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Electromagnetically driven two‐axis optical beam steering MEMS mirror and its dependence of actuation on magnetic field
Author(s) -
Watanabe Yoshiyuki,
Abe Yutaka,
Iwamatsu Shinnosuke,
Kobayashi Seiya,
Takahashi Yoshiyuki,
Sato Toshiyuki
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
electronics and communications in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.131
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1942-9541
pISSN - 1942-9533
DOI - 10.1002/ecj.10377
Subject(s) - magnet , optics , planar , materials science , pole piece , microelectromechanical systems , magnetic field , interferometry , beam (structure) , physics , optoelectronics , computer graphics (images) , quantum mechanics , computer science
This paper describes the development of an electromagnetically driven two‐axis MEMS mirror which steers an optical beam, and the dependence of the tilting angles on the magnet shape and size and the initial gap between planar coils and the magnet surface. A reflective Au mirror (1.8 × 1.8 mm 2 ) can be tilted bidirectionally with an electromagnetic force induced by the current of the planar coils and the magnetic field of a permanent magnet. A newly developed MEMS mirror device (10 × 10 × 0.2 mm 3 ) was set on a printed circuit board (15 × 15 × 1.0 mm 3 ), and the board was fixed on a holder in which a magnet was inset. The utilized magnets were cubic (6, 8, and 15 mm square and 5 mm thick), cylindrical (6 and 8 mm in diameter and 5 mm thick), and spherical (8 mm in diameter) to investigate efficient actuation. The initial gaps of the planar coils and magnet surface were 0, 500, 1000, and 2000 μm. The magnetic flux density and its gradient decreased with distance from the magnet surface. The tilting angles of the MEMS mirror increased with decreasing size of the square magnet and shorter distance, and were largest when using a magnet 6 mm square and a 500‐μm gap, in which condition the maximum tilting angles in the X and Y directions were 2.95 and 3.68 deg/mA, respectively. In addition, we obtained 3D‐OCT images of human finger tissue by using a Fourier domain fiber interferometer with a newly developed MEMS mirror. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 94(11): 24–31, 2011; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10377