SOA-Based Optical Logic Circuit Development and Demonstration

Abstract

In this program, we investigated the fabrication and optical characterization of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designed for telecommunication applications using ultrafast (> 100Gbits/s) optical logic. The basic components in the PIC are active components, such as semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), integrated with passive, light-routing waveguides. Optical switching is accomplished by embedding the amplifiers within the arms of Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs), whereas power splitting of propagating signals is carried out within multimode interferometers (MMIs). Figure 1 shows a schematic of the basic unit cell under investigation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486765

Entities

People

  • Erich P. Ippen
  • Leslie A. Kolodziejski

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • Chemistry
  • Circuits
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Etching
  • Fabrication
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Materials
  • Metal-Semiconductor Junctions
  • Microscopes
  • Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Semiconductors
  • Vapor Deposition
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics