Picosecond On-Off Switching Using a Pair of Picosecond-On/Nanosecond-Off GaAs Etalons

C. W. Lowry; H. M. Gibbs; R. M. Pon; G. Khitrova

doi:10.1364/PHS.1991.FC2

Photonic Switching
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
paper FC2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/PHS.1991.FC2

Picosecond On-Off Switching Using a Pair of Picosecond-On/Nanosecond-Off GaAs Etalons

C. W. Lowry, H. M. Gibbs, R. M. Pon, and G. Khitrova

Photonic Switching 1991

Salt Lake City, Utah United States
6–8 March 1991
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C. W. Lowry, H. M. Gibbs, R. M. Pon, and G. Khitrova, "Picosecond On-Off Switching Using a Pair of Picosecond-On/Nanosecond-Off GaAs Etalons," in Photonic Switching, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1991), paper FC2.

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Abstract

Semiconductor nonlinear Fabry-Perot etalons are promising devices for performing optical logic and switching operations in systems in which operational speed, throughput and interconnectivity are critical. An important characteristic of a logic or switching device is the number of operations it can perform in a given time. This figure is limited by both the device turn-on time (≃1 ps for GaAs nonlinear etalons¹) and the turn-off time.

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