Patent ID: 11874504
Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A process for programming an optical network with the optoelectromechanical switch of claim 1, the process comprising:
receiving, by the optical feedline, resonator light;
electrically biasing the low refractive index optical layer at the substrate electrical counter potential;
electrically biasing the electrically conductive membrane at the membrane electrical potential;
changing the cavity length based on the potential difference between the membrane electrical potential of the electrically conductive membrane and the substrate electrical counter potential of the low refractive index optical layer; and
optically communicating the resonator light from the optical feedline to the resonator when the cavity length of the resonator supports an electromagnetic mode at the wavelength of the resonator light.