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Actuated micro-optical submount using a dielectric elastomer actuator
- Analysis of the operating characteristics of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) submount for the high-precision positioning of optical components in one dimension is presented. Precise alignment of a single-mode fiber is demonstrated and variation of the sensitivity of the submount motion by changing the bias voltage is confirmed. A comparison of the performance of the DEA submount with a piezoelectric alignment stage is made, which demonstrates that DEAs could present a very attractive, low-cost alternative to currently used manual technologies in overcoming the hurdle of expensive packaging of single-mode optical components.
| Author details: | Grace Jordan, Denis N. McCarthy, N. Schlepple, Jan Krissler, H. Schroeder, Guggi Kofod |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2010.2089991 |
| ISSN: | 1083-4435 |
| Title of parent work (English): | IEEE ASME transactions on mechatronics |
| Publisher: | Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers |
| Place of publishing: | Piscataway |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2011 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Actuators; manufacturing automation; optical interconnections; packaging; position control |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 98 |
| Last Page: | 102 |
| Funding institution: | German BMBF [FKZ 03X5511] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
