Switching energy and device size limits on digital photonic signal processing technologies

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 938-945

  Hinton, Kerry ^b   Raskutti, Garvesh ^b   Farrell, Peter M ^b   Tucker, Rodney S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMOS; Photonic signal processing; Power demand

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METALS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ENERGY RESOURCES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LITHIUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY;

(140.4480)OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; DEVICE SIZES; GENERAL (CO); HIGHLY-NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF); PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN); PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; POWER CONSUMPTION (CE); SWITCHING ENERGY;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 45249121993     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916242     Document Type: Article

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