Contention Resolution by means of Packet Envelope Detection Circuit with a Slow Saturable Absorber-based Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Gate

We have successfully demonstrated a simple and cost effective scheme for all-optical packet contention resolution by means of a PEDC comprised of a saturable absorber-based VCSG and a SOA. An extinction ratio of 15 dB for the PEDC output signal was measured with 1.5 ns using time and 2.5 ns falling...

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Published inLEOS 2006 - 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society pp. 559 - 560
Main Authors Porzi, C., Fresi, F., Poti, L., Bogoni, A., Guina, M., Orsila, L., Okhotnikov, O., Calabretta, N.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2006
Subjects
Circuits
Envelope detectors
Nonlinear optics
Optical attenuators
Optical buffering
Optical packet switching
Optical saturation
Optical sensors
Quantum well devices
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
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Summary:We have successfully demonstrated a simple and cost effective scheme for all-optical packet contention resolution by means of a PEDC comprised of a saturable absorber-based VCSG and a SOA. An extinction ratio of 15 dB for the PEDC output signal was measured with 1.5 ns using time and 2.5 ns falling time. Major benefits of our solution are polarization independence, transparency to the input packet wavelength, compactness, reduced number of active devices and low power operation
ISBN:9780780395565
0780395565
ISSN:1092-8081
2766-1733
DOI:10.1109/LEOS.2006.278768