Title :
10GHz all-optical gate on a silicon chip
Author :
Kumar, Rajesh ; Liu, Liu ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Geluk, Erik-Jan ; de Vries, Tjibbe ; Regreny, Philippe ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Baets, Roel ; Morthier, Geert
Author_Institution :
INTEC Dept., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
We demonstrate a fast all-optical gate with a 5¿m radius InP disk heterogeneously integrated on to a SOI waveguide circuit. Rise time and fall time together are 50ps.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical logic; optical resonators; silicon-on-insulator; InP-Si; SOI waveguide circuit; Si; fall time; fast all-optical gate; frequency 10 GHz; microdisk resonator; radius 5 mum; rise time; silicon chip; time 50 ps; Circuits; High speed optical techniques; Indium phosphide; Optical devices; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Probes; Resonance; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
