TY - JOUR
T1 - Observation of counterclockwise, clockwise and butterfly bistabilty in 1550 nm VCSOAs
AU - Marki, Christopher F.
AU - Jorgesen, Douglas R.
AU - Zhang, Haijiang
AU - Wen, Pengyue
AU - Esener, Sadik C.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/4/16
Y1 - 2007/4/16
N2 - In this paper, we report counter-clockwise, clockwise, and, for the first time to our knowledge, butterfly bistability in 1550 nm Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (VCSOA). Bistable operation is experimentally observed for bias currents ranging from 66-122% of threshold with switching powers as low as 2 μW. These switching powers are two orders of magnitude lower than any previous results in 1550 nm VCSOAs. These switching powers are consistent with previous reports on optical bistability in 850 nm VCSOAs and provide an important step towards the realization of small footprint, low power optical logic/switching elements in the 1550 nm wavelength band.
AB - In this paper, we report counter-clockwise, clockwise, and, for the first time to our knowledge, butterfly bistability in 1550 nm Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (VCSOA). Bistable operation is experimentally observed for bias currents ranging from 66-122% of threshold with switching powers as low as 2 μW. These switching powers are two orders of magnitude lower than any previous results in 1550 nm VCSOAs. These switching powers are consistent with previous reports on optical bistability in 850 nm VCSOAs and provide an important step towards the realization of small footprint, low power optical logic/switching elements in the 1550 nm wavelength band.
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U2 - 10.1364/OE.15.004953
DO - 10.1364/OE.15.004953
M3 - Article
C2 - 19532744
AN - SCOPUS:34247250836
SN - 1094-4087
VL - 15
SP - 4953
EP - 4959
JO - Optics express
JF - Optics express
IS - 8
ER -