All-optical parallel inversion on Cd0.96Zn0.04Te platelets

Laurent Nardo; Francois Chataux; Jacques H. Collet; J. L. Iehl; Michel Pugnet; N. Brugel

doi:10.1117/12.147915

28 June 1993 All-optical parallel inversion on Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets

Laurent Nardo, Francois Chataux, Jacques H. Collet, J. L. Iehl, Michel Pugnet, N. Brugel

Proceedings Volume 1807, Photonic Switching; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147915
Event: Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, 1992, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

The present work lies within the scope of a general architecture analysis of all-optical cellular automaton involving optical nonlinearities. Here, we present all-optical subnanosecond invertor gates operating in transmission with picosecond pulses [30 ps full width at half height (FWHH)] through Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets (600 to 800 micrometers thick). The all-optical inversion is based on the induced absorption occurring in the spectral Urbach tail of the material. The temperature of the operation is 80 K. The input and output beams are at the same wavelength which is a critical condition for the cascadability of the device. The switch inversion energy is typically 3 - 5 pJ/micrometers ² around the wavelength (lambda) equals 782 - 783 nm at nitrogen temperature. We add an all-optical amplifier to the invertor in order to obtain for the gate an output level as strong as the input one and demonstrate the stability of the complete invertor-amplifier gate with a contrast between the high and low logical levels better than 2:1. Then, we use microlens arrays and demonstrate the simultaneous and parallel operations of several invertor gates.

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Laurent Nardo, Francois Chataux, Jacques H. Collet, J. L. Iehl, Michel Pugnet, and N. Brugel "All-optical parallel inversion on Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets", Proc. SPIE 1807, Photonic Switching, (28 June 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147915

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Absorption

Picosecond phenomena

Optical amplifiers

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