An optical fiber interferometer is described for measuring the out-of-plane displacement of microelectromechanical structures. The interferometric system has a theoretical measurement dynamic range greater than 10 8. Experimental results characterizing an electrostatically actuated polysilicon flexure beam are presented. The results are in good agreement with modeling data based on coupled boundary-element and finite-element analysis.
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