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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
  • paper CTUF1

VSTEP: a new class of electrophotonic functional devices for optical interconnection and information processing

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Abstract

Highly parallel photonic processing holds great promise for new high speed and large capacitance data processing systems. Low power consumption and uniform characteristics are required for photonic processing elements to be integrated in a large scale 2-D matrix. For this purpose, the vertical to surface transmission electrophotonic device (VSTEP) has been proposed.1 VSTEPs adopt the electrophotonic incorporation primarily to utilize, in attaining memory and other functions, electronic nonlinearities, which are generally much less power consuming and more precisely controllable than purely optical nonlinearities. Electrophotonic incorporation in VSTEP also includes the device's operational mode, which has allowed drastic improvement in power consumption.

© 1990 Optical Society of America

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