Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-655-9
