Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA)

Veronica Gauss; Antonio Hurtado; Doug Jorgesen; Michael J. Adams; Sadik Esener

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010

Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA)

Veronica Gauss, Antonio Hurtado, Doug Jorgesen, Michael J. Adams, Sadik Esener

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2345-2350
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	284
Issue number	9
Early online date	4 Feb 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2011

Keywords

all-optical inverter
all-optical logic gate
all-optical signal processing
amplifier
nonlinear optics
optical bistability
vertical cavity semiconductor optical

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