Micro-filters are fabricated using MEMS technology, and both measurements and numerical calculations are carried out in order to estimate the power requirement in a micron-size particle collection process using the microfilter. In order to numerically predict the pressure drop through the micro-filter, we focus on the characterization of the geometrical factors, such as internal profile of the ...

A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer as well as a 1x4x4 reconfigurable λ router, designed for use in the second telecom window, are demonstrated. The devices that each have a footprint less than 2 mm are based on thermally tunable vertically coupled microring resonators fabricated in Si3N4/SiO2.

Introduction: An add-drop multiplexer (ADM) is one of the key elements in optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) networks. Various methods of performing OTDM add-drop have been demonstrated. Recently add-drop operation at 16 10 Gbit=s has been demonstrated with the use of a gain transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (GT-UNI) [1] switch and at 4 40 Gbit=s with travelling-wave electroa...

Hydrolysed polyacrylamide (HPAM) mother liquor is mainly used to extract oil. The HPAM solution is needed to filter the impurity using a bag filter before it is injected into the oil well. Therefore, the pressure drop of HPAM mother liquor must be less than 0.02 MPa in the processing of impurity filtration. The influence factors on pressure drop need to be researched. In this work, the computat...

Presently, high-speed and wide-bandwidth broadband access systems such as ADSL, CATV and FTTH have become widespread. With respect to the data sent and received in such systems, those not only of text but also from multi-media fields --such as moving images and audio-have grown in volume, and tend to increase hereafter. Thus, metro/access networks that connect subscribers with a trunk network a...

Multichannel optical add-drop processes are studied in a class of symmetric waveguide-resonator systems. With insight gained from group theory, we analyze these systems and show that they can add or drop multiple wavelengths simultaneously, with 100% efficiency. A new mechanism is presented to reduce the remnant light at the dropped wavelengths in the pass-through port. High-order Butterworth f...

We demonstrate a 1×4 coarse wavelength division-multiplexing (CWDM) planar concave grating multiplexer/demultiplexer and its application in re-configurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) system in silicon-on-insulator substrate. The wavelengths of the demonstrated concave grating multiplexer align well with the ITU-T standard. We demonstrate a prototype of ROADM comprising two such concav...

We report on the fabrication by electron-beam lithography of Bragg gratings, which serve as wavelength-selective elements of a Mach–Zehnder-type add-drop filter. To meet telecommunication network requirements, the gratings must have about 20 000 lines, corresponding to a length on the order of 10 mm. Furthermore, the coupling strength of the gratings has to be varied according to a bell-shaped ...

In wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, the bandwidth request of a traffic stream can be much lower than the capacity of a lightpath. Efficiently grooming low-speed connections onto high-capacity lightpaths will improve the network throughput and reduce the network cost. In WDM/SONET ring networks, it has been shown in the optical network literature that by carefully groomin...