Demonstration of a Fabry-Perot active switch by the bidirectional MoL-BPM

Author

Òrazio, Antonella D. ; De Sario, Marco ; Petruzelli, V. ; Prudenzano, Francesco ; Sassi, Leonardo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

265

Abstract

The aim of this paper consists of investigating the switching behaviour of a Fabry-Perot (F-P) active switch by means of an improved beam propagation method based on the method of lines (MoL-BPM). The contribution of the longitudinal charge diffusion and the spreading of the injected current in the active region is considered, too. The reflection of the optical signal on the terminal facets is accounted for by means of the bidirectional version of the MoL-BPM. The F-P switch length is only 200 μm, i.e. less than a fifth of the corresponding traveling wave (TW) switch (1100 μm)

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; method of lines; optical couplers; optical switches; optical waveguide theory; 200 micron; F-P active switch; Fabry-Perot active switch; active region; bidirectional MoL-BPM; bidirectional version; improved beam propagation method; injected current; longitudinal charge diffusion; method of lines; optical signal; reflection; switching behaviour; terminal facets; Electromagnetic waveguides; Fabry-Perot; Optical control; Optical coupling; Optical crosstalk; Optical propagation; Optical saturation; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2000. MELECON 2000. 10th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Lemesos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6290-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2000.880417

Filename

880417