Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rochester Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
Ultrafast phenomena, optoelectronics, and superconductivity are acknowledged fields of technological importance and a very large amount of research has been performed in these areas in recent years. In modern, highly-advanced digital electronic circuits, the primary function of high-performance, high-speed signal processing is given to superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) logical devices, based on resistively-shunted Josephson tunnel junctions. The development of this branch of digital electronics requires ultrafast, and ultra sensitive optical-to-electrical transducers for fiber optic interconnects, which must be able to transform to the electrical domain the input information coded in the form of a train of ultrafast optical pulses and, subsequently, feed it into the SFQ processor
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optoelectronic devices; photodetectors; superconducting devices; transducers; SFQ processor; digital electronics; electrical domain; fiber optic interconnects; high-performance; high-speed signal processing; highly-advanced digital electronic circuits; input information coding; optoelectronics; primary function; resistively-shunted Josephson tunnel junctions; superconducting single-flux-quantum logical devices; superconductivity; technological importance; ultra sensitive optical-to-electrical transducers; ultrafast optical pulses; ultrafast phenomena; ultrafast superconducting optoelectronics; Digital signal processing; Electronic circuits; High speed optical techniques; Josephson junctions; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Superconducting logic circuits; Superconductivity; Ultrafast optics;
