Gauss, Veronica and Hurtado, Antonio and Jorgesen, Doug and Adams, Michael J and Esener, Sadik (2011) Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA). Optics Communications, 284 (9). pp. 2345-2350. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010
Gauss, Veronica and Hurtado, Antonio and Jorgesen, Doug and Adams, Michael J and Esener, Sadik (2011) Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA). Optics Communications, 284 (9). pp. 2345-2350. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010
Gauss, Veronica and Hurtado, Antonio and Jorgesen, Doug and Adams, Michael J and Esener, Sadik (2011) Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA). Optics Communications, 284 (9). pp. 2345-2350. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010
Abstract
We report the static and dynamic properties of an all-optical inverter based on an 850 nm Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA). The inverter exhibits low switching power requirements (∼ 15 μW), large on/off contrast ratio (> 11 dB), and high speed operation (∼ 1.4 GHz). Large and small signal measurements show that the speed of operation and the on/off contrast ratio improve with increased bias current. This holds important prospects for the development of VCSOA-inverters for high-speed, low-power optical logic applications. Finally, a theoretical model of the VCSOA-inverter has been employed giving good agreement with experiments. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; All-optical signal processing; All-optical logic gate; All-optical inverter; Vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2012 16:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 06:06 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2175 |