N-i-p-i based new concept for optical logic gates

Gottfried H. Doehler; Peter Kiesel; H. Lin; Peter Riel; Karl Joachim Ebeling; Jeffrey N. Miller

doi:10.1117/12.20660

1 August 1990 N-i-p-i based new concept for optical logic gates

Gottfried H. Doehler, Peter Kiesel, H. Lin, Peter Riel, Karl Joachim Ebeling, Jeffrey N. Miller

Proceedings Volume 1280, High Speed Phenomena in Photonic Materials and Optical Bistability; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20660
Event: The International Congress on Optical Science and Engineering, 1990, The Hague, Netherlands

Abstract

We discuss that hybrid concepts are fundamentally more suited to meet simultaneously the goal of low optical and electrical switching energies and high speed operation. Recently, we have developped an optical threshold switch with gain which can be monolitically integrated and which is suitable for frequencies up into the GHz range and has a gain-bandwidth product of up to 30 GHz. By combining this switch with n-i-p-i or hetero n-i-p-i based electro-optical modulators to form "smart pixels" we obtain optical gates which fulfill all the requirements for applications in optical processors such as low optical and electrical switching energy, high speed, high fan-out, and large tolerances in signal energy.

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Gottfried H. Doehler, Peter Kiesel, H. Lin, Peter Riel, Karl Joachim Ebeling, and Jeffrey N. Miller "N-i-p-i based new concept for optical logic gates", Proc. SPIE 1280, High Speed Phenomena in Photonic Materials and Optical Bistability, (1 August 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20660

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