Highly polarization-selective diffractive optical elements for use in optical interconnection and routing systems have been fabricated by the wet etching of pairs of calcite substrates and characterized experimentally...
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Highly polarization-selective diffractive optical elements for use in optical interconnection and routing systems have been fabricated by the wet etching of pairs of calcite substrates and characterized experimentally. We show that when an index-matching polymer is used to fill the gap between the two substrates, substrate alignment problems are eliminated and efficiency is greatly increased. This has resulted in first-order diffraction efficiencies of 40.5% and polarization contrast ratios of 450:1 for several off-axis binary-phase elements, allowing these components to be used for practical applications. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.
An analytical model for the pressure and strain sensitivity of birefringent fibres is proposed in agreement with numerical calculations. Results of polarimetry and coherence-multiplexing are presented together with a ...
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To provide parallel optical data input to optical information processing systems a choice must be made between highly parallel modulator arrays and (currently) moderately parallel arrays of active sources. Two technol...
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To provide parallel optical data input to optical information processing systems a choice must be made between highly parallel modulator arrays and (currently) moderately parallel arrays of active sources. Two technologies are compared for suitability to address arrays of differential pairs of PnpN optical thyristors; these are liquid crystal display devices (LCDs) and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). An 8/spl times/8 array of thyristor pairs is addressed optically with a LCD and a single thyristor pair is driven with a VCSEL pair. The trade-offs between speed and parallelism are considered in each case and desirable properties for future devices are determined.
Deep proton irradiation in poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is a fabrication method for monolithic integrated micro optics which offers high stability and interesting autoalignment features. The process consists of t...
A neural network architecture is described which uses stochastic processing techniques to perform the weighted input multiplication, summation and thresholding processes of a neuron using the optimal amount of hardwar...
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A neural network architecture is described which uses stochastic processing techniques to perform the weighted input multiplication, summation and thresholding processes of a neuron using the optimal amount of hardware. It is argued that the advantage of this approach is that it will allow large neural networks to be fabricated with relatively small amounts of hardware. The architecture allows a choice to be made between the speed and accuracy of processing, as well as a choice of hardware. Implementations of a bit stream neuron using electronic, optoelectronic and optical hardware are developed and their capabilities are compared based on speed of processing and network size. The aim of the study is to investigate the capabilities of optical logic in distributed processing systems, together with the use of the optical thyristor as logic elements. It is shown that optical processing and optical interconnection allows a simplification of the processing sequence and allows the parallelism of distributed systems to be utilised.
Polarisation control of light emission from a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is a major issue to realise stable operation and to use these components in polarisation dependent applications. Recently, a...
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Polarisation control of light emission from a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is a major issue to realise stable operation and to use these components in polarisation dependent applications. Recently, a polarisation control mechanism was proposed,1 based on incorporation of a birefringent dielectric/metal grating in the laser cavity. In this paper, we investigate the design of a purely dielectric grating as polarisation selective element (Fig. 1) and output coupler.
Recently a very promising active bistable vertical-to-surface transition electrophotonic device was developed to perform chip-to-chip optical interconnects—the PnpN photothyristors (Fig. 1). When used in the configur...
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Recently a very promising active bistable vertical-to-surface transition electrophotonic device was developed to perform chip-to-chip optical interconnects—the PnpN photothyristors (Fig. 1). When used in the configuration of a differential pair, these multilayer III-V semiconductor (GaAs/AlGaAs) structures are capable of emitting a binary optical signal, when receiving a 250 fj optical input and controlled by a voltage cycle with period less than 70 ns.1
Among the most promising elements for digital parallel optical information processing are differential pairs of PnpN optical thyristors. We have shown very recently that these optical detector-generator type of device...
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Among the most promising elements for digital parallel optical information processing are differential pairs of PnpN optical thyristors. We have shown very recently that these optical detector-generator type of devices can be switched-on in very short times (typical 10 ns) with very low switching energies (typical 40 fj of absorbed optical energy), while the problem of slow switch-off times, causing unpractical cycle times, was tackled using a double-heterojunction structure that can be completely depleted by means of a simple negative anode-to-cathode low voltage pulse. In this way PnpN thyristors with switch-off times of 10 ns became available.1
In this paper we report on the progress which has been made in the fabrication and use of 2-D optical logic planes consisting of silicon hybrid electrically assisted thermo-optic resonators (HEATORS).1
In this paper we report on the progress which has been made in the fabrication and use of 2-D optical logic planes consisting of silicon hybrid electrically assisted thermo-optic resonators (HEATORS).1
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