-loss and low advantage of crosstalking, also have the advantages such as switching time of small size, little quality and millisecond or inferior millisecond.And the MEMS manufacturing technology allows micro-optic, microactrator, complex mechanical structure and necessary microelectronic component to realize that on single substrate micro-system is integrated, and this allows the monolithic of extensive matrix switch integrated.In addition, mems optical switch intrinsic fast, low-power consumption and measure the cost that manufacturing process also reduces system greatly.
At present, in the mems optical switch that utilizes the free space light reflection principle to realize, the photoswitch that adopts the flat micromirror form is because micro mirror deflection angle continually varying characteristics, for the optical alignment of photoswitch has brought very big because of difficulty.The vertical micromirror photoswitch of two-dimensional array that adopts surperficial micro fabrication to realize, the verticality of micromirror, the minute surface roughness, there is a large amount of problems that needs to be resolved hurrily in light path aligning etc.The principles such as static, electromagnetism, heat, piezoelectricity that adopt the mems optical switch reflection device realize driving.Advantages such as wherein, the Piezoelectric Driving mode has, and driving force is big, and action is accurate, and controllability is good.
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The objective of the invention is to propose a kind of pair of micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches.Described 2 * 2 array mems optical switches are realized on 110 silicon substrates 5, utilize the anisotropic etch characteristics of 110 silicon substrates, on silicon substrate, etch positioning optical waveguides V-shaped groove 4, be used for the vertical wall deep trouth 2 of folded light beam and perpendicular to two micromirror 1 of vertical wall deep trouth 2 bottom surfaces; On the film of vertical wall deep trouth 2 bottoms of surface of silicon, make piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane cantilever and drive beam 3, be used to drive two micromirror 1 and move vertically, move in and out light path.Input, output optical fibre 7 are placed in four V-shaped grooves 4, the direction of V-shaped groove 4 becomes the angle of 54.74 degree with two micro mirror 1 surfaces and vertical wall deep trouth 2 walls, head at every optical fiber can be installed optical fiber beam collimating apparatus 6, the collimation behind the realization optical fiber beam freedom of entry space.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows that this array mems optical switch has made full use of the anisotropic etch characteristics of 110 silicon chips, in the anisotropic silicon-etching process, on silicon substrate, realize vertical two micromirror simultaneously, the vertical wall deep trouth, the fiber orientation V-shaped groove, the accurate aligning of realization light beam.To have flatness good for the vertical wall of micromirror of Shi Xianing and groove thus, the characteristics that reflectivity is high, and the vertical wall deep trouth bottom that utilizes corrosion to form can be continued etching and be formed semi-girder, makes piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane semi-girder.Piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane semi-girder drives two micro mirror vertical up-or-down movements, and fixed angle greatly reduces the mirror angle mismatch error, and above characteristics make photoswitch have very low insertion loss, have improved optical coupling efficiency greatly.Utilize self aligned V-shaped groove structure, greatly reduce the encapsulation difficulty of photoswitch, the characteristics that the overall optical switch has is simple in structure, reliability is high, process complexity is lower, yield rate is higher, easily process and be fit to produce in batches.
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Fig. 1 is 2 * 2 array optical construction of switch synoptic diagram.
Fig. 2 is that the A of Fig. 1 is to view.
Fig. 3 photoswitch fundamental diagram (state 1).
Fig. 4 photoswitch fundamental diagram (state 2).
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The present invention proposes a kind of pair of micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches (as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2), this pair micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches are realized on 110 silicon substrates 5.Utilize the anisotropic etch characteristics of 110 silicon substrates, on silicon substrate, etch vertical two micromirror 1 in the V-shaped groove 4 of positioning optical waveguides, the vertical wall deep trouth 2 that is used for folded light beam and the vertical wall deep trouth; Make piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane cantilever at vertical wall deep trouth 2 bottom thin films of surface of silicon and drive beam 3, be used to drive two micromirror 1 and move vertically, move in and out light path.Input, output optical fibre 7 are placed in four V-shaped grooves 4, the direction of V-shaped groove 4 is spent angles with two micro mirrors 1 surface and vertical deep trouth 2 walls into about 54.74, head at every optical fiber can be installed optical fiber beam collimating apparatus 6, the collimation behind the realization optical fiber beam freedom of entry space.
Two micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches have multiple process for making.Only set forth wherein a kind of method below: at first use twin polishing 110 silicon substrates 5, deposit silicon nitride after the two-sided thermal oxide, back side photolithographic structures window, etch away silicon nitride, float the thermal oxide layer that exposes, utilize anisotropic etchants such as KOH or TMAH to carry out bulk silicon etching, once form the V-shaped groove 4 of positioning optical waveguides simultaneously, the vertical wall deep trouth 2 that is used for folded light beam, and vertical two micromirror 1, remove the silicon nitride and the thermal oxide layer on two sides then, the thermal oxide film of the suitable thickness that regrows is as cushion, and metal levels such as deposit aluminium or gold are as the reflection horizon on micromirror.Carry out the manufacture craft of PZT (lead zirconate titanate) composite multi-layer film in the silicon chip front, the deposit lower electrode layer successively in the front, piezoelectric thin film layer, upper electrode layer, and adopt physics or chemical etching technology, etch top electrode, piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane cantilever driving beam, bottom electrode figure successively, last deposit dielectric insulating film, adopt physics or chemical etching technology etching upper/lower electrode fairlead, depositing metal and etching line again.Photoetching is subsequently also adopted anisotropic etch process etching silicon fiml, discharges suspension structure, forms to drive semi-girder 3.In this method example, bottom electrode can be made of titanium/platinum composite bed or platinum, and piezoelectric membrane is by piezoelectricity Seed Layer PbTiO
3Constitute with the PZT composite bed, top electrode is made of titanium/platinum composite bed or platinum.
The principle of work of photoswitch as shown in Figure 3, Figure 4.(state 1) shown in Figure 3 is that vertical two micromirror 1 is driven by piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane semi-girder 3, can in the micro mirror plane, do vertical movement up and down, when two micromirror 1 were driven in the light path, the light of input optical fibre A, B entered output optical fibre by the reflection of two micromirror 1, vertical deep trouth wall.Wherein, the light in the A optical fiber by optical fiber collimator collimation after enter the optical fiber collimator of output optical fibre D after four continuous reflection of wall of vertical micromirror 1 and vertical wall deep trouth 2, thereby enter optical fiber D.Light in the B optical fiber by optical fiber collimator collimation after enter the optical fiber collimator of output optical fibre C after twice continuous reflection of wall of vertical micromirror 1 and vertical wall deep trouth 2, thereby enter optical fiber C.(state 2) shown in Figure 4 when micro mirror is driven when shifting out light path, the light of input optical fibre directly or only enters output optical fibre by the reflection of vertical wall deep trouth wall.Wherein, the light in the A optical fiber directly enters the optical fiber collimator of output optical fibre C after collimating by optical fiber collimator, thereby enters optical fiber C.Light in the B optical fiber only enters the optical fiber collimator of output optical fibre D after collimating by optical fiber collimator after twice continuous reflection of vertical wall deep trouth wall, thereby enters optical fiber D.Thus, utilize micromirror to move into and shift out beam path, the intersection that forms light signal is switched and is connected.
In above-mentioned example, piezoelectric membrane also can be made of other material, the composite multi-layer piezoelectric membrane that constitutes as various piezoelectrics such as PLZT, ZnO, AlN, PVDF or by multiple piezoelectric and for the deposit piezoelectric or improve the relevant piezoelectricity Seed Layer of piezoelectric performance deposit in advance.Elastic film beam material also may be other various resilient materials, as composite multilayer membrane of monocrystalline silicon, polysilicon, silicon dioxide, amorphous silicon, silicon nitride or multiple resilient material etc.The method that this structure can use MEMS surface micro fabrication and MEMS body processing technology to combine realizes.
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1. two micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches, described pair of micro mirror 2 * 2 array mems optical switches are realized on 110 silicon substrates; It is characterized in that: have on 110 silicon substrates (5) of anisotropic etch characteristics, on 110 silicon substrates, etch positioning optical waveguides V-shaped groove (4), folded light beam vertical wall deep trouth (2) and perpendicular to two micromirror (1) of vertical wall deep trouth (2) inner bottom surface; And on the film of vertical wall deep trouth (2) bottom, make piezoelectric elasticity composite membrane cantilever driving beam (3), and be used to drive two micromirror (1) and move vertically, move in and out light path; Input, output optical fibre (7) are placed in four V-shaped grooves (4), the direction of V-shaped groove (4) becomes the angle of 54.74 degree with the wall of two micromirror (1) surfaces and vertical wall deep trouth (2), head at every optical fiber is installed optical fiber beam collimating apparatus (6), the collimation behind the realization light beam freedom of entry space.
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