All-optical serial-parallel data converters using optical interferometers

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

We propose new simple and easily expandable schemes of all-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters based on optical interferometers. We experimentally demonstrate the proposed data converters.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; data conversion; light interferometers; optical delay lines; optical fibres; optical information processing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Michelson interferometer; Sagnac interferometer; all-optical data converters; all-optical parallel-to-serial data converters; all-optical processing technologies; all-optical serial-parallel data converters; all-optical serial-to-parallel data converters; data converters; high speed all-optical signal processing; operation; optical interferometers; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Interferometers; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Probes; Propagation delay; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

928525