1-Tb/s 16-b all-optical serial-to-parallel conversion using a surface-reflection optical switch

29 January 2003

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Vol. 15 (2) , 287-289
https://doi.org/10.1109/lpt.2002.806851

Abstract

A novel scheme for all-optical serial-to-parallel conversion is proposed for label recognition of ultrafast burst optical packets. A compact 18-ch serial-to-parallel converter module was developed using a spin-polarized surface-reflection all-optical switch made of low-temperature grown Be-doped strained InGaAs-InAlAs multiple quantum wells. A 1-Tb/s 16-b optical packet was converted into 16 parallel slow (82-MHz rate) electrical pulses with a contrast ratio of more than 6 dB.

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