Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Nicola Calabretta

Ripalta Stabile

Xuwei Xue

Kevin Aubrey Williams

Simone Cardarelli

Marco Fattori

An apparatus arranged for deflecting an optical component for alignment purposes of the optical component with a further optical component, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of adjacently placed elongate carriers, extending mutually parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction, wherein two adjacently placed elongate carriers have a spacing between them for receiving a first optical component such that the received optical component rests against two adjacently placed elongate carriers, wherein the two elongate carriers have slopes such that the spacing between the two adjacently placed elongate carriers is smaller at a bottom side compared to the spacing at a top side of the carriers, wherein the carriers comprise piezoelectric material configured to deflect the carriers in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction by actuating the piezoelectric material.

Apparatus arranged for aligning an optical component with an on-chip port as well as a corresponding system and method

A method of operating an optical switch () arranged in an optical DCN (), comprising:

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Nicola Calabretta