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

Gauss, Veronica and Hurtado, Antonio and Jorgesen, Doug and Adams, Michael J. and Esener, Sadik (2011) Static and dynamic analysis of an all-optical inverter based on a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA). Optics Communications, 284 (9). pp. 2345-2350. ISSN 0030-4018 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.010)

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Abstract

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.

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Gauss, Veronica, Hurtado, Antonio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-9034, Jorgesen, Doug, Adams, Michael J. and Esener, Sadik;
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