All-optical switching of 80 Gb/s data packets using a wavelength converter controlled by a monolithically integrated optical flip-flop

Author(s):  
Y. Liu

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Eduward Tangdiongga ◽  
Martin T. Hill ◽  
Johan H. C. van Zantvoort ◽  
J. H. den Besten ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas M. Lüpken ◽  
Tim Hellwig ◽  
Martin Schnack ◽  
Jörn P. Epping ◽  
Klaus-J. Boller ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaya Notomi ◽  
Takasumi Tanabe ◽  
Akihiko Shinya ◽  
Eiichi Kuramochi ◽  
Hideaki Taniyama

We review our recent studies on all-optical switching and memory operations based on thermo-optic and carrier-plasma nonlinearities both induced by two-photon absorption in silicon photonic crystal nanocavities. Owing to high-Q and small volume of these photonic crystal cavities, we have demonstrated that the switching power can be largely reduced. In addition, we demonstrate that the switching time is also reduced in nanocavity devices because of their short diffusion time. These features are important for all-optical nonlinear processing in silicon photonics technologies, since silicon is not an efficient optical nonlinear material. We discuss the effect of the carrier diffusion process in our devices, and demonstrate improvement in terms of the response speed by employing ion-implantation process. Finally, we show that coupled bistable devices lead to all-optical logic, such as flip-flop operation. These results indicate that a nanocavity-based photonic crystal platform on a silicon chip may be a promising candidate for future on-chip all-optical information processing in a largely integrated fashion.



2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Ahmed Rashed ◽  
Abd El-Naser Mohamed ◽  
Mohamed Tabbour ◽  
Naira Saad


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