Title : 
1 Gbps directed optical decoder based on microring resonators
         
        
            Author : 
Qiaoshan Chen ; Fanfan Zhang ; Lei Zhang ; Yonghui Tian ; Ping Zhou ; Jianfeng Ding ; Lin Yang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We implement decoding function based on two cascaded microring resonators, which are both modulated through the carrier-injection modulation in forward biased PN junctions embedded around the MRRs. Bitwise operations at 1 Gbps are demonstrated successfully.
         
        
            Keywords : 
micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical logic; optical modulation; optical resonators; p-n junctions; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bitwise operations; carrier-injection modulation; cascaded microring resonators; forward biased PN junctions; optical decoder; Adaptive optics; Decoding; High-speed optical techniques; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optimized production technology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Paris
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-2282-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/Group4.2014.6961995