Optical inversion without a Fabry-Perot cavity using Cd0.96Zn0.04Te platelets

Jacques H. Collet; Michel Pugnet; Laurent Nardo; Alain Million

doi:10.1117/12.56159

1 May 1992 Optical inversion without a Fabry-Perot cavity using Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets

Jacques H. Collet, Michel Pugnet, Laurent Nardo, Alain Million

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 5, (May 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56159

Abstract

The subnanosecond operation of fast all-optical inverter gates has been investigated. Typical samples are 500- to 800-μm Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets without a Fabry-Pérot cavity thermalized around 80 K. Input and output beams operate at the same wavelength. The transmission of the sample is studied around the material band-gap energy (E_G = 1.613 eV, i.e., λ = 768 nm) versus the pump intensity. All-optical inversion is observed, based on a nonlinear absorption that appears below the band gap in the picosecond regime. The best switch energy is typically 3 to 5 pJ/μm² (i.e., 0.3 to 0.5 mJ/cm²) around the wavelength λ = 782 nm. From the analysis of the sample transmission under excitation, the possibility of stable operations with a good contrast of 4:1 between the high and the low logical states is shown. An optical amplifier has been combined with the inverter to get an output level as high as the input. The operation of the gate-amplifier stage that is cascadable with a contrast better than 2:1 is demonstrated.

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Jacques H. Collet, Michel Pugnet, Laurent Nardo, and Alain Million "Optical inversion without a Fabry-Perot cavity using Cd_0.96Zn_0.04Te platelets," Optical Engineering 31(5), (1 May 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56159

Published: 1 May 1992

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