Nanoscale optical Viterbi decoder realized on a silicon chip

Ted Frumkin; Amihai Meiri; Zeev Zalevsky

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.7.073096

8 March 2013 Nanoscale optical Viterbi decoder realized on a silicon chip

Ted Frumkin, Amihai Meiri, Zeev Zalevsky

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 073096 (March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.073096

Abstract

An all optical Viterbi decoder, realized on a silicon chip was designed. The device relies on mode coupling inside a ring resonator, and is composed of an optical memory cell and two interfering input arms that use QPSK modulation to encode the incoming bits. The device has a dimension of a few micrometers, and is capable of processing bits with a length of just a few picoseconds. The approach chosen in this research demonstrates the capability to design all-optical processing units which are not composed of single building blocks.

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Ted Frumkin, Amihai Meiri, and Zeev Zalevsky "Nanoscale optical Viterbi decoder realized on a silicon chip," Journal of Nanophotonics 7(1), 073096 (8 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.7.073096

Published: 8 March 2013

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