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Implementation of All-Optical Serial-Parallel Data Converters Using Mach-Zehnder Interferometers and Applications

MZI를 이용한 전광 직렬-병렬 데이터 형식 변환기 구현과 활용 방안

  • 이성철 (명지전문대학 정보통신과)
  • Received : 2011.05.14
  • Accepted : 2011.06.13
  • Published : 2011.06.30
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Abstract

All-optical signal processing is expected to offer advantages in speed and power consumption against over electronics signal processing. It has a potential to solve the bottleneck issues of ultra-high speed communication network nodes. All-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters would make it possible to easily process the serial data information of a high-speed optical packet without optical-to-electronic-to-optical data conversion. In this paper, we explain the principle of simple and easily expandable all-optical serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial data converters based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers. We experimentally demonstrate these data converters at 10Gbit/s serial data rate. They are useful all-optical devices for the all-optical implementations of label decoding, self-routing, control of variable packets, bit-wise logical operation, and data format conversion.

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