All-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Author

Sungchul Lee ; Kim, Sunho ; Kang, Byungkwon ; Lee, Seok ; Park, Jinwoo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

115

Abstract

We propose new simple and easily expandable schemes of serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial all-optical data converters using an MZI. We also experimentally demonstrated their operation. The proposed schemes have short propagation time and low control power. Integration and the use of RZ or NRZ data as serial data are possible. We expect serial-parallel data conversion for all-optical computing or all-optical data processing using these devices

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; data conversion; integrated optics; optical logic; optical switches; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; WDM multiplexer; all-optical computing; all-optical data converters; all-optical data processing; expandable schemes; low control power; parallel-serial data converters; serial-parallel data converters; short propagation time; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Logic devices; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.890701

Filename

890701