Integrated photonic inverter with gain

Author

Fitz, J.L. ; Beard, W.T. ; Horst, S.C. ; Smith, S.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Defence, Fort George G. Meade, MD, USA

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

480

Abstract

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) require inverting gates with gain greater than one to enable logic functionality with fanout and cascade. Optically modulated semiconductor laser technology is speed-limited by the photon cavity lifetime and, therefore, can provide high speed, integrable, digital logic gates. If semiconductor lasers can be configured as photonic inverters with gain exceeding one, then photonic clocks, oscillators, and logic gates would be possible at high data rates. This letter reports the demonstration of a semiconductor laser photonic inverter with an integrated dielectric input waveguide and gain greater than one.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical logic; p-i-n photodiodes; GaAs-AlGaAs; cascade; digital logic gates; fanout; high data rates; high speed; integrated dielectric input waveguide; integrated photonic inverter; inverting gates; logic functionality; optically modulated semiconductor laser technology; photon cavity lifetime; photonic clocks; photonic integrated circuits; photonic inverters; semiconductor laser photonic inverter; semiconductor lasers; speed-limited; Digital modulation; High speed optical techniques; Logic circuits; Logic gates; Optical modulation; Photonic integrated circuits; Pulse inverters; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.920757

Filename

920757