MZI를 이용한 전광 직렬-병렬 데이터 형식 변환기 구현과 활용 방안

• Published in: (사)디지털산업정보학회 논문지, 7(2) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 59 - 65
• Main Authors: 이성철, Lee, Sung Chul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: (사)디지털산업정보학회 01.06.2011
• Subjects: 컴퓨터학; Parallel-to-Serial; All-Optical; Serial-to-Parallel; MZI; Data Converter
• ISSN: 1738-6667; 2713-9018

All-optical signal processing is expected to offer advantages in speed and power consumption against over electronics signal processing. It has a potential to solve the bottleneck issues of ultra-high speed communication network nodes. All-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters would make it possible to easily process the serial data information of a high-speed optical packet without optical-to-electronic-to-optical data conversion. In this paper, we explain the principle of simple and easily expandable all-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers. We experimentally demonstrate these data converters at 10Gbit/s serial data rate. They are useful all-optical devices for the all-optical implementations of label decoding, self-routing, control of variable packets, bit-wise logical operation, and data format conversion.